Rodent Regatta

On July 29th Dr. Al Mohler began a new weblog which I find exciting. [Avoiding Evil]

Craig goes on to link to Dr. Mohler’s weblog. Here’s a statement that is rather interesting:

I did get to take a tour of his house and meet him one day and truely he is an amazing man.

Craig Tanner
Avoiding Evil

But wait, there’s a problem…

Do we really want to have our religious leaders be people whose homes we want to tour? Is that the mark of an accomplished Christian?

If you really want to understand the direction and beliefs of Dr. Mohler and his cronies, you can read this.

My point is not solely criticism of Dr. Mohler. There has a been a movement afoot in the Southern Baptist Convention for roughly three decades. That movement seeks to turn pastors, seminary professors and any other employees of Southern Baptist Organizations into people who have ”sworn allegiance” to a set of values and belief statements that have been written by Mohler or his contemporaries. Here’s an example:

It is not enough to say we believe every word of the Bible to be true to be a Baptist. The Baptist Faith and Message as revised by the Southern Baptist Convention in 2000 is the answer to this theological problem because it leaves no wiggle room for neo-orthodoxy.

With the revision to the Baptist Faith and Message doctrinal statement in 2000 and the discussions that followed it, Southern Baptists did more to align themselves with the beliefs of Catholicism than at any time in their history.

That marked the culmination of steps such as the one taken by Bible-thumping believers to fire Russel H. Dilday, long-time President of Southwestern Seminary:

On March 9, 1994, Dilday was removed without warning and was locked out of his office while still attending the meeting in which he was fired.

Jesse Fletcher
Baptist Standard

In a world needing a Savior, so much of this smacks of little people seeking desperately to be taken seriously by acting like their worldly counterparts. Any means to an end replaces God so loved the world for folks like this.