Baptist Self Destruction

The Baptist State Convention of North Carolina voted last week to send a clear message to its churches - ban gays or leave the membership.

But Kevin Head, pastor at First Baptist in Lumberton, said the real message that the decision sends is that Baptists are “judgmental and critical.”

“I’m so tired of Baptists getting together and fighting about things when there are so many good things we could be doing,” Head said. “I think it’s a shame ... we come across as such judgmental, critical people instead of loving, compassionate people.” [...]

“There is a prideful negligence today of sinners who are refusing the love of God,” he said. “These people claim to be Christian, and being a Christian means following God’s word.”

Head said the ruling singles out one sinner when everyone in the church is a sinner.

“Where does it stop?” he said. “We forget about grace and focus on judgment and condemnation. That’s how it appears to the world.”

Head said that the process for dealing with a homosexual in the church would be dealt with on an individual basis.

“The point is that everybody should be a part of the church,” he said. “For us to single out who can or can’t be a part of the church is a grievous error.” (source)

First off, I don’t want to be “dealt with”. But it doesn’t matter so much to me. I honestly don’t care what religions believe anymore. To me, they lost any moral authority over calling anyone a “sinner” when they started picking and choosing which “sin” they wanted to enforce (homosexuality), and which “sin” they wanted to ignore (adultery, incest, rape, masturbation, greed, etc). I suppose that would cut too much into their membership. They are nothing but self-righteous bigots, ONE AND ALL! Does that make me a sinner without grace? Did I judge or did I hit the nail on the head?

Aside from that, I do get just a bit of satisfaction at watching them self-destruct as they show their true colors and their true motivation, just like the Republican Party, come to think of it. When everything is said and done, they have little to do with LOVE and COMPASSION. They have everything to do with HATE and JUDGMENT. Is this the best deed they can accomplish?

They should really keep an eye on that. Otherwise, it might just bite them in the ass in the end (no pun intended) when they end up hateful beings who only care about hate and judgment of others. I’d say they are almost there.