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b.d.6/02/2018 4:19:56 pm PDT

re: #121 mmmirele

I am so done with church. D.O.N.E. The closest I am ever going to get is the sidewalk, with a picket sign. The good church people have stepped on my last nerve and as far as I am concerned, the so-called “body” of Christ is more like a freaking Mafia family.

Yesterday, the head of the board of trustees of Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary announced why they had completely canned Paige Patterson, relieving him of his emeritus status, compensation, and retirement home. It turned out it was because he’d lied about reporting a rape to the police in 2003, and because he tried to meet with another rape victim in 2015 to “break her down.”

But that’s not why I’m done. This is why I’m done: the wife of Patterson’s chief of staff, Sharayah Colter, somehow got her hands on documents that went missing from Patterson’s prior seminary, Southeastern Baptist, where he’d been president. These were about the 2003 victim. She passed them to a professor at SWBTS named Candi Finch, who posted them to her blog. The documents are completely out of context and fail to take into account that the victim was looking at the very real possibility of being expelled, (As it turned out, she was put on probation for two years and ended up leaving the seminary without a degree.)

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And that, fellow lizards, is what stepped on my last nerve. These two people, who were so upset their little tin god Paige Patterson got fired, decided they were going to harm the woman who caused all this trouble to the great, great man. I’ve had enough.

So now, now we have another story from the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, describing how Patterson told the later victim of rape that it was “good” she was raped, and threatened to sic lawyers on the victim’s mother if she didn’t stop questioning Patterson’s leadership. Oh, and that the woman’s future husband wouldn’t care if she’d been raped.

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Seriously, I am so, so, so, so, so DONE. I’ve HAD IT. But I’ll be back on the sidewalk at Sovereign Grace in the morning, because the sidewalk is not the church. I am DONE.

What is the future of the Christian faith in the US?

We already know that the giant Dallas Baptist church lead by Jeffress has sold its soul to Donald and now that the news that the guys down the street at the Southwest Baptist Seminary were lead by a bunch of criminal sleazebags what happens now?

If I were a newbie who happened to pick up a bible and was inspired by the words of Christ then where the hell should I go?