24 Sep 2023 8:08 pm
I grew up around poor people that attended Missionary Baptist churches and in high school I visited several.
The people that count religious denominations claim there are about 12,000 different Christian sects (I’ve heard some claim up to 30,000) and in a 60 mile radius of Springfield Missouri there are supposed to be about 9,000. Those numbers are so high it defies belief, but there are enormous varieties of Christians.
To a well raised old time Christian Church boy the Missionary Baptists are just one notch above pagans.
If the scriptures say the earth has four corners that means the earth is flat.
They give Genesis and Revelations more weight than the Sermon on the Mount, if they even know about the Olivet Discourses.
Maybe not today but fifty years ago there was more than one of of the old Missionary Baptist churches where the preacher was illiterate and had learned his profession mouth to ear.
If you can prove to me you were raised a Missionary Baptist I’ll gladly give you a pass to believe the earth is 6000 years old and flat, that demons still stalk us, women shouldn’t speak in church, and abortion is murder.
Otherwise you’re just a **** right winger using the Christian religion as cover for doing wicked **** to women.
The people that count religious denominations claim there are about 12,000 different Christian sects (I’ve heard some claim up to 30,000) and in a 60 mile radius of Springfield Missouri there are supposed to be about 9,000. Those numbers are so high it defies belief, but there are enormous varieties of Christians.
To a well raised old time Christian Church boy the Missionary Baptists are just one notch above pagans.
If the scriptures say the earth has four corners that means the earth is flat.
They give Genesis and Revelations more weight than the Sermon on the Mount, if they even know about the Olivet Discourses.
Maybe not today but fifty years ago there was more than one of of the old Missionary Baptist churches where the preacher was illiterate and had learned his profession mouth to ear.
If you can prove to me you were raised a Missionary Baptist I’ll gladly give you a pass to believe the earth is 6000 years old and flat, that demons still stalk us, women shouldn’t speak in church, and abortion is murder.
Otherwise you’re just a **** right winger using the Christian religion as cover for doing wicked **** to women.