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Southern Baptists Vote to Further Expand Restrictions on Women as Leaders (www.nytimes.com)

submitted 2 years ago by deacon@lemmy.world to c/news@beehaw.org

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Yikes. There is quite a pattern developing in the religious right, in the US at least. We are turning back the clock folks.

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[–] misguidedfunk@beehaw.org 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I see the either you’re with us or against us mentality is alive and well. :/

[–] mobyduck648@beehaw.org 7 points 2 years ago

What do you expect from an ideology so doggedly sectarian they do mental gymnastics to justify why a loving god would create people predestined for eternal conscious torment in Hell rather than admit they might be wrong?

These people ‘solve’ the problem of evil like a bag and a river solves the problem of too many kittens.