yuppie, republican, and baptist?
to fully complete my transition to hypocritical asshole, i am becoming baptist.
no, not really, however, at work the other day I realized baptists and me have a lot more in common than I thought. See, this is what Baptists believe (courtesy of wikipedia):
- Biblical authority ( Matthew 24:35; 1 Peter 1:23; 2 Timothy 3:16-17)
- Autonomy of the local church ( Matthew 18:15-17; 1 Corinthians 6:1-3)
- Priesthood of all believers (1 Peter 2:5-9; 1 Timothy 5)
- Two ordinances (baptism and the Lord’s Supper) (Acts 2:41-47; 1 Corinthians 11:23-32)
- Individual soul liberty (Romans 14:5-12)
- Separation of Church and State ( Matthew 22:15-22)
- Two offices of the church (pastor and deacon) (I Timothy 3:1-13; Titus 1-2)
Did you catch the S? Wow, who knew? In case you ever get in an argument and want to pull this out of your hat, here’s the Bible verse, the well-known “give unto Caesar:”
Matthew 22:15-22 (New International Version)
Paying Taxes to Caesar
15 Then the Pharisees went out and laid plans to trap him in his words. 16 They sent their disciples to him along with the Herodians. “Teacher,” they said, “we know you are a man of integrity and that you teach the way of God in accordance with the truth. You aren’t swayed by men, because you pay no attention to who they are. 17 Tell us then, what is your opinion? Is it right to pay taxes to Caesar or not?” 18 But Jesus, knowing their evil intent, said, “You hypocrites, why are you trying to trap me? 19 Show me the coin used for paying the tax.” They brought him a denarius, 20 and he asked them, “Whose portrait is this? And whose inscription?” 21 “Caesar’s,” they replied. Then he said to them, “Give to Caesar what is Caesar’s, and to God what is God’s.” 22 When they heard this, they were amazed. So they left him and went away. So Jesus thinks people who want to mix chuch and state are hypocrites? Yay JC! Sadly, they’ve already put god on our money, which probably was a bad plan, from the pov of this verse….
UPDATE some baptist do take this seriously. I love these people!
3 Comments so far
1. blog in him wrote on October 10th, 2006 at 12:27 pm
I posted a blog posting today that is related to yours. You may enjoy it.
Mutuality in Him
Blessings!
2. Baptist Boy wrote on August 30th, 2007 at 8:46 pm
I don’t know how I ended up on your site, but I did, and you know what, I am a real Baptist!
Our tradition of supporting separation of church and state originates from the fact that Anabaptists (who were the forerunners of modern Baptists) were killed en masse as heretics by the “state” churches (mainly Catholics) in Europe, I think in the 16th and 17th centuries. Baptists are generally big of religious liberty also for this reason.
Any, there is your history lesson for the day!
And there is one other thing we can agree on. That is, Dawkins is an asshole!
3. jennybento wrote on September 14th, 2007 at 9:07 pm
But AMerican Baptists AREN’T big on liberty, which is what I was referring to BB!