The blending of extremist right wing conservative politics with a far right, conservative, mostly-found-in-the-South denomination is producing some feisty, fiery conflict and war of words. Moderate Southern Baptists who were either pushed off to the side or completely out of the SBC were prophetic in their declaration that after the conservative resurgence, the direction of the denomination would lead to more conflict. But there's plenty of it, from doctrinal conflict in which some pastors are pushing for a revision of the BFM 2000 and stronger enforcement of its terms to political opposition or support for Trump generating lies on top of lies in a confusing tangle of fights and wars of words over, of all things, financial support from George Soros.
To quote another member of the board here, "You can't make this stuff up."
https://capstonereport.com/2020/01/09/b ... ble/33713/https://sbcvoices.com/thou-shalt-not-li ... rge-soros/And then there's this, on one of their other scandals related to sexual abuse. Though justifiably fired from Southwestern Seminary, Paige Patterson, as one of the architects of the conservative resurgence, still has a following who are willing to ignore his bad behavior related to handling sexual abuse reports, the Gilyard controversy and what has been a complete cover up of the disaster he perpetrated on Southwestern Seminary.
https://sbcvoices.com/suspended-silence ... an-codone/The lack of integrity is bound to have some kind of fallout.