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Southern Baptists Pause in the Face of Dominionism
I suspect that it is merely an unexpected pause in the denomination's trend toward Dominionism. Here's why: 1. The new technology of internet blogging had a lot to do with the surprising election of a President of the SBC who is more moderate than convention powerbrokers would like. Frank Page's candidacy benefitted from his late entry into a race for an office that has been uncontested several years. The old guard powerbrokers who control the convention did not have time to organize a get-out-the-vote effort for their candidate. All they had time to do was to publicize the endorsement of their candidate by three seminary Presidents. In future elections, whether next year or the year after, we can expect to see the old fundamentalist political machine reactivated along with slanderous smear campaigns against opponents, coordinated propaganda publications, blogging campaigns, and get-out-the-vote efforts. The Dominionists will surely work to shore up their denominational base in order to secure the credibility necessary to suport their forays into national political dominion. 2. While the new president of the SBC is more moderate than past leaders, he is not a "Mainstream" Baptist. He an "irenic conservative" that professes to be an "inerrantist" who is not mad about it. It is entirely possible that he will merely put a friendlier face and a smile on the ongoing efforts of Southern Baptists to dominate the secular political processes of this country. To the extent that Frank Page rekindles Baptist memory of their traditional support for church-state separation, he will be a threat to the Dominionists and Christian Nationalists leading the agencies and institutions of the SBC and will be attacked by them.
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