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double-named wrote: This just across the wire: NEW ORLEANS | Wed Jun 20, 2012 11:34am EDT Southern Baptists also make history today. Change name to: "Great Commission Baptists." "(Reuters) - The Southern Baptist Convention, the largest Protestant denomination, has narrowly agreed to let churches use an alternative name less connected to the South and the group's past ties to slavery, leaders said on Wednesday. "Some said the convention's ties to slavery upon its founding in 1845 posed a barrier for growth. Southern Baptists split from the First Baptist Church in America in the pre-Civil War days over slave ownership." "Over a century and a half ago, Baptists in the south split from Baptists in the north over the issue of slavery. Southern Baptists wanted to appoint slave owners as missionaries, and the northern Baptists disagreed. And so in 1845, the Southern Baptist Convention was born." Now answers to SBC and GCB. First they were baptists at a convention, a meeting, a gathering. Now they'll be known as just a basket of loose baptists -- no meeting. Curiously they've never wanted to be called a church. |
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