Today, the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) is sitting in soiled diapers on account of its anti-female regulation, or shall we call the move by the SBC’s own terminology, amendment.

Amendment, shmamendment

Amendments have been unsettling in the religious world and in the political realm. Just ask the Americans about their perfect and enlightened constitution.
One: people do not like change.
Two:  the destiny of man has not changed
Three: change to historic operations are necessary (e.g. what was good for journeying through a desert does not work for residence in Canaan)

The most sacred trusts are deposited in the earliest narratives. It is kind of quixotic for the Taliban, the Evangelical fundamentalists, and the Catholics to want to exclude women in God’s name from serving as leaders and stewards of divine mysteries. For Christians it is especially disgraceful to hear men and women talking about excluding women from positions of influence. Would they also deny a woman the right to teach her child what’s right and what’s wrong and to talk about those things from the cradle to the grave? There is a lot of hot air behind the all-male talk. How do I know?

Adam (mankind) is male and female

Then God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; and let them rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over the cattle and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”

Genesis 1:26, NASB

Not only is there no room for gender discrimination in the administration of the mysteries of the Christian faith, stewardship is marked, from the earliest template, as joint. What else are these misogynists going to come up with in the name of decency and justice?

You may not be a believer – a faithful or graced person – if you keep clinging to the conclusion that humans are all intrinsically good people or all deserve to be celebrated.  The malignant things some people in positions of trust repeat in word and deed are a flashing warning that toxic potions, fabricated narratives, and absurd religious-political constructs are not worthy of our time.  War to end war has made the journey from bad to worst and the idea is a crooked attempt to imitate the life from death realities that define God.

Who’s gonna stop the misery?

None of the political platforms are sufficiently informed or enthused about all of mankind. The power hungry nerds of our times will not rise to the occasion to defend the human race, because they are all interested in exploiting us. All the leaders pretending to have received top notch insight and instruction are like foolish little children in the marketplace dancing and piping and applauding each other’s performances.

31) To what then shall I compare the men of this generation, and what are they like? 32) They are like children who sit in the market place and call to one another, and they say, ‘We played the flute for you, and you did not dance; we sang a dirge, and you did not weep.’

Luke 7:31-32 New American Standard Bible

On becoming and other privileged lanes

We Christians have clearly marked rights of passage in the spiritual journey.  Conversion and baptism are the primary pair; they transform a person’s identity.  Baptism is the action we take to declare to the believing community that we have experienced a change and to state our commitment to the new status.  Jewish people have a bar mitzvah rite. When does a person become a Muslim?  Do we really know how deadly organized religion has been, or are we willing to ignore the evidence of Judaism’s follies, Christianity’s tango with worldly powers, or Islam’s quest to dominate by extremism?

Question of the millennia

What is the difference between a religious person and a religious country?  All kinds of holiness mantras and regulations will break up our reverie about governments allied with religion and answer the question with “Too much”. That “too much” rises like smoke from a fire to choke us with discrimination, miscarriages of justice, and cleverly devised fables. Christian individuals are entirely different entities from the so-called Christian nation. Muslim individuals are entirely different entities from the so-called Islamic nation. Religious Jews are entirely different entities from the so-called elect kingdoms of Israel and Judah. So let them smoke their pipes and croak in their silos of bigotry and darkness.

It is no coincidence that on the day that the 45th president of the United States is indicted for multiple crimes against the state and its security that Pat Robertson, the guru of Christian mediocrity, goes to his rest, or that Newt Gingrich, the Capone of failed religious bosses, is giving testimony before a grand jury. If you are capable of reading tea leaves, read that. This observer hears the diner call, “Pick up”, and if observers do not see the door closing on the religious right and all of its allies across the globe then their eyes are not working. We can expect a lot of loud noises, fenders from the supporters of the criminal 45th president, but it’s just noise.

When the seven peals of thunder had spoken, I was about to write; and I heard a voice from heaven saying, “Seal up the things which the seven peals of thunder have spoken and do not write them.”

Revelation 10:4

Some of the more momentous developments in salvation history need no comment no documentation: you get it or you don’t.