{"id":222,"date":"2000-11-13T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2000-11-13T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2000\/11\/13\/2000-11-13-southern-baptists-do-it-again\/"},"modified":"2000-11-13T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2000-11-13T12:00:00","slug":"2000-11-13-southern-baptists-do-it-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2000\/11\/13\/2000-11-13-southern-baptists-do-it-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Southern Baptists Do It Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/articles\/A37614-2000Nov7.html\">GO TO SOURCE<\/A><\/P><br \/>\n<P><\/p>\n<p>RICHMOND, VIRGINIA: Last year, the Southern Baptists offended in turn Muslims, Jews and Hindus with their prayer booklets designed for each religion. Next, former president Jimmy Carter, a member since childhood, quit the huge Christian church because he no longer agreed with their increasingly fundamentalist stance. Then the Southern Baptists of Texas cut off US$5 million in funding to the national organization for the same reasons Carter quit. Now the Southern Baptists have insulted the world&#8217;s Blacks. They&#8217;ve come up with a poster advertising their overseas missionary program (the world&#8217;s largest) &#8220;using symbolism some members, including African Americans, are calling racially insensitive,&#8221; according to the Washington Post. The poster shows an African man, his bare chest draped in beads, sitting in a dark room. His unshaven face concentrates on a piece of paper; his hands hold a pen and a book. A beam of light shines down on him. Above him large letters read &#8220;Dispel the Darkness.&#8221; &#8220;Given the Southern Baptist Convention&#8217;s history on race, the image just seems loaded, grossly insensitive,&#8221; Robert M. Parham of the Baptist Center for Ethics, a progressive Southern Baptist group, told the Post. &#8220;Why couldn&#8217;t they use a blond Scandinavian, to avoid sending this cultural message?&#8221;<br \/>\n<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GO TO SOURCE RICHMOND, VIRGINIA: Last year, the Southern Baptists offended in turn Muslims, Jews and Hindus with their prayer,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}