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Though Southern Baptists denied it for years, it is now a matter of unquestionable historic record that the Convention was deeply infected with modernist infidelism during the mid 20th century.
The following letter to the editor of The Humanist magazine (March-April 1989) is an example of the sort of atheism that injected it's deadly venom deep into the Southern Baptist blood vein.
My father was a Southern Baptist minister (of the best kind).
For twenty-five years, I was a fundamentalist pastor. My trauma in breaking with fundamentalism drove me to the brink of suicide.
Fortunately, I didn't succeed.
I am a Christian humanist and have advertised our books in The Humanist .
In my reading, I seldom see any attacks on Christ's teachings, only on the perversions of his teachings.
My mission in life is to point out the validities and eradicate the superstitions of Christianity.
I have no trouble with the God concept.
However, I in no way interpret it as supernatural. My definition of God is "truth."
The term God is simply the name we've assigned to indentify the dynamics of the universe.
Although I have trouble with the personification of God, I would not be able to speak to my principle audience if I did otherwise.
The term Christ has a common root with a Greek word which means "things as they must be," which is a pretty accurante description of truth and reality.
Therefore, I have no trouble remaining in and relating to Christianity.
I, as you might expect, am at odds with my denomination.
However, Southern Baptists have no way to excommunicate me, and I am determined to stay as a gadfly.
I have been pastor of the same church for nearly twenty-five years, and my ministry is more fruitful now than when I was a fundamentalist.
Miles Wesner
Idabel, OK
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