A Perfect Storm: God -First Winds

Religious delusion for feminist backlash serves political power agendas.

Shirley Taylor, Baptist Women for Equality, explains the history of how we got the sale of religion to buy the White House. (you can see more in her Baptizing feminism documentary.)

The Café Du Monde in New Orleans was the site of the fundamentalist takeover of the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC). Paige Patterson and Paul Pressler wrote their plan on a paper napkin in 1967 and they used their unique knowledge of the inner workings of the SBC to systematically put their people in key positions. This stacked the dominoes in a certain way, and when they started to fall, they continued in the orderly fashion set forth on a table in a café.

Paul Pressler died in 2024, his reputation tarnished as his pedofile story emerged. He had sexually molested a young man for many years.

Paige Patterson was also dethroned as President as Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Dallas. Hard to believe he didn’t know what was going on in the hot tub between Pressler and the young man.

What began in 1967 was finalized in 1990 “This eleventh election (of a fundamentalist president of the SBC) seals the fundamentalist victory, and they celebrate at Café Du Monde in the French Quarter, where Judge Pressler and Paige Patterson had first conceived the whole plan for the takeover, many years prior.”

This quote from “The Fundamentalist Takeover in the Southern Baptist Convention. A Brief History” by Rob James and Gary Leaser with James Shoopman, was produced by Mainstream Missouri Baptists in 1999.

They earnestly believed that reigning in knowledge, cultural changes, and binding the scriptures to inerrancy would bring about a stronger SBC and growth.

And with all plans for patriarchic domination, these strictures were for us, not them. It backfired for their membership but they transplanted it to Washington, DC.

“The Baptist Standard,” June 25, 2012,reported that the SBC membership had declined for the 5^th straight year. The SBC continues to decline, but their hold on culture, churches, marriages, and state and national government has increased through a little movement called Christian nationalism.

The Southern Baptists are the second largest denomination (behind Catholics) in the United States. And they have a great system of playing it both ways. They exert denominational agendas while affirming each church is independent.

In the “Danvers Statement on Biblical Manhood and Biblical Womanhood” in 1988 they dictated that women must be submissive to males eternally. They helped promote non-Baptists like Wayne Gruden and Mark Driscoll. Jerry Fallwell and his son, Mark Dobson’s Focus on the Family, Franklin Graham (Billy Graham’s son), and others faked independence from the leaders but followed the message. Their draconian backsliding used media to pound in the message. Men ruled in the church and home through male headship. Men stood in place of the Lord for their wives and children.

They set the template that others used, whether in other forms of Baptist leadership, seminary professors, fundamentalism, evangelical or conservative. They all took up the rallying cry: Keep the women down. And as the pressure from church women grew, they elevated Joyce Meyers as a pressure valve.

So what do falling numbers mean when you can use the government to enforce your power? So younger men have taken up the cause and are joining fundamental churches in large numbers, where they can be reaffirmed that they don’t have to be equal partners in relationship with women. She should just bow down since she’s so lucky to have found a man.

Dorothy Patterson’s brother Chuck Kelly (past president of New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary) helped get Danvers language included in the 2009 “Statement of Faith” in Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary when Paige Patterson was president.

The preoccupation with sexuality of females or bodily evil now became repressed and sanctioned as a self-righteous doctrine of male domination. It was the revised version of Eve made me do it. Since then, sexual assault by Christian leaders and pedophilia continue to be exposed in rampant numbers.

Some in Protestant circles congratulated themselves on now abusing boys as the Catholic Church did. This quickly became untenable as boys too were being abused by Protestant men. So the outrage shifted to LGBTQ people and the trans community,

Yet, the Devil probably made him do it. The children and women asked for it. Thus abuse under the name of God became both and national policy.

In the next post, I’ll list the players in the current “spirit warrior” movement on the ground, raking in the bucks and votes, and continue sharing the information from Katherine Stewart’s book “Money, Lies and God.” I’ll also be sharing what is not being covered and what is feeding more storms.