Report on slavery is only a start for Southern Baptists' reckoning with racism

[MineralMan]

27. And I suggest that the organized church is morally bankrupt.

Despite its claims to be who should guide humanity, it has failed miserably in doing so. Now, I wish for it to become financially bankrupt as well, and abandoned by its members who it has failed.

I do have a timetable for change. It is a very short one. Change now! Not sometime down the road. Now. The Pope could change the church's position with the stroke of his Latin-writing pen. The SBC could decide that it had been wrong all those decades and declare racism to be a sin against humanity, which it obviously is.

My personal story is my personal story, as is yours. Mine is completely unaffected by the vagaries of Christianity, and is based on common sense and a recognition of the value of each human being. I don't see that recognition in the largest of organized religious groups. In fact, I see exactly the opposite.

Religion is not a positive influence on humanity. It has never been that. History, which you are so fond of referring to, demonstrates that beyond a doubt. How many have suffered and died from the ills of organized religion, Guy? Count them for me.