Thread by @QOrigins

UPDATE ON AMERICA’S LARGEST PROTESTANT DENOMINATION:

After a prominent Southern Baptist lost his position for *very* cruel treatment of sex-abuse survivors, his supporters formed the “Conservative Baptist Network” & are busily obstructing efforts at investigation & reform. 1/5

https://twitter.com/griffingulledge/status/1442992943254708226

The amazing thing is: the investigation they’re stalling isn’t into Paige Patterson — the good ol’ boy whose defenders formed the CBN.

It’s a much more general, broad-scope investigation that’s supposed to yield info
& recommendations re: why abuse survivors are ill-treated.

Hint: it’s patriarchy — the welfare & reputations of male sex abusers (especially if they have status within the denomination, say as pastors) is, again and again, shown to be more important than the health and safety of their victims.

But that would be a “woke” conclusion…

and the CBN thinks of itself as ardently anti-woke.

So the obstruction is trying to ward off any recommendations that the SBC (which has a “complementarian” theology of gender, as opposed to an *egalitarian* theology) should deal frankly w/the consequences of complementarianism

ANYWAY. Why is any of this relevant to QAnon?

On one level, it’s not; on the other hand, qvangelicals are a huge part of the movement & following the culture of the largest evangelical denomination is a good idea if you wanna understand the waters qvangelicals are swimming in.