Talk:Peachtree Baptist Church, Atlanta, Georgia

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Does anyone think "...until those bodies were taken over by conservatives." is a little inflamatory? 170.35.208.22 18:43, 21 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Ref.: "...until those bodies were taken over by conservatives." is a little inflamatory?

The article originally used the term "fundamentalists" instead of "Conservatives." I have re-edited the article and re-inserted the proper term. Anyone who knows about the takeover of the Southern Baptist Convention, which began in 1979, knows that the men who engineered the takeover (using back room deals and secular political chicanery) used the term "takeover" themselves and also regularly labeled themselves as fundamentalists. The term fundamentalist was first utilized by Christians in the US in the early 20th century. These fundamentalists subscribed to a very narrow and strict set of "fundamentals" of faith for the interpretation and application of scripture. The main tenets of this early 20th century Christian fundamentalism are held by those who call themselves "evangelicals" today. The fundamentalists who engineered the takeover of the Southern Baptist Convention are way to the far end of the spectrum of conservative evangelicals. These folk use their religious convictions for the accumulation of institutional, political, financial, and personal power, that they then broker into influence in secular politics. Much like fundamentalists in other religions do. These fundamentalist's agendas are not just to control their religion and its adherents, but also to control culture, communities, and countries.Over the last three decades we have seen and heard the term fundamentalist used in connection with terrorists so often that it has fallen out of vogue with the Baptist extremists in our country who use to embrace it. Instead they prefer to call themselves simply as "conservatives" or as "conservative evangelicals." These people are wolves in sheep's clothing! Those of us who consider ourselves as conservative, but not radical or fundamentalist, should be concerned by those extremists who wear the "conservative" name, thus soiling it for the rest of us. Use of the term "Conservatives" would be much more inflammatory if used here because it carries so much political baggage with it. While the vast majority of Baptists are conservative, only a select group have sought and earned the title fundamentalist in the last three decades. This group wears the title as a badge of righteous honor. The only folk who would find the statement inflammatory with the term fundamentalist in it are those who don't know recent Baptist history, or those who have been duped by their fundamentalist pastors and leaders.Robert1621 21:16, 15 April 2007 (UTC)rhw

"Anyone who knows" is not a legitimate reference. It is instead a keyword to indicate whatever follows is hearsay and conjecture. It is not suitable for inclusion as factual info.

I question the existence of a page for this church. It is not large, historic, or significant (except of course to its own members). There are over 1000 churches in Atlanta and the only other ones that have their own pages are Christ the King Catholic and St Phillip's Episcopal, but these are the preeminent churches of the respective denominations. The most well-known Baptist church in Atlanta is undoubtedly Ebenezer Baptist Church, but this currently rates only a paragraph on the MLK National Historic Site page.Bravenav 03:37, 16 April 2007 (UTC)