Beware of Dogma
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this summer the Southern Baptist Convention performed a feat no less amazing than multiplying loaves and fishes: they staked out a place for themselves far to the right of the pope. They adopted an amendment declaring that “a wife is to submit herself graciously to the servant leadership of her husband.” The Baptists interpret the Bible literally–in this case, a passage from the New Testament’s Book of Ephesians.
Directions for Southern Baptists: Cut out spinner and arrow. Using a paper fastener, attach the arrow to the center of the spinner. At each annual convention, spin the arrow and adopt the appropriate amendment.
“Command the Israelites to put out of the camp . . . anyone who is unclean through contact with a corpse; you shall put out both male and female, putting them outside camp; they must not defile their camp, where I dwell among them.”
