Southern Baptist Convention

=Ties to the Cabal and CIA=

This is not to say that everyone in these organizations has nefarious motives, but when you're talking about controlling over half the Protestant churches in America, and all the money that comes with it, some shenanigans are likely to go with it.

More could be dug on this, and I welcome Anons to add their findings

For all of our Baptist friends, you remember well the Southern Baptist Convention’s “Conservative Resurgence”/takeover. I think I can prove it was a CIA plot to influence the religious right for political purposes.

For those not in the know, in the early 1980’s the Southern Baptist Convention was taken by force by two men who thought the denomination needed to be “more conservative.” (Read: I am a better Christian than you, so drive a wedge, cause division, and let the government take it over.) These men were Judge Paul Pressler and Paige Patterson. They have influenced, political groups/policy, preachers on every level all over America, who then influence their congregations.

Here’s what we know about these two men.

Paul Pressler - When you dig, be careful not to confuse him with Paul Pressler of Disney/Gap fame. Pressler is a registered Democrat who changed his party affiliation early in his career. No theological degree or study. Old Texas oil money. Wikipedia (which, just for general overview - I can point out a few mistakes just from skimming) is here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Pressler_(Texas) Here is another overview from his Princeton Fraternity (Chi Phi) newsletter: https://chiphi.dynamic.omegafi.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2013/2016/10/1970-April.pdf

Graduated Princeton in 1952, joined the navy for 2 years (1953-54, presumably), went to University of Texas for law school (presumably from 1955 - 1959) and WHILE IN LAW SCHOOL is elected to the Texas State legislature. He hadn’t accomplish anything, just a punk kid in law school and was elected to serve from 1957 - 1959. Then he becomes a judge.

His father was a lawyer who did graduate work at Harvard. He was the vice-president of Exxon until 1967.

=You remember Exxon, right?=

When the Rockafeller’s Standard Oil company was deemed a monopoly in 1870, Rockefeller broke the company down into 33 smaller companies. (Thirty-three… their symbolism will be their downfall)

https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20131030085704AAAPnvo

Standard Oil of New Jersey (SONJ) - or Esso (S.O.) – renamed Exxon, now part of ExxonMobil. Standard Trust companies Carter Oil, Imperial Oil (Canada), and Standard of Louisiana were kept as part of Standard Oil of New Jersey after the breakup. In 1919 a 50% interest in Humble Oil was acquired by Standard Oil of New Jersey.

Standard Oil of New York – or Socony, merged with Vacuum – renamed Mobil, now part of ExxonMobil. 

Standard Oil of California – or Socal – renamed Chevron, became ChevronTexaco, but returned to Chevron. 

Standard Oil of Indiana - or Stanolind, renamed Amoco (American Oil Co.) – now part of BP. 

Standard's Atlantic and the independent company Richfield merged to form Atlantic Richfield or ARCO, recently part of BP but has since been sold to a Japanese company. Atlantic operations were spun off and bought by Sunoco. 

Standard Oil of Kentucky – or Kyso was acquired by Standard Oil of California - currently Chevron. 

Standard Oil of Ohio – or Sohio, acquired by BP in 1987. 

The Ohio Oil Co. – or The Ohio, and marketed gasoline under the Marathon name. The company is now known as Marathon Petroleum, and was often a rival with the in-state Standard spinoff, Sohio. 

Standard Oil of Iowa – pre-1911 – became Standard Oil of California. 

Standard Oil of Minnesota – pre-1911 – bought by Standard Oil of Indiana. 

Standard Oil of Illinois - pre-1911 - bought by Standard Oil of Indiana. 

Standard Oil of Kansas – refining only, eventually bought by Indiana Standard. 

Standard Oil of Missouri – pre-1911 – dissolved. 

Standard Oil of Louisiana – always owned by Standard Oil of New Jersey (now ExxonMobil). 

Standard Oil of Brazil – always owned by Standard Oil of New Jersey (now ExxonMobil). 

Other companies divested in the 1911 breakup: 

Anglo-American Oil Co. – acquired by Jersey Standard in 1930, now Esso UK. 

Buckeye Pipe Line Co. 

Borne-Scrymser Co. (chemicals) 

Chesebrough Manufacturing (acquired by Unilever) 

Colonial Oil. 

Crescent Pipeline Co. 

Cumberland Pipe Line Co. 

Eureka Pipe Line Co. 

Galena-Signal Oil Co. 

Indiana Pipe Line Co. 

National Transit Co. 

New York Transit Co. 

Northern Pipe Line Co. 

Prairie Oil & Gas. 

Solar Refining. 

Southern Pipe Line Co. 

South Penn Oil Co. – eventually became Pennzoil, now part of Shell. 

Southwest Pennsylvania Pipe Line Co. 

Swan and Finch. 

Union Tank Lines. 

Washington Oil Co. 

Waters-Pierce. 

Pressler’s Grandfather is Edgar E. Townes who got rich during Spindletop (https://tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/fto27) and wrote the original charter for the Humble Oil company. In 1919 a 50% interest in Humble was acquired by Standard Oil of New Jersey, which would later be known as Exxon.

His great grandfather was Judge C.C. Garrett - the 1st Chief Justice of the Texas First Court of Civil Appeals.

His mother, a wealthy oil baroness, carpooled as a child with Howard Hughes - the chauffeur drove them to school. https://www.chron.com/news/houston-deaths/article/Elsie-Pressler-helped-found-River-Oaks-Baptist-1765499.php Her family also heavily associated with Ima Hogg, founder of the Houston Child Guidance Center, which provides helpful children with mental health problems. She also established the Hogg Foundation for mental health. Texas legend is that Ima Hogg had another sister… but the sister mysteriously disappeared. Hogg’s father was governor of Texas when C. C. Garrett is appointed as chief justice of the First District Court of Appeals in Galveston.

His brother is Townes G. Pressler - https://www.bloomberg.com/research/stocks/people/person.asp?personId=554936&privcapId=247978

He could not pass a background check by the FBI (Note: his Princeton buddy Carlucci is Secretary of State at the time he was being considered)

https://www.patheos.com/blogs/ponderanew/2017/12/12/3192/



Then there is the Paul Pressler Foundation that I can not determine the purpose for:

http://www.nonprofitfacts.com/TX/Nancy-Paul-Pressler-Foundation.html#analysisOfIncomeProducingActivities

Here’s where it gets interesting. Who else graduated Princeton in 1952? Only 790 people in the class of ’52

Why, none other than Frank Carlucci(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Carlucci#cite_note-WPObit-5)

Frank Carlucci

https://www.counterpunch.org/2005/01/15/unspooking-frank-carlucci/

…Who roomed with Donal Rumsfeld. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Rumsfeld)

So who is Frank Carlucci? He graduated Princeton in 1952, goes on to join the navy from 1953-1954, and and joins the State Department from 1956 to 1969. In 1961, he was the second secretary at the United States Embassy in the Congo and a member of the CIA. He was involved in the plot to assassinate the democratically elected leader of the CongoPatrice Lumumba, who was standing in the way of everyone getting their grubby paws on a substantial Congolese Diamond Mine. Carlucci has denied involvement, but an angry Congolese mob seemingly felt differently. (https://www.counterpunch.org/2005/01/15/unspooking-frank-carlucci/)

And was friends with Secretary of State for both Reagan and H.W. Bush, James Baker (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Baker)

Carlucci’s career:

4th Director of the Office of Economic Opportunity: January 1971 - Dec 1972

US Ambassador to Portugal: Jan 1975 - Feb 1978

13th Deputy Director of the CIA: February 1978 - 1981

United States Deputy Secretary of Defense Feb 1981 - Dec 1982

United States National Security Advisor Dec 1986 - Nov 1987

United States Secretary of Defense Nov 1987 - 1989

Then he goes on to Strat the Carlyle investment group, which may deserve its own dig

Notably, he was the Director of the CIA in 1978 to 1981. What happened during that time? The Conservative Resurgence of the Southern Baptist Convention.

Now you know the players, lets talk about the Conservative Resurgence.

Paul Pressler, who had no theology degree, started shopping for a partner who did, that could lend him credibility.

https://www.baptistboard.com/threads/judge-paul-pressler.24250/

Picture is from an open source message board so take it for what it's worth

https://albertmohler.com/2006/06/14/the-southern-baptist-reformation-a-first-hand-account/

Conservative students supported by a network of Houston business leaders? The heck you say.

So he finds Paige Patterson, and as legend tells it, they sat in Cafe du Monde in New Orleans in 1978 and plotted the conservative takeover.

https://albertmohler.com/2006/06/14/the-southern-baptist-reformation-a-first-hand-account/

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2018/06/southern-baptists-call-off-the-culture-war/563000/

Are you catching this? One guy has no theological interests, the other is a mere seminary student.

But Patterson had connections too. He was the son of T.A. Patterson, a prominent Texas pastor at the First Baptist Church in Beaumont Texas (1946 - 1961), and the Executive Secretary of the Baptist General Convention of Texas.

Fall 1978 -

The year Carlucci becomes CIA director

Pressler/Patterson meet with Adrian Rogers and W.A. Criswell. They know they have to take the presidency of the SBC if they want to affect change. Once you have the presidency nailed down, that person appoints all other leaders. If they can keep the presidency for 10 years, Pressler supposes that they can fundamentally change the SBC. They decide Rogers needs to be president. It was a last minute decision to run.

https://albertmohler.com/2006/06/14/the-southern-baptist-reformation-a-first-hand-account/

In order to win, they amassed a network of conservative voters who were bussed in from all over there country. These people voted for Adrian Rogers and then left after the presidential vote. No proxy voting is allowed, you have to leave your congregation, and be present to vote.

SBC bylaws about voting rules are here: http://www.sbc.net/aboutus/legal/bylaws.asp

Sounds like an ANTIFA move, huh? I wonder how much of it was funded by that Rockefeller money we talked about earlier.

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Oh! Wait! The SBC admits to it:

By their own admission, the SBC, the largest Protestant Denomination in the US would not have come into existence without Rockafeller money.

https://bewareofthewolves.blogspot.com/2018/07/southern-baptist-convention-tainted-by.html

Two resolutions of the 2018 SBC:

Resolution 12

- The founding of this ministry would not be possible without the generous gifts of the Sunday School Board and of both John D. Rockefeller Sr. and John D. Rockefeller Jr.. That we give thanks to the Rockefeller family for its generosity in providing the financial backing at the start of the ministry; {1} 

Resolution 14

- On Commemorating The Life And Ministry Of Billy Graham.. {2}

—

What is the Sunday School Board of the Southern Baptist Convention?

The Office of Communications serves as the public relations office for the Sunday School Board of the Southern Baptist Convention and serves as a branch office for Baptist Press.

The Sunday School Board of the Southern Baptist Convention opened in 1891 to serve as the publication and educational agency for Southern Baptists. The Board has been located in Nashville since 1891. The trustees of the Board (now known as LifeWay Christian Resources) are elected by the messengers of the Southern Baptist Convention at its annual meeting.

LifeWay has this to say:

In 1891, Dr. James M. Frost, LifeWay's first president, had a desk, a corner of a newspaper office, and a little money he borrowed from his wife. More importantly, he had a vision for an organization that would help churches teach God's Word, develop leaders, and impact the culture.

He put these four things together to begin what is known today as LifeWay Christian Resources. The organization, formerly called the Sunday School Board of the Southern Baptist Convention, was established by the Southern Baptist Convention in 1891 after its annual meeting in Birmingham, Alabama.

The Convention gave Frost the approval he needed, but no funds were allocated to him. Undaunted, Frost put his vision and his work space in the office of Tennessee's Baptist newspaper, the Baptist and Reflector, to good use. Frost laid the groundwork for what would become one of the most influential entities in Southern Baptist life.

LifeWay's first assignment was the publication of Sunday school curriculum. More than a century later, LifeWay continues to provide Bible study curriculum, along with a wide range of Christian resources, events, and services.

https://www.lifeway.com/en/about/history

Good thing James Frost got that Rockefeller money, huh?

Wasn’t there SBC Controversy prior to the Conservative resurgence?

But I can hear my good Baptist scholars ready to argue that the SBC was debating liberal theology vs. conservative theology since 1961 when Ralph Elliot’s book “The Message of Genesis” came out. And what a controversy that was. You know who started it? Dr. Owen K. White, Pastor of Houston’s First Baptist Church, which coincidentally, is the church that Paul Pressler attended and served in until he was quietly ousted for sexual misconduct with a minor and passed over to Second Baptist to deal with.

http://www.baptistlife.com/flick/Kingmaker%20Myth.htm

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B8M5tZSoNjQ2akxFR3hnNktwcm8

Picture from https://www.patheos.com/blogs/ponderanew/2017/12/12/3192/

So, you have an ANTIFA-style takeover of the largest Protestant denomination of America with Rockefeller money. Why would the government even be interested? Well, let’s look at the fall out.

60% of baby Boomers are Baptist. It is the largest Protestant denomination in the US.

http://www.wordslingersok.com/2014/06/what-happened-to-the-southern-baptist-convention/

The highlight of the division was caused by the doctrine of “inerrancy.” If you didn’t believe that every single word of the Bible was 100% true, you were booted form the SBC. This is how they nullified their opponents.

How has the SBC changed: http://www.centerforbaptiststudies.org/pamphlets/freedom/sbc.htm

How fundamentalist Myths Changed the SBC: http://www.baptistlife.com/flick/Kingmaker%20Myth.htm

Pastor is now god.

In traditional Baptist thought all members of the church were seen as equal ministers with different spiritual gifts – a doctrine referred to as the priesthood of believers. The role of the pastor in this context was to preach and teach, to train the congregation for service, to care for the needs of the congregation, and to provide administrative coordination to the work of the church. Pastors were viewed as servants of the church.

The Patterson-Pressler coalition insists that the pastor is the unquestioned ruler of the church. W. A. Criswell said, "Lay leadership of the church is unbiblical when it weakens the pastor's authority as ruler of the church . . . a laity-led church will be a weak church anywhere on God's earth. The pastor is ruler of the church." In 1988 the Southern Baptist Convention passed a resolution affirming that the pastor was the ruler of the church.

This new emphasis on pastoral authority marks a departure from the traditional Baptist teaching on the priesthood of every believer.

Source: http://www.centerforbaptiststudies.org/pamphlets/freedom/sbc.htm

Education turns to indoctrination:

Traditionally, Baptists expected seminary professors to expose their students to various theological viewpoints. Baptist teachers were viewed as facilitators who guided students as they studied the scriptures and conscientiously formed their own theological convictions. This approach was in harmony with the traditional Baptist understanding that every believer has the right and responsibility to interpret the scriptures under the direct illumination of the Holy Spirit. It also acknowledged that every believer is accountable directly to God for conscientiously interpreting scripture, forming convictions, and living by them.

The Patterson-Pressler coalition expects seminary professors to indoctrinate their students to a very narrow theological viewpoint. Adrian Rogers (the first SBC president elected by the Patterson- Pressler coalition) said, "If we say pickles have souls, they (seminary professors) better teach that pickles have souls." Seminary teachers who refused to comply were fired, sought employment elsewhere, or took early retirement. Their replacements are indoctrinators who have usurped the place of the Holy Spirit and now presume to make Southern Baptists accountable for living according to the interpretations and convictions of the Patterson-Pressler coalition.

Source: http://www.centerforbaptiststudies.org/pamphlets/freedom/sbc.htm

Establishing hierarchy through confessions

In Baptist thought doctrinal statements or confessions of faith never had authority over the individual conscience or over the local church. Southern Baptists in 1925 and 1963 stated, "Confessions are only guides in interpretation, having no authority over the conscience." However, in 2000 the Patterson-Pressler coalition stated that confessions are to be used as "instruments of doctrinal accountability."

To whom are Southern Baptists now accountable for their beliefs? Are lay people accountable to their pastors? Are local churches accountable to their associations? Are associations accountable to their state conventions? Are state conventions accountable to the national convention? This trend toward hierarchy violates the autonomy of local churches and the freedom of all believers to discern and follow God's will according to the dictates of their own consciences.

Source: http://www.centerforbaptiststudies.org/pamphlets/freedom/sbc.htm

Deep Political Involvement

Historically, Southern Baptists were strong advocates for church-state separation. We insisted that the state remain neutral on religious issues in order to protect liberty of conscience for religious minorities.

Baptists shaped public morality though the witness of the church rather than the through the power of the state. For more than sixty years, Southern Baptists have advocated this position through the work of the Baptist Joint Committee on Public Affairs in Washington D.C.

W.A. Criswell stated that separation of church and state was the figment of some infidel's imagination.

The Patterson-Pressler coalition favors church-state accommodation. They intend to promote specific religious agendas through public policy and want religious majorities to have greater access to public funds to do so. The Patterson-Pressler coalition has defunded the Baptist Joint Committee and created an Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission to promote their accommodationist agenda in Washington D.C.

Source: http://www.centerforbaptiststudies.org/pamphlets/freedom/sbc.htm

Women are Marginalized

In 1845, when the SBC began, the role of women in society, church, and the family was rather restricted. In time, things begin to change. Among advocates for change were noted Baptist missionaries such as Lottie Moon and Annie Armstrong. WMU was very instrumental in advancing the role of women in church life. By the 1960's, churches were calling women as committee chairs, deacons and ministers.

The Patterson-Pressler began a reversal of these developments. In 1984 the SBC passed a resolution stating that women were excluded from being deacons or pastors. They ignored examples like Phoebe the deaconess in Romans 16:1 and insisted that women must submit to men because a woman was the first to sin in the garden of Eden. In 1998 Southern Baptist called upon women to "graciously submit" to their husbands, ignoring the fact that Ephesians 5:21 calls for mutual submission in the Christian home. Two years later, the 2000 Baptist Faith and Message confession stated that women could not serve as pastors. All who work for the SBC as missionaries or as teachers in the seminaries must now affirm and teach these ideas about women.

Currently, in clear violation of local church autonomy, many associations are censuring or excluding churches that ordain women.

Source: http://www.centerforbaptiststudies.org/pamphlets/freedom/sbc.htm

Focus on youth:

Youth groups, camps, summer missions, IMB journey man programs all designed to separate children from their parents. This is especially disconcerting given that the architect of this movement is now being accused of pedophilia.

Focus on tithing:

Forget giving to whom you see fit. 10% of your income must go to the church or you are sinning, sinning, sinning.

Well, that’s nice, but the Baptists aren’t really being used by the cabal, right?

Well, let’s take a look, shall we?

Council for National Policy

In 1981 Tim LaHaye of the “Left Behind” Series fame, started a group called the Council for National Policy

https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Council_for_National_Policy

Of which, Pressler, Patterson, and his son are members, which, by it’s own admittance strives to be the conservative version of the cabal’s Council on Foreign Relations.

“When Steve Baldwin, the executive director of an organization with the stale-as-old-bread name of the Council for National Policy, boasts that "we control everything in the world," he is only half-kidding.”

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/Story?id=121170&page=1

List of members as of 2014: https://www.splcenter.org/sites/default/files/cnp_redacted_final.pdf

A dig could also be done into the

Salem Media Group

Which runs most of the Christin radio stations in major cities. Pressler is a Board Member.

In 1980 (The conservative takeover’s first convention where they could get agenda items passed under their new President) a few SBC resolutions were passed. Notably, look at the Resolution on Children’s Rights

http://www.sbc.net/resolutions/746/resolution-on-childrens-rights

They oppose giving children fundamental human rights, giving children the same rights as an adult”????

Then there was the 1980 resolution on World Hunger:

http://www.sbc.net/resolutions/631/resolution-on-world-hunger

Yes, please keep pumping those dollars into the Foreign Mission Board.

Speaking of the Foreign Missions Board…

Look at these amazing partnerships they have formed with Soros’ UNICEF

http://www.nationalbaptist.com/departments/foreign-mission-board.html

http://www.nationalbaptist.com/about-us/news–press-releases/foreign-mission-board-partners-with-unicef-to-help-african-school-children.html

They’re always thinking about those children in underdeveloped countries:

https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/us-fund-for-unicef-partners-with-consortium-of-african-american-faith-based-leaders-to-provide-children-in-africa-with-tools-to-learn-300212783.html

Ever heard a Baptist talk about the 10/40 window? They say it is where the fewest people on earth have ever heard the Gospel, and there is a huge focus to do missions there.

Here’s a picture of the 10/40 window where we should hold all our missions trips:

https://joshuaproject.net/resources/articles/10_40_window

…and here is a map of the countries with the highest rates of trafficking

http://chartsbin.com/view/548

No coincidence, I’m sure.

Paul Pressler Sexual Abuse Allegations:

The Worst Kept Secret in Houston:

https://texasmonitor.org/paul-pressler-jared-woodfill-defamation-suit/

The Patheos Blog sums it all up pretty well:

https://www.patheos.com/blogs/ponderanew/2017/12/12/3192/

And then two more victims came out:

https://www.star-telegram.com/news/state/texas/article209104449.html

The case is dismissed:

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/sexual-assault-paul-pressler-southern-baptist-dismissed_us_5bca43b8e4b0a8f17eec5c8b

The dismissal of that case was infuriating, until the Houston DA raided the law offices of Jared Woodfill this month. Woodfill was Pressler’s long-time law partner, and his lawyer in the abuse case.

https://baptistnews.com/article/attorney-named-in-pressler-lawsuit-under-investigation-for-fraud/#.W_xanS3Mzb8

And

https://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/houston/article/Investigators-search-office-of-ex-Harris-County-13385269.php#item-85307-tbla-10

It may look like a case about fiduciary fraud:

https://twitter.com/search?f=tweets&vertical=default&q=jared%20woodfill&src=spxr

But they certainly seized an awful lot of equipment for just a simple fiduciary case. Look at the search warrant:

https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/5096547/SearchWarrant.pdf