Budget Crisis at CBF

[Gene Scarborough]

Eh-h-h-h, Ed----what did you say????

Understand my take on shouting: I like the larger font when little need be said = Do you cringe at newspaper headlines????

[Ed Pettibone]

Ed: More than one way to present a point.

And GS when you ask "Do you cringe at newspaper headlines???? " No! but perhaps you have taken note that this is not a news paper, and each post appears on the screen by it self with a space for a heading. and also that I have not been the only one to to object to your frequent use of larhe fonts.

[Ed Pettibone]

Ed: More than one way to present a point.

And GS when you ask "Do you cringe at newspaper headlines???? " No! but perhaps you have taken note that this is not a news paper, and each post appears on the screen by it self with a space for a heading. and also that I have not been the only one to to object to your frequent use of large fonts.

[Gene Scarborough]

= I'm naturally rebellious!!!! Chill, brother, chill!!!

[Ed Pettibone]

:) = I'm naturally rebellious!!!! Chill, brother, chill!!!

Ed: And who brought rebellion into the world ? We are all born with a sin nature and I have never seen anyone other than Jesus who totally suppressed it. But that is not to be taken as licence to sin.

[Gene Scarborough]

ED---I'm just funning with ya, man!!!

Don't take us Southerners too seriously or we will whip your hind parts!!! Southern humor is different from the rest of the country. We took a licking but kept on ticking after the Civil War.

Also, never forget: The greatest leaders we have in government / business / industry / milatary likely trace their roots to the South. Anything is a better job than working in the tobacco or cotton field!!!

[Ed Pettibone]

ED---I'm just funning with ya, man!!!

Don't take us Southerners too seriously or we will whip your hind parts!!! Southern humor is different from the rest of the country. We took a licking but kept on ticking after the Civil War.

Also, never forget: The greatest leaders we have in government / business / industry / milatary likely trace their roots to the South. Anything is a better job than working in the tobacco or cotton field!!!

Ed: What makes you think that I would ever take a southern redneck bully seriously, let alone too seriously. And if we Northerners hadn't built Federal highways to get to Florida and back, most of y'all would still be working tobacco and cotton fields.

[Gene Scarborough]

So you "**** Yankees" built the Federal Highway to go through the South for your speed of travel between NY and Miami???? I thought we all contributed the money in our taxes---and recently the Southern taxpayer base is growing with wiser Yankees moving to the sunny South! I think you need to come here for longer periods and get over your snarly winter mode! We love it when you stop half-way to spend the night in Rocky Mount / Wilson. We are waiting to host you and swipe your credit card! Don't forget to buy the porcupine eggs at Stuckey's on the Whitakers Exit.

Now, back to important financial matters for BTSR:

Chowan opts against merger
Published 8:58am Thursday, March 10, 2011

MURFREESBORO – A potential collegiate merger involving Chowan University will not happen.

Wednesday, the Executive Committee of Chowan’s Board of Trustees voted not to proceed with further discussions of a merger with the Virginia-based Baptist Theological Seminary at Richmond (BTSR).

Chowan University Dr. Chris White told the Baptist Press earlier this month that the seminary had contacted Chowan about a possible merger. He said the school was $7 million in debt, a figure that the BPA confirmed with the seminary’s finance office.

That figure was a concern for Chowan officials since the school began doing due diligence about possibly taking over the seminary last fall.

I remain confident that CBF and BTSR will find a way to weather the economic storm and pray to that effect!

[Gene Scarborough]

Here is the reason we need to keep CBF supported and work through this crisis:

Baptist leaders denounce Muslim hearing
By Bob Allen
Friday, March 11, 2011
ATLANTA (ABP) -- Leaders of four national Baptist organizations signed a statement released March 10 critical of the hearings by the U.S. House of Representatives' Committee on Homeland Security on the subject of radicalization within the American Muslim community.

Cooperative Baptist Fellowship Executive Coordinator Daniel Vestal and Roy Medley, general secretary of American Baptist Churches USA, signed as steering committee members of Shoulder-to-Shoulder, a campaign of faith-based organizations and religious denominations to promote tolerance and fight anti-Muslim bigotry.

Carroll Baltimore, president of the Progressive National Baptist Convention, and Brent Walker of the Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty signed on as additional signatories. Other Baptists on the list included Welton Gaddy, president of the Interfaith Alliance and minister for preaching and worship at Northminster (Baptist) Church in Monroe, La., and Jim Wallis of Sojourners, a member of First Baptist Church in Washington.

Thursday's hearing, chaired by U.S. Rep. Peter King, R-N.Y., was titled "The Extent of Radicalization in the American Muslim Community and that Community's Response."

Faith leaders responded with a campaign that included a news conference and meetings with members of Congress from both parties as well as White House officials.

"We gather together to affirm that we stand united with all Americans in urging our elected representatives to act -- not against a single, unfairly maligned group, but against all forms of violence and extremism that endanger our security," the statement read in part. "As spiritual leaders and people of faith, we call on the United States Congress, elected officials at every level of government, and all American citizens not to perpetuate damaging false witness against our neighbors. Instead, we encourage all communities of faith and people of good will throughout this country, to stand shoulder-to-shoulder in communities of growing awareness, trust and hope."

Vestal said he was glad to sign the statement and "stand shoulder-to-shoulder" with other faith groups in support of the Muslim community.

"As Baptists who hold to the principle of religious freedom, we have an obligation to stand with other people of faith when the government unfairly singles them out for scrutiny or misrepresentation," Vestal said.

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Bob Allen is senior writer for Associated Baptist Press. Lance Wallace of CBF communications contributed to this report.

[Jim]

Vestal and all the others who, either for themselves or some organization, signed on to that silly statement are either as ignorant as clams or actually consider Islam – with its “Holy Book,” the Koran, merely a pseudo-plagiarism of the Bible by an illiterate who had 13 wives (more or less, who knows, with one a ten-year-old) – represents a belief in God. The media has been full of the fact that mosques are the breeding grounds for recruiting jihadists, who advance to the noble cause of killing the infidel when and where it is possible, including but not confined to women and children, by any means possible, suicide-bombing and throat-slitting among the quickest and surest. Stoning takes a bit longer but is more fun. A plague on all these politically correct nutcases who masquerade as denominational leaders or “protectors” of the nation from the intolerance of those who cite Major Hasan (Ft. Hood) and other murderers as simply misunderstood and in need of Christian love! Vestal has instigated the termination of my collaboration with the CBF and KBF. It’s no wonder the CBF is imploding…it lacks leadership and has no definable direction, as is proven in this matter.

The old adage having to do with one’s needing to have no fear of any investigation if he has nothing to hide is operative. All terrorists, individually and collectively, form a cancer on the society and must be rooted out. The blood-thirstiest are the ignoramuses who kill in the name of some god. These are the Muslims and they should be investigated, especially collectively, if the populace is to be kept safe from their “sacred murders.”

[Gene Scarborough]

Jim--

And I'm sure you enjoyed the Bush Administration arresting and sending to Guantanamo all the Moslems they could get their hands on as well. Which did you enjoy the most: the water boarding or the nude torture with our soldiers beating them???

"Due Process" meant nothing to them---and seems to mean nothing to you in your prejudiced state.

Which is worse: A Conservative Republican destroyer of American religious freedom / an Arab Terrorist who wants to destroy as well????

I welcome your answer!!!

[Jim]

Jim--

And I'm sure you enjoyed the Bush Administration arresting and sending to Guantanamo all the Moslems they could get their hands on as well.

Yeah, but I bet it wasn't as much fun as you had watching the planes piloted by the misunderstood Muslims fly into the WTC...that was a zinger, huh? Better than Sherman through Georgia, huh? Oh...I forgot...that was Bush and Cheney and Osama and Halliburton doing all that good stuff...right, you Truther, you!

Which did you enjoy the most: the water boarding or the nude torture with our soldiers beating them???

That's a close call, though water-boarding seems the best. The trouble, of course, is that it neither injures nor kills. Ask Sheik Khalid...he got it lots of times. The nude stuff can be seen any old time on TV. I think they call it the "reality shows" or something like that. I'm sure you know...not worth the trouble. None of those prisoners were hurt or killed, either, but you can't have everything.

"Due Process" meant nothing to them---and seems to mean nothing to you in your prejudiced state.

I'll have you know that my state is not prejudiced. It was neutral, the better to keep Sherman from marching through it and has stayed that way, except in the matter of basketball, which is a form of religion here and quite prejudiced.

Which is worse: A Conservative Republican destroyer of American religious freedom / an Arab Terrorist who wants to destroy as well????

Republicans can be pretty squirrelly even when they're not destroying religious freedom...almost as bad as Carolina hypocrites, although they don't campaign on the point of the sword like the Arab terrorists you want Vestal to give a warm fuzzy hug...maybe even a slight genuflection, like Obama does. The next time you face east and do the rug-number, give that a thought.

I welcome your answer!!!

Always glad to oblige!

[Gene Scarborough]

Congratulations, Jim, you have just clearly defined the state of Republican Conservatism today!!!!

It's great as long as you are the giver of the punishment rather than the receiver of undeserved jailing and just happen to be of Middle Eastern descent!!

It's like Jesus and the Disciples getting theirs because they dared to proclaim a new way of following God. It had nothing to do with the Pharisee control nor making people obedient and proper in their tithing and pilgrimage to gain God's favor.

Only one problem---they were wrong and Jesus was right even though he didn't do the "right-wing" thing!

So I got the Mobile jailhouse for going down there and cleaning up after Katrina---thanks to a man who owed me $2,000 / the locals not enforcing their "Theft of services" statute clearly on the Alabama law books / thanks to a system of non-justice where the cops are more crooked than the criminals. Since I have seen it for myself, I am confident a multitude of people innocently going to enjoy the first Mardi Gra in Mobile are keeping the bail bondsmen busy---especially if they are not locals and carry a NC Drivers Liscense as did I!

That felt real good to me as I paced the jailhouse floor and learned first-hand about "Alabama Jestis." The Deputy cuffed me and my customer had to feed me my lunch and hold my cup to my mouth. When I told him we didn't practice justice in NC in this way, he just said, "Put you hands behind you back 'caus yer under arrest!" My wife thought I was dead for almost a week because they wouldn't let me call out either and told her they knew nothing about me!!

My advice is, "You should go to all those Baptist large churches in Mobile--or choose the equally large Methodist / Catholic / Presbyterian ones and send your kids to all the Private Church schools too---for white Christians only!!! Things are different there----by far!!!! AND so very religious!