What do you know about the Southern Baptist Convention? As in the church in the USA.
I actually know very little about it other than it's a Christian convention based in the US
I've always had the impression that it was a church with very strict dogma. In truth, however, I don't know this to be true.
I tend to agree with you. There have been several splits in the denomination. They disagreed over the issue of slavery.
Slavery split more than just that one church. The whole nation was split since its founding over slavery. I wonder if we'll ever put it behind us.
Christian views on slavery
Christian views on slavery are varied regionally, historically and spiritually. Slavery in various forms has been a part of the social environment for much of Christianity's history, spanning well over eighteen centuries. In the early years of Christianity, slavery was an established feature of the economy and society in the Roman Empire, and this persisted in different forms and with regional differences well into the Middle Ages. Saint Augustine described slavery as being against God's intention and resulting from sin. In the eighteenth century the
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