The Day The Earth Stood Still | Eastern North Carolina Now

    W-e-e-e-l-l-l dogies --- I feel like "The Day The Earth Stood Still" has come to pass today. Who wudda' thunk it???

    NC has a mandatory recount for Governor with a % tie on our voting. Burr gets sent back to the US Senate so no progress in DC balance of powers took place. The balance between Executive and Legislative branches in NC is as lop-sided as ever. . .

    Now we all know how the dog felt who caught the car and DID NOT KNOW WHAT TO DO WITH IT!!!

    Maybe Trump was right --- THE WHOLE ELECTION IS RIGGED!!!

    I attended the Southern Baptist Convention years ago when the Conservatives pulled the same kind of surprise. In that case, we trusted religious folks to be honest, but it did not happen. It took several weeks for the facts to sort out, but ULTIMATELY THEY DID!

    We got a fundamentalist new President of the SBC by a 2% margin of voting. I saw it with my own eyes as church buses pulled up to the door of the Arena about 20 minutes prior to the vote. People poured off, picked up ballots, went in, voted as told, left throwing their un-used ballots on the floor as they quickly exited back home with smiles on faces.

    WHAT HAPPENED????

    It is now fully documented and proven that basic rules for proper number of church messengers with no more than 10 per church were lost in the rush -- and -- trust of the Registrars who had no way to check how many from any church were already registered. You can believe some safeguards were installed in the next years, but the damage was done and the worst result was total loss of trust that Conservatives would do the right things as per their pretense over why the SBC was corrupt and needed a total change.

    Next came some 10 years of locked in Conservative Presidents who had the power to name a Committee on Committees which steadily made every Committee or Board of the SBC into a Fundamentalist copy of the national group. Giving went down / new converts crashed and burned / the missionary enterprise hit a block wall as new measures of "propriety" were installed to cut out any but the Conservative view of theology and practice.

    Then came the NC reality of the "new conservatism" --- my graduate school in Wake Forest was turned upside down as the President was fired and many of my beloved professors had to leave in a purge. Dr. William Friday (of UNC fame) said that this was, perhaps, the greatest change in NC in the last 100 years. He saw it more clearly than most.

    If you steal the bus, someone has to still put gas in the tank. The SBC bus that was stolen is now an empty shell of what it once was in size and outlook. NC now has pulpits all over with Preachers telling members how to vote in any election and how they need a "New" Constitution and By-laws that makes the Preacher a Dictator controlling all decisions which members used to make . . .

    I have experienced "The Day the Earth Stood Still" in my religion and now I am seeing much of the same in the politics of yesterday and into today . . . Here is what I found:

    (1) The TRUTH always rose in due time over dirty votes.

    (2) A new group came from the destruction of a former good way of working together as Southern Baptists so the real ideal goes on.

    (3) Many tears were shed and many small churches will no longer call a Student Pastor from Southeastern Seminary as Pastor.

    (4) The same tactics and ideologues took over the NC Baptist State Convention so me and my friends don't waste our time by attending anymore.

    Sometimes it is better to "Switch than to Fight" . . . after all!!!

poll#97

Regardless of who was your champion in this past presidential election: Will you recognize the duly elected leader of the Free World?

  I will never recognize President Donald J. Trump because he is not worthy.

  I will recognize President Donald J. Trump, providing he respects the office in which he holds.

  "At this point, what difference does it make?"

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