Brown Hudson's Satirical Editorial Cartoons
From the 
Baptist Messenger, May 15 , 2004

"The EKG of the SBC Oligarchy in 2004"

 

Q. How do you Empower Kingdom Growth?
A. Produce theocratic revolutionaries.

Q. How do you produce theocratic revolutionaries?
A. Parents must enroll their children in designated private schools or else home school them using exclusive SBC criterion.

Q. Who stimulates churchfolk to train their children in this SBC counter-culture educational process?
A. Jerry Falwell, Pat Robertson, Paul Pressler, Paige Patterson, Adrian Rogers, Jerry Vine,  Richard Land, Morris Chapman, Al Mohler, Ed Young, Jerry Rankin, James Draper, et al,  are leaders in a white-boy elite club and coalition that is significant in politics and  government and their influence on Southern Baptist churchfolk takes many forms.
       In the Bible, Luke 6:31,  Jesus said, "And just as you want men to do to you, you also do to them likewise."  In year 2000, the neo-SBC Creed removed Jesus as the criterion for interpreting the Bible. The Oligarchy's private interpretation must now be signed by all employees of the National Convention, the State Conventions, Associations, all paid missionaries, and is now trickling down to any person wanting to join  the local church.
      These men of the SBC Oligarchy have signed their own private creed that no longer believes in the separation of church and state, the priesthood of the believer, and autonomy of the local church.  The Bible is no longer their creed.
      In light of Jesus' sayings, can His followers imagine withdrawing from the Baptist World Alliance because the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship has been accepted as a member of the BWA?
      Home-schooling is another facet of fear in the hearts of the SBC Oligarchy. This fear is expressed in the form of a mandate for SBC churchfolk to remove their children from public schools.

Q. Are there other clever aspects of this EKG attitude?
A.  The counter-culture attitude of the SBC leadership has contributed to the institutionalization of the Christian Right, a powerful political machine of Pat Robertson and Jerry Falwell. The best selling apocalyptic novels of Tim LaHaye contributes and is experiencing explosive growth; as well as the attendance to Mel Gibson's "The Passion of Christ."

Q. How large is this counter-culture today?
A. There are approximately one million involved in home-schooling under the influence of the Patrick Henry College.  If the delegates to the SBC meeting in Indianapolis sanction the Oligarchy's desire, approximately 16 million churchfolk will be added to the separatist home schooling movement, and more are being baptized every day.   


Jerry Rankin

500,000 BAPTISMS

192 NEW PEOPLE

GROUPS IN 2003.


 
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Q. Don't churchfolk have a right to home school their children?
A. The "right" to home school children, part of the Republican Party platform since the 1980's, provides support for the Pat Robertson Christian Right legislative efforts to allow home schooling at the state level. Estimates of the number of home schooling families vary wildly, but may be a million+. If the powerful political machine of the SBC endorses the movement in June, expect millions of SBC parents to join the counter-cultural platform.  It's beyond God and on to Bush!  

Q.  Do states have any oversight of home schooling?
A.  Many states have little oversight, let alone scrutiny of home schools or home school materials. The absence of state oversight has shielded some of the extreme antiabortion militants who home school their children, notably convicted murderer Paul Hill and militia proponent Matt Trewhella. Thousands of children will be raised to be SBC theocratic revolutionaries. While there is no guarantee that these children will turn out as their parents may hope, there is no question about the intentions of indoctrinated parents.
    
The home schooling movement, (like the rise of private white Christian academies as a backlash to the integration of public schools) is quietly led and informed by SBC Reconstructionists. LifeWay Resources, publishers of the SBC Oligarchy, will be a large purveyor of home schooling materials and services. The SBC-EKG Reconstructionism is a politically oriented theological movement that provides the ideological catalyst for Pat Robertson's Christian Right. Since the takeover of the SBC in 1979, the SBC-EKG Reconstructionism has played a central role in politicizing churchfolk. The EKG movement is not waiting for the return of Jesus Christ to change the world; it's the goal of the EKG to establish a theocratic government with their kind as the officials in the seats of power and control.

Q. Wasn't Bold Mission Thrust in the 1970s an effort to carry the Gospel Message into all the world?
A. "Bold Mission Thrust" has been reconstructed and transformed by an extraordinary theological shift, catalyzed by the profoundly theocratic political vision of the Robertson, Pressler, Patterson, Falwell Reconstructionist movement, and its variants, which some authentic Baptist refer to as "dominion theology," or "Empowering Kingdom Growth." (EKG doesn't stand for E. K. Gaylord, but)  

Q. Isn't Christ supposed to return and set up His Kingdom on Earth?
A. "From the "inerrant" SBC Book of Genesis, the SBC Oligarchy is obligated to build the kingdom of God, beginning now.  Christ has been removed as the criterion for biblical interpretations. If Christ does show up a second time, the Oligarchy may decide to allow some kind of habitat for Him.

Q. Wasn't Ken Hemphill promoted from president of Southwestern in Ft. Worth to Nashville as the one to head up this EKG?
A. Yes!  Maybe Ken Hemphill can explain to Jesus how the EKG requires missionaries to sign the SBC 2000 Mandate of Compassionate Fundamentalism. 

Q. Is there any educational institution that currently promotes or  advances home schooling?
A. The home schooling movement made a significant advance in the Fall of 2000, when Patrick Henry College in Purcerville, Virginia opened as a four-year college with the explicit purpose of training home-schooled children in politics and government. There are plans for a law school, and possibly undergraduate programs in journalism, computer science and business. Located just outside Washington, DC, the school emphasizes hands-on experience as interns in government and advocacy organizations so students can jump-start their careers in the Pat Robertson's  Christian Right movement.. 


P. Patterson

Q. Is James Dobson of Focus on the Family involved in this movement?
A. Yes, Dobson is on the Board of the Patric Henry College. The college is a "ministry" of the Home School Legal Defense Association headed by Michael Farris. Farris follows in the footsteps of fellow Virginians Pat Robertson and Jerry Falwell who established and still lead their own and much larger institutions of higher learning, Regent University and Liberty University. Paige Patterson has introduced the establishment of a NEW COLLEGE. "I don't have a target date, but will establish Southwestern College right away.  I've had a lot of pressure from parents and students who want biblical studies of western ideas.  I did this at Southeastern Sinecure. This will be a "great books" program."

Q. Are there other partners with the SBC Oligarchy?
A. The growth of home schooling reflects the increased popularity of separatism among all Fundamentalists. In 1999, Paul Weyrich, President of the Rightist Free Congress Foundation, argued that conservative Christians have essentially lost the culture war and issued a provocative call for Christians to separate from secular institutions. The exclusive nature of the home-schooling movement is consistent with SBC Oligarchy views.  Jerry Falwell is building an entire subdivision of residences restricted to churchfolk of like faith and order. The trend incorporates private schools, private media, entertainment, mega-church facilities and every institution that churchfolk need in order to lead the good life on Earth.  While the drums beat out a prelude, you can see Jesus' picture flashed on the multi-screens at the front.  16 million churchfolk send Nashville millions of dollars annually, with over 7 billion dollars in assets.  Why wait on Jesus to come and set up a kingdom when we can build our own right now with all of its manifestations of success, and politics as a secondary aspect of the EKG?  

 

Opinion of Brown Hudson, Member of FBC-OKC.

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