{"id":1363,"date":"2009-06-24T23:52:37","date_gmt":"2009-06-25T07:52:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/2009\/06\/24\/suppose-they-gave-a-war-and-nobody-came\/"},"modified":"2009-06-24T23:52:37","modified_gmt":"2009-06-25T07:52:37","slug":"suppose-they-gave-a-war-and-nobody-came","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/2009\/06\/24\/suppose-they-gave-a-war-and-nobody-came\/","title":{"rendered":"suppose they gave a war and nobody came"},"content":{"rendered":"
This sixties anti-war slogan (a dim memory of my childhood) seems to fit the mood of the horde wanting to storm the gates of the FBFI at the recent national conference.<\/p>\n
They were out for war and are doing their best to find one, somewhere, in the supposed continuing indiscretions of their chief whipping boys. In spite of that, my assessment is that the men leading the conference and speaking at the main sessions came with a different agenda in mind, that of peace, not war. No one took up the challenges of the last month to any great degree, the previously stated position of the FBFI was upheld, several Biblical messages in keeping with the theme were presented, and it seems, at last, that a careful conversation has commenced, something I have desired for a long period of time.<\/p>\n
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Here is my quick assessment of the main speakers:<\/p>\n
All in all, I think the conference went well and our men did a good job keeping the meeting from becoming the battle that some were itching for. The ongoing criticisms from the fiercest critics show how disappointed they were that there was no war. In the end, the FBFI has been shown to be a faithful fundamentalist group, well able to withstand the errors of its own and weather the criticisms of its enemies.<\/p>\n
I think the FBF will continue to provide the \u2018rallying point\u2019 it seeks to be for Separatist Baptist Fundamentalism. That\u2019s exactly what I want it to be and I am proud to be associated with it.<\/p>\n
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This sixties anti-war slogan (a dim memory of my childhood) seems to fit the mood of the horde wanting to storm the gates of the FBFI at the recent national conference. They were out for war and are doing their best to find one, somewhere, in the supposed continuing indiscretions of their chief whipping boys. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[37,71],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2fYWj-lZ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1363"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1363\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}