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SCantiGOP

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3. "Southern" is why it exists
Sat Mar 13, 2021, 12:37 PM
Mar 2021

The Southern Baptists broke away from the national church in the 1850's because of their stand against slavery, which the new Southern division justified on biblical grounds, and thought that slavery was not only sanctioned but actually mandated by the Bible.

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