Pastor Dwight McKissic Receives Letter Urging the SBC to Say ‘Goodbye and Good Riddance’ to All Black Members
Pastor Dwight McKissic, a Black Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) pastor who is considering leaving the denomination over its refusal to accept Critical Race Theory, was just sent a shocking and racist letter that said, “goodbye and good riddance” to all Black members of the SBC.
The letter is filled with rhetoric, calling Black people “the Negro” and seemed to condemn having Black people in church leadership. The letter also called Black people stupid and said they act like two-year-olds.
An email my friend @pastordmack received recently after announcing his departure from the SBTC. Behold. pic.twitter.com/kIDuj8oIql
— Kyle J. Howard (@KyleJamesHoward) February 2, 2021
The letter, authored by John Rutledge, states: “In recent years the Southern Baptist Convention has been repenting (foolishly) of the ‘sin’ of whiteness, and has rebaptized itself as an exemplar of diversity. Verily, it has brought fruits meet for repentance: a Negro Convention president; a Negro candidate for the pastorate of a white church (FBC, Naples, Florida); five million dollars in seminary scholarships for – and only for – Negroes; appointive positions reserved for, and elections rigged to install, Negroes.”
Rutledge then remarks that to the Black community, the efforts towards diversity made by the SBC have “not been enough.” He adds, “For the Negro, nothing is ever enough.”
Rutledge concludes the letter writing, “But those are beyond the Negroes’ intellectual capacities. Like two-year-olds, they know only how to whine and throw tantrums. The SBC should bid them goodbye and good riddance.”
As to Rutledge’s claims of a rigged election, there do not seem to be any credible media reports or allegations to back his claims. In fact, at the time of writing, Christian Headlines could not find a single report corroborating the letter author’s account.
Additionally, most Southern Baptist Convention members do not see anything wrong with having black church leadership. In fact, the President he is speaking about, Fred J. Luter, Jr., was considered a “significant” election by the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary’s president, Daniel L. Akin. Further, he was reelected in 2013 before ending his term as President of the SBC in following with the convention of stepping down after two terms.
Rutledge is an author who is no longer part of the Southern Baptist Convention. He is known for his book, “A Church Has Gone To Hell,” where he calls Southern Baptist sermons devoid of intellect and riddled with what he calls “primitive doctrines,” calling the sermons an affront to intellectual, scientific minds. He also called Southern Baptists “a submissive, unquestioning membership” of believers.
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John Paluska has been a contributor for Christian Headlines since 2016 and is the founder of The Daily Fodder, a news outlet he relaunched in 2019 as a response to the constant distribution of fake news.
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