OUCH!!!
October 13th, 2006 | Posted in » Baptist Issues
Check out this editorial regarding blogging in the North Carolina Biblical Recorder.
Here’s the portion that will probably hit you hardest… statements by Southeastern Seminary president Danny Akin:
Blogs are not universally popular, however. During a plenary session of the trustees at Southeastern Seminary, seminary president Daniel Akin was asked by a trustee to share his opinion about blogging. Akin, who posts many of his writings online, though not in the form of an interactive blog, said blogs are both a blessing and a curse, “a 21st century outlet for extreme narcissism.”
Blogs require no accountability, Akin said, allowing people “to make scurrilous, false, untrue accusations against men that I believe are men of God.”
Akin said he didn’t know anyone who had been attacked more than former SEBTS president Paige Patterson. “Some people have personal agendas,” he said, and do things that “are shaming the body of Christ.”
“Even if they have legitimate concerns,” Akin said, verbally underscroring the “if,” they are not expressing them “in ways that are consistent with the Bible.”
“I don’t really give a rip what most bloggers think,” he said. “Most of them are little men with little ideas and little agendas.”
One word… OUCH!!!
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By micah on Oct 13, 2006
I have generally really appreciated Dr. Akin, however this comment “Most of them are little men with little ideas and little agendas.” Is beyond ridiculous. It is both unfortunate, and impossible to substantiate, though a cursory look through SBC bloggers site will disprove that thought, in my opinion. Let’s hope those in SBC academia think through their comments more carefully than these comments in the future.
I’m VERY dissapointed in these.
By Bryan Riley on Oct 14, 2006
I am a little man with little ideas and a little agenda, but praise God He is a big God who loves me in spite of it. I’d sure hate to claim to be a big man before my incredible God! Pride is the sin that has dug way too many holes for me that I couldn’t climb out of.
By Bob Cleveland on Oct 17, 2006
1) Akin has a blog on which he posts his opinions or whatever.
2) Most of them are little men with litle ideas and little agendas”.
3) Who am I to argue? He knows himself better than I do.