SBC calls white supremacy scheme of the devil after Trump comment

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By Leonardo Blair, Christian Post Reporter Twitter Follow
Ronnie Floyd (right) president and CEO of the Southern Baptist Convention’s (SBC) Executive Committee and former president of the SBC, prays over J.D. Greear, current president of the SBC, during the Executive Committee’s meeting June 10, 2019 at the Sheraton Hotel in Birmingham, Ala. | Matt Miller

Senior officers of the Southern Baptist Convention reaffirmed the denomination’s repudiation of white supremacy as a “scheme of the devil” Wednesday after a controversial call by President Donald Trump to far-right activists to “stand back and stand by” during the presidential debate on Tuesday.

“When asked to condemn white supremacy, every single one of us should be ready to do so. Racism is, sadly, not extinct, and we know from our Southern Baptist history the effects of the horrific sins of racism and hatred,” SBC President J.D. Greear said on Twitter Wednesday afternoon.

“We denounce and repudiate white supremacy and every form of racial and ethnic hatred as a scheme of the devil intended to bring suffering and division to our society. We re-affirm what Southern Baptists said to this in 2017.” 

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