What do you know about the Southern Baptist Convention? As in the church in the USA.
I actually know very little about it other than it's a Christian convention based in the US
I've always had the impression that it was a church with very strict dogma. In truth, however, I don't know this to be true.
I tend to agree with you. There have been several splits in the denomination. They disagreed over the issue of slavery.
Slavery split more than just that one church. The whole nation was split since its founding over slavery. I wonder if we'll ever put it behind us.
That would be ideal but hard to imagine in this day. Slavery has persisted through various empires
Truly. I always found the story of the Helots in ancient Sparta to be a bizzare one. It was a nation that seemed to pride itself for its ability to conquer and dominate neighboring peoples.
I had never heard of them, personally.