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I try to shy away from covering religion, not because it’s not important…it is…but because if you are not part of a particular denomination, you can find yourself looking pig-ignorant and ridiculous, things to which no pundit should ever aspire unless they are working for The Bulwark, The Dispatch, or the North American Man-Boy Lincoln Association (h/t to Ace at Ace of Spades for that moniker). For instance, last week, someone named Beth Moore announced she was leaving the Southern Baptist. Convention. I was assured she was a
super important person whose exit portended grim times for the SBC. It was probably newsworthy, but I took a pass on it because a) I don’t belong to the SBC, and b) because of that, I didn’t feel comfortable discussing it.