Elizabeth Phillips

I read something by a theologian who studies institutional sin.

So this is, you know, Catholic Church, USA Gymnastics.

Like, these institutions are a part of the problem, right?

It's especially atrocious when it's in the name of Jesus.

But he wrote an article.

It was targeted towards the SBC, the Southern Baptist Convention.

Huge pedophile problem.

They don't want to do anything about.

All lip service, no real substantive reform in the Southern Baptist Convention.

And so he was targeting his article towards that.

And this really stuck out to me.

He said, idols demand sacrifice.

Like Moloch, you know, it's like,

Is he a priest or something?

If you look at this issue through the lens of institutional sin, which a lot of the church wants to ignore that institutional sin, it's a lot about personal sin, right, in most mainstream evangelical theology.

And we've ignored this concept of institutional sin.

But because of how incentives are aligned towards insurance, right, and fundraising money is part of it,

Um, it's created idols.

People idolize Joe White.

People idolize Kanakuk.