# The Southern Baptist Church is considering a name change: recommendations? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [December 9, 2011, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-southern-baptist-church-is-considering-a-name-change-recommendations/605573 "2011-12-09T01:20:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Yllaria](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yllaria/32/3452_2.png) [@Yllaria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yllaria)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2011, 7:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-southern-baptist-church-is-considering-a-name-change-recommendations/605573/21 "2011-12-09T07:22:35Z")
> [@t-bonham@scc.net](#): > > **B** aptist **U** nited **B** eliving **B** rotherhood of **A** merica. That’s worth a smile. I was thinking The Only True Baptist Church. ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2011, 7:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-southern-baptist-church-is-considering-a-name-change-recommendations/605573/22 "2011-12-09T07:45:18Z")
Jerks For Jesus ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2011, 8:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-southern-baptist-church-is-considering-a-name-change-recommendations/605573/23 "2011-12-09T08:17:20Z")
> [@RetroVertigo](#): > > 1st Baptist Church of the South No, it’s the 1st Southern Church of Baptism! You splitter! ---
**Author:** ![Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ccd318/32.png) [@Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paul_in_Qatar)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2011, 9:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-southern-baptist-church-is-considering-a-name-change-recommendations/605573/24 "2011-12-09T09:01:40Z")
Actually, my church used to be Baptist. Nobody calls it that anymore. Nobody calls themselves Baptists anymore. The Southern Baptist kind of ruined it. Now the term is _community of believers._ Pure wimpyness We still have the best after-church buffets however. ---
**Author:** ![RetroVertigo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b38774/32.png) [@RetroVertigo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RetroVertigo)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2011, 10:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-southern-baptist-church-is-considering-a-name-change-recommendations/605573/25 "2011-12-09T10:04:08Z")
[Quote=RetroVertigo] 1st Baptist Church of the South [/Quote] > [@Miller](#): > > No, it’s the 1st Southern Church of Baptism! You splitter! Schism Fight! ---
**Author:** ![ralph124c](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8797f3/32.png) [@ralph124c](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ralph124c)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2011, 12:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-southern-baptist-church-is-considering-a-name-change-recommendations/605573/26 "2011-12-09T12:26:53Z")
Old Time Religion Church? TRy Us, You Will Like Us Church? ---
**Author:** ![Slithy\_Tove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slithy_tove/32/18248_2.png) [@Slithy\_Tove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slithy_Tove)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2011, 12:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-southern-baptist-church-is-considering-a-name-change-recommendations/605573/27 "2011-12-09T12:28:50Z")
“the Moops” ---
**Author:** ![handsomeharry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e9c0ed/32.png) [@handsomeharry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handsomeharry)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2011, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-southern-baptist-church-is-considering-a-name-change-recommendations/605573/28 "2011-12-09T14:38:38Z")
Hmmmmm…how about the Church of the Northern Confederacy?? hh ---
**Author:** ![Death\_of\_Rats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a6a055/32.png) [@Death\_of\_Rats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Death_of_Rats)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2011, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-southern-baptist-church-is-considering-a-name-change-recommendations/605573/29 "2011-12-09T15:12:59Z")
The Judean People’s Front! Not to be confused with the People’s Front of Judea. ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2011, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-southern-baptist-church-is-considering-a-name-change-recommendations/605573/30 "2011-12-09T15:15:13Z")
The Church of the Nine Commandments ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2011, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-southern-baptist-church-is-considering-a-name-change-recommendations/605573/31 "2011-12-09T15:20:29Z")
Confederacy United New Testament Synod Now if only there were a good way of abbreviating that… ---
**Author:** ![Ellen\_Cherry](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellen_cherry/32/3600_2.png) [@Ellen\_Cherry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellen_Cherry)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2011, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-southern-baptist-church-is-considering-a-name-change-recommendations/605573/32 "2011-12-09T16:01:14Z")
Moving thread from IMHO to the BBQ Pit. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2011, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-southern-baptist-church-is-considering-a-name-change-recommendations/605573/33 "2011-12-09T16:13:41Z")
> [@RTFirefly](#): > > The Church of the Nine Commandments Eight. The prohibitions on adultery and bearing false witness have atrophied through disuse over there. ---
**Author:** ![Furious\_Marmot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/dfb087/32.png) [@Furious\_Marmot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Furious_Marmot)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2011, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-southern-baptist-church-is-considering-a-name-change-recommendations/605573/34 "2011-12-09T16:22:11Z")
The Shoeless Methodist Church. ---
**Author:** ![Anne\_Neville](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Anne\_Neville](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anne_Neville)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2011, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-southern-baptist-church-is-considering-a-name-change-recommendations/605573/35 "2011-12-09T16:31:59Z")
> [@Sampiro](#): > > SBC: like KFC, but with more fried chicken The phone company where I used to live was called SBC. I was venting my frustration with them with a friend of mine, and he said that SBC really stood for “Satan’s Bastard Children”. That applies here, too. ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2011, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-southern-baptist-church-is-considering-a-name-change-recommendations/605573/36 "2011-12-09T16:36:44Z")
> [@RetroVertigo](#): > > 1st Baptist Church of the South Now with unlimited ePrayer transactions and _no service charges_ on offertory PayPlate donations! ---
**Author:** ![Darth\_Panda](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ee7513/32.png) [@Darth\_Panda](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darth_Panda)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2011, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-southern-baptist-church-is-considering-a-name-change-recommendations/605573/37 "2011-12-09T17:05:20Z")
The Fightin’ Southies! ---
**Author:** ![WolfpackJeep](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpackjeep/32/2921_2.png) [@WolfpackJeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WolfpackJeep)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2011, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-southern-baptist-church-is-considering-a-name-change-recommendations/605573/38 "2011-12-09T17:14:42Z")
> [@Anne\_Neville](#): > > The phone company where I used to live was called SBC. I was venting my frustration with them with a friend of mine, and he said that SBC really stood for “Satan’s Bastard Children”. That applies here, too. On that theme, how about “Satan’s Beloved Christians”? ---
**Author:** ![YogSothoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/8edcca/32.png) [@YogSothoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YogSothoth)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2011, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-southern-baptist-church-is-considering-a-name-change-recommendations/605573/39 "2011-12-09T17:24:38Z")
The Westboro-lite Church Hillbillies R Us Redneckian Nation The Stupids ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2011, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-southern-baptist-church-is-considering-a-name-change-recommendations/605573/40 "2011-12-09T17:30:17Z")
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