Just for the record, I grew up in a Southern Baptist church, and I've seen the SBC go from a reasonable organization intended to help distribute money in useful ways by conglomeration to a near-fascist organization that's much more interested in keeping their constituent churches under their thumb. But, then again, my viewpoint early on was as a kid, so I may not have been privy to as much as I think I remember.

(BTW, my former dentist of over twenty years is your avatar's son-in-law. I had to get a new one recently when it turned out that he's not really a very good dentist. He and his wife and two daughters used to go to my church, too. Left around the time I think those chages I referenced above really started to hit.)