Southern Baptist President - fraudulent credentials?

Don'tcha love it? Another religious phony!

Heeeeeere's Johnny!

The "newly elected" president of the Southern Baptist Convention is a fraud. Johnny Hunt, pastor of First Baptist Church in Woodstock, Georgia, "identifies himself with the title 'Dr.' and lists two accredited educational institutions on his personal Web site from which he did not receive a doctorate. Yet he is often identified publicly as having degrees--degrees that come from two diploma mills."

For example, last February, at the annual pastor's conference of the First Baptist Church of Jacksonville, the program noted that Hunt had "received a Doctorate of Divinity from Immanual (sic) Baptist Theological Seminary and a Doctorate of Sacred Laws and Letters from Covington Theological Seminary."

Immanuel Baptist Seminary is an interesting institution. Located near Atlanta it offers an "external degree program" so you can earn college and/or seminary credit in the comfort of your home. "Three of Immanuel's faculty members, included its president and executive vice president, are family members. Many faculty members appear to have residences in Ghana, India, Indonesia, Korea and Nigeria. An Internet search of a number of faculty members turned up only links to Immanuel."

Covington Theological Seminary is another fascinating place to gain an "education." This school "offers night classes, which allows 'students an opportunity to have daytime jobs while earning a Bible education.'"

As with Immanuel, three of Covington's poohbahs are related - the president, executive secretary and director of administrative services. "The school's vice president for academic affairs has a Ph.D. from the Southern Baptist School for Biblical Studies, a degree that the school does not appear to offer."

There's much more which you can read in an article by Robert Parham here.

Parham concludes that these fraudulent claims to academic training place "the question mark of integrity over the SBC."

You think?