response: OK, well getting back to the Baptists, the Southern Baptist Convention formed in Augusta, Georgia in 1845. They split from the northern Baptists over slavery.
original_response: The Southern Baptists have an interesting history, They split with northern Baptists over the issue of slavery.
history: I am attending my first Southern Baptist Convention and am unsure what to expect? I didn't know that was actually a meeting. I just thought that was the name given to the largest Protestant denomination in the United States. It could be, that shows you how much I know what I am getting into? Ha! I don't know much more about the Southern Baptist Convention, but I know Presbyterianism originally came from Scotland. Is there anything else you'd like to know? I'm currently a free agent on the religious front, but checking out my options.
knowledge: The word ''Southern'' in Southern Baptist Convention stems from it having been organized in 1845 at Augusta, Georgia, by Baptists in the Southern United States who split with northern Baptists over the issue of slavery, specifically whether Southern slave owners could serve as missionaries.