It’s political bullshit driven by political-religious bullshit that AFAIK started in the 1980s with political right-wing takeover of Baptist organizations aimed at turning those groups into a political base with this and other BS “religious” messages as a rallying point, which worked depressingly well.
(HCR mentioned this recently ):
“The modern Southern Baptist Convention story begins in 1967, when Paige Patterson, a seminary student, and Paul Pressler, a Texas judge, met in New Orleans to discussing taking over the largest Protestant denomination in the U.S. and ridding it of liberals, purging those who believed in abortion rights, women’s rights, and gay rights. By 1979 their candidate was elected head of the organization, and in the 1980s, Southern Baptists, who then numbered about 15 million people, were active in politics and were staunch supporters of the Republican Party. ”