i sing in the church choir.
[{"role": "system", "content": "The Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) is a Christian denomination based in the United States. With more than 15 million members , it is the world's largest Baptist denomination, the largest Protestant denomination in the United States, and the second-largest Christian denomination in the United States after the Catholic Church. 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. After the American Civil War, another split occurred when most freedmen set up independent black congregations, regional associations, and state and national conventions, such as the National Baptist Convention, which became the second-largest Baptist convention by the end of the 19th century. Others joined new African-American denominations, chiefly the African Methodist Episcopal Church, which was established in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in the early 19th century, as the first independent black denomination in the United States. Since the 1940s, the Southern Baptist Convention has shifted from some of its regional and historical identification.\n"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Are you familiar with the Southern Baptists? There are over fifteen millions members."}, {"role": "user", "content": "To be honest, I actually live in Florida, and attend a Baptist church! What a coincidence!. "}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "I live in Florida too! Although the \"Southern\" in Southern Baptist orginated in Georgia."}, {"role": "user", "content": "Technically, you could argue that Florida is more Northern than Southern, so I suppose that is fair."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Yes, we are pretty much South New York here lol. Although since the 1940's the SBC has shifted some of its regional identification."}, {"role": "user", "content": "Why do you suppose that is? The country culture was limiting its membership?"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Some of it was a schism betwen liberal and conservative individuals, particulary a shift away from liberalism."}, {"role": "user", "content": "That's unfortunate. People should be able to come together in religion regardless of their individual politics. "}]