“I asked
Rogers what he did with the slavery passages of the New Testament. Did he take them literally? He paused, then said, ‘Well, I believe slavery is a much maligned institution. If we had slavery today, we would not have this welfare mess.’” (The Struggle for the Soul of the SBC, by Walter Shurden, p. 36) So yes, still a bad quote, but not as bad as it appears out of context.