Plawrence, Plawrence, Plawrence, my man..........Religion IS politics.

Just look at how the Catholic Church was splintered by "Protestants", which then fractured itself endlessly over little details and shit that in the broad picture shouldn't really matter. I mean, Jesus saved the day, got his ass killed by Pagan Romans, came back for a day, and left us until the day that he'll go medievil on my Christian ass for being naughty. Yet its the DETAILS that people pissed at each other.

For instance, why is there a "Baptist" church in America, but as well as a "Southern Baptist" church?

You see, the "Baptist" church itself failed to agree to a unified religious, spiritual, and moral solution in how to deal with slavery. As the country was in its final stages before the American Civil War, the slave-owning southern members of the church, which unsurprisingly weren't comfortable with the northern-abolitionist members who wanted to officially condemn the practice of slavery, split to create the "Southern Baptist" church, which then didn't condemn slavery as immoral until after the war of course.