Baptists, even in pre-Revolution America, were always looked down on and persecuted. Their lack of involvement in the King James Translation Committee is irrelevant; they also had little part in the Great Awakenings, and little enough to do with the missionary outreach of the 1800s, at least at first. Most great missionaries started out as Presbyterians, Congregationalists (Anglicans), Methodists or even Lutherans. Carey was a Baptist, and Judson later became one as well, but overall the great missionaries (and evangelists!) weren't technically "Baptists." SO??
Truth is TRUTH, regardless of whether it's just Jesus and His 12 disciples, or Luther and a few trusted friends, or John Clarke at Rhode Island (he started the Baptist church in America, not Roger Williams). The truth is ALWAYS in the minority, at least when it comes to Biblical truth. That's why, of all the denominations, the Baptist church is likely one of the smallest, and among the Baptists, true Bible Believers are the smallest group.
You're ignorant of life, in general, and truth, specifically.
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