Tonight I had time to watch TV for the first time in a long time. A pattern I observed in the different shows I watched, some of them reality, was the frequency at which fundamentalist Christian men are caught in pornography or buying sex from prostitutes.
I couldn’t help but think of the hundreds of Christians I know who look pious and are, by all accounts, good Christians. Yet, at some point I have heard of the skeletons in their closets: men or women having extra-marital affairs, single Christians having pre-marital sex, compulsive liars, con-people, wife beaters, child abusers, thieves, rapists, and what not?
Christians are going to jump at me here and say that I am looking at the sinners instead of keeping my eyes on Jesus. But I think they’re being too forgiving with a faith that proves again and again its ineffectiveness.
As I’ve stated in the past, what baffles me isn’t so much that their deeds fail to match their profession of faith. What bothers me is how easily they fool their Christians counterparts.
This is too revealing for me. For instance, many a time I’ve known of crooks who just a week before being found out were praised by the pastor from the pulpit.
And I never tire of saying this: Whatever happened to the holy spirit? Isn’t the spirit supposed to guide Jesus’ followers to all truth? Aren’t pastors of all people supposed to own the gift of discernment?
To me that’s a deal breaker. That Christians can’t even as much as suspect they’re dealing with blatant liars or con-people is unacceptable.
That to me means that THERE IS NO HOLY SPIRIT guiding the saints. And there is where the carefully fabricated bunch of lies devotees are told Sunday after Sunday falls apart, in my opinion.
Why are guided-by-god-himself folks so easy to fool? Why?
I have never been easy to fool. And for pointing out the crooks and liars I was harshly criticized and told off.
This is not too different from what happens to non-Christians. They fall for BS all the time as well, proving that the folks in church have no special anointing, insight, or wisdom. They are representatives of the local culture as much as everyone else.
Yes, after six years and counting of not going to church, the naïveté of the thousands of Christians I met while a believer still baffles me.
