I dunno. Maybe you’ve read about this already, but “rev” Barry Lynn of Americans United for Separation of Church & State has recently sent Texas Gov. Rick Perry a letter of reprimand for attending what Lynn characterizes as “what amounts to a Christian fundamentalist revival service” [Like he has any experience with that...] or a […]
Category Archives: Hypocrisy
Recently on “rev” Barry Lynn’s Culture Shocks program, PZ Myers commented on geocentrism. After stating that such folks affirm that the Earth is the center of the galaxy or universe or whatever based on scientific ignorance ["It's pretty easy to dismiss what you don't understand," opines Myers], he made the following estimation: “Also, they’ve got […]
Inevitably, someone accuses me of being a Creationist simply because I was raised that way. If I’d been born into the Muslim world, I’d be a Muslim, they say. If I’d been born into one of USAmerica’s Coastal Ignorance belts, I’d be a godless liberal. Et cetera ad nauseam. The problem with this analogy is […]
I believe that Fellowship is one of the more crucial keys to a reality-based Christian life. In Hebrews 10:19-25, we are told not to forsake the assembling of ourselves together, so that we can help each other to “hold fast the profession of our faith” (ie. – to NOT give up!). A lot of folks […]
OK, I’ll admit it. I find modern Praise and Worship music doctrinally shallow. A lot of the time they just sing a chorus over and over until they begin to feel some sort of emotion [tedium?]. I love the sentiments in those songs. I love the fact that [originally] they were psalms and scripture set […]
I can’t count the number of times I’ve visited a church, liked the people, liked the worship, liked the preaching and found out after about a month or two that there was simply NOTHING to do there. I’m not saying it was boring. I’m one of those guys who likes to dig in, roll up […]
Is there anything more disgustingly and blatantly [dare I say, grossly] hypocritical than a televangelist? Seriously. How much good are these guys really doing [for anybody other than themselves]? They’ve given Christ a bad name ever since the PTL scandals of the eighties and nineties. You can just flip onto those channels at a random […]
There’s famous story in the Gospels about some mothers took their children to Jesus to be blessed. The disciples tried to turn them away under the basic assumption that the Master would not want to be bothered with children when He was doing some big, important ADULT religious stuff. They hadn’t asked Jesus. Jesus’ response […]
The other day, I commented on someone else’s blog and lamented that “I would love to be stoked by church, but most weeks I’m happy just to have SURVIVED it!” It’s one of my pet peeves but the Church of the Living God is, as Tommy Tenney once put it, “somewhat less than advertised.” Rather […]
Gas prices continue to soar with no reasonable end in sight and no apparently logical economical basis. The prices are NOT going up proportionately with increased demand. The prices are NOT going up proportionately with increased cost of a barrel of crude oil or the cost of processing it into gasoline. The prices ARE going up, but it’s […]
The Salem Witch Trials. Forced Conversions of Native Americans. The Inquisitions. The Crusades. The list goes on. These are some of the gross sins of Christendom. They represent moral objections to the faith. At face value, they seem intimidating. There’s the temptation to avoid the issue entirely or gloss over it. Liberal “churches” seem to […]
I came across a recnt article in The Charleston Gazette entitled, “House OKs $5,000 raise,” which included the following note: “House Speaker Rick Thompson, D-Wayne, noted lawmakers had not received a pay increase since 1994. he said he was proud of the membership for standing up to public pressure. [Front page of The Charleston Gazette, […]
