Our only major quarrel's with your total lack of morals

[vovat]

Hey, remember Mike Huckabee? You know, the guy who ran for president on a platform of marginalizing anyone who wasn't a conservative Christian, and then went on to have a show on Fox News? Well, apparently somebody does, because his book Do the Right Thing is on the bestseller list. I haven't read the book, and I'm not even totally sure what it's about, but that title reminds me of how annoyed I get at hateful people claiming that they're super-moral, and that they know what's best for everyone else. You know, like the Moral Majority (who, like the Holy Roman Empire, have a name in which every word is false). I think I'm a pretty moral person, but I don't go around bragging about it, because that would pretty much just be opening myself up to charges of hypocrisy. And when people like that screw up, they often screw up big-time. Just consider Ted Haggard's fun with meth and male escorts, Bill O'Reilly's adventures in sexual harassment, John Schmitz's out-of-wedlock children (not to mention his LEGITIMATE daughter having sex with her student), Jimmy Swaggart's love of prostitutes, and so on. Hey, I guess if you're part of a religion that teaches that all sins are equal to God, you might as well go for the big sins, right? Also, I believe it was rockinlibrarian who proposed that people for whom evangelism reaches the point of obsession are likely to have addictive personalities anyway.

Really, if these people are such devout Christians, shouldn't they know the parable of the Pharisee and the tax collector from Luke 18:9-14? I don't pretend to be an expert on Jesus, but I have read the Bible, and one message he gives in a slew of different ways is not to judge others. And pride is one of the seven deadly sins, right? So isn't acting like you're the paragon of morality kind of anti-Christian?

Comments

[suegypt.livejournal.com]

Um, YES

[rockinlibrarian.livejournal.com]

Yes, that was me. It came up in a discussion about a whole extended family who had major addiction problems across the board, and that evangelism appeared to be one of them.

I think there's a line between total tolerance of everything and being judgmental, and somewhere in the middle is the proper Christian standpoint. Obviously, there are things that are WRONG. But the fact that Jesus spent SO much of his ministry railing against hypocrisy most especially among the Obviously Showy Devout is pretty much a Big Flashing Warning Sign for the pridefully pious.

[kevenn.livejournal.com]

Aw man, I was hoping this was leading to some revelation that Huckabee was now involved in a scandal. LOL.

[vovat.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I definitely would have gotten a sense of schadenfreude about that, but he really had very little to do with the rest of the post. It was just that seeing the title of his book made me think about these related topics.