Pastor alarmed after Trump-loving congregants deride Jesus' teachings as 'weak'

[Effete Snob]

226. The telling has a "based on a true story" feel

Russell Moore has been deeply engaged in preparing fertile soil for the Trump weed to grow in the body of believers in which he is a leader. Of late, he has been doing this ridiculous act of, "Oh my, the people I've been working to incite for years have gotten uppity" in order to sell his book and this, in my opinion, has more to do with politics within the Southern Baptist Convention hierarchy and his position in it, than anything else.

He's trying to get ahead of what he believes is a change in the wind, so that it will blow his ship further along.

Preachers of his ilk always have these "first-hand stories" of what people tell them.

Why, just the other day a wealthy and influential lady - I'm sure many of you know her - came up to me in private and said, "Pastor Snob, my husband is cheating on me and I don't know what to do, and I told her that she needs to stop worrying about her husband's affair with some harlot, work on her affair with Jesus, and her husband will be so jealous he'll come running back! Can I get a Hallelujah?"

Engagement with politics, in general, hurts churches because it inevitably drives some people away. Sometimes churches unavoidably run into divisive problems when they have to decide whether they are, or are not, going to tolerate things like women preachers, gay members, divorced and remarried members, etc..

But needlessly identifying with particular parties or candidates drives down revenue.

He would like to advance in the SBC hierarchy, but he wants there to be some money left in the till when he gets his hands on it. Don't mistake this viper for an ally.

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