Studies show that people in the Bible Belt watch the most porn. And church sex scandals are damning every religious denomination in America. The contradiction and hypocrisy are self-evident.
But the tug and correlation between the pulpit and porn speak volumes.
Latest church sex scandals
The child sex abuse scandal now defines the Catholic Church. More than any other scandal, it betrays the chasm of hypocrisy afoot. Because the sin of priests sexually abusing children betrays everything religion stands for.
Preachers confess on Sunday morning for the sins they committed on Saturday night. That’s the Christian lore that mocks this hypocrisy.
But I’m the son of a preacher man. So I can testify that there’s more truth in that lore than in the scriptures preachers preach. And no amount of confession can forgive the cardinal sin of abusing children.
Does God exist?
So-called men of God cannot believe what they preach and still commit the sins they do. I figured this out in my teens. That epiphany explained their hypocrisy. And it has informed my apostasy ever since.
After all, Christians profess belief in an omnipotent and omniscient God. And the Bible warns that “His” wrath can erupt like volcanoes and burn like wildfires.
So any Christian who believes God exists would be too afraid to commit any cardinal sin. That’s human nature.
Jerry Falwell shows why Southern Baptists facing apocalypse
No God worth their salt would allow anyone to commit diabolical sins in their name. But religious leaders keep vindicating the apostasy I developed in my teens.
For example, no Christian worth their salt would support Donald J. Trump. After all, he is Mammon personified.
That’s why nothing is surprising about the Jerry Falwell sex scandal. He is one of Trump’s most loyal supporters.
Last August, his business partner claimed he had a years-long affair with Falwell’s wife. That was damning enough. But he also claimed the wife insisted on Falwell watching their sex acts. His business partner obliged.
Meanwhile, this scandal exposes why so many evangelical leaders support Trump. They see in this shyster a kindred spirit. And that’s their dirty little secret.
My crusade against all religions and false prophets
I have proselytized my Doubting-Thomas message in too many commentaries to count. But here, mocking the “Ten Commandments” is a list of titles to 10 of them:
- “Islamist Terrorizing London…Again,” May 25, 2013
- “ Buddhists Religiously Cleansing Muslims in Myanmar,” May 13, 2015
- “Moderate Muslims Too Busy Fighting Each Other to Fight Extremists,” July 31, 2015
- “(White) Evangelicals Supporting Donald Trump like Israelites Worshipping Golden Calf,” January 20, 2016
- “Evangelicals Leaders Have Sacrificed Their Souls at Altar of Trump,” October 15, 2016
- “Sexual Abuse Allegations Against Pope’s Adviser Damns Papacy,” June 29, 2017
- “Confirmation! Pedophile priests…Is Redundant,” August 15, 2018
- “Eighty Percent of Catholic Priests Are Gay. No Surprise Then That a ‘Gay Cabal’ Rules the Vatican,” February 20, 2019
- “ Republicans Abandon Faith… and Values to Hail Trump as Chosen by God,” March 6, 2019
- “Trump – Sent by God to Save the Jews…?” March 26, 2019
Again, hypocrisy surrounding sex has defined organized religions from their founding. And church leaders and sex scandals compose the same kind of hymn as their congregants and porn. Here are two more scandals for gratuitous titillation:
A Louisiana Priest has been arrested on obscenity charges after having a threesome with two dominatrixes on his church altar, police claim. …
Inside, the witness claimed, they saw Rev. Clark, half naked on top of the altar; accompanying him were two women in high heels and corsets, wielding sex toys. …
The illumination was actually a stage light set up, while a tripod mounted cell phone and camera recorded the whole scene [of all three having sex].
(TMZ, October 9, 2020)
The only wonder is that this priest was having sex with two grown women instead of two little boys.
A pastor who quit her role in the church to become a stripper says that selling x-rated content online is her new ‘calling.’
Nikole Mitchell, 36, from Orange Country, California, grew up in a strict Baptist family and was training to become the leader of her Christian congregation, but abandoned the pulpit after discovering she was queer.
(The Daily Mail, October 9, 2020)
At least this pastor had enough respect for herself and her congregants to commit her alleged sins the right way.
Amen?