I’m A Dog Chasing My Own Tail

When I write about Christians I often think, “I shouldn’t say this. I have at least one or two people like my friend LuisFTS who are Christians.”

But history is on my side. Take the Pope. For over three decades he did nothing about the Church protecting God only knows how many sex offenders and child predators. Only after the Church had to pay out millions, has it owned up to its nasty deeds. No one can tell me different because I was one of those children. But not in two life times will I take money that was given to the Church by people worse off financially than I’ve ever been. This is not the Pope’s money that he and his buddies are handing out. It’s money given by poor people to do God’s work, not Satan’s.

It was the Christian block of voters that elected and reelected Bush and Cheney. Has this block of Christians, or even one of its shepherds, come forth and said, “I was wrong. Because of me and my colleagues over a million people have been murdered, we have destroyed our country’s economy, and we have disgraced our flag. If we have any hope of forgiveness, we must impeach this demon and make it right with the people of Iraq as best we can. I am sorry and ask for forgiveness.” No! They have not. And it’s a good thing they haven’t because the only thing they’re sorry for are any personal losses connected to Bush.

I’ll not defend the leeches that have sucked their way into the Church with the intent of destroying it or the cowards who condone it. While speaking in churches all across the U.S., I never once came across a single preacher who did NOT propose a private deal–a deal that would benefit him alone. I could not believe the contention and pettiness. In each and every case, I hadn’t even learned the names of the elders before they were telling me who I shouldn’t deal with or listen to as this one or that one was a trouble maker. It was unbelievable. I could have gone into any pawnshop or bar along my route and found more harmony and integrity.

My first wife is a member of the Church of Christ, my mother is a Pentecostal, neither of these women can miss a Sunday meeting, and neither of these women can get home from that meeting without saying something negative about the meeting or someone at it.

While McCain and his crowd talks about Obama’s church, McCain goes to church less often than he goes to Congress to vote. He can’t be accused of listening to a racist preacher, because he doesn’t listen to any preacher. And that just might be the good news, but who else have you heard say that?

Bobby Miller
Florence, Alabama