How many Baptist Preachers does it take to change a lightbulb? Not sure, but if the first two are named Land and Huckabee...it takes at least 3!
If there was ever a doubt that being a Baptist preacher were NOT a real job...that doubt has been ended this week by the very public and very unsophisticated comments from preachers Richard Land and Mike Huckabee.
Don't get me wrong. I agree with most of the tenets of the Baptist faith. And I'll concede that being a Baptist preacher is a HARD job. But it ain't a "real" job. Not real in the sense that it gives someone any clue about what is going on in the "real world."
Doctor Land, who for some reason thinks that he is more in touch with reality as he sits ensconced in his theological palace than Rush Limbaugh is as he talks to 20 million folks a week, slammed the talk show host for being out of touch and said that "Rush should get out more" if he thinks conservatives will not support John McCain in the fall. Uh Doc? How many preachers does it take to reach 20 million folks? Besides, I never met a ditto head who fell asleep during the monologue dreaming of beating the Methodists to the all you can eat buffet.
What Land thinks is the most over arching end all be all mother of all issues is of course, abortion. And since McCain at some point did check off some survey that said pro life, that's all Land has to hear. (never mind that aggrevating little reality about McCain and the Gang of 14 setting back conservatives on the judiciary 40 years...thou shalt NOT confuse the single issue voter with the facts. Amen and pass the plate.) I bet Land would shudder if he knew how many ditto heads might withold their tithe this week.
And now to Huckabee. In addition to having the non real life job as preacher, Huck also has had a rather long government career. Nothing like too much living off the tithes and taxes of others to lead one off the straight and narrow. Perhaps if Huckabee ever made a honest dollar that he actually created with enterprise he might have a clue what being conservative means. Like Land, it's pro life and damn the other inconvenient truths. (Damn being a word that Baptists are comfortable with).
This week we've heard from Huck that Rush only wants Huck and McCain (two versions of the same thing) to lose because he and Sean Hannity have financial interests in the same network of stations.(Huh?) and BTW (not true.).
This could only be the bumblings of a man surrounded by power and money as a preacher/politician who requires the support of successful donors but who has not the slightest idea what those donors had to go through to be in a position to be donors. His immediate gut reaction was NOT that perhaps Rush and Hannity and their listeners really believe what they say...it was that there must be a shady financial reason. MEMO to Huck: both Rush and Hannity have "more money than God" (sorry, I couldn't resist) and the last thing they need to do is fake a position to make a tad more money. That is a sentiment known to anyone whose achieved that stature or hoped to. It is a sentiment totally lost on someone who needs either tithes or taxes to make ends meet. Amen and pass the plate. And you can rest assured, as President (which he will never be) Huck would pass the plate and it would be the IRS holding it. (He would abandon his Fair Tax in a skinny).
And that brings us to perhaps the most revealing mis-translation of the Bible that cometh from the mouth of Huck...and that is the so called biblical decree that government jump in and take care of the needy. Uh no Huck...that is NOT BIBLICAL or CONSTITUTIONAL. Both documents, btw, were "God inspired," so careful who you argue with there guv.
All of which convinces me that the Baptist clergy (do Baptist have clergy? Or is that only the high and formal churches) is out of touch with reality, free enterprise, the Bible and the constitution. Yas Lawd...I'm a witness..Amen and pass the plate AGAIN....and I'll beat you to the fried chicken line. BACK TO HOME PAGE