It never ceases to amaze me how purely stupid some ministers of the Gospel of Jesus Christ can be.
Yeah, I said ministers. Preachers. Pastors. I really think some people think that because they have a degree from "cemetary"...er, I mean seminary, they can poke their noses into the business of anyone they jolly well please. Even total strangers.
Take one such busybody....a preacher who contacted a board member of a Christian radio station I volunteer at once a week to do a rock show. He felt it was his calling to Google people who was there. Okay, fine. It's a free country. Well, he Googled me & for some unknown reason, he got a link to my Frapper page. Yeah, so it's just another page to "network" with people online.
Well then he got his sanctimonious nose out of joint when he saw that ~gasp!!~ I had a pipe in my mouth. But even that wasn't as big of a deal except that in my description I had also mentioned that my radio show was on this station. Okay so now he thinks this is an issue.
I say, "Get a life."
It just frosts me when shallow people who get a little "spirituality" and think God has called them to control another person. I have said before that my spirituality, my relationship to God, or my eternal destination is not solely wrapped up in what I wear, what I say, what I put in my mouth, or any other picky-unish little splinter someone wants to find (using a magnifying glass) in my eye.
And, the same should also apply to anything I am associated with (yeah, I know my participle is dangling...but I'm just a bit horked off at the moment).
Now, thankfully the board member at the station was cool about it.... Thank the Lord there IS some reason in the world. And, for the sake of this pompus preacher who is "bothered" by this "offensive" photo, I took it off my page and removed any reference to the radio station. But good grief... I wonder if he'd be just as accomodating if someone was critical of him or one of his sermons? Or someone at his church? Or what he watched on TV when no one was looking?
You know what's even funnier? The man who founded Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth, TX smoked a cigar and had the thing painted into a portrait of him that is displayed at the school.
Well, it was displayed at the school for years until....
...some fat-headed pharisee got their knickers in a twist about seeing the founder of the seminary posing with a fat cigar between his fingers. So the school had it painted out!!
And the conservative Christian community are the ones crying "foul" when the secular humanists try to rewrite history in our schoolchildrens' textbooks.....
Get real people. It's not about what you smoke, eat, drink, or wear. It's about Jesus.
