IN PRAISE OF DISHONESTY

This is the ‘virtue’ that is honoured within Christian churches today.  In the olden days, this was more of a ‘vice,’ but not today.  It is this characteristic that enables the church’s leaders do whatever they wish.  It opens the way for them to admit into church membership unconverted sinners and to baptise the infants of unregenerate church members; they only have to say they are Christians for the church to accept them as Christians.  No man can see the true state of another’s heart or his standing before God, so if they say the right things, we will probe no further.

For such people to be honest and say they are not Christians at all will be for their babies to go unbaptised – perish the thought for those of Romanising mind-fix. 

Indeed, for ministers of the truth to prefer deceit is shameful.  Ministers are no longer allowed to preach in many pulpits because they have the courage to speak the truth.  Hypocrisy is preferred because that opens doors to ‘ministry’ rather than closing them.  Pretending that things in the church garden are rosy is what is expected of preachers; we do not want preachers who tell it as it is, do we? 

Every church gets on at this business.  I have not yet met a church or denomination that admits that it is having problems or it has got it wrong on some matters.  If such a church exists, please let me know.

Oh, yes, the infallible Roman Catholicism has admitted it has done a few wrong things in the past, not serious wrong, you understand; just minor misdemeanours like systematically abusing the most innocent and vulnerable within its lurid jurisdiction, and then successfully covering this up for many decades. 

But those churches that do not claim infallibility act as if they were by not admitting to any wrongdoing ever. 

You see, it is better to be dishonest in church affairs than otherwise because being otherwise only lets the side down – and we can’t have that, can we?