Review: Sunday's sermon was shallow drivel of the most dangerous sort
Ms. ______'s lecture was a chattering of word-bombs (Groupthink, Code Pink words -- like Diversity and Fairness -- that generate a culturally-conditioned response, a Pavlovian reflex). I resent that our pulpit would be used for such a shallow talk, glittering with these charged call-outs that mock thoughtfulness. And I figure I reject her full-buildout notions of how Fairness will be imposed in her dream world.
I must say, she began beautifully however, sly one that she is. She begins with a lovely story of Estonia and the singing line of freedom-standers. Best part of her talk and Susann says we shall rent the film of it, very good. But then she takes a magician's leap, a bait-and-switch actually, to equate Estonia's condition to the Corporate hold on the world today.
I missed the bridge that connects this cruel enslavement of peoples by Stalin to Corporations today. How do you get from there to that? Their roots are sharply distinct from each other, rising on either side of a chasm. Besides that, the assumption that corporate structures are in themselves a force for evil is not one I share and won't get tricked into assuming with you, Ma'am.
Right then and there, if no one would have cared or noticed me, I would have walked out. But it would have been rude here, among such good people I have come to cherish and respect, and I would embarrass some for Drama? no. I will stay, as an anthropological study of the Now, and observe how this kind of pestilence enters into the Holy Temples, even this gentle, loving place.
OK, so we're into the evil of corporations, and I wonder if that includes the Nature Conservancy, very influential corporation after Unions (20 of the top 25 donors to all campaigns over twenty years), the Corporation for Public Broadcasting that gets so much of its money to ensure the we are all AIMED correctly. (You wanna get political in this sanctuary? I'm not planning on leaving. Shall we really talk?)
And then the fast-talking spinmeister hurls out a biggie, a Mother of all Word-bombs: "Haiti", and it works like a charm. We are surely triggered to fall into God-sad dispair and sense of failure, and so we don't notice how she quickly asserts evil corporate culpability to their tragedy, so fast that we skip across the ridiculous assumptions and logic. ("wait a minute. Is Ms. ______ seriously charging that the dysfunction of this ex-French colony is because some corporation wants to grow bio-designed grain on it's hillsides? Seriously?") I would love to enjoy a faith-based, Christ-based, prayer-based discussion on the wretched roots of Haiti's condition, but it is wrong to use their name as a scaredoll to support your Leftist view and get a cheap communal grunt. Ewww.
Finally, this lipsticked carnival barker at our precious pulpit hauls out her battlecry, so that we all know what she is talking about: Justice. Yes, I have heard this call before in other churches. Those churches weren't as well-grounded as this one, and they succumbed to the Political Dialectics of the Day, Man-to-Man, just what I need to go to church for, haha, don't get enough of that everywhere else I go. No, Sir, I'm not leaving. Here I stand in devotion to the Highest God, and I reject your cheap incitement to feel superior.
The Lord is our Justice, and I will rest in Him. And I have learned the hard way that Righteous Angry Judgement is inevitably Wrong (wasted energy and a long path back) and must be tempered by Love and Respect and Sisterhood. So I've learned to not trust those who waggle such mob-think tools at me.
Although, haha, as you hear from my words, this whole thing flared up my own righteous judgement, so I see I must temper and not be so unkind...give me a bit of time. (Update: See my kinder report in next post)
Let our churches not succumb to the fashions of the day. Let us listen to the Lord.
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