WORSHIP LEADER IS A PERVERT

5. March 2010 by Frank.

The guy who leads the song service is a pervert. He collects kiddie porn and exposes himself to a young boy helping him with chores. He’s not Catholic, he’s Independent Baptist. He faces eight years in prison and a lifetime on the sex offender list. He’s a local.

At a small (less than 100 member) church.

Everybody knows your name and all your business. Except somehow they managed to miss this moron entirely. Put him in charge of leading the worship service. Other church members are shocked, shocked I tell you. They had no idea, he seemed like such a nice guy. His voice was so beautiful as he praised god in song. How could this happen?

Your friendly neighborhood atheist isn’t shocked.

This kind of shit can happen anywhere. This church doesn’t believe in the gift of discernment of spirits. Why should they be able to see a pervert for what he is? Even churches that believe in spiritual discernment seem unable to discern anything. Claim you’re saved and you love the lord and we won’t question anything about your behavior until it’s way too late. Say the right words or have some musical gift or ability and you can lead the worship service every week. At least you can as long as no one catches you with your pants down.

This isn’t the first time I’ve seen this sort of thing. At a different Baptist church, the worship leader for several years was a Freemason. He proudly wore the ring and everything. There were books in the church library that debunked and denounced Freemasons, quite clearly putting them in the cult/devil worship category. No one cared, not the pastor, the deacons (this guy was a deacon, too), or the congregation in general. Spiritual discernment? B’ah! Who needs it?

Christians are fond of saying they aren’t perfect, just forgiven. Forgiveness may be a nice thing to have but it doesn’t actually change anything. If you were a murderer before you were forgiven chances are you’re still a murderer. If you were addicted to porn you probably still are. The idea of forgiveness may give you strength to overcome it but since there isn’t actually anyone forgiving you, you’re pretty much on your own. Many christians seem to think forgiveness means they can act any way they damn well please.

You would think god wouldn’t want people like this getting into positions of leadership in his church.

You would think he would tip the pastor off. But like so many other things, god remains mute. He doesn’t intervene. He doesn’t prevent the bullshit from happening and he doesn’t keep the world from finding out. He let’s his church be exposed to ridicule. He lets his name and reputation be dragged through the muck of disgusting human perversions. It’s almost as if he doesn’t care.

Or as if he doesn’t exist.

I know I’m being rather cruel and snarky but I do feel for this guy’s family. He’s ruined their lives as well as his own. But where, may I ask, is his all powerful god? Where is his god who can not only forgive him but cure him of his predilection for sin? Where’s his god who can tame his unholy desires? Where is his god whom he worships and admonishes others to worship? Where’s his god to whom he sings?

My guess is nowhere to be found.

Couldn’t the great and powerful god at least protect the innocent little kid from this pervert?

I have it on good authority that this incident has upset the other church members. But only enough that it gives them something to gossip about this week. Life will go on. Some other great holy man (or woman) singer will rise up to take his place.

As for me, this just confirms what I’ve always known. If there is a god, he doesn’t give a shit.

The little church will go on and this unfortunate event will soon be forgotten. It should shake people’s faith to the core but it won’t. It should raise all kinds of questions but they will go unasked. Somehow this spiritual leader will be deemed “not actually a real christian” after all. If he publicly repents, he will be forgiven by the congregation and possibly even welcomed back. (Well, maybe not by the parents of the kid.) After all, he’s only human.

A very fucked up human.

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