A grim Bible Girl
Saturday February 24, 2007
This week's Bible Girl column tells an incredibly grim and graphic -- you have been warned -- tale of an influential black Pentecostal minister in the Dallas-Fort Worth area who has been formally accused of multiple counts of rape and...
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Rod Dreher is an editorial columnist for the Dallas Morning News, and author of "Crunchy Cons" (Crown Forum), a nonfiction book about conservatives, most of them religious, whose faith and political convictions sometimes put them at odds with mainstream conservatives. The views expressed in this blog are his own.
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[sigh] k.
Good grief, how in h-e-double-hockey-sticks do these "ministers" think this will stay quiet?! Someone will eventually go to the press or the cops. They always do. k.
The quandry of "Authority".
Somebody find Mitch S. His case of demonic possession just got a name: Pastor Sherman Allen of Shiloh Institutional Church of God in Christ. If you think I'm being sarcastic or taking a potshot, read the linked article all the way through. You won't think that by the time you're done.
Not to diminish the more shocking elements of the story, but this particular fact was revealing: "his $1.6 million parsonage in Mansfield" It's always disturbing to discover a Christian leader (or "Prophet" as this man is considered within his church) who lives amongst this kind of wealth. How corrupting.
Who is "Mitch S."?
Eric, Mitch is the poster who decided in the "Abortionists are Heroes" thread that pro-choicers (at least those on the thread) must be demonically possessed.
I've seen too many cases of Protestant clergy getting arrested for having molested boys, girls, and/or adult women -- and then getting off lightly. Only Catholic clergy, and then not only the guilty ones, get dragged through the local or national media ad nauseam.
It's routine for female victims of abusers, whether family, friends or trusted others (clergy, supervisors, etc.), to be told that they mustn't make an official complaint because it "would ruin his career." And then she gets her reputation ruined no matter what she does. (I've been one of these victims.)
I think that the reason the Catholic clergy get dragged through the mud is because they are often protected by the Catholic hierarchy. If the Catholic hierarchy would simply turn them over to the police and remove their frock, the public would forget about it. This is really the worst kind of betrayal. They use the name of God to prey on the weak. I have to wonder if this man could even see that what he was doing was wrong. Some people of religion believe in spanking and the wrath of God.
Cardinal Law had the priviledge of casting a ballot at the last papal enclave. Tell me again how Catholics hold their clergy accountable for these things?
Once again, we see that human depravity knows no denominational bounds.
Anyone else think that maybe, just maybe, God is punishing the Pentecostal Church for allowing divorce? Good thing they still hate gays, huh?
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