Cowardly Pastors Fear the Wealthy

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Pastors feel obligated to condemn the lifestyles of their congregation as a religious obligation to bring them out of sin, but they will not touch the sins of the wealthy. They excuse the wealthy and are silent against them because they align with their vision of obtaining riches and power. 

Pastors preach about drinking, smoking, and fornication but neglect the corporations that supply these vices to society. Tabacco companies, alcohol distilleries, and Hollywood and music producers walk free of condemnation even though they are the main enablers of these sinful lifestyles. “For the love of money is the root of all evil…” reads 1 Timothy 6:10. The money made from these fleshly vices are profitable for the corporations that produce them. This is at the root of social evils.

Pastor’s favorite sermons and political activism consist of condemnation of people who have abortions and who practice homosexuality and transgenderism, but they ignore the root of the problem and the wealth of money behind it that secretly fund these lifestyles.

Instead of persecuting the women who have abortions, why not go after those who make money from abortions, like pharmaceutical companies, investors in birth control, and CEOs who sit on the boards of hospitals and clinics. Make laws against those who exploit abortion and women’s health for money. The users are the victims, not the perpetrators. The victims need deliverance, not persecution and imprisonment.

Same with homosexuality. This is an industry that thrives off many homosexual activities and events, places of gathering, and lifestyles hidden beneath and within the bunkers of the wealthy. Private islands where children are trafficked and sexual pleasures and fantasies thrive. All these are backed by wealthy people who exploit the populous and get rich doing so.

But pastors do not preach against these people. They ignore the companies that hire the so-called undocumented immigrants, though it is a crime to do so. But they instead cheer when they see immigrants being chased by ICE, claiming the president is keeping campaign promises. 

They salivate and snobbishly praise him, dismissing empathy when they see children being taken from their mothers, saying, “they knew the consequences when they came here:” ignoring God’s law and the fact that this is morally wrong to take children from their parents. Instead, they exalt man’s law of illegal immigration over God’s will.

“Ye blind guides, which strain at a gnat, and swallow a camel.” Matthew 23:24. Jesus calls the church leaders hypocrites. Telling them they focus on petty things and omit the weightier matters of the law, like judgment, mercy, and faith. Matthew 23:23. They ignore the corruption of big corporations that exploit the poor for their wages and oppress them.

“But ye have despised the poor. Do not rich men oppress you, and draw you before the judgment seats?” James 2:6. The wealthy has distain for the working class. They are backed by police and paramilitary forces that patrol and keep guard over their wealth, their interest, and private property. They invest in private prisons to imprison people they believe are a threat to their wealth. They rigg the courts to protect them and to squash the cries of the people.

But pastors will not touch the crimes of the wealthy with a ten-foot pole. But they will browbeat the congregation about them not complying with police, the rules of their jobs, and not tithing to their megachurches.

They plunge people into debt with usury through interest, creating a modern-day form of servitude and slavery. They choose their favorites to promote and make expendable those they deem not worthy, such as people of color, women, the uneducated, and the disabled. These are crimes against humanity, and partiality in judgment.

“My brethren, have not the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord of glory, with respect of persons. For if there come unto your assembly a man with a gold ring, in goodly apparel, and there come in also a poor man in vile raiment; and ye have respect to him that weareth the gay clothing, and say unto him, Sit thou here in a good place; and say to the poor, Stand thou there, or sit here under my footstool: are ye not then partial in yourselves, and are become judges of evil thoughts?” James 2:1-4.

Pastors are afraid to preach against the wealthy because they desire to be wealthy themselves someday, so they lick the boots of the wealthy to get into their good graces. They support their political policies of oppression to gain more power. They themselves have multimillion dollar homes and cars, yachts, and private jets to avoid the common people. They live in pleasure and comfort while their congregations and the working class try to survive everyday life.

They seek power and prestige through political policies and laws that help them prosper in the world like the wealthy. This is why they support the current administration. It is one that talks prosperity by takeover, expansion into new lands, and diminishing the population of all undesirables.

“For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all.” James 2:10. The pastors and the wealthy are guilty of breaking God’s law, and man’s law alike.