Jesus would be proud.

I've started a new diet.
Really I'm just working on a lifestyle change. More moving, less sitting (ha ha, as I sit here playing on the 'puter), less food and better choices. I've lost 6.5 lbs so far. Yay me.


And gossip from home.
My mother has been telling me about the goings on at the church I grew up in. They finally got rid of the preacher they had had for 25 yrs because he got alzheimers and couldn't even stand up and string sentences together, so he retired. He was an asswipe. I have little sympathy for him losing his marbles.

So, they have a new preacher. Well, they had a new one.
(I hesitate to call them ministers because they don't minister, they just preach. Ministers care about others and offer comfort and support and such. Preachers get up on Sun morning and try and pound their warped ideas of christianity into the congragations heads.)

The new guy has been there about 6 months. In that time, he has run up multiple thousands of dollars in debt. $23,000 in the month of Dec alone. He fired the volunteer financial officer, a woman, for "daring" to question his spending.

And even worse, he has been indicted on drug charges. Stealing prescriptions or forging htem or somesuch. And, he's been stealing drugs, painkillers, from people's hospital rooms. Obviously the man has a problem.

So, this news all becomes public knowledge, and the church just goes insane. Half of them members just flat out refuse to believe it. They are sending hate mail and making threatening phone calls to the other church members. They are claiming they are going to leave and start their own church. Such Christian behavior. And what a lovely church. One founded on hate. Jesus would so proud.

So anyway, Sun morning, the deacons met Preacher Boy at the door and refused to let him in. rofl He showed up with a lawyer, so obviously he knew something was up and there was a deputy there, too. I guess someone thought it might get ugly. But, the deacons have the power to fire him, so out he went. The youth minister read his "letter of resignation." God only knows who actually wrote it.

And the really sad part is that when one of the women in the church went to his wife to make sure she was all right, she knew nothing about it. She didn't know anything, not about the drug charges, the spending, nothing. Poor woman.

Honestly, how can people who claim to be Christians and claim to try and emulate the behavior of Jesus act like this? Just be honest and admit that have no fucking morals. Jesus was all about love and peace, not about hate mail and stealing and drugs. A simplification, obviously, but you get the point. It's no wonder I don't go to church anymore.