Posted by
Dave on Tuesday, October 03, 2006 3:17:16 PM
I don't sit in front of the TV too often. My wife and I watch a little TV on Sunday nights (she's a big fan of Extreme Makeover: Home Edition) and on Thursday nights (I like CSI and she's addicted to Grey's Anatomy). Needless to say I don't see the first fun of the O'Reilly Factor and I'm usually asleep before the second airing.
Last night, however, I was up a little later than normal and somehow ended up watching TV instead of reading
Thomas Sowell's Basic Economics. Apparently, O'Reilly was covering the story of a Texas
woman suing her former pastor for telling the whole congregation about an affair she had. I was about to turn it off, because really, can I have any control over what a court in Texas rules in regards to the separation of church and state? Don't I have enough to deal with in my own community overrun with rising taxes and illegal immigrants?
But before I turned it off, I heard Bill ask his guest, who obviously sided with the pastor, what right this pastor had in telling the church. His guest proceeded to paraphrase
Matthew 18:15-17.
15"If your brother sins against you, go and show him his fault, just between the two of you. If he listens to you, you have won your brother over. 16But if he will not listen, take one or two others along, so that 'every matter may be established by the testimony of two or three witnesses.' 17If he refuses to listen to them, tell it to the church; and if he refuses to listen even to the church, treat him as you would a pagan or a tax collector.
Bill's immediate response: "I'm going to say that's bull. It's the pastor's interpretation that he has the right to tell his congregation of any sin, but that's insane!" Bill proceeded to say that he was a good Catholic but had never read that scripture. He told his guest that there was no such passage and that this was some strange interpretation.
It's certainly clear to me that Bill knows the entire Bible, he is in fact Catholic. I think I'll stop reading the Bible and stop thinking for myself. If I listen to Limbaugh during the day and O'Reilly and Hannity at night, I think I'll pretty much know what I should think about everything. Afterall, those guys are never wrong!
Ya'll come back now, ya hear!