from Naked Pastor
MANIPULATORS in the PULPITS
The strange mystery as to why so many people think those who are public speakers are "God like" is indeed weird. What was the magnetic appeal of Herbert W. Armstrong to so many people and for that matter why do millions think the Mormon church represents truth, or why the Jehovah Witnesses are the bearers of truth? What is this weirdness in the human mind that submits itself to follow human leaders, as if they are Jesus Christ in the flesh or God in the flesh? Whatever it is, it is for sure a ticket to destruction. The same is true for those who bow to political leaders thinking they are the source of truth and have the answers to all the human issues of life on earth. They don't!
Life is a merry-go-round and it goes in circles. Every voice that speaks proclaims "truth." Zeal, emotion and fervor are components of the human psyche. Many of us wish fervently that we could change the world and yet we seem to be helpless. We may detest violence and the never ending wars of the mad men in power and yet the wars never cease. Human greed for power over others never ends. The love of control and the never ending flow of free money (as in tithes and taxes), never stops. The world has its rulers and its slaves to the rulers, both in religious circles and in human governments. The rulers don't work for their food, but depend on the welfare of those they control. Those controlled comply and stupidly give of their labor to support the lazy rulers who think they have a "right" to a free lunch for life and plenty of luxuries to boot. Such is the reality of life on earth.
We have two classes of people and that is those who rule and those who are ruled. Does it seem strange that humans have brains and minds to think and yet so often those who are ruled are brainless? Church goers check their brains at the door of the church as they enter and allow those who stand in pulpits to do their thinking for them. What makes preachers the store house and library of all truth, wisdom and understanding, when they themselves are totally human as are all others? Millions fall prey to the clergy/laity system of the church world, in the belief that those who are "ordained" represent Jesus Christ and truth. NOT!!! I would suggest that the reason all humans have a mind and the capacity to think and reason, is because you are intended to be self-governing and self-thinking. That is not to say that we cannot learn from others, because we indeed do, but no one has a right to rule over another or make anyone think or believe that they must bow to religious "authority", as in the Worldwide Church of God or its silly splinter groups.
If the "Bible" is total authority over what humans think, then reason, intelligence and independent thinking has no place in human existence. Bible infallibility is censorship to using ones own God given brain to think. Simple reason is enough to prove that it is not rational to think that men who lived in ages past had all the answers to life on earth. They didn't then and they don't now.
