Regular As Clockwork

A few weeks ago I remember reading in the news about Reverend Cedric Miller of New Jersey who made the news after abusing his power.  He informed his staff of 50 or so that they had a simple choice; they could delete their Facebook accounts or they could resign.  He then explained his actions with a rant about how Facebook is evil, leads to nothing but adulterous affairs, and told his congregation that they too should log off the site.

Now let's face facts; asshole religious leaders are nothing new, but I remember thinking at the time of the story how odd it was that his attacks were so impassioned, and that he was willing to make the national media over his decision.

Well, the truth came out today.  Like so many extremist holy men that like to preach fire and brimstone, he is a corrupt hypocritical asshole, and had his own sexual issues he was dealing with, not to mention issues of faith.

Apparently this autocratic preacher was fucking the wife of one of his staff members, and sometimes doing it with her husband present too.  These three and four way sexual encounters took place with the pastor's own wife right after Bible study on Thursday and also after Sunday church service.

I wonder if his Bible study classes included Leviticus (20:10):

And the man that committeth adultery with another man's wife, even he that committeth adultery with his neighbour's wife, the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death.

Oops!

I guess I'm just taking it out of context, or the passage is negated by John 8:3-8.  Whatever.  I'm not actually calling for this man to be executed, but I do believe that the resignation he has offered should be accepted post haste.

I get that some people feel the need to spend their lives preaching about the magic invisible man in the sky, and I have no problem with that.  But here is yet another example of some extremist jerk telling his congregation of 1,100 people how to live their lives, and further abusing his position over the 50 staff members he was responsible for to impose his own agenda, all while going against everything he claimed to stand for.

There are hundreds of examples of religious men abusing their position of trust over the course of history.  If you must go to church, at least try not to be naive about it.