GOD-DAMNED HYPOCRITES - PART 4
THE
SECOND HALF OF THE TEN COMMANDMENTS
Theft is a difficult concept. Thou shall not steal. It’s only four words but there are entire books of laws that classify what is and isn’t theft. The younger members of the Presbyterian Church that I use to attend think nothing of pirating movies, borrowing things and never returning them, and extracting money from friends under false pretences. They are in their thirties now and continue to do so. The fact that many of them hold leadership positions in the Church and preach at others on various ‘sins’ yet have no problem with their own hypocritical behaviour is just the tip of a very disturbing attitude within Churches like that.
It is perfectly legal to run a business and steal from clients and employees and then deregister the company and declare bankruptcy to avoid prosecution. Many years ago I knew a man who did this and who was then protected by the entrenched culture of corruption within the public service and Presbyterian Ministry. Given the nature of predators and liars, and their practice of suing victims for ‘defamation’, I’ll refer to him as ‘Eli Poser’. He was a Minister with the ‘Church’ and ran a business of his own. He regularly short-changed his staff on wages and Superannuation, accusing them of lying about their hours and demanding proof of their claims, even as he defrauded his own clients and employers.
What made life even harder was the fact that Eli had offered to be a referee whenever I applied for another job. I’d only agreed to work for him until something better came along, and he had been supportive of that. He’d offered training and promised a raise every six months if I completed training programs. In reality, he provided no training, no raise, and slandered me to every potential employer when I’d applied for jobs. He even had the audacity to accuse me of not earning my wages at the same time as claiming I’d cost him money by resigning. My charge-out rate was three times what he paid me, and he was forever charging clients for mythical hours he claimed we had worked on their projects.
When the ATO failed to recover the unpaid Superannuation due to extreme systemic failure, something that ended only with the ATO using intimidation to silence me, I asked another Minister at the Church to speak to their corrupt and vindictive Minister – he had responded with defamation, insults and threats rather than paying what he owed. The other Minister was a man I’ll refer to as Swindel Ratkin, whose sister-in-law was married to one of Eli Poser’s sons, and he was well aware of the faults within the Poser family and their inclination to deceitfully take money and property from others for their own personal use.
Unfortunately, the marital ties and friendships within the leadership of that ‘Church’ allowed those people to use their positions to inflict hypocrisy on their congregation. Instead of helping me, Swindel insisted that I was at fault, a liar that had ‘maligned’ the Ministry and caused the ‘Poser’ family great hardship, and then demanded I get on my knees in a public place, apologise and beg forgiveness. He was not the first of those Ministers to make that demand when confronted by accusations of impropriety within the leadership. Nor was he the first to refuse to consider the evidence.
In many cases, victims cannot afford legal fees to obtain justice against those that have stolen from them and so the matter never goes to court. Even Christian leaders can steal from people and still continue to serve as a Minister in their church providing the ministry team is willing to ignore their indiscretions and take whatever steps are necessary to conceal the injustice. Theft, however, does not just involve property or money. These are not the only things that are stolen. The victim loses more than their property: they lose the ability to trust, the ability to provide for their wife and children, opportunity, their faith in others and sometimes even their faith in the Lord.
The act of stealing can create hardship for victims and pressures on their relationships with their family and friends. They may be forced to borrow from others who then refuse to help or become angry when a victim is unable to repay their debt. Theft may also involve taking the credibility and reputation from those who have been victimised by influential members of the Church, compounding financial, emotional, and even marital hardship imposed by thieves in the effort to conceal the crime by defaming the victim. Theft is more than just obtaining financial advantage by deception. Theft is about ruining lives.
False testimony is all too common. If someone attempts to reveal the immoral, unethical or illegal behaviour of another person, even if it is because they simply want justice, people will usually respond by trying to discredit their witness by the act of defamation. Defaming a person by casting aspersions on their character or making false accusations through gossip can destroy their credibility and conceal what has been done to them, or other victims of whom they may have been able to testify on behalf. It causes irreparable damage to their lives just so an immoral person can conceal their own misdeeds.
It seems odd that in a society where most people don’t really believe in God, or eternal damnation, witnesses and defendants are still required to swear an oath on the Holy Bible to speak truthfully. False testimony, however, can easily be dismissed as mistakes caused by flawed memories and so there is no real disincentive not to be dishonest, especially when speaking truthfully may result in the loss of misbegotten personal property, wealth, affluence, relationships, or liberty. Some people are, however, so morally bankrupt that they will continue to profess their innocence, and even accuse the victims and witnesses of slander, with a complete disregard for the facts and the harm they continue to do their victims.
False testimony is also a problem in Christian society. Young people are prone to make mistakes and unless they have close ties and friends within leadership elements of their church they are likely to be ostracised from their community. People who rebuke them for immoral behaviour that conflicts with Christian values are a threat to their own desires and so defamation is a means to silence criticism. The problem is even worse the people at fault are in positions of leadership, have skills that are of value to the church leadership, or both. The witness has a very good chance of being defamed and ostracised from the church.
Victims who do not get the hint and attempt to reason with leaders who have behaved badly, or who seek advice from other members of the ministry, will usually find the problem only gets worse. You cannot reason with unreasonable people. Using the Bible itself to prove your point is a waste of time. Rebuking the ministry for corruption will usually get a response like the “you’re maligning us” remark, a comment very similar to one made to Christ by an expert in the law who accused Christ of insulting him for his hypocrisy (Luke 11: 37-54). It seems little has changed when leaders are confronted by evidence of their own failings, whether they accept the facts or not.
The final commandment seems to provide the ingredients for avoiding problems with the previous four. Don’t be envious; the self-centred desire to possess something that belongs to someone else will only lead to misery. Jealousy only leads people to unhappiness and misery when it escalates to theft, adultery, murder and false testimony. Yet in our society, especially within the wealthiest elements, pleonexia has become an all-consuming obsession as those with the most seek to take what little even the most destitute have.
But what can we expect when our so-called leaders set such disgraceful standards. The Holy Bible is filled with examples of what happens when people do not follow the intention of the Ten Commandments, actions that continue to inflict misery and un-Godliness in the modern world and should be removed from modern ‘Christian’ churches. Failure to exorcise a compromised Ministry results in an infection that will fester and spread through the congregation until the Church fails or becomes utterly corrupt and irredeemable.
The last five of the Ten Commandments are considered more relevant in our society and form the foundations of our legal system, sometimes mistakenly referred to as a ‘justice’ system. In reality, legal outcomes and justice are two very different things. A legal outcome is based upon a person’s wealth and status despite delusional claims Western society is based on equality, as well as freedom, justice, liberty and meritocracy. ‘Justice’ has become a commodity that is nothing more than a commodity and has nothing to do with what is morally right or good.
We live by the law, a set of rules that can be
manipulated and contradictory in order to satisfy the desires of those who have
the means to ensure they get what they want more so than the other party. This
simply serves to demonstrate how far society has fallen without the influence
of true Christianity to help guide the way we behave toward one another.
Regardless of what you choose to believe, the values taught by Christ are
better than the moral and ethical bankruptcy far too many people inflict on
others today.
The
first commandment is a big one. Thou shalt not murder. In many cases people
misinterpret this as do not kill. Murder is an act of cold-blooded calculation
to satisfy a self-centred desire and has nothing to do with self-defence or
taking the life of an animal for survival. The mass killing of creatures to
supply a demand that often leads to animals being killed for no purpose or use
is a grey area but unpalatable (no pun intended) nonetheless. The judgement of
murder is a contentious one, however, as laws and precedents have been made to
literally help people get away with the crime.
If someone is murdered over a long period of time or with an agent that will eventually take their life, it is sometimes not even considered murder, just as an act where the killer made a choice that they knew might cause death. Indeed, it is even possible to behave in an immoral and unethical manner that leads someone to be so ostracised or so despondent that they take their own life, and this is not considered murder either. It is even possible to murder someone and never be held to account because that person is still alive, albeit so physically or mentally damaged that they are no longer the same person. Society, despite claims to the contrary, does not encourage people to take responsibility or accountability for their actions, an attitude that disobeys the laws of God and prevents them from accepting their faults and seeking repentance.
Adultery is another area that has become very, very grey. Promiscuity is standard practice, even within many ‘Churches’, and is tolerated because people simply do not want to discuss the issue. The rights of privacy conceal a multitude of sins. There are many people who have children with several partners and yet still claim to be Christians even when their children ask who their brothers and sisters are and the parent refuses to tell them. The law ensures that the children may never know of their brothers and sisters unless the flawed parent chooses to share that knowledge.
If someone is murdered over a long period of time or with an agent that will eventually take their life, it is sometimes not even considered murder, just as an act where the killer made a choice that they knew might cause death. Indeed, it is even possible to behave in an immoral and unethical manner that leads someone to be so ostracised or so despondent that they take their own life, and this is not considered murder either. It is even possible to murder someone and never be held to account because that person is still alive, albeit so physically or mentally damaged that they are no longer the same person. Society, despite claims to the contrary, does not encourage people to take responsibility or accountability for their actions, an attitude that disobeys the laws of God and prevents them from accepting their faults and seeking repentance.
Adultery is another area that has become very, very grey. Promiscuity is standard practice, even within many ‘Churches’, and is tolerated because people simply do not want to discuss the issue. The rights of privacy conceal a multitude of sins. There are many people who have children with several partners and yet still claim to be Christians even when their children ask who their brothers and sisters are and the parent refuses to tell them. The law ensures that the children may never know of their brothers and sisters unless the flawed parent chooses to share that knowledge.
http://www.christianitytoday.com/edstetzer/2014/april/why-full-and-public-repentance-matters.html
Adultery is not just tolerated, but enabled by flawed and perverted (in the sense that they undermine justice) laws. In many cases the children must pay for the sins of their parents. Relationships are destroyed. Families are torn apart. The past can return to cause problems in the future. Diseases can be passed on and result in the death of those involved in sexual relationships, and when one person knows they are infected this is murder. Casual sex has become an acceptable form of social interaction and so it is possible for a person to have many, many sexual partners and later in life come to regret their choices and commit even more immoral behaviours to conceal their choices, or take revenge, because they are so mentally unbalanced that they believe that they are the victim rather than those upon whom they inflict themselves. Adultery is not a victimless deed.
Theft is a difficult concept. Thou shall not steal. It’s only four words but there are entire books of laws that classify what is and isn’t theft. The younger members of the Presbyterian Church that I use to attend think nothing of pirating movies, borrowing things and never returning them, and extracting money from friends under false pretences. They are in their thirties now and continue to do so. The fact that many of them hold leadership positions in the Church and preach at others on various ‘sins’ yet have no problem with their own hypocritical behaviour is just the tip of a very disturbing attitude within Churches like that.
It is perfectly legal to run a business and steal from clients and employees and then deregister the company and declare bankruptcy to avoid prosecution. Many years ago I knew a man who did this and who was then protected by the entrenched culture of corruption within the public service and Presbyterian Ministry. Given the nature of predators and liars, and their practice of suing victims for ‘defamation’, I’ll refer to him as ‘Eli Poser’. He was a Minister with the ‘Church’ and ran a business of his own. He regularly short-changed his staff on wages and Superannuation, accusing them of lying about their hours and demanding proof of their claims, even as he defrauded his own clients and employers.
What made life even harder was the fact that Eli had offered to be a referee whenever I applied for another job. I’d only agreed to work for him until something better came along, and he had been supportive of that. He’d offered training and promised a raise every six months if I completed training programs. In reality, he provided no training, no raise, and slandered me to every potential employer when I’d applied for jobs. He even had the audacity to accuse me of not earning my wages at the same time as claiming I’d cost him money by resigning. My charge-out rate was three times what he paid me, and he was forever charging clients for mythical hours he claimed we had worked on their projects.
When the ATO failed to recover the unpaid Superannuation due to extreme systemic failure, something that ended only with the ATO using intimidation to silence me, I asked another Minister at the Church to speak to their corrupt and vindictive Minister – he had responded with defamation, insults and threats rather than paying what he owed. The other Minister was a man I’ll refer to as Swindel Ratkin, whose sister-in-law was married to one of Eli Poser’s sons, and he was well aware of the faults within the Poser family and their inclination to deceitfully take money and property from others for their own personal use.
Unfortunately, the marital ties and friendships within the leadership of that ‘Church’ allowed those people to use their positions to inflict hypocrisy on their congregation. Instead of helping me, Swindel insisted that I was at fault, a liar that had ‘maligned’ the Ministry and caused the ‘Poser’ family great hardship, and then demanded I get on my knees in a public place, apologise and beg forgiveness. He was not the first of those Ministers to make that demand when confronted by accusations of impropriety within the leadership. Nor was he the first to refuse to consider the evidence.
In
my frustration, I contacted Queensland Presbyterian administration and
explained the situation, asking for their help and that they speak to their
Ministers about the hypocrisy of their behaviour. They did not help. Instead,
they implied I was a liar, refused to even look at the evidence,
insisted they had no authority over their Ministers so could do nothing, then
suggested my behaviour was the problem and asked for my residential
address so somebody could visit to “speak” with me. This is what has become of
too many ‘Churches’. The rot, the corruption, the evil that is found in the
very Ministry.
In many cases, victims cannot afford legal fees to obtain justice against those that have stolen from them and so the matter never goes to court. Even Christian leaders can steal from people and still continue to serve as a Minister in their church providing the ministry team is willing to ignore their indiscretions and take whatever steps are necessary to conceal the injustice. Theft, however, does not just involve property or money. These are not the only things that are stolen. The victim loses more than their property: they lose the ability to trust, the ability to provide for their wife and children, opportunity, their faith in others and sometimes even their faith in the Lord.
The act of stealing can create hardship for victims and pressures on their relationships with their family and friends. They may be forced to borrow from others who then refuse to help or become angry when a victim is unable to repay their debt. Theft may also involve taking the credibility and reputation from those who have been victimised by influential members of the Church, compounding financial, emotional, and even marital hardship imposed by thieves in the effort to conceal the crime by defaming the victim. Theft is more than just obtaining financial advantage by deception. Theft is about ruining lives.
False testimony is all too common. If someone attempts to reveal the immoral, unethical or illegal behaviour of another person, even if it is because they simply want justice, people will usually respond by trying to discredit their witness by the act of defamation. Defaming a person by casting aspersions on their character or making false accusations through gossip can destroy their credibility and conceal what has been done to them, or other victims of whom they may have been able to testify on behalf. It causes irreparable damage to their lives just so an immoral person can conceal their own misdeeds.
It seems odd that in a society where most people don’t really believe in God, or eternal damnation, witnesses and defendants are still required to swear an oath on the Holy Bible to speak truthfully. False testimony, however, can easily be dismissed as mistakes caused by flawed memories and so there is no real disincentive not to be dishonest, especially when speaking truthfully may result in the loss of misbegotten personal property, wealth, affluence, relationships, or liberty. Some people are, however, so morally bankrupt that they will continue to profess their innocence, and even accuse the victims and witnesses of slander, with a complete disregard for the facts and the harm they continue to do their victims.
False testimony is also a problem in Christian society. Young people are prone to make mistakes and unless they have close ties and friends within leadership elements of their church they are likely to be ostracised from their community. People who rebuke them for immoral behaviour that conflicts with Christian values are a threat to their own desires and so defamation is a means to silence criticism. The problem is even worse the people at fault are in positions of leadership, have skills that are of value to the church leadership, or both. The witness has a very good chance of being defamed and ostracised from the church.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/the-republican-partys-pro-life-ploy_us_588bf50ee4b06364bb1e25de
This vile behaviour becomes incredibly destructive when those involved are relatives of Ministers, Elders or other leaders protected by friends in positions of authority, especially when the Ministry is related by blood or marriage. They choose to ignore, conceal and enable in their own families behaviour they will not hesitate to rebuke and ostracise when committed by other members of their ‘Church’. These hypocrites will preach the instructions of Christ and expect others to follow them even as they do not, and will happily slander rivals simply to ensure they are discredited and cannot challenge them, especially if there is any possibility the corruption within their ranks may be revealed. As you can see, it quickly becomes apparent that a corrupt ministry can not only use false testimony to protect itself, but can also manipulate others to their advantage, and to ensure their corruption remains concealed.
Victims who do not get the hint and attempt to reason with leaders who have behaved badly, or who seek advice from other members of the ministry, will usually find the problem only gets worse. You cannot reason with unreasonable people. Using the Bible itself to prove your point is a waste of time. Rebuking the ministry for corruption will usually get a response like the “you’re maligning us” remark, a comment very similar to one made to Christ by an expert in the law who accused Christ of insulting him for his hypocrisy (Luke 11: 37-54). It seems little has changed when leaders are confronted by evidence of their own failings, whether they accept the facts or not.
The final commandment seems to provide the ingredients for avoiding problems with the previous four. Don’t be envious; the self-centred desire to possess something that belongs to someone else will only lead to misery. Jealousy only leads people to unhappiness and misery when it escalates to theft, adultery, murder and false testimony. Yet in our society, especially within the wealthiest elements, pleonexia has become an all-consuming obsession as those with the most seek to take what little even the most destitute have.
But what can we expect when our so-called leaders set such disgraceful standards. The Holy Bible is filled with examples of what happens when people do not follow the intention of the Ten Commandments, actions that continue to inflict misery and un-Godliness in the modern world and should be removed from modern ‘Christian’ churches. Failure to exorcise a compromised Ministry results in an infection that will fester and spread through the congregation until the Church fails or becomes utterly corrupt and irredeemable.
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