The Tribune

By Pastor Matthew Allen

Isn’t it amazing how today’s religious church and its leaders takes great delight in majoring on minor issues while minoring on major issues?  And then to further add insult to injury, their blatant hypocrisy on the issue of which they’re majoring has made them all to look so silly and have exposed their natural and spiritual immaturity.

Case in point: The national hot bottom issue of today is gambling, and like a lamb being led to the slaughter the Pharisees & Sadducees of The Bahamas Christian / Sanhedrin Council wasted no time in making their hypocritical, double standard

religious position known concerning gambling. As it relates to gambling there’s no doubt that the bad by far outweigh the good.  Please let me make this emphatically clear: “I don’t and won’t ever support gambling but I’m also mindful of this fact; that gambling is an act of one’s choice, his or her free will to do or not do.”

As I’m hearing these religious leaders make their hypocritical appeal against gambling I can’t help but conclude that they’re primarily speaking out / against that of Bahamians being allowed to gamble because if the truth be told there’s no such thing as illegal gambling in the Bahamas. 

As I’ve always stated and will continue to do ‘If gambling is illegal in the Bahamas, both former and present governments have failed to inform casino operators Mr Sol Kerzner c/o Atlantis and the owners/operators of Crystal Palace and the future Baha-Mar owners.’

If it took the mention of a referendum on gambling by the government to expose the hypocrisy of The Christian / Sanhedrin Council then I really wonder what will happen to the religious church if the government were to announce that it is considering a referendum on homosexuality, adultery, fornication, lesbianism, financial greed and fleecing of the poor within and outside the church.

The religious leaders’ stand against gambling is no different, I believe, from that of the ancient white knights and a few coloured influential Bahamians which was to prohibit the natives from gambling in the casinos.

To me the religious leaders’ stance has absolutely nothing to do with spirituality, no matter how much they try to sell the negative moral affects on society. 

For had bishops, doctors, prophets, apostles, pastors, etc truly been concerned about the morals of society they would also be consistently crying out against homosexuality, fornication.

I would strongly advise these people to open their eyes and for once try to be real. Try giving back to the lives of the congregations and communities.

It’s pathetic, nauseating, listening to the religious leaders of today trying to scripturally justify their opposition to gambling. It’s often religious leaders who are called upon to say the opening prayer and pronounce blessing upon various resorts and casinos.

How hypocritical could one be?   

When and wherever God’s economic is not in operation the enemy / Satan will stop at nothing to put his plan in motion.

For the religious church, the enemy’s economic plan is that of a twisted, incomplete prosperity gospel that primarily, in my opinion fattens or benefits the religious leaders.

Here’s a glimpse of God’s economic plan:

NLT: Acts.4: 32.  All the believers were of one heart and mind, and they felt that what they owned was not their own; they shared everything they had.

34.  There was no poverty among them, because people who owned land or houses sold them 35.  and brought the money to the apostles to give to others in need.

The true Apostles didn’t built luxurious homes and buy expensive cars, they simply followed the leading of the Holy Spirit and worked God’s economic plan.   

In closing, here’s a question / food for thought:   How can The Christian / Sanhedrin Council say that they’re crying out against gambling, which has the potential to be detrimental to the moral fabric of our society, but then conveniently remain silent on other issues that are also detrimental to the moral fabric of society such as homosexuality, fornication, adultery, lesbianism, etc? 

Could it be because they do not want to offend fellow clergymen and other prominent leaders of society?  If this is not hypocrisy of the highest order, then stop the world and let me get off.

Either we’re gonna live for God, or not!

For questions and comments contact us via E-mails:pastormallen@yahoo.com or kmfci@live.com or call 441-2023. Pastors Matthew & Brendalee Allen. Kingdom Minded Fellowship Center Int’l.