IS PASTOR BRAD A VICTIM OF BIBLICAL PORNOGRAPHY?

 

Pastor Brad Burkes

Perhaps blogfather Jerry McHale was a bit premature, maybe even reckless, in his recent evisceration of Brownsville's foremost Christian, Pastor Brad Burkes.

From this corner, it appears that Pastor Brad has done his part in blessing and praying over the City Commission at least a thousand times with his hand squarely on a Holy Bible.

Is it the good pastor's fault if the Almighty God of the heavens chooses to ignore his pleadings?

Do we blame the pastor for Brownsville's last three mayors, Ahumada, Martinez and Mendez all endeavoring to use the City of Brownsville as their personal ATM machine?

Could it be that the prayers were well-worded, offered in sincerity, but simply not heard?

Non-Pastor McHale in a pensive mood

Jerry also takes issue with some alleged anti-LGBTQ remarks made by Pastor Brad on the Captain Bob Show.

I'm not qualified to comment on Pastor Brad's statements since I did not watch the show.  

To be honest, I've never been able to get past the show's strident introduction, time-worn phrases about Brownsville being the country's southernmost continental city, on the border, by the sea.  Something about the cadence used to present those opening remarks rattles my spinal column.

So, I don't know what derisive comments, if any, Pastor Brad may have directed toward those with different sexual preferances than his own, but, in his defense, I submit that the human mind can be influenced by degraded, unwholesome reading material, including pornography.

Either of two volumes may have contributed to Pastor Brad's mindset and both are dangerously pornographic.

We're referring, of course, to the King James and Catholic Douay Versions of the Holy Bible, not actual translations from the original Hebrew, Aramaic and Greek, but merely "versions" based on the Latin Vulgate.

Both of these books contain explicit pornography that may have twisted or wrecked havoc with Pastor Brad's moral values.

Jerry mentioned the decadence associated with the Biblical story of Lot, his wife and two daughters.  Hopefully, no minors are reading this, but Lot, supposedly a "friend of God," offered his two daughters to be gang-raped by "angels" who'd likely become demons after breaking free from God's employment.

Then, in the same account, Lot's daughters got him drunk, had sex with him and both bore children from the incestual relationship.

Speaking of drunkenness, righteous Noah, one of only 8 people God thought good enough not to kill when he brought a global flood on Earth, got himself totally shitfaced on wine, only to have his genitalia exposed by his supposedly grown son Ham.

Certainly, all of us can see how reading shit like this could affect a person's judgement.

There's more.  

The so-called love story of David and Bath-sheba epitomizes a lack of moral values.

Here's the shortened version of the story:

David, a King in Israel and a "man after God's own heart," catches a glimpse of the beautiful, married Bath-sheba bathing and immediately feels a "lust" for her, subsequently seduces her and murders her husband.  Bath-sheba is pregnant and gives birth.

BTW, both adultery and murder are capital offenses, worthy of death by stoning, in the law given to Israel binding on both David and Bath-Sheba.

But, God ignores his own law and merely slaps his friend David on the wrist, punishing him by allowing him to experience some unstated "trouble" from one of his sons.

Bath-Sheba also gets off scot-free and gets to live now like a queen.

God, though, in his infinite wisdom, decides one person needs to suffer the ultimate penalty for their wickedness.  He kills the only innocent party in this whole shitty episode, the innocent child of David and Bath-Sheba.

Now, I submit, anyone reading or even perusing a book promoting the moral values of the stories mentioned above, may have serious judgement issues.

Whatever indiscreet comments Pastor Brad may have made on the Captain Bob Show can easily be attributed to reading Biblical pornography.