A Christian perspective on Hillary as a pulpit speaker

Jack Kemp

The only thing that Hillary needs now is to gather her coterie of flying monkeys ato accompany her to churches...


http://theresurgent.com/hillarys-pastor-has-written-a-book-and-you-wont-believe-his-metaphor-for-her-election-loss/
Hillary’s Pastor Has Written a Book – And You Won’t Believe His Metaphor for Her Election Loss


I’m a major Beatles fan, but one of their songs that really gets on my nerves is "The Ballad of John and Yoko.” For those who don’t know, John Lennon took a irresistible musical groove and put inane lyrics over it about his marriage to Yoko Ono and the headlines they grabbed with their bizarre behavior. The two lines of the chorus demonstrate how highly Lennon thought of himself:

You know it ain’t easy. You know how hard it can be.

The way things are going, they’re gonna crucify me.

Yes, John Lennon compared the media circus over his and Yoko Ono’s marriage and peace protest stunts to Jesus on the cross.

But Lennon isn’t the only one to make such a dramatic, overblown comparison. Hillary Clinton’s pastor, United Methodist City Society Executive Director Rev. Bill Shillady, is publishing a book of the devotions and sermons he emailed to the 2016 Democratic presidential candidate. Strong for a Moment Like This, which releases August 15, includes this gem of a devotion from the day after the election, when Shillady compares Clinton’s loss to the eve of the most important moment in history. Here’s a taste:

Today, you are experiencing a Friday. Your Friday is what happened in the last few weeks and last night in the tragic loss. But Sunday is coming!

Jesus completed the excruciating task of giving up his life as a sacrifice for the sins of the world. It was his faith and belief in his heavenly Father, that gave him the grace and peace to submit to Friday. While death had seemingly won, Jesus knew better. When he said, "It is finished,” it wasn’t meant to be a statement of concession. It was a declaration that a new day was on the way.

Friday is finished. Sunday is coming. Death will be shattered. Hope will be restored. But first, we must live through the darkness and seeming hopelessness of Friday.

You know one of my favorite sayings is "God doesn’t close one door without opening another, but it can be hell in the hallway.” My sister Hillary. You, our nation, our world is experiencing a black Friday. Our hope is that Sunday is coming. But it might well be hell for a while.

Good Lord. I’m sure losing a presidential election is tough, but Jesus’ disciples were devastated because they thought that the Messiah they served was dead. They thought the ministry to which they had devoted the last three years of their lives was in vain. They thought that God’s work of redemption ended at the cross. On the other hand, Hillary Clinton lost an election.

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Dana Mathewson replies:

Everybody seems to get this wrong -- according to Friend Ken, who actually read that article. According to him, The Hag told Shillady that AT ONE TIME she considered becoming a minister. AT ONE TIME, not NOW.

But it doesn't matter, really. In other, earlier discussions with Friend Ken (whom I originally met while playing at a United Methodist Church), he told me that the United Methodists have pretty much been "useful idiots" for years, and this would be a prime example. Hope I don't ruffle any feathers here, but that outfit, perhaps more than any other "mainline" church, has gone along with liberal ideas such as same-sex marriage and abortion-on-demand. If the church we played in is any example, he's right. And a former pastor of that church once said, from the pulpit (Martha and I heard him, and gasped) "I don't think you really have to believe in Jesus in order to get into Heaven." That's pretty "far-out," considering Jesus's words in John 14:6, to Thomas: "I am the way, the truth, the life: no man cometh to the Father, but by me." (KJV) (Disclaimer: I am certain that the Lord has something else worked out with the Jews.) If I'd heard something like that in a Unitarian church, I wouldn't have been so surprised, but a Methodist church?

Anyhow, Shillady proves he's an idiot -- whether useful or not, I leave up to you. I think he's certainly a toady. Maybe he really believes Hillary will eventually get "the top job" and is bucking for a gig with her.

Jack Kemp replies:

Dana, these remarks by Hillary are coming out in a book NOW and in Hillary's talks NOW, at a time when she is testing the waters for a new platform to spew her bile...err...political opinions. The story about years ago is a cheap cover, a device to give her some plausable deniability. Maybe Hillary wants to be the first female Pope? Who knows?

What Hillary really meant is best expressed in the lines of this following song from the musical "Evita." The fictional words tell the real truth of Evita and Hillary. Also, remember my parody song, "Don't cry for me, Cheektowaga" (a suburb of Buffalo, NY)?.

Tim replies:

Jack, the point about the timing of this is a good one. Hillary is probably trying to win more of the Christian vote, which Hillary lost and which put Trump over the top. I think this story is your classic poll driven political effort by the hucksters promoting Hillary. See http://religionnews.com/2016/11/09/white-evangelicals-white-catholics-and-mormons-voted-decisively-for-trump/ and https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/acts-of-faith/wp/2016/11/09/exit-polls-show-white-evangelicals-voted-overwhelmingly-for-donald-trump/ and http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2016/11/09/how-the-faithful-voted-a-preliminary-2016-analysis/

DANA MATHEWSON REPLIES:

And yes, Cheektowaga is a Buffalo suburb. The first symphony orchestra I ever played in was the Cheektowaga Community Symphony Orchestra, and I played the Mozart Clarinet Concerto with them.

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