Bobo’s Audition For A Post-Politics Gig Falls Flat On Its A$$

I saw this latest foot in mouth operation of Boebert’s this morning but got distracted by Michael Whatley’s idiotic Freudian slip and wrote about it instead. The Boebert piece that caught my eye caught a lot of other eyes as well and here’s the bottom line: Boebert has about as much talent for ministry as she has for politics, which is to say minus zero. Her initial thesis today was, “God doesn’t care about your works, only your faith.” Oh yeah? Says who? Because that isn’t what the Bible says, Bobo.

James 2:14-17 "…If a brother or sister is poorly clothed and lacking in daily food, and [you say] “Go in peace, be warmed and filled,” without giving them the things needed for the body, what good is that?…faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead.@laurenboebert https://t.co/8imHK1wGPG

— Kara B (@BrociousKara) March 14, 2024

And the other passage which you will recall is “By their fruits ye shall know them.” But one thing I will share with you here, a lot of uneducated dummies in this country who gravitate towards the evangelical spectrum have this same crazy notion that the Bible says that all that God wants is a bunch of mindless automatons. Why is that? So the church can control them better.

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— PatriotTakes 🇺🇸 (@patriottakes) March 15, 2024

I had a conversation once with a woman I call the Evangelical Wingnut, who was a homeless person who crashed at the house I lived in in Tujunga, California, before I moved to Nevada. I told her one day that my computer wasn’t working and how furious that made me. She said to me, “This is God’s way of telling you you’re spending too much time on the computer.” I said, “God broke my computer? Seriously?” That’s better than Him striking me with lightning, but still.

She went on to say that, “God lets people know when he wants more of them. He wants all of you.” I said, “He wants me to do what, exactly?” She said, “Pray.” I said, “You mean God would be happiest of all if I turned off the computer, stopped blogging and just prayed 24/7. With a few hours out for sleeping. Is that right?” She said, “Yes.”

I said, “Wait a minute. God is a creator, right? God is “the” Creator, who made the heavens, this earth, you me, all that, right?” “Yes.” “Then as a Creator, isn’t it likely that He wants His children, those of us who He made in His image to be Creators, too? To build things? To do good in the world?” And then I quoted the passage, “Faith without works is dead.” “How do you explain that comment?” I asked.

She then began to flounder, “He wants you to get other people to have faith.” “So he wants me to preach the gospel of the kingdom, right?” “Yes!” She was starting to get excited now. And then I mentioned this passage, here. (I will mention right now, I am no Biblical scholar but I had a reference guide that enabled me to find Biblical passages readily.)

They profess to know God, but they deny him by their works. They are detestable, disobedient, unfit for any good work. Titus 1:16 https://t.co/2AZKVZ9F4k

— Wayne Cullen (@waynecullen) March 14, 2024

It’s all over the Bible, do something, work. There was a wonderful preacher in Long Beach called Reverend Ike. He had a Black congregation. A friend took me there once, back in the early 80’s. Ike got up and said to the almost all-Black church, which was packed, “You have been oppressed. You have been repressed. And now you are depressed. But there is an answer I’m going to give you. Are you ready?” “YES” screamed the parish.

Are you sure you’re ready? Because here it comes, and Ike would pull on the microphone cord and make a huge flourish, “GET OFF YOUR BLACK ASS AND DO SOMETHING! Did you hear me now, or do I have to repeat it?” And repeat it he did, “GET OFF YOUR BLACK ASS AND DO SOMETHING!” 

And Ike went on, week after week, “I am tired of hearing about the pie in the sky. The only pie you need to worry about is the pie on the table.”

Ike was not a prosperity consciousness pastor. Those came much later. He was a responsibility consciousness pastor. He personally helped people get jobs and he told stories from the podium about such things.

These stories fell on the deaf ears of the Evangelical Wingnut. Her gameplan was to be a “prayer warrior” and live for free with people. And last I knew she was going on year 20 of this “lifestyle” couch surfing from place to place, she and her Bible.

Point being, the Book of James is right, Reverend Ike is right and the Wingnut and Lauren Boebert are wrong. Work is everything. Faith is nothing if you don’t take the action along with it. If this was Boebert’s audition for a gig as a televangelist, I truly think the dear girl needs to go back to Burger King.

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