THE BIBLE STATES THAT THE CHURCH IS THE PILLAR AND GROUND OF THE TRUTH. I BELIEVE LIKE MANY PEOPLE THAT THE CHURCH IS THE CONSCIENCE OF ANY NATION. IT IS THERE TO SEE THAT THE NATION IS REMINDED OF ITS DUTY TO GOD ANY ITS PEOPLE.

I BELIEVE WITH ALL MY HEART THAT THERE IS NO HIGHER CALLING THAN THAT OF A MINISTER OF GOD.THE BIBLE ADMONISH US THAT ARE CALL OF GOD TO SHUN THE VERY APPEARANCE OF EVIL. IT ALSO INSTRUCT US TO.WALK CIRCUMSPECTLY NOT AS FOOLS BUT AS WISE REDDEMING THE TIME FOR THE DAYS ARE EVIL. HAVING SAID THAT LET ME GET TO THE MEAT OF MY LETTER.

IT IS BECOMING OBVIOUS THAT ARCH BISHOP GOMEZ, BISHOP ELLIS AND BISHOP GREENE HAVE PERHAPS BEEN CAUGHT UP IN A POLITICAL QUANDARY. I BELIEVE THAT POLITICS AND RELIGION ARE LIKE OIL AND WATER, IT SIMPLY DON’T MIX WELL. WHEN ONE TRYS TO MIX THE TWO YOU END UP WITH AN OILY AND UGLY SLICK.THESE GREAT MEN OF GOD HAS ALLOWED THERE VOICES TO BECOME SILENT ON SOME VERY PERTINENT ISSUES THAT IS AFFECTING OUR BELOVED BAHAMALAND.

IT IS TRUE THAT EVIL IS PERPETUATED WHEN GOOD MEN AND WOMEN SAY NOTHING. POLITICS IS A VERY FUNNY CREATURE ITS NOT UNLIKE A CHAMELEON, CHANGES COLOR TO SUIT ITS ENVIROMENT. ANOTHER WAY OF SAYING IT IS THAT IT CHANGES TO THE DEMANDS OF ITS BUYER! RELIGION ON THE OTHER HAND IS SUPPOSED TO BE UNBENDING, RIGID AND CONSISTENT. IT IS NOT EXPECTED TO CHANGE. MORALITY, TRUTH AND HONESTY ARE SUPPOSE TO BE IN VOGUE NO MATTER WHAT PARTY OR GOVERNMENT COMES TO POWER!

RELIGIOUS LEADERS SHOULD BE MINDFUL THAT WE SERVE A GOD THAT CHANGETH NOT. SO WHAT IS IS RIGHT OR WRONG BEFORE AN EVENT MUST BE THE SAME AFTER IT. THERE WAS NOT AN ISSUE THE CHURCH DID NOT ADDRESS BEFORE THE ELECTION OF A FEW MONTHS AGO THAT ISSUED THE PLP BACK TO POLITICAL PROMINENCE AND POWER. STATEMENTS WERE MADE THE RANGE FROM THE RIDICULOUS TO THE SUBLIME! SO ONE IS A BIT CONFUSED WITH THE SILENCE OF THE CHURCH. ONE WAS GIVEN THE IMPRESSION THAT THE CHURCH AND ITS LEADERS WERE ON THE MOVE. DO YOU SUPPOSE THAT THE DEVIL WAS CANCELLED OUT AFTER THE ELECTION? ONE IS GIVEN THAT IMPRESSION BECAUSE OF HOW QUIET THE CHURCH HAS BECOME. WE ALL KNOW THAT THE DEVIL WILL NOT BE DONE IN SO EASILY.

SO WHILE THE CHURCH FIDDLES AND IS HAVING ONE HELL OF A TIME THAT CRAFTY OLD DEMON IS WAGING LITERAL HELL IN OUR LAND. HOW LONGER WILL THE CHURCH STAY SILENT WHILE OUR BROTHERS AND SISTERS ALL OVER THIS LAND AND PARTICULARLY IN THE FAMILY ISLANDS IS DENIED A LIVELIHOOD BECAUSE OF THEIR POLITICAL LEANING. THIS EVIL MUST BE CONDEMNED AND ABHOR NO MATTER WHO IS PRACTISING IT. VICTIMIZATION MUST NOT BE CUDDLE OR OBSCURE WITH MERE RHETORIC. IT IS EVIL AND UNGODLY! WE CANNOT ALLOW IT TO THRIVE IN THIS ACHIPELAGOS EVER AGAIN.

MANY BAHAMIANS ARE BEGINNING TO QUESTION THE MOTIVES OF THE CHURCH. TO THEM IT IS BECOMING CLEAR THAT THE CHURCH SEEM TO HAVE CUT A DEAL WITH THE DEVIL! THE QUESTION IS HAS THE CHURCH SOLD OUT FOR A POLITICAL APPOIMTMENT OR TO BECOME A BOARD MEMBER OF OUR PUBLIC INSTITUIONS. IF THIS IS THE CASE IT IS A VERY MINISCULE THING TO GIVE UP YOUR VOICE AND CONSCIENCE FOR. WILL THE CHURCH BE CONTENT TO LOOK THE OTHER WAY FOR A MEAL OF PORRIDGE?

THE WICKEDNESS THAT IS HAPPENING IN THE FAMILY ISLANDS IS ABSOLUTELY EVIL AND MUST BE CONDEMNED BY THE ENTIRE CHURCH. IT IS BLANTLY WRONG IN THESE HARD ECONOMIC TIMES TO TAKE BREAD FROM OUR BROTHERS AND SISTERS MOUTH BECAUSE THEY DON’T HAVE THE SAME POLITICAL PERSUASION AS YOU.

I HOPE THE LIKES OF BISHOP NEIL ELLIS IS SEEING THAT WHEN A MINISTER SAY THINGS OUTSIDE THE GUIDANCE OF GOD WORD HOW DANGEROUS IT CAN BE. I HAVE NO DOUBT THAT THE PERPETRATOR OF VICTIMIZATION IS JUSTIFIES BY WHAT YOU WERE PREACHING FROM THE PULPIT BEFORE THE ELECTION. WHEN PREACHER DIVIDES THEIR CONGREGATION ALONG POLITICAL LINES IT IS VERY VOLATILE. WHEN MINISTERS TELL THEIR CONGREGATION TO HAUL HIP IF THEY DON’T SUPPOR HIS OR HER POLITICAL LEANING THEY ARE SETTING UP A VERY DIABOLICAL PRECEDENT.

I MAKE NO APOLOGY FOR THE WORDS USED. IT IS BECOMING VERY CLEAR THAT THE PERPETRATORS OF VICTIMIZATION FEELS JUSTIFIED. IF THE GOOD BISHOP CAN LABEL THE FNM AND THOSE THAT SUPPORT AS BEING AGAINST GOD THEN IT STANDS TO REASON THAT THE PLP AND THOSE THAT SUPPORT IT ARE ON GODS SIDE! TO THE SUPPORTER OF THIS MAN THE LOGIC IS ENTIRELY CLEAR. THE FNM AND THOSE THAT SUPPORT IT ARE INFIDELS. THE PLP AND THOSE THAT SUPPORT IT ARE THE CHILDREN OF GOD! WHY SHOULD THE INFIDELS ENJOY THE FRUIT OF THE LAND AND THE RIGHTEOUS NOT (PLP). SO TO THE VICTOR GOES THE SPOIL. LET US SIMPLY TAKE FROM THE INFIDELS AND GIVE IT TO THE PEOPLE OF GOD (PLP). TO THEIR DIVERTED AND BRAINWASH MINDS THERE CANNOT BE ANYTHING WRONG WITH THIS. AFTER ALL IT IS SANCTION BY THE CHURCH!!!

THIS IS A VERY CRITICAL TIME IN OUR NATION THE MORAL AND SPIRITUAL GUIDANCE IS GREATLY NEEDED. THIS IS NO TIME TO ALLOW OUR VOICES TO BE SILENT. SO WAKE UP MEN OF GOD SHAKE YOUR SELF LOSE. LET US BE ABOUT OUR FATHERS BUSINESS WITHOUT FEAR OR FAVOR AND BE MINDFUL OF OUR AWESOME RESPONSIBILIY AS STATED IN ISIAH CHAPTER FIFTYEIGHT: CRY ALOUD, SPARE NOT, LIFT UP YOUR VOICE LIKE A TRUMPET AND SHEW MY PEOPLE THEIR TRANGRESSIONS AND THE HOUSE OF JACOB THEIR SINS.

I am surprised that no one has answered your posting Pharaoh. I agree with everything you say. However, I will answer just this part that you wrote, "THIS IS A VERY CRITICAL TIME IN OUR NATION THE MORAL AND SPIRITUAL GUIDANCE IS GREATLY NEEDED."

I would ask you, where is this guidance to come from and would we listen? It seems, from many of the posting I have read on this site, that few people have any confidence in the moral leaders of this nation. It also seems that clergy = crook! I do not subscribe to this but if this is the pervading view then who will listen to them?

We hear of all the troubles in the church, all the Clergy who have "misbehaved." Not to mention the intertwining of the church and politics. Politics is a dirty game and anyone who plays it get mud on himself. It seems that the church has "shot itself in the foot." I doubt it will recover anytime soon. So, where shall we look?

We should look to ourselves. We know (most of us) right from wrong. It seems very simple to me. If we are stealing, stop it! If we are sweet-hearting, stop it! If we are cheating, lying or the hundred and one things we do every day, stop it! - do we need someone else to tell us it is wrong?
We do wrong (mostly) by choice and because it is easier and sometimes profitable. We need to stand up and say NO to those things because that is what a real man (or woman) does. It is the honorable thing to do. If we lack anything in these islands it is honor. Government can't legislate honor. The church can't give it to us at this time but we can take it into our own hands and live by the moral code that can be found in any of the many religious writings of the world.

Stop looking without, for that which lies within!

You ended with this - "THIS IS NO TIME TO ALLOW OUR VOICES TO BE SILENT. SO WAKE UP MEN OF GOD SHAKE YOUR SELF LOSE. LET US BE ABOUT OUR FATHERS BUSINESS WITHOUT FEAR OR FAVOR AND BE MINDFUL OF OUR AWESOME RESPONSIBILIY AS STATED IN ISIAH CHAPTER FIFTYEIGHT: CRY ALOUD, SPARE NOT, LIFT UP YOUR VOICE LIKE A TRUMPET AND SHEW MY PEOPLE THEIR TRANGRESSIONS AND THE HOUSE OF JACOB THEIR SINS." That is the Christian view. Good! Go for it!