Certain things really burn me. One of them is when people (and since I mean politicians, I'm using the term "people" loosely) feign religiosity. Don't patronize me!
It just grates on me to see a politician, whose religious devotion must be so private that it's virtually invisible, make a political stop at a church shouting "Hallelujah" and then go to Jewish conference wearing a yarmulke on his head. I can just picture the politician's lackeys asking on the campaign trail, "Sir, will you be needing your cross necklace, your American flag lapel pin, your yarmulke, your red ribbon, or your prayer rug today?"
Hillary Clinton was at First Baptist Church in Selma, Alabama, the other day (just 42 years too late for the marches to Montgomery) and quoted from Galatians 6:9, "And we know -- we know -- we know, if we finish this march, what awaits us? St. Paul told us, in the letter to the Galatians, "Let us not grow weary in doing good, for in due seasons we shall reap, if we do not lose heart."
Poor Hillary probably doesn't know that the immediate context is about true motivations and hypocrisy. Paul says in the preceding verses, "Do not be deceived: God cannot be mocked. A man reaps what he sows. The one who sows to please his sinful nature, from that nature will reap destruction; the one who sows to please the Spirit, from the Spirit will reap eternal life."
I really believe that politicians who put on for church audiences in order to get elected will reap exactly what they sow. Don't mock God.
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