“The damage done to the faith by hypocrisy in high places is hard to overestimate. Too frequently reporters sift through the wreckage of Christian ministers and ministries that have imploded because of sexual or financial hypocrisy.” (Eds. Gene Edward Veith, Douglas Wilson, and G. Tyler Fischer, Omnibus V: The Medieval World [Lancaster, PA: Veritas Press, 2010], 643)
Too frequently? Make that too few times, because it is so common that the media and law enforcement have no chance of keeping up with it all.
Yes, there are plenty of churches where there are no problems. But there are way to many which do have them. Pastors like Wilson drive believers from the church, and then wonder why their congregations are shrinking.
Had to look twice to understand what my own comment meant!.
I was referring to hypocrisy.
Gene Edward Veith, one of the Omnibus editors, has yet to comment as far as I know. Interestingly, he has weighed in on Wilson and plagiarism before. The following link will take you to his comments on plagiarism in Wilson’s slavery book: http://www.worldmag.com/2005/04/word_for_word/page1