Jitterbugging for Jesus

I was heartened to see the Alabama crackpot-pervert Roy Moore, who in his own twisted mind is John Wayne and Christ Jesus all joined at the hip with him, went down to defeat for the United States Senate, albeit it barely.

Then a good Christian friend of mine in Dallas (hat tip to you, Mike Mason) pointed out some sobering statistics.

72 percent of white men voters and 63 percent of white women voters believed the walleyed crazy kook and clear child molester Roy Moore was the better choice for Senate.

Those are disturbing numbers to this pastor who worries a lot about the rapid, continuing erosion of true Christianity and the gospel that has kept it alive and progressing in spite of so much opposition (and internal damage by misguided Christians within the tradition) for 2,000 years.

Christianity will survive this as it has survived its long, checkered history.

But as a pastor who worries more about the health and preservation of Christianity than whatever the passing state of American politics is on any given day or year, I worry a lot that American Christianity might never recover the beating it has taken in recent years.

Especially in the past one year, thanks to the likes of godless Donald Trump and Roy Moore.

Nonbelievers including militant atheists look at those stats I cited and men like Moore and Trump and say to people — especially impressionable young people who are intelligent —

“See there kids! Don’t let them fool you! Christians are all backward, mindless, dumb-ass hypocrites stuck in the far past!!!

I’m glad the little Alabama cowboy will be riding into the sunset on the horse “Sassy” that he rode into town on.

But I am disturbed and pray every day that American Christianity will rebound when Donald Trump and those of his ilk get the justice they are overdue on getting.