Responding to The Blackmailing of Parson Goat, a pastor in Colorado assures me he and his fellows are  …Not being “black-mailed.”   I personally feel [clergymen are]:  a) Too scared to appear “uncaring” by congregants who are scared. b) Drinking way too deeply (and erroneously) from “Romans 13” In our … District, maybe 4 of 80 remained open, that’s 95% who closed … .  Remember, these are “evangelical” churches.  They are autonomous, so a heavy handed “bishop” did not order the 76 closed. Our [denomination] was big on announcing the CARES program.  But I don’t think that was an incentive to … Continue reading Parson Goat: Crooked, Cowardly—or Both?