Haggard, a call to Prayer
Dear followers,

It is with profane sadness that we recently witnessed the untimely fall from grace of one of our brothers. He fell down on his knees in a way no Christian man should, and that gives us all an opportunity to do the same. Except, that while on our knees, we should pray.

The very reverend Haggard reminds all of us born again Christians about the real and present danger of temptation. The devil and his agents are everywhere, even among us. In fact, it is only through faith that you can know that I am not one of them.

Rightly, this will make you wonder about many of your advisers. Is your born-again accountant really a man of god? Or is he mascarading as one, to win your blind loyalty, I mean faith. As we all know, the bible is the only source of divine guidance, and when it was compiled, lending money for interest was a crime against God. So you really have to look carefully at banks, CDs, home mortgages, credit cards, etc. that charge interest. (note for advanced readers: Commodities seem okay though... hoarding any contango commodity effectively gives you the benefit of interest rate exposure, without technically being considered lending money. For that matter, writing long-dated options have an interest rate sensitivity so you can technically get around that silly little rule and make some mad cash.)

The point here is, that Haggard's fall reminds Christians and non-Christians alike that we are all fairly fallible. God's law was "to Love your Neighbor" (capital letters added for emphasis, quotation marks too) not "JUDGE your neighbor." We do not want it to be said that the heathens were more willing to forgive our brother than we were ourselves.

Your friend in Jesus,

Shadrak  ¶ 12:33 PM