None of my business

Monday morning and all is well. In fact, boring. Is that because I don’t have a great book to read? I hit the ‘new’ book section of the library at least twice a week, but there have been few hits among the offerings lately.

I do see in the news that McBush was able to hear the questions and answers during Senator Obama’s time before the audience, allowing him to be prepped before his own time came. That was not supposed to happen, but it’s certainly not surprising. Hey! It was in Orange County and among Republicans. What else could you expect?

And this; at our informal Bible study last night, someone mentioned that they hoped that Obama had rid himself of those ‘pastors’. I had to restrain myself. Why in the world are we allowing ourselves to be lead down a path, any path, by the news media? Why do we allow third person accounts of a sermon to become news? Shouldn’t we insist on better reporting? Objectivity? And what does anyone’s pastor have to do with anything? Who are we voting for? Candidate or his pastor? What about the pastor that makes you sleepy with a sermon? Or sermons that wander through a maze of conflicting theology? Are those bad pastors? And most important; do our pastors represent who we are?

Personally, I would be suspicious of the intellectual power of any candidate who sat in a pew at Rick Warren’s mega-church for more than a few Sundays. I could still vote for him if he demonstrated in other ways that he was smarter than that. But…I really don’t need to know where any candidate worships. It’s really none of my business.