I read your Comment section June 10 with great interest. I share your concern with the “dangerous road that the Roman Catholic Church seems to be traveling.”
It certainly is “a mockery of faith,” in light of the decades of abuse to children by the priests of the Roman Catholic Church. Abuses covered up, even condoned by those who participated in covering their sins. The same bishops who are now concerned for the faith of Catholics everywhere.
Before we Baptists become too angry over these positions voiced by “Vatican officials and other Catholic leaders,” it would seem best to remember the theory of “those living in glass houses.”
Maybe we need to look at the position many Christians, including Baptists, have taken here in Alabama on gambling and liquor, as well as other issues. This fight has been ongoing for many years. Yes, it is even still going on today. I might add that the funds provided to fight these evils are being paid with funds contributed by faithful Christians.
Yet we find that the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) Annuity Board is very willing to invest in Carnival Cruise Lines. The board officials are also quoted as saying, “Carnival receives only 3 percent of its revenue from gambling.” No mention is made of what percent is derived from liquor. I have been taught from the pulpit of my church that “sin is sin” regardless of its percentage.
Where is the outrage seen in 1997 from SBC and from the pulpit to boycott Walt Disney Company? Was it because there was not financial gain coming from the Walt Disney Company at that time?
C.E. Adams
Athens, Ala.
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