The Power And The Glory

I recently purchased this book by Graham Greene. I am familiar with it but have never actually read it yet.

The story is a complex one. In revolutionary Mexico God is outlawed. Priests are hunted down and eliminated. The last priest is a complete moral failure. He drinks, has a mistress, and a child.

He slowly realizes that sometimes you are called to things that are bigger than you are and they are not always what you want them to be.

I'm not going to spoil it for those of you who will pick it up and read this masterpiece but it is a moving story about what Christianity is compared to the dangerous type of Christianity that is pervasive in today's society that is proclaimed by Joel Osteen, Benny Hinn, Kenneth Copeland, and those of their ilk.

This stands in stark contrast to those of the "name it and claim it" gospel also knows as health and wealthers. Essentially it is up to how strong your faith is and you can reap worldy riches and outstanding health to your heart's content.

This is heretical and exactly the opposite of what Christianity is about. Typically the people who proclaim this heresy are hypocrites who generally are in it for the dollar. They blame the person who doesn't have strong faith for their failings, their poor health, their lack of a desired income, etc.

So say you are sick, deathly ill, you call one of these hucksters to heal you and then you get worse. Their response would probably be that your faith isn't strong enough or there is some sin in your past that is preventing you from being healed that you need to confess. So you are blamed for being sick and you have tied God's hands in healing you.....yeah, you, a mortal being has confounded the Supreme Being of the universe from helping you.....let that sink in for a second.

These people are criminal and deserve to be in prison.

Yeah.....criminal.