Yesterday I went shopping with my wife and we visited the Gift & Bible store to pick up some Bibles for the graduates who attend our church.
While in this Christian bookstore there was a huge book display pushing a book written by Jon & Kate Gosselin. Now, I know little about this couple except that they have a bunch of kids and a reality TV show (which I’ve never watched) and that recently Jon had adultery rumors floating around. I didn’t even know, until I was in the store, that they were “Christian.”
So, here again, as in the Carrie Prejean beauty case, we have Christians making heroes out of morally suspicious people. Don’t get me wrong … I’m all for heroes. I don’t even mind if my heroes have warts. I’m not against esteeming people. What I am against is how the Christian world keeps coughing up the wrong people to be heroes. Indeed, its almost as if they are finding anti-heroes to be heroes. What we are constantly getting are heroes that are celebrities but who have little or no character.
Ah yes, the “lovely” couple who are role-modeling genocidal miscegenation and amalgamation to the Christian Church.