Have some Bahamians lost their minds?

by Sidney Sweeting, DDS (http://www.weblogbahamas.com)

The story in The Tribune recently of the pastor of a church displaying with pride his $68,000 Bentley ("like the Queen of England drives") almost made me lose my breakfast.

In a church with a membership of over 400 it is quite possible that a percentage of those members are either unemployed or have family and friends who are suffering financial difficulties. If it had been reported that the congregation had raised the equivalent funds to help their own members through these difficult times we could all salute them. To try however, to distort the basic tenents of the Gospel of Christ and to equate it to the worship of things material - in this case a car, is deplorable and sinful.

These are the same people who will be first in line to ask Government for an unemployment cheque or for help to pay their medical bills because their money has been spent in helping someone with a silver tongue to "improve his status in the community".