The Pretend Salt of Conservatism Rears its Ugly Head

The Pretend Salt of Conservatism Rears its Ugly Head

Encouragement to Stephen Bennett after his interview with Bill O'Reilly 

Dear Stephen,

My son David and I were praying for you as you met the malicious slanderer of our Lord Jesus in his safe little lair. His conservatism has proved once again that it is the greatest enemy of Christianity. Conservatism is pretend salt. It looks like salt, talks like salt, seeks the vote of salt, hangs around with salt, but when the test of taste is applied; it is revealed for what it really is. A tasteless enabler of perdition!

Mr. O'Reilly is no more a Christian than he is a poached egg. His utter ignorance of the Scripture, Old and New Testaments, and his, "I'll interpret it my way, and you interpret it your way." leaves no one else to be god but himself. That's it Stephen! Bill O'Reilly thinks he is God and is taking issue with the God of the universe, the One who created his large mouth, over how God disciplined His people in the Old Testament.

Obviously Mr. O'Reilly knows better than God how things should have been done. While listening to him drone on, I came to the startling revelation that I could beat Tiger Woods at golf anytime, anywhere, with both hands tied behind my back. Don't ask me how I got there. But it is true! I could beat Woods, if I were the one making the rules. I'd just change them to suit my purposes. He wouldn't have a chance.

Neither did you! O'Reilly set you up. He makes all the rules. That's why, when you were honestly and kindly trying to answer his questions, he was moving into his argument ad hominem (name-calling). He is an arrogant horse's petunia, but he will give an account for his every word and, for him, that's going to dig a pretty deep pit.

Hang in there Stephen. Mr. O'Reilly dug a pit and he himself is going to fall into it.

Fight the good fight and do not be dismayed.

Flip Benham
National Director, Operation Rescue
2 Corinthians 4:10-12