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Baseball’s Latest Scandal: Going After the Church 10/5/2005 Theological question leads to inflammatory charge, investigation of chaplains program.
This article is running today in WorldNetDaily.com
For several years, baseball’s steroids scandal grew like a hot air balloon until it burst in the face of some of the sport’s biggest sluggers.
As suspicions mounted, Major League Baseball’s (MLB) front office sat on its hands, finally roused to action when it was no longer possible to ignore the Pillsbury Doughboys knocking the ball around.
Contrast that with the lightning speed with which the baseball gods bought into a Washington Post smear of a Christian chaplain and upcoming star outfielder Ryan Church of the Washington Nationals.
On September 18, the Post ran Laura Blumenfeld’s mainly supportive feature story on baseball chaplains, featuring Nationals chaplain Jon Moeller. It included a brief conversation in which Mr. Church tells Mr. Moeller of his concern about a former girlfriend’s eternal destiny.
Church: “I said, like, Jewish people, they don’t believe in Jesus. Does this mean they’re doomed? Jon nodded, like, that’s what it meant. My ex-girlfriend! I was like, man, if they only knew. Other religions don’t know any better. It’s up to us to spread the word.”
An Orthodox rabbi, Shmuel Herzfeld, then complained to the Nationals, saying it seemed that “the locker room of the Nationals is being used to preach hatred.”
Newsflash to Mr. Herzfeld: Christians don’t hate you. We’re talking here about the 2,000-year-old Great Commission stated by Jesus in Matthew 28:19. Christians—-out of love—-are told to share with everyone the Good News that Jesus came to die for their sins and give them eternal life.
Three days later, on September 21, this Post headline appeared:
“Nats’ Church Apologizes for Remarks About Jews.” Talk about a wild pitch thrown right to the head. More |
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