You know, there is one thing about this (and we both know that we're guessing, but with a probably better-than-even chance of being right).True.
View attachment 29932 Tell me this isn't the face of a man who knows the location of every truckstop glory hole in a 300km radius? Taking bets on how long until he's caught crossing state lines with a suitcase full of Laotian houseboys...
How hard must it be for someone who has been brought up with the sort of fundamentalist religious belief, loaded with fire and brimstone, and eternal punishment for all sorts of trivial failures, to discover in yourself one of those failures? How hard must it really be to live such a life. What spiritual virtue can ever be the happy result of such a hopeless conflict? To be honest, I really felt for Ted Haggard as he had to face his public comeuppance for exactly this, even though his hateful rhetoric (informed, as it was, by his own inner conflict) was offensive to me.
I tell you truly, this is one of those ways in which I honestly believe that religion has the power to be a very, very great evil.