So early yesterday morning, a friend of mine sent over this …
And my pal wrote: “I don’t have a law degree, but I find it troubling that the leader of a tax-exempt religious organization is using his title as church pastor to endorse a political candidate.”
If you don’t know of Jack Hibbs, consider yourself blessed. Well, not blessed by Jack Hibbs, but blessed to have your sanity maintained and your decency uncorrupted.
Hibbs is the head of Calvary Chapel Chino Hills, a “church” [quotes intended] that puts the Gee in Jesus and the Jar in Jarringly Inconsistent when it comes to following the actual principles of religious doctrine.
Under Hibbs’ stewardship, Calvary Chapel Chino Hills has become a safe landing spot for hard-right dotards like Dixon, the Board of Supervisor candidate who (quite literally) specializes in backing/supporting policies that do nothing for the poor and give to the rich. And it shouldn’t be surprising, because Hibbs (again—a member of the clergy who professes to love God) is all in on MAGA. Literally, he has never (never, ever, ever) spoken out against Donald Trump, or his cheating on wife 1 with wife 2 and wife 2 with wife 3 and wife 3 with a porn star he raw dogged, then paid off in hush money. He has never condemned Trump for calling people fat and ugly and retarded; has never admonished him for Jan. 6 or mimicking the disabled reporter or making $2 billion off the presidency or just being jarringly, uniquely cruel and mean.
Nope, Hibbs has endorsed Donald Trump repeatedly.
It all makes me wonder: Do people like Jack Hibbs get it? Do they understand what they’re doing to faith? Do they understand that, by not following the virtues of Christ, they are basically screaming, “Don’t worry about Christianity—it’s all a big lark”? Does Jack Hibbs understanding how damaging this all is? How unethical this all is? Hell, how wrong it is to involve a church in politics and make his voting record his followers voting record?
Does he grasp what’s going down here?
My guess is no.
My guess is Jack Hibbs wants to be a player in the political game, far more than he loves him some Jesus.
So he stands before a crowd, praises all things God and Jesus—then puts his weight behind candidates who behave as Christ-like as a sewer rat.
Amen.
PS: Seriously, does this read like the bio of a dude who places God first?
