Pastor Lyall Bethel said yesterday he was disappointed by recent comments made by FML Group of Companies CEO Craig Flowers who said church leaders' criticisms of the government were far-fetched.
Bethel and Pastor Andrew Stewart have criticized the government for tabling and passing the Gaming Bill 2014, which will regulate and tax the web shop industry.
"He struck me as gentlemanly enough, and I thought he would know when it's appropriate to speak," said Bethel when called for comment.
"I've had talks with him; he's nice and a gentlemen."
But Bethel said Flowers should "sit small".
Flowers was asked to respond to the church leaders who said the government is killing democracy by going against the results of the 2013 gambling referendum.
The majority of voters in that referendum voted no to the regulation and taxation of the web shop industry and the establishment of a national lottery.
Bethel and Stewart have encouraged Bahamians not to support any MP who voted in favor of the bill in the next general election.
Flowers said the comments are "far-fetched and a bit overboard".
"If we have an election today, we may be surprised," he said.
"The PLP may win more seats than they had before. We don't know. But we can sit here and we can all say from any perspective or any point what's wrong."
But Bethel, of Grace Community Church, said "nothing could be further from the truth".
He said he stands by his comments.
"We're going to make sure that people remember," he said.
"They (MPs) need to stop drinking Kool-Aid. They are drinking their party's Kool-Aid that they haven't done anything wrong.
"They need to realize that they have betrayed the Bahamian people and lost the integrity to speak to any issue. I believe they, wisely so, are running from putting forth another referendum. I believe the Bahamian people are disgusted with them.
"When you yield the obscene amount of power that the Westminster system gives our politicians, they literally believe themselves to be God; they can make any decision and not feel accountable to it. When you should dare to say to them that 'you are wrong', they come down on you like a ton of bricks.
"How are we wrong? How are we immoral to say to them, 'no you can't do this; it is improper and unprincipled?'"
He said the web shop bosses seem to be "obscenely powerful" in The Bahamas.

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