Dear Editor,
My compliments to you for your recent editorial reminding Bahamians of the roots and origins of the violent crime which is now afflicting our country and about which I should like to say a few words, especially to some of our  preachers.
Nothing just springs out of nowhere, and we have known -- or should have known -- that the winds we sowed years ago would come back to us in the form of devastating whirlwinds.
We should have known that the gangster culture we allowed to take hold in the 70s and 80s would not just go away.  We also knew that the breakdown of family values and children having children would also have its effect on our society for many years to come.
I remember the late Sir Kendal Isaacs and his colleagues warning us about these things on R. M. Bailey Park until his voice gave out.
His political opponents scoffed at him and branded him "Ole Sore Throat". Who's throat is sore now?
Some of the preachers who are today shouting for hanging were the very ones who sprang to the defence of Sir Lynden Pindling at the time.
The country was inundated with drug money and when the whole sorry mess was exposed by the Commission some were still unrepentant.
When one Christian leader proposed to do the right thing and speak the truth, he was told that "principle don't put bread on the table"!
Nor air conditioning and carpeting in the churches!  Nor fancy cars for pastors!  And don't forget the political leader who brazenly proclaimed, "Don't mind how I get my money, whether I work for it or thief it!"
That's the same thing we are hearing today: It's okay to sell counterfeit goods in our public market.
It's okay to steal copper. It's okay to rob others who work for their money. It's okay to peddle drugs and eliminate whoever gets in the way.
So forgive me if I change the channel whenever I hear preachers at a murder scene fanning the hysteria and calling for the state to join the killing spree. Is that the extent of their Christian leadership?  Do they really believe that this is what Jesus would say?
I can listen to preachers like Rev. C. B. Moss because I know that they are not just grabbing television time but are working in their communities to make a difference and trying to show our lost young people another way.
The rest should clothe themselves in sack cloth and ashes and repent for their failure as church leaders.
 
Yours, etc.,
DUBIOUS

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