Remember the fairy tale about the emperor with no clothes? The one where it was painfully obvious to everyone that the emperor wasn’t wearing clothes but nobody was willing to say anything except for one child who didn’t know to keep quiet? I was reading a column by Doug Giles where he made some comments that reminded me of this children’s story …

“I find it real convenient for the chunky church of the 21st century to go postal on the vices of drunkenness and porn, but you don’t hear a peep out of them when it comes to their paunch. Just the other day I was watching TBN … Why? I do not know … Anyway, the preacher was railing against drinking, smoking and pornography. Y’know, the unholy trinity, the three big sins the church really needs to be focusing on right now. The funny thing was that this man of God was at least, at least, 100 lbs. overweight, and he had more chins than a Chinese phone book.