Slice of Laodicea

This is a post that is specifically aimed at Christian bloggers, leaders, pastors and general defenders of Carrie Prejean, Miss California, the beauty queen who participated a few days ago in the Miss USA pageant. Given standing ovations in churches, at Liberty University (they have given her a full scholarship) and among the marriage campaigners, and praised by conservative Christians, Miss Prejean promises to be the celebrity of the Christian cause in the days and weeks to come.

I am posting a video that is not intended for those who fully understand the problem with Miss Prejean being exalted to the status of courageous Christian leader and example to women—wives, sisters, and daughters. I would issue a strong warning to anyone who already understands what God says about nudity NOT to view this video clip. I am posting this video for men like Steve Camp who wrote the following about Carrie Prejean on his blog:

“BTW, Carrie is a Christian and according to her bio, her life’s verse is Phil. 4:13. I for one am grateful to the Lord for her unashamed conviction on this issue – especially in that arena. Pray for her beloved, for many opportunities will be coming her way to speak on this issue and share her faith in Christ as a result of her gracious boldness this past Sunday evening.”

For those who defend Steve and the growing number of other Christians like Mat Staver, Judge Roy Moore and the pro-family activists who are holding this woman up as a follower of Jesus Christ, this video is just for you. It was filmed the night that Carrie became the darling of the family values crowd. Something does not compute.

To everyone else, leave the link alone. I refuse to answer emails from those complaining that this material isn’t suitable for Christians. Of course it isn’t, but you won’t be told that by Steve Camp and the rest of the Prejean followers. They are raising her up as an example. Twelve seconds of the video should refute that notion completely. It was reported to the world this week that Carrie Prejean’s breast augmentation surgery six weeks prior to the pageant was, in fact, paid for by the pageant. If this is an example of Christian womanhood, who needs it?

Carrie Prejean is a type of the evangelical church in our culture. Simply Jesus is not enough. We augment the message of the Gospel with flesh to attract admiration from the unregenerate. The fakery that produced the body of this woman is the embodiment of the fakery of the false church in America that is in bed with the world. The church yearns for a crown from the world—a crown made of fake gold with rhinestones. The crown of righteousness from Jesus Christ is discarded in favor of the swill of this world’s corrupt system. It is right and fitting that this beauty pageant contestant is being upheld, because in all honesty, a nearly naked woman, strutting her surgically enhanced body parts in front of men while mouthing moral platitudes is the very picture of the carnal church today. Weep.

Favour is deceitful, and beauty is vain: but a woman that feareth the LORD, she shall be praised.

-Proverbs 31:30

As a jewel of gold in a swine’s snout, so is a fair woman which is without discretion.

-Proverbs 11:22

For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world. 

And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever.

-I John 2: 16-17