So are the remaining people not turning a blind eye to the public documentation of his deceit because they have “faith” that he is the best person to lead them?
You’d have to ask the remaining parishioners. Unfortunately, the modern state of American journalism is to pack a fist full of soundbites in between walls of ads and call it a day.
For all I know, the church has exactly three congregants left - per the included photo - and an anonymously sourced (WHY ARE YOU ANONYMOUSLY SOURCING THIS QUOTE?!) one of them is just blandly “Yeah, we’re glad he’s back”.
I will say that this guy is close personal friends with Emanuel Cleaver, a sitting State House Rep and former Mayor and the cousin of two prominent Black Panthers. So if they’re disproportionately skeptical of a prosecution of one of their leaders… idk, maybe there’s something ABC13 - a news channel owned and operated by wealthy Houston conservatives and a Florida-Based media mega-corp with some pretty seedy histories of its own - isn’t including in its coverage.
But “I can’t believe a congregation of Black Houstonians would question in the infallibility of the US justice system” is, itself, an expression of blind faith that you might want to explore.
You’re dealing with a survivorship bias. Anyone who saw the fraud and was disgusted by the minister’s actions has left already.
So are the remaining people not turning a blind eye to the public documentation of his deceit because they have “faith” that he is the best person to lead them?
You’d have to ask the remaining parishioners. Unfortunately, the modern state of American journalism is to pack a fist full of soundbites in between walls of ads and call it a day.
For all I know, the church has exactly three congregants left - per the included photo - and an anonymously sourced (WHY ARE YOU ANONYMOUSLY SOURCING THIS QUOTE?!) one of them is just blandly “Yeah, we’re glad he’s back”.
I will say that this guy is close personal friends with Emanuel Cleaver, a sitting State House Rep and former Mayor and the cousin of two prominent Black Panthers. So if they’re disproportionately skeptical of a prosecution of one of their leaders… idk, maybe there’s something ABC13 - a news channel owned and operated by wealthy Houston conservatives and a Florida-Based media mega-corp with some pretty seedy histories of its own - isn’t including in its coverage.
But “I can’t believe a congregation of Black Houstonians would question in the infallibility of the US justice system” is, itself, an expression of blind faith that you might want to explore.