He hated sitting through the meetings with these bible-thumpers, not because they didn’t adore him, they did. He had bought some of their adoration. But because he couldn’t trust them. He couldn’t trust them because these people really believed what they said. For this reason they were dangerous to him as The Leader. He accepted them out of necessity. They were a business deal. They didn’t seem to understand that he didn’t answer to them, but he did. It was this that bothered him so much. And so, as they rambled on he acted interested.
“Sir. It is truly a sign that the end-times are here, and I can’t tell you how happy that makes me. Sir you are in the service of God and Jesus Christ himself. We have worked hard in a world which is dead-set against the Lord’s followers. And now it will all change. The wicked shall weep, sir, and the Lord’s children will reap their righteous place in heaven. All because of you, sir, all because of you…”
The Leader sat soaking in the diatribes against modern society. He heard them but he didn’t listen to them. He found them pathetic and they didn’t seem to notice. This irritated him further. One after another leader spoke. The Catholics were worried about the abortion issue. The protestants were angry at the secularization of society. The Foundation for Our Father leaders, though, they had a plan. He was interested.
“Sir. We are from The Foundation for Our Father or ‘FOF’ for short.” The well-dressed, oddly calm man handed The Leader a large folder. It was very neat and organized.
“We at FOF have watched as this country has been overrun with secular ideologies and…let’s say ‘those without Christ’. And we have watched as our founding father’s intentions have been infested with so-called progressive thought that has no other intention but to undermine this country’s founding religion, Christianity. Sir, this country is sliding into an immoral, pluralistic ethic that has been weakening the very pillars of our democracy. Sir, what I’m trying to say is, that we have a plan that we have spent the past nine years working on and we believe we can win our country back. But we need your help.”