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Originally Posted by Elspode
Yup. Unlike the disgraced preacher, my path requires me to take personal resposibility for my actions. I have no saviour to take away my stupidity. If I screw up, I get reamed. I pay the price, both in this world and the next. Pretty simple philosophy, and I think it makes me a good deal more careful.
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That's a mischaracterization of Christianity. Consequences don't disappear, if anything they are more pronounced. The preacher is getting doubly slammed because he is doubly hypocritical. Beyond any personal price he pays for his lies, he has to answer for the fact that he has turned more people against God because they take his example as representative of the faith. God will judge him not just for what he did, but for the fact that he damaged the faith of others.
Matt. 18:7 -- Woe to the world because of the things that cause people to sin! Such things must come, but woe to the man through whom they come!
Preacher is in deep trouble, and aside from the status of his salvation, he will pay in a big way, if Jesus was telling the truth.