We have always suspected that JFK had a number of mistresses while he was in the White House, but yesterday’s revelations by Mimi Alford have   confirmed that JFK, was, in reality, a hypocrite.  A hypocrite is one who puts on a mask, pretending to be one kind of person, but secretly being another.  Pretending to be an upstanding family man, model citizen, and moral leader of the free world, JFK was in reality a adulterous fornicator who took advantage of young innocent women, abusing his power and privilege to satisfy and feed his personal lust.  In the process, he compromised the lives of those he abused.  The failure of Mimi’s subsequent marriage, was likely due in part to that unbalanced relationship she had with the President while engaged to her husband to be. 

JFK was able to compartmentalize his life, so as to somehow justify the polar opposites of image and reality.  This is how people will have excuse his behaviour is they want him to remain an American hero.  And I am sure that the American people will want to keep him as one, to their own shame.

But should we be surprised?  The base inner nature of human beings is that “old self” that the Apostle Paul describes in Eph. 4:22.  In the unregenerate, that old self rules a person’s life, for there is nothing to oppose it.  So the natural, unregenerate person is a sinner by nature.  Only circumstances, consequences and conscience contain it, but given unbridled power and privilege, it will have its way. 

Only one who has come to the cross, died to self and been co-crucified with Christ has been imparted with a new nature.  The true Christian is a new creation made in the image of Christ (2 Cor. 5:17).  And no one born of God makes a practice of sinning (1 John 3:6). 

So what do we conclude about JFK?  Only God knows for sure but, based what we now suspect, he was not a new creation in Christ.  One even has to wonder, if his untimely death was, in part, the judgment of God poured out on one who should have known better. 

As for those around him, who tolerated, facilitated and hid his behaviour, they were not really friends.  We do no one a favour by tolerating, condoning and  facilitating sin.

Where there is no fear of God, there is only a prospect of impending judgment. 

Maybe it’s time to extinguish that eternal flame.

Les Galicinski