This “Letter to the President” popped up in my email the other day. I found it to be rather ironic, considering today’s topic.
Dear Mr. Bush:
As a veteran Canadian churchman, a graduate of Bryan College, Dayton, TN, who has conducted over 500 evangelistic crusades and rallies throughout North America, Britain, Ireland and the Caribbean, and who as a guest of Dr. Jerry Falwell has preached in the pulpit of the Thomas Road Baptist Church, Lynchburg, VA, and to the student body of Liberty University, and has been honoured with a doctor of divinity degree conferred on me by the distinguished associate evangelist of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, Dr. John White, Ph.D, (Oxford), I write, “as a nobody from nowhere”, the wilderness of Canada’s great northwest, Tumbler Ridge, British Columbia, where I serve as Director of the Wilderness Family Conference.
I write to congratulate you on the noble leadership you’re providing to your great nation with which we Canadians are blessed to share this continent. Your magnificent speech tonight confirmed the confidence of so many of us north and south of the border, who recognize the hand of God upon you and the goodness of God in raising up such leadership as you “for such a time as this” on the world stage.
Now, it’s possible that I’m completely wrong, that George Bush is a great Christian leader and will lead this nation into renewed greatness and glory under God. Alternatively, this distinguished Canadian churchman is just another deceived Christian with serious discernment problems.
I’m just curious what the guy could have possibly found so “magnificent” in Bush’s speech. The entire thing could have been summed up in the simple phrase “we’re going to give a lot of taxpayer money to a lot of people”.