Posted on 09/02/2005 5:35:42 PM PDT by BobKrumm
If Katrina has taken everything from you, and you then turn to the Bible for help, you are an idiot.
At least that’s the perspective of several posters to a blog run by Michael Hyatt, the CEO of Thomas Nelson, a Nashville-based Bible publisher. The story started with Hyatt’s offer of assistance:
". . . we will donate 100,000 Bibles to the relief efforts. Why Bibles? This afternoon, an official in Baton Rouge said on Fox News, “We need water, food, ... and Bibles.” This is something I knew we could help with. Samaritan's Purse, an organization headed by Franklin Graham, one of our authors, has agreed to distribute these for us. We will begin shipping them to Louisiana as soon as we get instructions from Samaritan’s Purse."
You’ll be astounded at the outrage this provoked. Here are excerpts . . .
“100,000 Bibles. That is the most asinine thing I have heard in years (and I've heard a few) You are fool of the first order.”
“Unbelievable...... In my eyes you are a moron!”
“This is the most ridiculous, useless, self-serving thing I've ever heard, and anyone who gives money to this cause is going to hell.”
(Excerpt) Read more at bobkrumm.typepad.com ...
Yeah, 'Come all ye that are heavy laden, and I will give thee rest' sounds just TERRIBLE right now! Of all the nerve!
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