Cause The Bible Tells Me "No!"
The "God Bless the USA Bible" Another affront to the faith.
The former president is selling his version of the Bible.
This “God Bless The USA” Bible includes the U.S. Constitution, the Bill of Rights, the Declaration of Independence, the Pledge of Allegiance and portions of the patriotic anthem "God Bless The USA."
He says that the Bible is his “favorite book,” and “we must make America pray again.”
As a pastor, a committed Christian, and a child of God, this proffering of this “product” bypasses offense and lands squarely onto obscenity.
First, the Bible doesn’t need anything to be added to it.
It doesn’t require patriotic words or song lyrics.
Moreover, I believe in the separation of church and state.
I believe the Founding Fathers were right to encourage the two not to meet.
America is full of people who don’t believe as I believe, and it is a right and privilege endorsed and enshrined in our country’s most sacred texts.
The attempts to upend this originalist philosophy of the Founding Fathers has resulted in the scourge of Christian Nationalism – one of the reasons America has arrived at this historic nadir.
The other reason this particular attempt at fundraising is so infuriating is because of the seller.
The person with the unmitigated gall to perpetrate this ridiculous medicine show.
He is a man without morals, ethics, or values attempting to rehabilitate his tattered finances by taking something precious and sacred to many and reducing it to a dime store novelty.
He consistently uses faith as a bully pulpit to manipulate his followers.
He touts the faith but is never seen near a church except for photo ops.
He says it’s his favorite book but can’t coherently recite any of its contents.
He displays a lack of love, forgiveness, or compassion – the same virtues woven throughout the sacred text he supposedly adores.
Anyone who would spend sixty dollars for this obscenity would find their money better spent buying the Bible elsewhere.
Then use their time reading it and comparing the Savior found within to the pitiful man they anointed Savior.
The results of an honest comparison aren’t close.