Once again, "Christian" values

Guest wrote:The sales rep said he was a Christian like I am. I asked him is Brooksy the CEO a Christian man? He said yes. He lied. That was important to me to see if the people at the top had values like me.

Just this morning, there was a TV segment on the Frank case . In recent years, we have heard that Ken Lay was a good Christian (son of a preacher and trustee of his church), Bernie Ebbers of WorldCom fame was a deacon in his church before he got sentenced to 25 years in prison, and Richard Scrushy not only got religion fast, but made a demonstration of attending a church whose racial demographics matched the jury pool which ultimately acquitted him.

And of course, there is franchising's own Christian-In-Chief, Jim Amos.

I'm involved in a franchise litigation right now where the parties who committed awful acts got a glowing letter from Rev. Calvin Butts (of the influential Abysinnian Baptist Church) a few days after they gave a "tithe" out of the business checking account.

Christ hung out with hookers and lepers, and said that his Kingdom was not of this world. With all respect for Guest's faith, I would suggest that when any religious figure is trotted out to demonstrate one's piety in a business venture: hold on to your wallet.

Webster apparently feels that Oliver Cromwell is too risque and cleaned up the quote, so I shall give you the actual quote:

"I beseech thee, from the bowels of Christ, consider that you may be mistaken."

Cromwell, about as God-fearing a man that ever lived, went on to massacre more than a few Christians who made the mistake of being Roman Catholic, but that's a topic you can discuss with an Irish historian.