I had sent the following email, titled “Concerns,” to my former church two Sundays ago, and I have yet to receive a response (should I expect one?):
Hi, I have attended a few of your Sunday services and was especially pleased with your church's care for my children. I no longer go to services, however, because I have some concerns, which I don't think can be rectified anytime soon.
The first concern is a sermon in which Pastor...said Ted Bundy went to heaven because the criminally insane, serial killer is believed to have accepted Jesus as his savior before he was executed. While I understand the point Pastor...was making or attempting to make, I cannot in good conscious buy into this. A simple search on the Internet will remind one that Ted Bundy was "'a sadistic sociopath who took pleasure from another human's pain and the control he had over his victims, to the point of death, and even after.' He once called himself 'the most cold-hearted son of a b[!@#$] you'll ever meet;' Attorney Polly Nelson—a member of his last defense team—wrote: 'Ted was the very definition of heartless evil.'"
Knowing of Bundy's efforts to evade justice and stall his execution, I question Bundy's genuineness and, therefore, Pastor...’s judgement, which leads me to my second concern.
Thanks to Facebook, we all know a little bit more about each other than we probably should. Pastor...'s seemingly endless support of our Tweeter in Chief, Donald Trump, for example. Now it's not because I'm a Democrat that I write this. It's because I question the ability of an honest-to-God Christian to support a seemingly dishonest-to-everyone unChristian man such as Donald Trump. Donald Trump may call himself a Christian, but he sure doesn't act like it. I could be wrong, but I think Christians should do their best to live up to what scripture teaches us, to turn the other cheek, to help the downtrodden...Donald Trump has done a few good things as President, but on the whole, I'm very appalled by his behavior and where he is taking us.
Sincerely,