God Bless US Bible

Yes, I had quite the similar experience, except I was not in the military. However, the song started really turning my stomach when churches starting singing it on Sunday mornings, often around 4th of July, but sometimes in response to elections and other political events where the church leaders thought the "good guys" won.

I finally walked out of a service in disgust when they started playing the song for the congregation to sing during Desert Storm when the visiting preacher proclaimed that the War in Iraq had "more conversions [allegedly to Christianity] than casualties," totally ignoring the tens of thousands of Iraqis and Kuwaitis who died. While I was definitely in support of the war based on the knowledge I had, I also recognized that the "other side" was mostly made up of draftees rounded up to fight for a dictator that ended up dead or grievously wounded. The God we claim to worship has commanded us to be concerned about the whole world, not just those who our politicians tell us to like or hate. War is a terrible and sometimes necessary thing, but we should not dismiss the suffering and death of those who are not on "Team America."

I had nothing against the man until he decided to make some cash off of a Bible sold as a religious totem.

 

Three issues that comes to mind.
1) Love of country to promote the word of God.
2) Using the Bible to promote the love of our country.
3) The appearance of using item 1 and item 2 to make money.

 

Probably a close explanation of what they mean by “inspired”.

I don’t know about the “fast buck” comment. They may expect to be selling throughout DT’s second term.

peace to you