Ought To Make A Watergate Conspirator Blush by Frederick Meekins

In Matthew 10:16, Christians are admonished to be as wise as serpents and as harmless as doves. Often though, Christian organizations and ministries are the ones at the forefront of propagating the expectation in the mind of their respective supporters that sincere believers are --- in the words of the Washington Post --- to be uneducated and easy to command. The Angel Tree Project is a program administered by Prison Fellowship Ministries where Christmas gifts are provided to the children of the incarcerated on behalf of their parents. While there is nothing wrong per say with such acts of charity even though Prison Fellowship mouthpieces such as Chuck Colson get heavy-handed at times that it is somehow the fault of the average American that these misunderstood souls are behind bars and that these convicts are the 21st century equivalent of Rousseau's noble savage or somehow on par with Mother Teresa in terms of moral goodness as derailed in my column «A Big Helping Of Christmas Guilt» published in 2003, one way in which this charitable outreach markets itself to the broader Christian community might make some of Colson's fellow Watergate conspirators blush in terms of its duplicity and slight of hand.

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