Monday, October 9, 2017

Which Reminds Me

It does seem strangely coincidental that Paul Bettex would send his resignation letter to the various Booth family members, although we are not sure what was contained in the letter or where it might be filed away. But if your last name is, let's say, Tucker, we cannot assume that you are a descendant or somehow connected to the Salvation Army, even though one of General Booth's daughters, Emma, married Mr. Frederick Tucker and they had several children whose descendants, it is probably safe to say, might be living somewhere on the planet even now. Does that make Kathy your mother? As children we were often called on to sing "Onward Christian Soldiers," and yet I do not think that we were ever employees of the Salvation Army that we should need to write you a letter to discuss something. So what is your question?

And if Paul Bettex should happen to be recommended for canonization as a saint, would you have a problem with that? I am really not a Roman Catholic so that is not my problem, although Bettex is probably honored already as a martyr even without a plaque to hang on the wall. But either way I don't really see the need for an argument.