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[ Monday, Nov. 15, 2004 ]

Letter to the Editor
Student likes satire in Preacher's views

I've always said that Gary Cattell, the Willard Preacher, is my favorite satirist. The guy is terrific. What better way to provide social commentary on the absurdity of religion than to pose as a preacher? It would be like a black man posing as a racist to expose the fallacies contained therein. Why, just the other day, Cattell offered up a discourse on the ways in which Christianity and liberalism are "antithetical" to one another. One of these ways, Cattell says, is that liberalism encompasses the belief that "all religions are equally valid." That belief is not in accordance with Christianity, which teaches that it is the source of validity. Saying this is a hilarious way for Cattell to expose the danger of such a belief (that only one's own beliefs are valid; that all others may therefore be dismissed). Of course, the danger of satire is that not everybody gets it, but hopefully you can all sit with me outside Willard and have a good laugh, because you and I truly get it.

Max Feldman
sophomore - English
 



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