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[ Wednesday, Nov. 17, 2004 ]

Letter to the Editor
Liberals try to take God out of morals

This is in response to Max Feldman's letter ("Student likes satire in Preacher's views" Mon., Nov. 15)about Gary Catell, who is known as the Willard Preacher. What Feldman has failed to see is the fallacy in his argument that all viewpoints, religions and cultures are equal. If this were true, then Cattell's argument that all that is false would be valid to Feldman, since that is a different viewpoint itself. Why should we accept other religions as possibilities if the Judeo-Christian God has already revealed Himself as the real God, and Christianity as the right religion? That would be foolishness to do so. Not all viewpoints, not all morals, not all cultures and religions are equally good, so no, we do not accept them. We believe that God's way is right, and if we follow that, then we believe we are right. Other ways of life should be tolerated, that is another attribute of Christianity.

But tolerance and acceptance are different concepts. We love people for who they are, in hopes that they find God, but we do not accept that their ways are equally good. That's a liberal, and anti-Christian way of thinking from the "Enlightenment" in Europe that was brought over to the U.S. in the '60s. You can't have the Christian foundations of this society (doing good to people, natural rights, etc.), and then toss it aside in the public sector to separate religion and secular life to make it atheistic. That's what liberalism has done to society, take what they want out of Christianity, and then they push God out of it.

Greg Laplante
senior - recreation and park management



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