Zach Scheid's letter to the editor, "PSU tolerant of many different religious views," Oct. 17, greatly reveals his misconceptions concerning Catholicism, exposes substantial flaws in his point of view, and conveys a remarkably skewed understanding of religion in general.

Catholicism employs the use of allegorical stories and symbolic parables to communicate across thousands of years and to communicate between cultures with immensely different surroundings and different ways of life. To the uninspired, these meanings are hard to grasp. Be imaginative instead of ignorant. The letter ended by emphasizing the following: "The religious intolerance I'm advocating is not of a violent/bigoted form." The true definition of a bigot is a person who is intolerant of any opinions differing from his own. Is this sentence then not completely contradictory? Doesn't Scheid's letter commend bigotry?

While science has only recently emerged from society, religion has survived from before written history. This is because science will only ever be an explanation. Science will never be capable of answering the "why" questions, only the "how" questions. When a person asks why they live, science can only tell them how they are alive. Religion comes from within; it is human and it is emotion. It is faith above empirical observations.