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5.23.2003
Letters to the Editor? I am dubious of the merit of writing into a newspaper. I think that a few letters to the newspaper will not do much to counter the onslaught of pulpit preaching that is leading the debate about science, culture and religion. Its hard to imagine that an institution so pervasive as Christianity with its multitudes of churches sees schools as a threat to their ideology. What clear minded christians need to remember is that just because a church has a cross out front and call themselves Christian doesn't mean that they represent the same faith as you. A recent viewing of John Hagee of Cornerstone church in San Antonio was evidence enough for me that the christianity with which I was raised was not even present at this so-called christian service. It was a cult of politics shrouded in the mythology of Christ. Very little of the actual message of Jesus was presented. Instead, Hagee shouted ominous messages of the Apocolypse and the Anti-Christ with political messages to "God Bless George Bush" and orders to go out to the world a press an anti-intellectual ideology that attacks education, culture, and free thought in favor of a mind-numbing acceptance, not just of Jesus but a fundamentalist mentality that will spell doom to American society. The corruption of religion is not new, it is as old as religion itself. Mathew 21:12 Jesus entered the temple area and drove out all who were buying and selling there. He overturned the tables of the money changers and the benches of those selling doves. 13"It is written," he said to them, " 'My house will be called a house of prayer,' but you are making it a 'den of robbers.' To the Editor: As a product of both religious and scientific education. I was taught the basics of evolution in a private Christian school with no disclaimers, taught by a Christian brother. Did students throw out their Bibles and stop attending chapel? No, because we understood the difference between science and faith. To see them as competing concepts destroys the beauty of each. Many great scientists were also men and women of deep religious conviction. This continuos assault on science by attempting to put up "warning signs" around it is like a bad rash that keeps coming back. Proponents of disclaimers should realize that many of today's highly technological devices in their very homes make use of theoretical science that hasn't been fully understood yet. Should we throw those out as well? We have seen examples of societies where religious fundamentalists have purged elements they perceived to be against God. Its not a place people want to live, and its not a place we want Oklahoma to be. Do we really want to censor our own minds? I hope not. The day we put warning stickers in our textbooks is the day we should put warning signs on our state's borders as well. Welcome to Okghanistan! UPDATE: On Sunday May 25th the Tulsa World ran an editorial by David Averill which stated on at least two occasions that the disclaimer idea is nonsense. True enough. Did my letter have anything to do with this? Well, probably not. But absent evidence to the contrary I can still entertain the notion, just a little... right? | |
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