Letters to the Editor for Tuesday, December 22, 2009

Don’t criticize using votes for power

I disagree with Ken McBride’s letter supporting Bill Blackwell’s claim that Jerry Falwell and Liberty University were hypocrites because they exercised their “democratic” right to vote their conscience for issues and persons in which they believe.

That’s what the power of the vote is. Do not political parties and their followers vote that way? The whole thing works that way. Is that being hypocritical? Quit calling people negative names for exercising their constitutional right.

By the way, for your edification, those religions you mentioned (Judaism, Christianity, and Islam) are not mythical. They have historical figures, evidences, and doctrines that verify their existence. Hopefully the majority of those who read The News & Advance learn about these types of critics in our community.
ROBERT S. BONHEIM
Lynchburg

Letter revealed agenda

Thanks for publishing Ken McBride’s Dec. 19 letter. McBride writes: “The majority of Americans may yet learn that Christian fundamentalists do not even believe in ‘democracy,’ but only as a means to achieve their ultimate goal of a totalitarianism under their God in the tradition of the mythical desert religions of death: Judaism, Christianity and Islam.”

So, we now “know” that Christian fundamentalists do not believe in democracy and have a goal of a “totalitarianism under their God.”

Do you have a point to make or an axe to grind with a very obvious agenda? If you don’t like Christian fundamentalists and others who believe in religion, just say so. You paint with a very broad brush with your words and I doubt if you have made the desired point to anyone but yourself and a few others in our community. The words of some who wish to disparage others may be loud, but are they true and of any worth?

RICHARD A. EFTHIM

Lynchburg

Snow is stimulus

As we are told daily by all the news outlets, we are still in quite a bad recesion and the “good days” are still as ways off yet. However the mere mention of snow and whammo, the stores are packed, everything you can imagine is all of a sudden a “must have” for most everyone.

I can’t figure out why the big need for bread and milk, and the long gas lines to buy gas, when most will not even attempt to venture out if we get the slightest amount of snow.

Friday, before the snow fell, was ten times worse then Black Friday for driving and shopping. Retailers raked in some bucks.

So who needs stimulus? We got it already and it was a big white blanket that’s absolutely wonderful. Let it snow.

RYAN LACY

Lynchburg

Wither the weather?

Would someone please let Al Gore know that we had 11 inches (and counting) of global warming in our driveway Saturday morning?

JACK BUTCHER

Rustburg