To the editor:
Did the punishment fit the crime?
Let me see if I have this right. Our president issues an apology for the burning of the Quran, but there is no outcry from him about the murder of our own troops over this situation?
And what about all of the other Christians who are being slaughtered all over the world because of their faith? Where is the outcry from our president and Senate and Congress and other leadership about this?
I am sick and tired of our weak responses from our own leaders about what is right and wrong. I wish our leaders had more guts and courage to stand up for the Christian principles our forefathers of this country and our forefathers in the faith have had.
Debra Pitta-Gilly
Spring Valley
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2qulerCQ78 Iniquities, inequities, let's call the whole thing off.
I think this applies: "This people draweth nigh unto me with their mouth, and honoureth me with their lips; but their heart is far from me. But in vain they do worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men." ~~ Jesus Christ; Matt 15:8-9 Gandhi once noted (paraphrasing): I love your Jesus Christ, but I do not like your Christians.
“Ours is one continual struggle against a degradation sought to be inflicted upon us by the Europeans, who desire to degrade us to the level of the raw Kaffir whose occupation is hunting, and whose sole ambition is to collect a certain number of cattle to buy a wife with and, then, pass his life in indolence and nakedness.” (collected works of Mahatma Gandhi) 1899: “Your Petitioner has seen the Location intended to be used by the Indians. It would place them, who are undoubtedly infinitely superior to the Kaffirs, in close proximity to the latter.” (ibid) “If I were a Jew… I would challenge [the German gentile] to shoot me… The calculated violence of Hitler may even result in a general massacre of the Jews… But if the Jewish mind could be prepared for voluntary suffering, even the massacre I have imagined could be turned into a day of thanksgiving and joy...” (1938) “Hitler killed five million Jews. It is the greatest crime of our time. But the Jews should have offered themselves to the butcher’s knife. They should have thrown themselves into the sea from cliffs.” (The Life of Mahatma Gandhi by Louis Fischer, 1947) The 77 year old Gandhi to his 18 year old grand-niece about the violence in Bengal: “We both may be killed by the Muslims, and must put our purity to the ultimate test, so that we know that we are offering the purest of sacrifices, and we should now both start sleeping naked [together].”