tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6020471.post9213840828702970949..comments2023-06-10T11:47:43.132-04:00Comments on Reverend Ref +: Letter to the EditorReverend Ref +http://www.blogger.com/profile/12608521436386973234noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6020471.post-72295617939249736232014-02-24T17:33:32.319-05:002014-02-24T17:33:32.319-05:00Patience: Part of the other problem is that the p...Patience: Part of the other problem is that the people who generally write letters to the editor tend to fall on the rabid end of the spectrum. And there is apparently no shortage of people who are willing to attack people who have different opinions.<br /><br />My last letter to the editor resulted in a hate-mail flood of biblical proportions. One has to be willing to receive the abuse that comes with contradicting certain opinions/beliefs.Reverend Ref +https://www.blogger.com/profile/12608521436386973234noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6020471.post-12193325513453398972014-02-24T13:10:03.176-05:002014-02-24T13:10:03.176-05:00Heh. As an editor of our campus newspaper, I can t...Heh. As an editor of our campus newspaper, I can tell you that it is incredibly frustrating when you get blindingly idiotic letters-to-the-editor... from one side of an issue. You don't want to censor the person (even though they're completely wrong), but you don't have an opposing view from anyone else in the community, so you wind up just running it - if you have time to write an op-ed rebuttal, great; if you don't, you just run the cringe-worthy article, because there is a gaping hole on the opinion section, and this is what you've got.<br /><br />So it's probably a serious relief to several people in the newspaper office to get a letter contradicting the one they ran last week. (I should also say that sometimes you run the idiotic, "controversial" letter to the editor, crossing your fingers that it makes <i>someone</i> want to write in and say more.)Patiencehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01356616598776330524noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6020471.post-89269835005623823372014-02-22T22:58:37.980-05:002014-02-22T22:58:37.980-05:00I've never found a lot of difference between &...I've never found a lot of difference between "creation" and "evolution". The Bible says the "world was without form and void". Evolution says we had "primal soup". Both The Bible and evolution claim life began in the sea, and both say it moved onto the earth. First came animals and then came people. The only real difference is that some folks think it is within their pay-grade to tell God He only had 24 hours for His days. All the time in the world is His; if He wants to claim a million years as a "day", so be it. <br /><br />But for the folks who wrote the Bible to "get it right" six millennia, or more, ago is obviously inspired.Lady Annehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10608765381189723792noreply@blogger.com