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Letter to the Editor
Religious Views
Differ
I am writing this in response
to John Rossomando's most
recently disturbing article, "Being
a Christian."
Rossomando states, "Do not
try to analyze the word of God
with your small human minds
because it is like a blind man
trying to read printed words on
papa."
If Rossamondo is correct in
that Christians should take the
Bible literally on blind faith, then
there is a lot of money being
wasted on Bible and ministerial
colleges, research, explorations -
all things created by and
involving people with small
human minds trying to enhance
their understanding by increasing
their knowledge.
The Bible states that from
knowledge comes understanding
and from understanding comes
wisdom. It doesn't say, "Do not
try to analyze (Me) with your
small human mind."
Rossomando also asserts,"For
most people, pleasures of the
flesh and of being intoxicated are
all there is and anyone who
speaks against this is a fool."
Another earth-shattering state
ment could be, "For many people
there is only the pleasure of
serving Christ and anyone who
speaks against this is a fool."
Both are quite correct. Many
people need some sort of
emotional support, either
something stronger than
themselves to believe in, or
something higher to reach for so
that they can improve themselves
in some way. People usually
turn to religion, but drugs
(including alcohol) sometimes do
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My earliest memories of my
parents date back to when they
were still marijuana-smoking
hippies. I would bring my five
year-old friends over to play, and
my mother would be rolling a
joint. After delivering my
younger brother, however, she
felt the tug of responsible
motherhood, and she stopped
doing drugs. She started reading
the Bible. By the time I was
eight, my mother was a
Fundamentalist Protestant
Christian, and I had been placed
into a private Christian school
and subjected to the propaganda
of the Accelerated Christian
Education (ACE) curriculum.
However, unlike many
Christians I have known since I
was eight, my mother did not
stop thinking after she became
"saved." She did not point to the
Bible and say, "Do not try to
analyze the word of God with
your small human mind." She
taught me to use my brain so I
could separate the bias of
preachers from the actual Word of
God. "That's why God gave you
one," she said.
I am very glad neither John
Rossomando nor any of his ilk
was my mother. The passage in
the Bible about knowledge,
understanding, and wisdom are a
great deal of the reason I am here
at Behrend
If my pursuit of knowledge had
been stunted at an earlier age, I
would probably be at home right
now, married, not analyzing my
life or trying to improve myself
mentally, but going to church
functions to make up for the lack
of personality.
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