Skip to content

Freedom of expression

It’s unfortunate that you printed Mary Whiteman’s recent letter to the editor.

It’s unfortunate that you printed Mary Whiteman’s recent letter to the editor.

However much I respect her faith, propounding it in the newspaper is inappropriate. It is a subject that should be confined to the Pastor’s Corner. Her exposition of the Atonement Doctrine, apparently a central belief of the Christian faith, leaves you open to demands from other religions for equal time.

So, as a devout heathen, let me be the first to demand my five inches to accuse this God person/entity of being a really bad dad, because he apparently premeditated sending his boy to known torturers and killers and ignored his son’s heartfelt plea to be rescued.

Furthermore, I believe that my sins, and there are many of them, are my business and nobody has any right to atone for them some 2,000 years before I commit them.

Now it’s the turn of all those Rabbis, Imams and miscellaneous priests of whatever, who are forming a nice orderly line behind me, to claim their own space in The NEWS.

Michael ScottFrench Creek