To the editor:
I use the Internet nearly every day, and my home page is Yahoo. Nearly every day for the last three weeks or so, I have been bombarded with stories about religion that have been reacted to by atheists and believers who do nothing but sling mud back and forth at one another. I learned long ago to expect this kind of behavior from kids on a school playground, but coming from adults, both young and old, it is nothing short of disgusting. Even as a practicing Catholic, I do not feel it is my duty to run around telling atheists and agnostics that they will burn in Hell for not thinking like me. To say the least, that’s rude!
At the same time, I do not appreciate atheists telling me and others like me that we are all outdated, old-fashioned, ignorant, uneducated, and unintelligent, simply because we believe in God and go to church! I am a practicing Roman-Catholic. I love my Lord and I love my church. I have dear friends who do not go to church, but they are my friends anyway, because they have good hearts. We don’t insult one another. They respect the fact that I go to church and practice a religion, and I respect the fact that they do not. We love and respect one another in spite of our differences. That’s as it should be.
So, to all those folks on both sides of the spectrum, here’s an idea: Instead of acting like a bunch of cretins and yahoos, why not act more like responsible Christians and atheists who use Yahoo?
Caribou
