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To the Editor: Despite efforts, still not eye-to-eye

Oct 6, 2009

To the Editor:

Re: “To Debate Evolution Is To Appear Nutty — Why?,” Opinion, Oct. 5

The author’s effort to find common ground between “liberal moderns” and “fundamentalists” is admirable but misguided. Those who believe that worth objectively attaches to human beings due to their belief in a creator are in a fundamental sense not in accord with the beliefs of “liberal moderns.” The latter assign affirmative value, whereas the former assign value “in spite of.”

Anyone Can Be a Fundamentalist

Mike Wacker  —  Aug 26, 2009

Hate the religious right? Consider the religious right the source of hate?

While I do not have such a strong opinion, during the pinnacle of the religious right’s influence, I could not find anything in the Bible about giving judicial nominations an up or down vote or why God would smite Ariel Sharon with a stroke for dividing Israel’s land.

I actually happen to be a conservative and a Christian, but I consider the two parts neither to be equivalent nor mutually exclusive. I may have wanted an up or down vote for judges as a conservative, but I had no opinion of it as a Christian.

Certainly many reading this could cite more examples of the religious right overstepping their bounds. But is only the religious right or just religion capable of this?

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