Letters to the Editor
From our weekly issue dated December 23, 2009
(Editor’s Note: Views and commentary, including statements made as fact, are strictly those of the letter-writers.)
Typed, double-spaced letters are considered for publication. Hand-written letters that are double-spaced and legible also can be considered. “Thank you” submissions are not accepted as letters.
Real justice
From Lorraine Rafferty
Selma
The Social Justice Alliance should change its name to the Social Un-Justice Alliance. On its Website it advocates abortion. What is just about that?
They are all for government-forced health insurance paying for abortions. What is just about that?
On the Website readers have been encouraged to financially support Dave Toler for Josephine County commissioner. Does this mean that Dave Toler has the same vision of justice as the Social Justice Alliance?
Jack Brown is also running for county commissioner. I believe he is a good man with a clear vision of what real justice is. He has spent his time and money to fight injustice. We need to do all we can financially and otherwise to get Jack Brown into office.
If we truly want just government we need to put just-minded individuals into positions of leadership. Otherwise we have no reason to complain and ought to be happy with whatever we get, knowing that we got exactly our just reward because we did nothing to fight for justice.
Christmas offering
From Lynn Boucher-Johnson
Cave Junction
This holiday season brings not much holiday cheer to some of my dearest friends. I submit this to hopefully help and comfort them during this time.
When I lost my parents a few years ago, these words brought me much comfort, as my father was called to Heaven and shortly after, my mother, on Christmas Day. I hope this brings closure and comfort to those who have lost a dear one:
“We see the countless Christmas trees around the world below with tiny lights, like Heaven’s stars reflecting on the snow.
“The sight is so spectacular, please wipe away that tear, for we are spending Christmas with Jesus Christ this year.
“We hear many Christmas songs, that people hold so dear, but the sounds of music can’t compare to the Christmas choir up here.
“We send you each a special gift from our heavenly house above. We send you each a memory of our undying love.
“After all, ‘Love’ is the gift more precious than gold. It was always more important in the stories Jesus told.
“Please love one another, as our Father said to do, for we can’t count the blessings or love He has for you.
“So have a merry Christmas and wipe away the tears &mdash Remember, we are spending Christmas with Jesus Christ this year.”
No on 66 & 67
From Roger King
Eagle Point
We need to vote “No” on measures 66 & 67, and here are a few points:
- Oregon will be the highest income tax state in the country at 10.8 percent.
- This corporate tax is up to 1 percent on all gross income for 2009 and beyond. A small business owner I know will have to pay $50,000. Then he deducts his expense and pays income tax. He will have to lay off employees or sell his product for more money. He has to pay corporate tax even if he earns no profit.
- These taxes are unnecessary when the state has in excess of $3.5 billon in reserve.
- Why have people unemployed because businesses leave Oregon? How does this help our state?
- Why would business come to Oregon if these measures become law?
- Will this tax induce small business operators to relocate or outsource. Why lose more jobs in Oregon?
Beware: Christian Taliban
From Ed Russell
Cave Junction
In response to “Merry Christmas” (Illinois Valley News, Letters to the Editor, Dec. 16, 2009.) What part of Merry is hard to understand?
And for the devout, aren’t there more important spiritual ways to celebrate the true meaning and experience of Christmas than to attack the civil liberties of other Americans?
My great-grandfather was a Christian minister who fled Europe because of religious persecution. He was Protestant and not of the then-and-there in-power Catholic persuasion.
What kind of “Christian” are you? And what if some day your civil rights are disregarded, and you are abused by a more powerful, or populace, entity that deems you not so worthy? Who ya’ gonna’ call?
P.S. What is this, “Our nation?”
Would you ignore and disrespect, among others, the rights and religions of the original people of America, its First Nations, who made you the boss?
I think that especially in the Christmas season, Christians should do more of what Jesus did, and told us to do: “Pray unceasingly, and love one another.”
Science’s fictions
From John Bazen
Cave Junction
How many remember?:
- The “hole in the ozone” above the South Pole in the 1980s (endangering all life).
- The Earth entering into an “Ice Age” in the 1970s.
- All the commercials about dinos “giving their all” to make crude oil, which was to run out by 1990.
- In the 1950s, testing the H-Bomb was going to set fire to the atmosphere.
- From the late 1880s through the 1950s: “Nebraska Man.” From one tooth, they built a man and a family. The next year the same farmer found a jaw with teeth, and the previous find fit this jaw perfectly. Sorry, it was a pig’s jaw and teeth. Yet it remained as a proven fossil of man for years after. As was the Piltdown Man, a proven hoax; yet both still found in some textbooks?
- Global warming? (Even though man can’t accurately predict the weather for next week?)
- When the 1970 polar bear count stood at 5,000 animals, and today the count is 25,000. Yet, “they” claim they are endangered?
Why? Can you say $$$?
All this with the full cooperation of the lame media. The cause: “PhDs taught it and most bought it.” Why? Is investigative reporting dead? Does the truth no longer matter? Is this not a stark reminder about the evolutionist claim, “Dead stuff began life?” There are only two known ways to perform “empirical” science:
- 1. Develop an idea (theory) then develop an experiment to either prove or disprove the idea.
- 2. Actual recording, with all the required equipment, to record and take notes of an event new to humanity.
Therefore, are you beginning to see a pattern here? Based only on assumptions? Men are moved by personal glory, treasure. None of these moves our creator God, so choose whom you believe:
Man’s dead things brought life? (How much faith does this religion require?)
God is the creator, and maintainer of all life. (This also requires faith, God proved Himself, by you.)
Question: “What other purpose has Satan, than to separate man from God by lies and deceptions, in any forum, including churches? (Rev. 17:5; 18:4). One savior, one Word, one cross, but 100s of religions -- of men.
Please think.
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