PUBLIC VIEWPOINT: Writer's 'Commandments' Misdirected

Tuesday, January 1, 2013

I see that Linda Farrell is now pretending to be a new kind of Moses (Public Viewpoint, Dec. 10). She has laid down 10 commandments for Republicans. She has written in the past of her liberal, political god who hates Republicans, supports homosexual lifestyles, and agrees with the need for abortion and birth control. Her god is an extreme creation, not found in any scriptures I have read.

I certainly have no faith in the god she has created. Before taking on such a task, you might remember Matthew 7:5 that tells us “First take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your brother’s eye.”

My God stands for the sanctity of all human life, the sanctity of marriage between a man and a woman, and believers who put God above Caesar. There are many politicians in both major parties who often pretend to be Godly men and women, while supporting anti-Christian values, and I will always vote against them. Ms. Farrell has the right to believe in whatever being she wants, but her party overwhelmingly voted to take God out of their platform. She can dedicate her life to a particular political party but it is a stretch to link her politics to any god.

I’ll stick to the Ten Commandments handed down long ago by the real Moses, written on stone tablets and in the hearts of God’s chosen people.

DALE LANGE

Bella Vista

COMBAT LOSS

They said there’d be no shooting. I believed it, of course. When I turned 18 I joined the US Air Force.

Fifteen left behind on a forward air control post On this island five miles oft the Cambodian coast.

Our lights are all gone and our visions impaired. It’s so dark at night except for the parachute fl ares.

Our mortars are thumping and tracers are flying. My heart double pumping there’s somebody dying.

Bullets reach a target, may not be what you think. Its war for Christmas, we went over the brink.

A hundred yards past the airstrip that night, The enemy was trying to get in close for a fight.

Back in the world, “Silent Night” they were singing When our mortars took out the gifts they were bringing.

Than came the sound of secondary explosions. I just put it away and forgot those emotions.

But now its all finished with, over and done. In spite of the dying, no peace has been won.

Is peace on Earth just some words in a speech? Or could it be something war veterans might teach?

JIM HALE

Kingston