The American Spectator

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Not So Sharpton

4.12.07 @ 12:01AM

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IN DEFENSE OF THE RELIGIOUS RIGHT
Re: Abe Grossman's letter (under "UFO Seitzing") in Reader Mail's Down on the Pharma:

It has always been puzzling that many such as Mr. Grossman in the TAS letter section go out of their way to lob a few fireballs at conservative Christians and their dapper attire in blue suits and flag lapel pins. What is it about these intelligent people who embrace philosophical materialism so tightly that they feel the need to cast aspersions on those who are told are less gifted in the smarts department? People all over the world believe all sorts of things. Why get all worked up because some people who are obviously outside your social circle believe that the earth is only 4 thousand years old and that what exists now is how is always has been? As far as it goes, haven't you already won that battle?

For all their faults, whatever "conservative Christians" believe is less a function of what they believe about themselves than about what they believe about their God. These Christians couldn't care less about themselves being at the center of the universe than that they miraculously are the object of their loving God's concern. Why many intelligent people assume visitors from Mars or some more distant world would undermine the faith of these folk displays a lack of trying to understand "conservative Christians" as they understand themselves.

I am not a "conservative Christian" by your lights -- and they wouldn't have me. Yet, as I received the lessons of the catechism, I noticed even as a ten year old that neither the Apostle's nor the Nicene creeds said anything about men from Mars, the placement of the Sun to the earth, or the age of the world. That is because the Word of God isn't about any of that. The first chapter of the Gospel of John literally states that the Word pitched his tent "among us". No one actually believes "tent pitching" was the real import of those words. They speak volumes about the love of God. Only a radical materialism could believe empty space or vaguely earthly distant planets have anything to say about that.
-- Michael Dooley
Indianapolis, Indiana

NO MORE VIAGRA COMMERCIALS
Re: Letters under "Bitter Medicine" in Reader Mail's Down on the Pharma:

I always notice when anyone talks about the drug companies, they stress the high R&D costs. If these stupid companies would stop all their advertising and let the doctors prescribe, I'll bet they would save as much money as actual R&D.
-- Judy Barrett

Letter to the Editor

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