Letter to the Editor

Dear Editor,

How one American feels about it.

In response to the editorial titled "How the Brethren feel about it" [Oct. 18], of course it is no surprise that the Brethren Church, once again, as they did when this country suffered one of its greatest losses on 9-11, chooses to be on the wrong side.

To describe our president, George W. Bush, as a terrorist, is at the least insulting and inflammatory, and finally, a flagrant misrepresentation of this Christian man's character and motives.

Would this church have espoused their pacifist views if we had known beforehand that the World Trade towers would be blown up?

Probably. Perhaps they could have sat down with the real terrorist who brought this devastation on an unsuspecting American citizenry, and "pacified" them out of their plans.

Probably they could have also talked the Japanese out of attacking Pearl Harbor, and Hitler out of killing hundreds of thousands of Jews. Certainly, they were not willing to defend their homeland then, so why would we expect them to be willing to do so now?

Thank God, as the article mentioned, there are young church members who know a real threat to our beloved country when we see it, and do not want to sit by and see more of their fellow Americans, or perhaps themselves slaughtered by a demonic enemy who knows no sense of fair play, honor, or the value of life, any life, including their own people.

We can hope that this new blood, which seems so desperately needed in this church, as this article freely admits, "whose numbers have diminished" may attribute their decline to this arcane, and disturbing attitudes which do not serve either their members or the American public in this current, and dangerous environment in which we live.

To do nothing is to risk everything. To not protect that which is so precious to us, and a living example to mankind-our freedoms, is insanity.

Linda Bearman
Administrative Assistant, Registrar's Office