Letter to the Editor 3

Feebleminded Thinking

Allow me to come to the defense of the fellow whose article was printed last week about the belief in God.

In this country, there’s a huge Christian majority. They’re the majority in every club, class, and job. They shove Christmas, Easter, and Lent down everyone’s throats. Yet, like all majorities, they do not realize how much they control. They just get angry when they feel that their authority is being encroached. There IS a Christian majority. And it refuses to listen to any form of dissent.

Dissent, in this case Mr. Thompson’s article, did not attack Christians as feebleminded and dumb. It attacked Christianity and the majority of the population that dictates life for the rest of us (the point of the article, if you’ll recall, was that of a public flag being flown half-mast in the wake of the death of a religious figure). That people took offense to this speaks more to their mindset than to his.

The controversy in all of this was in the approach. A Christian will start off with the assumption that there is an omniscient, omnipotent, omni benevolent (all-knowing, all-powerful, all-good) God who tests people’s faith. A Freethinker starts off assuming nothing and attempting to prove the Gods exist from that.

Both are next to impossible. What one chooses to believe is his own prerogative. All we ask is for you to be considerate and not force us to defend our positions every time they come up. After all, Atheists and Agnostics aren’t supposing anything, much less anything that’s flawed.

In closing, I have a mental exercise for all of you theists out there: is there any set of circumstances, any event that could possibly happen, that would make you stop believing in God?

Whereas if you asked a non-theist for a situation in which he would believe in the Gods, you’d receive at least dozen excellent answers. Our beliefs are scientific. Whether that is a virtue is up to the reader. Just don’t use the Bible to decide.

Frank J. Jagear

Ha ha. I figured they wouldn’t print it under my name, so I used my friend’s. I hope he doesn’t mind…