Letters to the Editor 05/23/2007

To the Editor:

Tom Bergeron's first letter to the editor made fun of Christians for their belief. His second letter ridiculed me for believing in an "utterly unbelievable, simplistic fairy tale about an invisible, all powerful super-being."

At first I wrote this guy off then heard he is a professor at WOU, so this letter became a must. A college professor mocking people for their faith and values!

The Bible says, "A fool says in his heart there is no God."

There is absolutely no intellectual honesty in saying someone you don't agree with doesn't exist or that the Bible or God is a fairy tale because He condemns your lifestyle. To re-label atheism as intellectualism still leaves you lost. To try and call evolution "science" and creationism "religion" denies that either requires a faith system to believe in them.

I sat in the halls of academia, earned my degree, even graduated in the top 10 percent of my field. I listened to professors like Mr. Bergeron who were clueless to the real world. I even believed in Evolution. I read the "Origin of the Species" by Darwin. He was a sexist and a racist, down on Blacks and women.

I found it took more blind faith to believe in Evolution than Creation. The account in Genesis gives names, where they lived, who their kids were, how long they lived. In comparison Darwin's book is filled with "possibly" this and "maybe" that.

In my 30 years of Christian ministry in this community, I have done more funerals than I care to remember, but I have never sat at the bedside of a dying person and had them tell me they were proud they lived their life an atheist. We will all find out if God is real one second after we breathe our last.

Ed Beacham

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To the Editor:

I was very happy and relieved to read that the old Forest Service residence adjacent to the fire hall will be relocated and spared an uncertain fate (The Nugget, May 16).

It was heartening to know that the new owners, Jim Guild and Nunzie Gould, are committed to preserving and protecting the structure, as well as exploring appropriate uses for the future. Change presents significant challenges to a community's core identity. Older buildings, as physical representations of the past, play a vital role in sustaining our shared heritage.

John Hayes

President, Sisters Country Historical Society