January 19, 2021 at 4:27 p.m.
Let light of truth shine in
Letters to the editor
Let light of truth shine in
To the editor:
On Jan. 6, as I watched the events unfold before me on my television screen, a tsunami of emotion swept over me.
As a United States Army veteran, I was at once saddened, heartbroken and enraged. A feckless, ignorant demagogue succeeded in tearing the scab off the most grievous wound ever inflicted upon America's heart.
"The potential for political violence was a proverbial river of gasoline, waiting for a demagogue like Trump to drop the lighted match,” said the editorial board of the New York Times.
The lies of a charlatan and a conman had come to bear fruit in a mob educated in ignorance and girded with misinformation and steeled in the abdication to the truth.
As Richard Kreitner said in his book, "Break It Up: Secession, Division and the Secret History of America's Imperfect Union,” “America has always been united only in name.”
I learned long ago that what I was taught in my United States history classes was basically a truckload of bovine excrement.
Now some may argue that I hate America. That could not be further from the truth. I gave three years of my life to protect the ideals I believed were true. I will, to my dying breath, fight to protect, from our enemies both foreign and domestic, our Constitution.
I won't, however, submit to the lie of America's innocence.
I will do what I can to make America a more just, equitable and free country for all its citizens.
America's vision was noble but, unfortunately, lost in the pride and prejudice of some. I am forever an optimist and I truly believe it lies within our marrow, the will to become what that vision promised. I also believe we can work together, toward that more perfect union.
The Washington Post's newspaper banner reads: "Democracy Dies in Darkness.” We can choose to live in the light of knowledge and truth or in the darkness of lies and ignorance.
As we use to sing in Sunday school: "This little light of mine, I'm gonna let it shine.”
Let your light shine and vanquish the darkness.
Michael Kinser
Jesus is the only savior
To the editor:
As I watch TV and listen to all of the hype about what happened at the end of President Donald Trump’s service to our country, my heart is saddened. Donald J. Trump did many great things for our county and all Americans benefited in some way for the things he accomplished. It is hard for me to believe that his accomplishments are so soon forgotten.
Approximately one million protesters came to Washington, D.C., hoping that with their presence they might change the outcome of the election. But many knew it would not change anything but they wanted their support for President Trump to be known.
Most were there to show support but others had come with the intent to cause trouble and a few hundred were caught up in the mob. I remember another time in history when men were caught in a mob — it was on the day some leaders of the time wanted Jesus to die and many joined in the shout “Crucify Him.”
Just one week earlier they had marched in a crowd and wanted Jesus crowned king but many from that crowd wanted him to die.
I wonder, “Are we like the crowd that straddled both sides of the fence?” This should never be.
Trump was just a man, a man with good intentions, but he was never to be America’s savior. Most supporters that showed up Jan. 6 did not come with the intent to cause violence (which led to innocent people dying and many others injured). We the people should not blame anyone except the people that fell in with mob rule, because if anyone of us was in their shoes we could do the same (follow the mob).
This county is almost split down the middle on our desires for America — some are good but many are bad. If we do not step away from the horror of this rhetoric and begin to call upon the true Savior for America (Jesus Christ) our country will surely forfeit freedoms we have all known and enjoyed. Our hope is only in one Savior and that is the one who humbled himself and allowed the mob to have Him crucified some 2,000 years ago. But that wasn’t His end. He rose from death to live forever. (He is the only Savior we should look to for our help in America.)
For any non-believer, just read about this man in the greatest history book ever written — the Bible.
Diana Stults
Bryant
On Jan. 6, as I watched the events unfold before me on my television screen, a tsunami of emotion swept over me.
As a United States Army veteran, I was at once saddened, heartbroken and enraged. A feckless, ignorant demagogue succeeded in tearing the scab off the most grievous wound ever inflicted upon America's heart.
"The potential for political violence was a proverbial river of gasoline, waiting for a demagogue like Trump to drop the lighted match,” said the editorial board of the New York Times.
The lies of a charlatan and a conman had come to bear fruit in a mob educated in ignorance and girded with misinformation and steeled in the abdication to the truth.
As Richard Kreitner said in his book, "Break It Up: Secession, Division and the Secret History of America's Imperfect Union,” “America has always been united only in name.”
I learned long ago that what I was taught in my United States history classes was basically a truckload of bovine excrement.
Now some may argue that I hate America. That could not be further from the truth. I gave three years of my life to protect the ideals I believed were true. I will, to my dying breath, fight to protect, from our enemies both foreign and domestic, our Constitution.
I won't, however, submit to the lie of America's innocence.
I will do what I can to make America a more just, equitable and free country for all its citizens.
America's vision was noble but, unfortunately, lost in the pride and prejudice of some. I am forever an optimist and I truly believe it lies within our marrow, the will to become what that vision promised. I also believe we can work together, toward that more perfect union.
The Washington Post's newspaper banner reads: "Democracy Dies in Darkness.” We can choose to live in the light of knowledge and truth or in the darkness of lies and ignorance.
As we use to sing in Sunday school: "This little light of mine, I'm gonna let it shine.”
Let your light shine and vanquish the darkness.
Michael Kinser
Jesus is the only savior
To the editor:
As I watch TV and listen to all of the hype about what happened at the end of President Donald Trump’s service to our country, my heart is saddened. Donald J. Trump did many great things for our county and all Americans benefited in some way for the things he accomplished. It is hard for me to believe that his accomplishments are so soon forgotten.
Approximately one million protesters came to Washington, D.C., hoping that with their presence they might change the outcome of the election. But many knew it would not change anything but they wanted their support for President Trump to be known.
Most were there to show support but others had come with the intent to cause trouble and a few hundred were caught up in the mob. I remember another time in history when men were caught in a mob — it was on the day some leaders of the time wanted Jesus to die and many joined in the shout “Crucify Him.”
Just one week earlier they had marched in a crowd and wanted Jesus crowned king but many from that crowd wanted him to die.
I wonder, “Are we like the crowd that straddled both sides of the fence?” This should never be.
Trump was just a man, a man with good intentions, but he was never to be America’s savior. Most supporters that showed up Jan. 6 did not come with the intent to cause violence (which led to innocent people dying and many others injured). We the people should not blame anyone except the people that fell in with mob rule, because if anyone of us was in their shoes we could do the same (follow the mob).
This county is almost split down the middle on our desires for America — some are good but many are bad. If we do not step away from the horror of this rhetoric and begin to call upon the true Savior for America (Jesus Christ) our country will surely forfeit freedoms we have all known and enjoyed. Our hope is only in one Savior and that is the one who humbled himself and allowed the mob to have Him crucified some 2,000 years ago. But that wasn’t His end. He rose from death to live forever. (He is the only Savior we should look to for our help in America.)
For any non-believer, just read about this man in the greatest history book ever written — the Bible.
Diana Stults
Bryant
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