Real Christians don’t question Regarding
the Viewpoint submission, “Bible preaches multitude of
conflicting ideas” (Daily Bruin, Dec. 3): As a Christian, I
was highly offended and enraged by this article. Not only was the
religion questioned, but it was also mocked and disrespected.
Openly finding flaws in Christianity and going to the length of
comparing God with Hitler seems more than a constructive argument.
Furthermore, it seems very interesting to me that the only religion
being openly ridiculed in the Daily Bruin is this religion. How
come there is no questioning commentary on Judaism or Islam? If I
wrote an article titled “Why Judaism is crap” ““
just as an example ““ not only do I believe that it would not
be published, but if it were, I would probably be called an
anti-Semite. Indeed that would be the thing that should happen to
me; one should not write such articles, even if it is of their
opinion. Yes, one is entitled to freedom of speech, but one is not
entitled to disrespect and put-down. I am completely offended by
this man’s opinion and I am offended by the fact that the
Bruin would publish this. And in regard to his actual argument,
most of his quotations were from the Old Testament (the Torah),
which Christians are taught not to follow any longer, hence the
focus on the New Testament. Secondly, he seems to have found an
interesting paradox: if God was all-good, all-knowing, and
all-powerful, he would be creating to destroy, creating a
contradiction. But he seems to overlook the rest of the Book. If he
wants to look at it through Christian perspective, he is also not
supposed to question. The Bible says do not question His word for
we cannot comprehend it, it is not of our world. Bourne, sorry to
break this to you, but you are not the next revolutionary hero and
what you have said has been said a thousand times over.
Disrespecting and ridiculing a religion is immoral, and I, like all
Christians, will not take it. As Christians we should stand up. If
this were an article about Judaism or Islam, those communities
would be on the attack very quickly; we should unite in the same
way.
Haig Goenjian First-year Undeclared
Learn opposite view to better own argument In
response to Russell Bourne’s submission, “Bible
preaches multitude of conflicting ideas” (Daily Bruin, Dec.
3), his viewpoint presented, to say the least, a terrible argument.
I do not want to get into why and how bad it was because it would
take me forever to respond to such a naive attempt to belittle
religion, God and Christianity. However, I would make one
suggestion to Bourne: try finding more facts that back your
argument rather than throwing in “out of context” Bible
quotes. To hone a stronger argument, you must educate yourself on
the other side of the argument as much as possible to make your
article as a credible, opinionated source. As a UCLA alum, I wonder
how some people can write such things in one of the best college
written publications in the country.
Aaron Whitfield Class of 2000