God's Side
The following was a "letter-to-the-editor" published as a response to an earlier letter in the Courier Post, a Southern NJ Newspaper. I thought it really reached into the heart of the matter regarding God and his relationship with those who think that He is ONLY on THEIR side, thus he cannot be on anyone else's side. I believe this letter says what most of us are thinking: God is the God of us all and loves us all as we love Him. It seems to me that it doesn't matter what religion one is or what one believes. In God's eyes, we are all special and yet all the same.
The South Jersey Courier Post, August 26, 2004
I must express my vehement disagreement with letter "Not on God's side,"
(Letters, Aug 7). I am not sure what God the writer claims Kerry is not "with."
I worship a Christian God, and John Kerry's views are overwhelmingly on the side
of my God. President Bush, however, consistently pushes a corporate agenda that
undermines my religious values and the well-being of most Americans. Would Jesus
Christ teach us the virtues of a health care system that reaps obscene profits
for insurance companies while providing sometimes inadequate, always expensive
care to participants and is inaccessible to more than 40 million Americans?
Would Jesus support Bush's cutting of the Head Start program that has helped our
poorest youth succeed? And what "God" is Bush with when he eases anti-pollution
measures, resulting in profits for his wealthy campaign contributors and more
asthmatic and cancer-suffering children?
The writer paradoxically decries Kerry both for being "anti-life" and for
opposing the death penalty in most cases. Maybe the writer's God supports
government-sanctioned murder through a flawed justice system known to send
innocents - mostly poor and African-American - to death row.
I am afraid the writer, like others, has fallen victim to Republicans'
obfuscation of what values really are. They denounce a woman's right to control
her unborn fetus (not baby) in order to blind voters to their policies that
support corporate greed, which slowly kills millions of Americans each year
through poverty, pollution, etc.
FRANK KANTHER
Haddon Heights