Letters to the editor

What if Bible says exactly what God really means?
It was a game of the imagination that we played as kids. It didn’t have a name, but we all got into it. Someone would say, “What if I was the richest man in the world?
Someone else would come back with, “What if I was a better quarterback than Johnny Unitas of the Baltimore Colts?
Then someone else would say, “What if I could break Roger Maris’ home run record?”
And it would go on and on.
What if we played the game today? What if the Bible really is the true word of God? What if the way we answer the historic Wesleyan questions really is important to God?
What if Jesus really said what he meant and meant what he said? What if Jesus really is coming back?
What if it really is God who adds “to the church daily those who are being saved?” What if God really means that if we are lukewarm, “he will vomit us out of his mouth”? What if we really took the General Rules seriously?
Ah, it’s just a child’s game. No big deal! Or is it?
Pat Glazener-Cooney
Goldthwaite

Why must we tear down fundamentalist Christians?
Jim Boland and Dan Adams insisted I am wrong to differentiate Muslim from Christian fundamentalists.
Mr. Boland (“Christian fundamentalists do try to legislate views,” Feb, 22) digs through centuries to Galileo, the Inquisition, and the Salem Witch trials to show how Christian fundamentalists legislate doctrines. He pointed to only one attempt to legislate a religious doctrine in the last 100 years: teaching evolution and/or creationism in the schools. That is hardly the same as sharia law.
Mr. Adams (“All humans can regress, commit astounding acts,” Feb. 22) laid the blame for black slavery, racism, homophobia, and persecution of children, the environment and women at the feet of fundamentalist Christians. However, in none of these cases did the reason for those social ills come about because of fundamentalist Christianity. They resulted from human sin.
Why is there this incessant desire to tear away at our Christian brothers and sisters who have a fundamentalist view of the Bible while remaining willfully blind and mute regarding the very real and present danger of fundamentalist Muslims taking seriously the clear and literal teachings of the Quran?
J. David Trawick
San Antonio