As a people, we should walk like Christians
EDITOR:
As a 79-year-old man, I have seen much in this great country of ours.
When I was 17, I wondered where compassion was as I watched on the small black-and-white television — I watched as Blacks were beaten with clubs, hosed down with high-pressure hoses, thrown into jail for just standing up for the Declaration of Independence.
We hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights. That among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness — that to secure these rights governments are instituted among men, deriving their powers from the consent of the governed.
There were slave owners who signed the Declaration, but in doing so they laid the foundation for a nation that would become the greatest on Earth.
There have always been struggles. The U.S. stood on faith, but in my youth, I wondered where my fellow Christians were. George Wallace ran for president declaring, “Segregation today, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever.”
It’s a speech of hatred, but Wallace received many votes until he was wounded by a would-be assassin, and his final years were filled with pain.
The “Critical Race Theory” — we can never deny our past. Television is a broadcaster of history. Communist have erased their negative history, denying their citizenry [knowledge] of what they have done. North Korea is the most-repressive government on Earth. Do we want to follow in [its] footsteps?
Compassion, what have we instigated today?
Demigod, there is only one God to follow and [our] judicial system is based on this God.
We tore our nation apart once on the issue of slavery; 700,000 lives lost, and for what? Today there has been cast forth that there should be another civil war, and in reality, there wouldn’t be a nation.
If we really are a Christian nation, we should live as a Christian nation. There is no red or blue, only one nation standing together.
Our elections have been what holds a democracy together. Our election has been tested over and over and yet some are willing to cast their lot with one man rather than the country.
There are so many youths and they can only [wonder] what Christianity really is. The people on the southern border are almost all fleeing from persecution and looking for a way to freedom.
There are solutions in trade. [After] NAFTA, trading partners of the U.S., Mexico, and Canada, was signed, the standard of living started to rise, and the large corporations shut down their manufacturing in Mexico and moved it to Malaysia.
We are all immigrants. We helped settle our nation by starving the Native Americans. We owe it to all people to walk as Jesus would walk. We need an example to walk as Christians and set the example that we stand as a nation, we all people, and that is our nation.
Dan Hicks
Norris