Letters
Evil not banal
In the last paragraph of Francis Hill's article (November Interim), an unusual phrase is used to describe evil. It is called banal. According to my Webster's dictionary, banal means trite, commonplace or boring. Is evil boring?
Our baptismal vows prompt us to reject the glamour of evil, not its dullness. Aquinas and other theologians say evil is an absence, a void, a negative of being. And yet it seduces. If successful, evil has the power to cast souls into hell. Souls are of infinite value, so the stakes are high. Maybe one of the torments of hell is excruciating boredom for all eternity.
Lise Angelin
Toronto, Ont.
Modern logic, the Bible and God's love
The letter in the October Interim "On accepting modernity", seems to suggest that old-fashioned morality is intellectually inferior, but God does not change and His morality does not change. The writer's statement that morality has to be experienced and cannot be taught would mean one would have to experience homosexual activity to know if it was wrong or that one would have to have an abortion to know if it were wrong. Well, Jesus didn't know about your modern logic. He taught morality.
The letter writer says we need to grow up if we take the Bible literally. Well I would prefer not to grow up then (and stay correct). The writer suggests that sex is the only way we can experience God's love. Has she not read of Christ's dying for us? Has she never received His forgiveness? Has she never looked at the creation God has given us or eaten of its abundance?
No, God doesn't abhor His own creation, just the way sinful man misuses it.
Fred Raaflaub
Magnetawan, Ont.
Is the CHP electable?
Mr. DeBoer made comment (Letters, November) guessing as to what was behind Day's "reasoning." He also commented regarding the "majority" having rendered their "verdict." I was never questioned on this issue, nor was an effort made by the Liberal Party, to contact the "majority" of citizens regarding their views on the subject.
I joined the Reform Party, in 1988, but I am at variance with the current "views" of the Alliance Party. I do not condone the use of the unborn for genetic experimentation. Nor do I believe that, since Stockwell is a Christian, he "allows" for such, either, but that does not mean that the party does not.
The Alliance Party has become even more "watered-down" than its predecessor, the Reform. I had my "druthers" with them, but even more now.
Nevertheless, that party, which had the only hope, however faint, of forming a government, is the only one which has any chance as an alternative to the far left-leaning Liberals. If I thought that the Christian Heritage Party had the slightest chance of becoming "viable," I would gladly support them, since I also, am a Christian.
Raymond E Parker,
Minnedosa, Man.
Media equates pro-life & terrorism
Talk about blatant politically correct opportunism and self-importance by a bunch of middle-aged, feminist, never-weres. The Globe and Mail and Toronto Star have been tripping over themselves of late to turn hatred from Bin Laden terrorists to hatred of the pro-life cause. The real terrorists and control freaks aren't those Muslim extremists playing hide and seek in far off caves, no its those Christian pro-lifers.
The Los Angeles Times ran a story supplied by Planned Parenthood stating that a specific, known pro-life group had sent over 200 hoax anthrax parcels to abortuaries with return addresses. "Who knows when they might send the real thing," they cried. But, as National Report so wryly put it, what's the problem Los Angeles Times, and Planned non Parenthood? ... "So have them arrested."
Given, that in all the numbers and varieties of nuts there are in the world for every cause and every religion and non religion and even given that some of them may even be pro-life, what is a real societal concern? One, (and don't kid yourself) is that these feminists and media outlets would want nothing less than to paint and equate anyone who even dares to hold a public pro- life view or opinion as a terrorist mentality and a genuine terrorist physical threat to their cause. Political correctness can be a very extreme religion in itself.
Paul Gordon
Marmora, Ont.
Difficult to fix problems at UN
I find Mr. Di Rocco's article ("... And restoring the UN," October Interim), though written sincerely, is a little too optimistic to say the least. He has some good suggestions, but who wants to salvage this one "world government" in waiting? The problems are so numerous and egregious at the UN that there would have to be a total renovation - better still, a whole new organization founded.
There are non-government organizations (NGOs) that are themselves the power behind the UN's throne. These organizations would have to changed. Could you see International Planned "Barrenhood" Federation changing? Not in this life. Mr. Di Rocco says in the last paragraph, "... we need to be vigilant and prevent its (UN's) being hijacked by groups." I think it has already been hijacked by the NGOs. What the pro-life forces are attempting to do is slow down the UN's maniacal plunge into abortion, radical feminism and authoritarianism.
Bill Johnston,
Dartmouth, N.S.
