Letters to the Editor
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Published Letters: 49 Editor's Choice: 9
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Good grief, Salonistas.
[Read the article: My Christian daughter says I'm going to hell]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The poor guy has his daughter one or two weekends a month.
Cary is dead on, 100%, with his advice. You don't encourage rational discourse on any topic by bonking someone over the head with a club. You make concessions, you show them you are being reasonable, and you approach their stance with carefully reasoned arguments. Not by screaming at them and begging them to give up something that is, perhaps, more dear to them in their hearts than even their earthly father's love.
She is just entering teenage years, just starting to enter a time where she is rebellious and should be seeking enlightenment. True spiritual sublimation comes via introspection and reflection, not Sunday school brainwashing. Let's also remember here that it is a parent's responsibility to morally program their children and instill in them their own beliefs and values. That's what parents are SUPPOSED to do, and that's what the child's mother has done.
I'm sorry, LW, that you are too pretentious and/or insecure in your beliefs to entertain your child in an exercise in reason/rationality by going to church with her. What do you think the outcome is going to be if you tell her she can't go to church? She's going to resent you and believe ever more fervently you're consigned to eternal damnation. Especially as she enters her teenage years. You're simply marginalizing yourself in her life.
True, if you go to church a few times she will probably become more insistent in her attempts to minister to you. But hopefully after going out to eat after church, you two can have rational conversations about what it means to have faith. If you're incapable of discussing religion and science with your daughter without descending into condescension and histrionics, you probably have no leg to stand on by calling Christians "irrational fundamentalists."
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Patriots schedule
[Read the article: King Kaufman's Sports Daily]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The Pats have the easiest schedule over the first half of the season of any team. I think much ado is being made of almost-nothing for these guys. Are they a great team? No doubt. But their points for/points against ratio isn't representative.
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Glen Greenwald = Michelle Malkin
[Read the article: Follow-up to the silence from the ADL regarding Fox News and right-wing talk radio]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Glen Greenwald and Michelle Malkin are cut from the same bolt of say-anything-to-keep-pageviews-high cloth. I can't stand reading either one of you disingenuous gasbags.
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I doubt this is a fake letter... I know someone just like this.
[Read the article: I'm cheating on my husband and loving it. Is that a problem?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I know this LW sounds completely over the top, but I know a woman just like her. And this woman inserted herself into my marriage in numerous ways and almost destroyed it.
She is a serial cheater. She feels no remorse. She knows it's wrong. She enjoys being a slut. But she wants to stay married.
Dimestore psychological analysis? She has extreme self-esteem issues, a fear of abandonment and, yes, I have used the term "sociopath" in reference to this woman before. She wants to stay married so people will approve of her, socially. She sleeps around behind her husband's back (though she recently inadvertently disclosed some of her nastiness to him) to assure herself that she's worth a damn. Sex is the only thing she has to offer. She's essentially an emotionless robot and struck me as a sociopath when recent events came to light.
Bottom line is that there's nothing to do or say with a remorseless "serial cheater" like this. Cary's letter was uncharacteristically brief and frank, and rightly so. There is only so much you can do with a waste of skin like this. If anything the letter was ripe for publishing from a purely journalistic sense: "Yes, dear reader, there are horrible people in this world."
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@Anonymous
[Read the article: The paranoid withdrawal fantasy]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I think you mean that she is smarter than you and I.
No, he meant "smarter than me and you."
"smarter than" in this particular instance requires an object. Between "me" and "I", "me" is the object.
Apparently he is smarter than you. =(
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Empiricism
[Read the article: The paranoid withdrawal fantasy]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I have never seen anyone or heard anyone in a men's public restroom engaging in sex.
I believe that this issue has been blown out of proportion.
Don't have a great grasp of statistics, huh?
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yikes
[Read the article: May we congratulate you on your divorce]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"Why are Americans such assholes?"
Speaking as an American, I would like to know the answer to this question as well.
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Morality
[Read the article: Mike Huckabee, on a wing and a prayer]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I'm so very embarassed that so many of my fellow Americans have no clue what "moral" means.
Moral is simply a code of right and wrong. Gov. Huckabee is 100% correct when he says that driving 85mph in a 55mph is immoral. It breaches the code of right and wrong agreed upon by the community. Saying behavior X is immoral is simply short hand for saying, "Our community [or legislative bodies in a republic such as ours] has held a referendum and agreed that behavior X goes against what we consider to be appropriate for residents of this community."
I say again -- Gov. Huckabee is correct that every law dictates morality. I think there's just a general opposition among the ignorant to the concept of right and wrong. However, legislators and political executives have no choice but to believe in the concept of morality. Otherwise we'd be living in an anarchy.
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Sheesh.
[Read the article: Mike Huckabee, on a wing and a prayer]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]It is moral to give money to charity.
It isn't the law to give money to charity.
It is immoral to lie to someone.
It isn't against the law to lie.
It is moral to treat your elders with respect.
It isn't the law to treat your elders with respect.
It is immoral to cheat on your wife.
It isn't illegal to cheat on your wife.
Morality and law are two very different things, and it shocks me that you seem to be unable to see the difference.
I don't even know where to start with this giant fallacy.
I suggest going to your local community college and enrolling in some 100-level philosophy, logic and perhaps law courses. You are deficient in your understanding of a great many things, friend.
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Drama.
[Read the article: I secretly hate myself]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The LW sounds like a drama queen. There are always two sides to a story. Drama queens -- thumbs down.