I should stop reading the "Letters to the editor"...
...I really should.
Because lately, they have started to annoy me. Whoever is picking which ones are printed is probably trying to be controversial or something, or trying to get opinions in, or there has been a flood of letters about two topics lately:
Topic one: Atheism. One person writes letters about how stupid believing in God is every other week...and I think he has his own strong belief, as stupid as belief is...he is a missionary, even. One for atheism. And not only because I am a devout Christian myself, I am angered at this.
Topic two (the one that ticks me off even more): Vegetarianism/Veganism (Don't know if that's even a word, but it has to be an -ism in my mind)
Nothing against people who choose for themselves not to eat meat. But the letter-writers in this category have even more pseudo-religious zest than the above-mentioned atheist missionary.
A group of Boy Scouts gives a charity barbecue and they serve meat there? That deserves, of course, no less than SIX letters being printed about how evil they are and how could they serve meat and they're all damned...yeah, how could they try to raise money for a good cause? Why don't they go and sit in front of the TV all day like kids their age should?
A politician says there should be free milk at school for children from poor families? Now that one deserves a letter about how evil it is to steal milk from cows, and how milk is responsible for everything bad, like ADHS, migraines, war, AIDS and the fact that we didn't have a white Christmas last year (okay, the last ones weren't in the letter, but you get the idea).
What annoys me most on both topics is the lack of tolerance. Because that's what the letter-writers don't have in my opinion.
Eat meat or don't, it's your choice. But let me eat what I want without condemning me.
Believe in God or don't, again, that's your choice. But if other people believe in something, don't ridicule them on a weekly basis.
I tolerate your decisions, why can't you tolerate mine (or anybody else's)?
I mean, if a politician or church representative tried to tell people what to do in such a way, they'd probably be booed off the stage, hit with overripe tomatoes and fired from their position.
Now, to balance out all the political and religious babbling, here's a photo from our lovely autumn forest that I took last week:
Because lately, they have started to annoy me. Whoever is picking which ones are printed is probably trying to be controversial or something, or trying to get opinions in, or there has been a flood of letters about two topics lately:
Topic one: Atheism. One person writes letters about how stupid believing in God is every other week...and I think he has his own strong belief, as stupid as belief is...he is a missionary, even. One for atheism. And not only because I am a devout Christian myself, I am angered at this.
Topic two (the one that ticks me off even more): Vegetarianism/Veganism (Don't know if that's even a word, but it has to be an -ism in my mind)
Nothing against people who choose for themselves not to eat meat. But the letter-writers in this category have even more pseudo-religious zest than the above-mentioned atheist missionary.
A group of Boy Scouts gives a charity barbecue and they serve meat there? That deserves, of course, no less than SIX letters being printed about how evil they are and how could they serve meat and they're all damned...yeah, how could they try to raise money for a good cause? Why don't they go and sit in front of the TV all day like kids their age should?
A politician says there should be free milk at school for children from poor families? Now that one deserves a letter about how evil it is to steal milk from cows, and how milk is responsible for everything bad, like ADHS, migraines, war, AIDS and the fact that we didn't have a white Christmas last year (okay, the last ones weren't in the letter, but you get the idea).
What annoys me most on both topics is the lack of tolerance. Because that's what the letter-writers don't have in my opinion.
Eat meat or don't, it's your choice. But let me eat what I want without condemning me.
Believe in God or don't, again, that's your choice. But if other people believe in something, don't ridicule them on a weekly basis.
I tolerate your decisions, why can't you tolerate mine (or anybody else's)?
I mean, if a politician or church representative tried to tell people what to do in such a way, they'd probably be booed off the stage, hit with overripe tomatoes and fired from their position.
Now, to balance out all the political and religious babbling, here's a photo from our lovely autumn forest that I took last week: