Foreign policy Christian principles

Press, 23 July 1986, Page 18

Foreign policy

Christian principles

Sir,—The inaccurate lyrical praises for Christianity are vain attempts to whitewash its long barbaric history. If we use the Christian principle of whitewashing as a 'datum, the Muhammedans are not responsible for Mohammedanism, the Hindus for Hinduism, nor the Communists for Communism. According to several encyclopaedias, Christendom and Christianity are one, in that Christians are the creators and sustainers of Christendom. To write that certain butchering historical events were not the responsibility of Christians is fraudulent. Catholics came within an ace of blowing up parliamentary Protestants in 1605. Protestants fought Catholics in the misnamed Thirty Years War. A staunch Catholic, Louis the Fourteenth, in collusion with the Pope, scrapped the Edict of Nantes in 1685 and ordered heresy hunts’ that resulted in over a million violent deaths for French men, women and children. Reference to slavery com-

pletely ignores that the Church actually supported it far in excess of two centuries.—Yours, etc.,

ARTHUR MAY. July 18, 1986.

Sir, — Arthur May is the one who believes in only one book of the Bible, concentrating on a God of vengeance, depicted by its Jewish historians. The same people refused to accept the more merciful God of the New Testament. Jews do not believe in the Blessed Trinity, a doctrine incomprehensible to Arthur May, accepted by Christians. I should not care for Arthur May’s unpleasant creation either. If man has free will and chooses war, God does not abrogate his will to stop war. Suddenly, those who have ignored Him, His ministers and churches, start praying; the same ask for baptism, marriage and burial. Claims of God’s partiality are false. God’s Commandments are for all time and all people; when they are ignored man is in trouble and starts abusing the God who gave them, asking for sanctions on others while he goes free. — Yours, etc.,

V. H. ANDERSON. July 21, 1986.