Dear Editor:
I was both saddened, and concerned about the number of letters from supposed “Christians” in the paper last week.
The amount of dismissive and lecturing about what the writers supposed was Christianity, was not in keeping with what I, as a minister’s child and a student of many years of learning from my father’s pulpit, believe.
“Judge not, that you be not judged. For with the judgment you pronounce you will be judged, and with the measure you use it will be measured to you,” said Jesus. Yet there were a number of letters that did just that.
“Love your enemies, and do good, and lend, expecting nothing in return.” Yet there was not much love present in the letters I read. And lastly I will quote from the marriage vows of my wife and I.
“Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never ends.”
It seems we have a number of “Christians” who don’t seem to want to follow the tenets of the religion they purport to espouse.
Michael McPhee,
Harriston