Letter of March 11 was blasphemy

To the Editor:

My Webster’s dictionary gives this definition for the word blasphemy: “The act of insulting or showing contempt or lack of reverence for God.” The letter to the editor from Eric Nase of Mitchell on March 11 fits the description.

Eric’s letter uses a very successful technique employed often by Satan, the father of lies — the mixing in some truth with much that is false. Much of the letter is blasphemy I cannot repeat. Some true statements follow. Eric says, “His father had forsaken him (Jesus). Jesus was indeed forsaken by God the Father when he cried out from the cross, “My God, My God, why hast thou forsaken me?”

Eric states, “Unspeakable are the trials Jesus had to endure.” That is so true. Eric has the good news of the gospel in this next statement, “His son was crucified, we should be thankful to Him; we have been saved from our sins.” I wish I were better at stating that truth to my friends and neighbors. We all need to hear it again and again.

In his last paragraph, Eric writes that he will strive to go to the place where this God is not present. It seems that he is right on course to arrive. But God is merciful and the forgiveness won by Jesus is for all who repent and believe in him. No matter how evil we have been, when we are led by the power of the Holy Spirit to see our helpless condition, there is forgiveness and Heaven through Jesus for Eric and me.

On a related but separate subject: If a letter like this came to the paper vilifying the mayor of Mitchell, or the president, or a retired teacher like myself, would it still have been published? I cannot imagine reading this in the paper in the 1950s when I was a youngster.

Vernon Kraft, Delmont

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