Don’t justify the genocide
Three hundred Lakota
Sioux were massacred at Wounded Knee by our military. The Trail of Tears was an ethnic cleansing of the Cherokee Nation. They were forced off their land to migrate to Oklahoma 1,200 miles away, a forced death march in which 6,000 succumbed to hunger, disease, cold and exposure. Our military “gifted” blankets infected with smallpox, murdering 150,000 Native Americans.
Americans have torn apart African families, sold into slavery, imprisoned on plantations, many whipped, raped, lynched and beaten to death.
These victims were stripped of their dignity and humanity.
Will we label the acts of Nat Turner, a fiery Christian preacher, and his followers, as terrorists or freedom fighters rebelling against their oppressors?
America is guilty of the ongoing extermination of Palestinians as we send bombs and billions to Israel. Have we not yet learned from these past sins that all men are created equal and are endowed by the Creator with inalienable rights?
Who is Hamas? They are Palestinians who have been born into a concentration camp built by Israelis. They have suffered their entire lives under the brutality of Zionism. Before Oct. 7, Israel had imprisoned 11,000, murdered 130,000 and 750,000 became refugees running for their lives. Hamas are Palestinian resisters, freedom fighters, battling Israel’s brutality, oppression, imprisonment and apartheid. Negotiations have always been thwarted by Israel, which has never wanted a two-state solution.
Do Israelis have the right to murder those who fight for their freedom and to murder 40,000 civilians, including 15,500 children, and wound 70,000?
This is not a war, it’s Israel’s justification for ethnic cleansing. Israel is starving 2.4 million Palestinians as Israelis block four miles of food trucks awaiting entry while continuing to drop two-ton bombs.
If we fail to repent, the Lord will surely punish America for our grievous sins.
Mary Mason, Murphy
Nothing but whole truth
Many American churches have lost their first love. The whole truth about the gospel of Christ is being watered down by pastors, priests and laymen, who stand behind the pulpit and preach about how wonderful God is and how we are to treat one another with love and respect.
While these things are important in our walk with the Lord so is the truth about the whole message that never reaches the ears of the congregation. Why is hell never taught from the pulpit, or the white throne judgment seat where sinners
will be judged for their disobedience to God’s commands? The book of Revelation is hardly expounded upon, like it was some type of plague which it talks about.
The reason is church leadership doesn’t want to rock the boat. It doesn’t want to get the horse before the cart, so it tells its listeners the good parts of the Bible so people will feel good when they leave the house of worship, yet the whole truth of God’s wrath is overlooked like no big deal.
God loves everyone and all will go to heaven because of His great love for mankind. Here I insert a Hebrew word called “hogwash.”
Talking about hell and the wrath of God may not be pleasing to one’s ear and may chase folks away, but Jesus Christ always spoke the whole truth, whether people like it or not. This is why they killed Him.
Forgive us, God for not wanting to hear the whole truth, but instead settle for second best. God help us to be worthy of your calling in our lives, and may we be bold in our witness to others along our journey to tell the whole truth, nothing but the truth, in Jesus’ precious and loving Name, the Name above all names.
Frank Combs, Blairsville, Ga.
Closer look at Joe Biden
The United States supposedly has a representative democracy, meaning the people choose governing officials through elections; hopefully a fair and honest one. There are many features in our democracy. The Obama-Biden administration has violated many of these features. My argument is what will it cost us “not” to elect former President Donald Trump.
There were seven states – Colorado, Arizona, California, Maine, Michigan, Minnesota and Rhode Island, all of which are governed by Trump-hating Democrats – hoping to keep Trump off the presidential ballot. Does that sound like democracy, a fair justice system, to you?
The Democratic administration tried to force Obamacare on you, they tried to force COVID shots on you, they tried to force masks on you, they want your gas stove, gas furnace and gas vehicle. They want rid of cattle – they don’t pass the emissions test, so instead of steak they want you to eat fake meat – they want rid of nuclear power, they want you to own an electric vehicle, they want you to go solar, they want rid of your guns and I want rid of them.
Did you watch Pinocchio’s sorry State of the Union address? Everything that comes out of that man’s mouth is a lie. If Biden said, “Last week, the sun came up in the West,” some people would believe it.
He claimed he reduced the deficit over $1 trillion in 2023; in reality, it went up $4 trillion. Have you ever watched Jim Carrey’s movie Liar Liar? He has to go one day without lying.
How about it, Biden, one day without lying. The only way he could pass the test is if he took a 24-hour nap.
The United States is living on a credit card. And he claims to have done more for the United States than any president.
Perry Reece, Hayesville
Does country need a choice?
Regardless of your political affiliation or beliefs, some may secretly wish for an alternative choice to their party’s nominee.
It seems half the country hates the other half, as well as each opposing nominee. Yet, the political machinery of each party and its mega-donors are foisting two candidates upon the country who lack the ability to unify the country and bring some consensus among the American people.
We are the freest country on the planet, yet it seems we have lost control over the process of how we choose those who run for president. Most of each party’s leadership refuses to acknowledge the glaring flaws
in each of their candidates and are blindly following their party’s line. Is there no one in either party with the courage to step up and offer a different choice?
“Politicians are thought of as people who will say or do anything to get elected or to gain power. A statesman is someone who does everything for the common good of the people he or she represents. To call a person a statesman is a mark of high regard for that person’s integrity.”
Where are the statesmen today? And if one should step forward, will they be heard or just drowned out by the political cacophony of our electoral process?
Robert Karl, Murphy