A response to Kelly Scoles’ letter.

Hello again Kelly.

I’m just not interested in the Dr. Phil-Trump discussion. But, just a word about state’s rights.
As you know our federal Constitution is the Supreme law of the United States. Can you tell me just how shyster DAs, judges, and lawyers, managed to abuse federal criminal law and procedure, by defiling Lady Justice to produce a monstrous hybrid state criminal conviction of Trump? A nationwide investigation should be undertaken to identify all participants in this lengthy, unlawful persecution of Donald Trump, to disbar and otherwise punish these Fifth Column Democrats.

Just an aside: Do you still maintain that Hunter Biden’s laptop is unreal? (was in the courtroom). Do you still think it was a Russian fake? Do you now believe that the Biden family has, for decades, traded US foreign policy favors for tens of millions of dollars from our deadliest enemies? Do you accept the following facts:

“The Biden family business model is built on Joe Biden’s political career and connections with Joe Biden as the ‘chairman of the board.’ Biden family members sold access for profit around the world to the detriment of American interests. If President Biden is compromised by deals with foreign adversaries and they are impacting his decision making, this is a threat to national security.” (Chairman James Comer, Committee on Oversight and Accountability).

As for the Dolly Parton comments: Ericka Andersen is apparently a Christian, who expressed (as Christians are urged to do) a defense of her faith. She should not have retracted, if she actually did so. From the first century homosexuality (and abortion) has been identified as a serious sin, which jeopardizes our eternal salvation. No one is compelled to believe this, just as no one is compelled to believe in Heaven, Hell, or Purgatory, (and billions don’t). This is a major distinction between the Judeo-Christian faith and tradition and that of the Muslim faith, which does compel belief – for everyone.

Dolly does not get “a pass”. Her disbelief is as real as her understanding of the results of “putting 10lbs of mud in a 5lb bag, - things don't always go well.”

And, by the way, Christ’s “vision for humanity” is salvation. As the most important decision human beings can ever make, it should never be taken lightly.

Finally, “Too bad there are so few like her” [Dolly]? Wrong again Kelly. There are billions like her, but she is still loved in the Christian faith.

I confess bewilderment when I think of atheism and its followers. Blaise Pascal wrote about his wager in deciding whether to believe in the existence of God and eternal life. Essentially, if we acknowledge God and live a religious and moral life, we would be rewarded perfect happiness in eternity. If we deny God and live an evil life we would be condemned to eternal punishment.

In such a wager it would be prudent to believe in God, lead a meritorious life, and receive eternal happiness. If God does not exist, when we die nothing happens, just oblivion. If God does exist, when we die there are consequences, good and evil. After a good life, we enter a joyful eternity, or after an evil life, eternal horror.
Question: Why, according to Pascal, should anyone bet against God’s existence when there’s nothing to gain and everything to lose? If atheists are right, the end of life just reflects meaninglessness, as expressed by Macbeth:

“Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,
To the last syllable of recorded time;
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player,
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
And then is heard no more. It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.”

I am thankful for a loving, merciful God who signifies everything, as my candle is brief.