George Will’s decision easy to understand
As one who has voted Republican, I have no difficulty understanding the leading conservative intellectual spokesman, George Will, when he said “I did not leave the GOP, the GOP left me.” The principal reason was Donald Trump.
George Will’s decision to leave the Republican party was prompted by Trump’s going after the “Mexican” judge presiding over the Trump University case, followed by Speaker Ryan’s endorsement of Trump.
Also presumably figuring into Will’s decision was Trump’s question of Sen. McCain as a war hero, and his assertion that Republican Sen. Cruz’s father conspired with Lee Harvey Oswald.
Anyone supporting Trump should consider what George Will had to say, those who walked out of the convention, Women Republicans for Hillary, and both presidents Bush, Jeb Bush, Lindsay Graham, Mitt Romney, George Pataki, Ben Sasse, Jeff Flake, among many other establishment Republicans who have not endorsed Trump.
Very likely they are even more concerned now that Trump wants Putin – his dictator friend and our country’s enemy – to have access to our Secretary of State’s e-mails hacked by Russian espionage that could well endanger national security. Would they now consider that what Trump wants borders on treason?
John Bratton, Sewanee, Tenn.
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Don’t forget real American killers
Here’s a real “Jeopardy” question:
Who are Adam Lanza, James Holmes, Dylann Roof, Jared L. Loughner, Wade Michael Page, Patrick Henry Sherrill, George Hennard, James Oliver Huberty, Andrew Kehoe, Jeff Weise, Dylan Klebold, Eric Harris, Timothy McVeigh, Charles Joseph Whitman James Pough and Charles Roberts?
Answer: Not Muslims or ISIS, just a few plain Americans.
Now try James Kopp, Eric Rudolph, Michael F. Griffin, Paul J. Hill, Scott Roeder and Robert L. Dear Jr.
David Bean, Chatsworth, Ga.
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Some Bible history questions to ask
The Bible as history classes are thinly veiled attempts at fundamentalist Christian proselytizing in public schools. But to play along, here are questions I hope students will ask their teachers:
1. Jehovah could have prohibited slavery but instead prohibited eating shrimp and catfish. Why did shrimp and catfish rank as a greater evil than slavery?
2. Lot got drunk and had sex with his two daughters. Will a “replica” of Lot’s Cave be built next to Noah’s Ark to promote those family values?
3. Jehovah prohibited wearing clothing woven of two kinds of material. Will the teacher go to hell for wearing a cotton/polyester dress?
4. Jehovah demands you love him or burn in everlasting fire. If that’s OK, why is it wrong for an earthly father to demand love from his wife and children or set them ablaze if they don’t obey? What kind of a loving father would do that?
Mark Twain once said, “The best cure for Christianity is reading the Bible.” Perhaps the course will cure a few students from the grip of biblical literalism, inerrancy, and orthodoxy, and teach them to question all religious dogmas presented as facts and history.
Stephen Greenfield, Cleveland, Tenn.