In his Aug. 18 letter, “Progressive ‘thinking’ worshipped,” Mike Goodpaster’s words are not only misinformed but also disrespectful to all the victims of the Holocaust and everyone who died under Stalin. It has always seemed to me in poor taste to bring up genocides to support a line of argumentation that has nothing to do with genocide.
Contrary to what those loons who wave signs would tell you, abortion is not genocide. And if someone has to use the Holocaust or Stalin’s prison camps in defense of their case, it betrays a weak argument in the first place. Not to mention he is misinformed. Hitler was not an atheist, he was a weird Christian-pagan mixture who tried desperately to prove that Jesus wasn’t Jewish. Stalin was, but he didn’t kill people because he was an atheist, he killed people because he was a paranoid megalomaniac.
Jackson Colby
VANCOUVER
