In his letter to the editor, Roy Schimelpfenig uses the word “God,” and I’m not sure what he means (“Who is running socialist nightmare?,” Our Readers’ Views, March 16). The name God is a reference to something that is beyond thought.
Each of us has a different image of what God might be, and in that sense, “I and the Father are one” is a literal expression. Some people like their image and some people don’t. Both the Old and New Testaments are based on the golden rule; they preach not to judge our neighbor but of ourselves.
Schimelpfenig’s letters never show empathy for people who are different than him. I don’t understand how he squared his condemnation for foreigners when Christ himself was a refugee fleeing oppression, the founders of our religious traditions were refugees fleeing oppression. He seems to think that he has the same image of God as our forefathers; nothing could be further from the truth. George Washington and Thomas Jefferson, like many of the founders of the Constitution, were Deist. They had more in common with the Gnostic tradition of Christianity and despised his kind of Christianity.
Many evangelical Christians today wear their Christianity as a cloak, while their actual values are business ethics.
