Some might be angry

I don’t consider Kevin Elsken angry. Ill-informed, definitely, but not angry. How else to describe someone who still considers Jesus a “myth” like Thor or Zeus? The ramifications of the discovery of the Dead Sea scrolls completely obliterated this outdated view. Whenever someone makes this claim, I recall C.S. Lewis’ words: “I want to know how many legends and romances he has read, how well his palate is trained in detecting them by the flavor. … I have been reading poems, romances, vision-literature, legends, myths all my life, I know what they are like. … [Such scholars] claim to see fern-seed and can’t see an elephant 10 yards away in broad daylight.”

Furthermore, I don’t believe Kevin has examined the evidence as thoroughly as he thinks he has. Otherwise, he would know that nowhere in the Bible does it say how old the Earth is.

And finally, Randy Blakey sneered that perhaps the mentally unbalanced hear voices. Randy is apparently unaware that a still, small voice spoke to Martin Luther King when he was at his lowest point. King wrote that he sat down and prayed, and, “At that moment, I experienced the presence of the divine as I had never experienced God before. It seemed as though I could hear the quiet assurance of an inner voice saying: ‘Stand up for justice, stand up for truth; and God will be at your side forever.’ Almost at once my fears began to go.” Man, you got to wonder about that King, eh, Randy?

LONNIE HILL Fayetteville