Not afraid of change

Once again we are lectured by Howell Medders, most recently about “inevitable change.” Whatever would we poor ignorant folks do without his instruction? In November he labeled as “willfully ignorant” those among us who, after study and due consideration, reject the fairy tale of Darwinian evolution. We follow the advice of the Apostle Paul that we “test all things; hold fast to that which is good.”

In December he told us that the Republican base is a “writhing ball of fear, greed, hate, ignorance, bigotry … and phony fundamentalist piety” because many Americans of different political persuasions have expressed their concern about allowing thousands of Middle Eastern refugees to enter this country without proper and adequate investigation. How dare you conservatives object! Do you not realize that you will be called bigots and other ugly names?

In January’s rant Medders seemed to accuse people whose opinions he doesn’t like of having a “fear of progressivism, Muslims, immigrants and sexual ‘deviance’ and … anti-science mentality.” Note that he puts quotation marks around “deviance” as though to say that certain sexual practices which are against nature, harmful and in defiance of the will of the God who made us are not really “deviant” at all. Of course that last part, about the will of God, will have no weight at all with him.

We are not afraid of “change”; we just don’t believe that all change is necessarily good, and we see some changes in our country and our culture which are not. We’ve all chuckled at the story of the warden of the gulag who tells the miserable prisoners, “Men, today we have good news: All get a change of underwear. Igor, you change with Boris; Nikita, you change with Petrov …”

I am hoping for one change that will be most welcome: a year from now, a new president. HAROLD B. CHILTON Fayetteville