No cognitive dissonance
Letters to the Editor I wonder how many of the dedicated volunteers who helped saving a pelican from the deadly Gulf oil have other birds for dinner or at a local fast-food outlet.
They are not alone. Most people are appalled by the devastation of animal life by the Gulf oil spill, yet subsidize the systematic killing of other animals for their dinner table. They know that meat and dairy harm the environment and their family’s health, but compartmentalize this knowledge when shopping for food.
And it goes beyond dietary flaws.
We tolerate the killing of innocent people when our government and media label them terrorists. We ignore the suffering and starvation of a billion people, except when our government and media tell us to care because an earthquake or tsunami has struck.
Our society would benefit greatly from more original thinkers, and our personal diet is a great place to start.
Harold Stansbury
Uniontown
Fill the pews
I wonder how many of your readers still trust that human intelligence is capable of skillfully managing anything that nature or human activities sends our way? Let’s examine man’s limits realistically.
What caprice of recent man-made or natural disasters reported in the news during the past six months has finally awakened in your readers the thought that man is not dependent upon his own will alone, but is dependent upon no one other than God?
Considering all the vast scale of destruction taking place, there are still so-called “practical” men who voice no fear nor love of God. In other words, we see no awakening of true intelligence in those power elites who control our daily lives.
Has God ever been without grace or unfaithful? Has this world ever been wanting of horrendous events, warning signs preparing mankind for even worse days ahead?
In the face of these mounting dangers to our security, still no crowds are filling America’s church pews, swelling Sunday services to overflowing. Funerals and weddings get a better turnout.
Just what’s in store for the embodied souls still rushing round, God never shares the details. So just expect the unexpected.
Speaking of the unexpected taking humanity by complete surprise – all the cold weather of the “lost summer” of 1816 did not prove unbearable for the financially prepared. And the creative poets Mary and Percy Bysshe Shelley retreated along with their friend, Lord Byron, to their villa near Lake Geneva, Switzerland. Kept housebound by the deep summer snows, they amused themselves by writing horror stories. Appropriately enough, Mary’s literary icon was the grotesque “Frankenstein.”
In view of the universal deprivations of l816, which was caused by huge crop failures that summer, political historians comment that it was not surprising that during that November’s elections the fickle American voters turned against 70 percent of the incumbents, putting more new Congressmen into office than any election on record. But what real change for the better ever comes in the form of political solutions?
As any man patiently waits on his Lord, God remains faithful, patiently waiting for us to turn away from men and face the truth – Earth is not our true home.
S. Raymond Pohaski
Uniontown
Funding abortions wrong
The day after the D.C. “march for life” with over 300,000 participants, the present, elected resident of our nation’s White House signed a presidential decree that American taxpayers will fund abortions in foreign countries.
Did not Present Obama drive our nation into a debt of $13 trillion? We have no money to pay for the killing of pre-born in other countries.
Besides is it our business to aid the killing of other nations pre-born? Were we not always the “Santa Claus” for other people?
Reasonable Americans recognize that this act must be repealed and we cannot send such a negative message to the world. Continued disasters will befall us if we continue to obstinately disregard the moral laws of our creator. In every abortion at least one human person is killed. It must stop.
Rev. Joseph L. Sredzinski
St. Emma Greensburg