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Real Christians don’t question Regarding the Viewpoint submission, “Bible preaches multitude of conflicting ideas” (Daily Bruin, Dec. 3): As a Christian, I was highly offended and enraged by this article. Not only was the religion questioned, but it was also mocked and disrespected. Openly finding flaws in Christianity and going to the length of comparing God with Hitler seems more than a constructive argument. Furthermore, it seems very interesting to me that the only religion being openly ridiculed in the Daily Bruin is this religion. How come there is no questioning commentary on Judaism or Islam? If I wrote an article titled “Why Judaism is crap” – just as an example – not only do I believe that it would not be published, but if it were, I would probably be called an anti-Semite. Indeed that would be the thing that should happen to me; one should not write such articles, even if it is of their opinion. Yes, one is entitled to freedom of speech, but one is not entitled to disrespect and put-down. I am completely offended by this man’s opinion and I am offended by the fact that the Bruin would publish this. And in regard to his actual argument, most of his quotations were from the Old Testament (the Torah), which Christians are taught not to follow any longer, hence the focus on the New Testament. Secondly, he seems to have found an interesting paradox: if God was all-good, all-knowing, and all-powerful, he would be creating to destroy, creating a contradiction. But he seems to overlook the rest of the Book. If he wants to look at it through Christian perspective, he is also not supposed to question. The Bible says do not question His word for we cannot comprehend it, it is not of our world. Bourne, sorry to break this to you, but you are not the next revolutionary hero and what you have said has been said a thousand times over. Disrespecting and ridiculing a religion is immoral, and I, like all Christians, will not take it. As Christians we should stand up. If this were an article about Judaism or Islam, those communities would be on the attack very quickly; we should unite in the same way.

Haig Goenjian First-year Undeclared

Learn opposite view to better own argument In response to Russell Bourne’s submission, “Bible preaches multitude of conflicting ideas” (Daily Bruin, Dec. 3), his viewpoint presented, to say the least, a terrible argument. I do not want to get into why and how bad it was because it would take me forever to respond to such a naive attempt to belittle religion, God and Christianity. However, I would make one suggestion to Bourne: try finding more facts that back your argument rather than throwing in “out of context” Bible quotes. To hone a stronger argument, you must educate yourself on the other side of the argument as much as possible to make your article as a credible, opinionated source. As a UCLA alum, I wonder how some people can write such things in one of the best college written publications in the country.

Aaron Whitfield Class of 2000