Regarding the letter “The real Christmas story” (Dec. 3, TribLive): I commend the author for his diligence in researching history and successfully distorting every event he cites. He can pat himself on the back for joining a select club who have “de-bunked” Catholicism, and Christianity in general. I wonder how he would spin the Holocaust.
In the letter “Who cried for the children of Gaza?” (Dec. 3, TribLive) decrying the world’s seeming indifference, including a mean criticism of a local priest, to the deaths of Gaza children, the writer screams at the wrong people. He does not know how any of his named individuals feel about Gaza children killed by this war; the real “non-cryers,” the real cold-hearted bastards with no regard to the death of children, are Hamas and the adult Palestinian population who voted for and support Hamas and the war to terminate the Jews in Israel, the entire Middle East!
Did the author not learn what Jesus and church fathers taught, to “judge not others”? It has more impact in his public letter, to decry the Gaza children’s sufferings and a personal “mea culpa.”
Furthermore, did the writer not learn anything of 20th-century history? Beginning with Britain starving the children of Germany by naval blockade in World War I through the Communists terrorizing, murdering civilians in Korea, Vietnam. Hamas and Palestinians began this ugly war, knowing full well they were sacrificing their own children.
Dale Anthony Kennedy
Plum