Letters to the Editor

: By James Whitfield - Clear Creek, Iowa; Published: 30 May 2012

A “citizen” is defined as a native or naturalized member of a state or nation who owes allegiance to his/her government and is entitled to its protection. Are Christians, therefore, really called to become loyal members of an artificial man-made entity that is, at once and by definition, at odds and at enmity with God? Does God require Christians to look to anti-God entities for protection instead of to Himself?

Was Jesus, when He said, “Render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar’s and unto God the things that are God’s,” really telling us that we owe Caesar any obligation? Caesar’s image and superscription may have been ON the gold, but Who MADE the gold (and to Whom, therefore, does it belong)?

: By Frank Allen - Greenville, SC; Published: 09 May 2012

I am weary of narrow-minded, finger pointing bigots damning Romney for being Mormon. It is as if they are agents of the liberal left trying to sow dissension in the Conservative and Republican ranks. Romney was not my choice for the Republican nomination, and has many issues that concern me, but his Mormon faith is not one of them. Don’t these critics realize how shrill and foolish they look and make the rest of us look to the undecided voters who will determine this election? “Mormonism is a Cult!” “They part their hair on the wrong side!” By their definition of “cult,” every major religion except Judaism and Hinduism are cults – including all Christians. Protestants are the newest branch of religion, only some 600 years old (Martin Luther), and it has not been long since Baptists and Methodists did not accept each other as true Christians! Listen folks, any person who accepts Christ as his Savior, is saved by the Grace of God, and attempts to lead his life by Biblical principles, is a Christian. The details are between them and God. And the Mormons I have known have lived up to that standard well. Sure there are bad ones, and fringe groups- don’t we have plenty, too?

: By Lewis Vaughn - Greer, SC; Published: 21 March 2012

The article appearing in this weeks (2/29/12) issue of The Times Examiner titled, "BOB INGLIS CONFESSED HIS CONSERVATIVE "SINS" TO BILL CLINTON" piqued my interest. It appears that Bob remains very angry over losing his Congressional Seat in 2010 and is still blaming his loss on everyone and everything but himself.

: By H. K. Edgerton; Published: 28 December 2011

Your utilization of a program that promotes itself as delivering fair and unbiased news, yet allows you to continue in this the Sesquicentennial of the War Between the States to use the airways of America to promote and to deliver the Reconstruction Puritan message designed to disguise from the American public the war crimes of Abraham Lincoln and the northern industrialist in the promotional sales of a book, without allowing equal air time for rebuttal by Southern authors like Thomas De Lorenzo, and Stanley Lott, a Black man, and promotions of their books, and the view of Southern folks about Lincoln, then and now, would be fair and unbiased.

: By Frank Allen - Greenville, SC; Published: 13 July 2011

I saw an article in your paper recently concerning free summer breakfasts and lunchs from the Greenville county schools. I can hardly express my disgust with this concept, or list all the things wrong with it. First, and primary, is the fact that it is just wrong; there is no Constitutional basis for feeding people,though I would support it in emergencies; there is an obligation for parents to provide for their own children. Lunch at schools is one thing, as children are required by law to be there all day, though I can remember bagging sandwiches to school as a child. Breakfast is a different thing, and should be provided at home. But to offer these meals when children aren't even in school? How is that justified or explained?