God does not exist — why invoke the name?
Letter to the Editor
I read Elizabeth Bauer's letter last week, and I haven't seen such pompous nonsense in a long time.
The issue with which she concerned herself was premarital sex. While I believe it is perfectly fine for men and women to have sex without marriage, I also respect the decisions of those who choose to "save themselves" for their special person.
However, she totally discredited her entire argument with her mindless comments about God.
First of all, there is no God. Bringing God into any argument is ludicrous because there are no solid facts that some divine entity exists.
I worked at Harvard University over the summer and everyday on the way to lunch, my friends and I had to pass through the neighboring children's hospital. And everyday, we saw children who were never going to make it out of that hospital whether it was because they had some form of cancer or AIDS, or any of a slew of other incurable diseases.
How can you tell me there is a benevolent God when "He" lets all of these children suffer and die everyday? How can there be a God when billions of people suffer, starve and die needlessly everyday? This "God" apparently thinks it quite all right for innocent women and children to be beaten, raped and tortured everyday. This "God" allows wars to rage and famines to spread and allows for newborn babies to live for just a few years, just long enough to torture and scar the babies' parents.
Well, if that's your God, I sure as hell do not want to go to your heaven. By your very argument you are silly and nonsensical.
Finally, our bodies ARE ours to do with as we please. Who else would lay claim to them if not the very people who have to live with and use them everyday? Please think rationally before inserting simple, mindless opinions into our school newspaper.
Mike Dillon
Sophomore
O'Neill Hall,
January 27, 2000
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