Letters to the Editor 05-07-1997
July 28, 2016 at 4:25 p.m.
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Editor, Times-Union:I am responding to both Kathy Kurosky's letter and Nicholas Werstler's letter. First of all, I am a Protestant. I think having religion is the most important thing in the world. The Lord has gotten me through some pretty rough times. I have accepted the Lord in my heart and therefore believe I will be joining God in Heaven when I leave this earth. When I pray, I pray to him ] not the Virgin Mary. I believe Mary to be blessed because God chose her to be the mother of his Son. Of course that's special, but God intended for us to look to his son Jesus for faith. He's the one that died for our sins, not the Virgin Mary. You get in touch with God by simply picking up the Bible and/or praying. But if Mrs. Kurosky wants to believe that the Virgin Mary is the only way to God, she can. We'll all find out what's right when we die. I'm not going to say what's right and what's wrong because the Bible can be taken in so many ways. One person might take it in one way and the other person might think the total opposite.
The Bible says "Judge and you shall be judged." So I'm not going to tell people to "believe such and such or you'll go to hell." None of us have the right to tell people what religion to have. It's a little thing called the First Amendment. Freedom of religion. Look into it.
Amy Wallace Warsaw
Class Reunion
Editor, Times-Union:What a wonderful week I just spent in Kosciusko County. I left this neck of the woods long ago to join the Navy and see the world. I did just that and stayed away far too long.
Last week my classmates from Beaver Dam's class of '47 were honored at the alumni banquet. Nine graduated, seven still live and they all attended the reunion. I was invited back although I moved away before my junior year. We greeted each other with lumps in our throats and tears in our eyes, and we remembered the good times in a tiny school. I have children and grandchildren who graduated with classes a hundred times that large. They have a hard time even remembering seven from their graduating classes.
Tippecanoe Valley, a new consolidated high school, sits a short distance from old Beaver Dam. Half the history lessons are about things that hadn't happened five decades ago. Men have walked on the moon. Machines have explored the planets and are now flying toward the stars themselves. A black hole turned out not to be Deerwester's pool room in Warsaw but a phenomenon in outer space. We have learned how to listen to pulsars and quasars whose songs started toward us many millennia of millennia ago.
Computers can solve problems at the speed of light ] faster even than Herb Ummel at the blackboard. Virtually unlimited knowledge (and a lot of nonsense) is a mouse click away on the Internet. I envy those kids at Tippy Valley today for their times, their future and, of course, their youth.
Their challenges and their rewards are awesome. I hope they inherited the spirit of their grandparents from the class of '47 so they'll be up to it.
Keith Taylor Chula Vista, Calif.
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- More Religion - Class Reunion
More Religion
Editor, Times-Union:I am responding to both Kathy Kurosky's letter and Nicholas Werstler's letter. First of all, I am a Protestant. I think having religion is the most important thing in the world. The Lord has gotten me through some pretty rough times. I have accepted the Lord in my heart and therefore believe I will be joining God in Heaven when I leave this earth. When I pray, I pray to him ] not the Virgin Mary. I believe Mary to be blessed because God chose her to be the mother of his Son. Of course that's special, but God intended for us to look to his son Jesus for faith. He's the one that died for our sins, not the Virgin Mary. You get in touch with God by simply picking up the Bible and/or praying. But if Mrs. Kurosky wants to believe that the Virgin Mary is the only way to God, she can. We'll all find out what's right when we die. I'm not going to say what's right and what's wrong because the Bible can be taken in so many ways. One person might take it in one way and the other person might think the total opposite.
The Bible says "Judge and you shall be judged." So I'm not going to tell people to "believe such and such or you'll go to hell." None of us have the right to tell people what religion to have. It's a little thing called the First Amendment. Freedom of religion. Look into it.
Amy Wallace Warsaw
Class Reunion
Editor, Times-Union:What a wonderful week I just spent in Kosciusko County. I left this neck of the woods long ago to join the Navy and see the world. I did just that and stayed away far too long.
Last week my classmates from Beaver Dam's class of '47 were honored at the alumni banquet. Nine graduated, seven still live and they all attended the reunion. I was invited back although I moved away before my junior year. We greeted each other with lumps in our throats and tears in our eyes, and we remembered the good times in a tiny school. I have children and grandchildren who graduated with classes a hundred times that large. They have a hard time even remembering seven from their graduating classes.
Tippecanoe Valley, a new consolidated high school, sits a short distance from old Beaver Dam. Half the history lessons are about things that hadn't happened five decades ago. Men have walked on the moon. Machines have explored the planets and are now flying toward the stars themselves. A black hole turned out not to be Deerwester's pool room in Warsaw but a phenomenon in outer space. We have learned how to listen to pulsars and quasars whose songs started toward us many millennia of millennia ago.
Computers can solve problems at the speed of light ] faster even than Herb Ummel at the blackboard. Virtually unlimited knowledge (and a lot of nonsense) is a mouse click away on the Internet. I envy those kids at Tippy Valley today for their times, their future and, of course, their youth.
Their challenges and their rewards are awesome. I hope they inherited the spirit of their grandparents from the class of '47 so they'll be up to it.
Keith Taylor Chula Vista, Calif.
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