Letters to the Editor 12-05-2001
July 28, 2016 at 4:25 p.m.
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- Softball Clarifications - Potter Deceives Children
Softball Clarifications
Editor, Times-Union:This letter is in response to Barb Kintzel's recent letter to the editor. As with other editorials and letters published recently, I am concerned about the inaccurate information being printed and considered factual by many.
First, we were Girls Softball State Champions in 1991 - not 1990. It was also stated that the softball parents, along with coach Rod Yoder, built the softball facility. This is simply not true. The letter also stated that the football parents should put in as much time as the softball parents did in building the softball team's current facility.
Because of some of the inaccuracies in her letter, I feel obligated to share the following information:
¥ The City of Warsaw donated the lights and Warsaw Community Schools paid REMC $9,000 to install them.
¥ A local contractor donated materials and four coaches donated their labor for the dugout foundations.
¥ The WCHS industrial arts department built the dugouts.
¥ WCS donated the bleachers.
¥ Pepsi Cola Co. donated the scoreboard.
¥ The softball parents donated approximately $1,500 to $2,000, including one parent's donation of $1,000.
¥ Coach Yoder and the athletic department raised over $25,000 to help pay for the press box, concession stand, surrounding fencing and fence posts, backstop, batting cage and storage sheds.
¥ Rod Yoder was the individual who spent endless hours putting the final touches on the softball facility.
In closing, the softball parents gave good moral support toward the project. While I understand the purpose of the editorial page and the writer's intent to persuade, I do hope acuracy is considered in the future.
Dave Fulkerson, Director of Athletics
Warsaw Community Schools
Potter Deceives Children
Editor, Times-Union:Harry Potter Deceives Children and Adults
Our nation was blatantly attacked by evil on Sept. 11. Our nation is now being attacked from within by evil disguised as fantasy. Introducing children to witchcraft and sorcery, the Harry Potter books and movie is nothing short of another attack of evil on our society.
Harry Potter books were purchased for my son last year after he requested the series following reading the first book at school. Naively, I trusted the teacher's choice of literature for the class. Through the Internet, I learned what the Harry Potter books and movie are all about. This list is of some of the things your children are learning about:
1. Animal sacrifice
2. Non-magicians like you and I (muggles) are portrayed as dull, boring, cruel or useless.
3. Power is the ultimate moral choice, irrespective of good or evil.
4. Blood sacrifices
5. Cutting off the hand of a living person for ritual
6. Boiling a baby alive in a cauldron
7. Bringing an evil wizard back from the dead through the shedding of blood
8. Astral project travel
9. Casting spells and levitation (some are actual spells used by practicing witches and shamans).
10. Being able to shape-shift into an animal
11. A hero, Harry, who tells lies, steals, breaks the rules and cheats by copying another student's homework
12. Approval of astrology
13. Being taught that people can exist without their souls
14. Communion with the dead, dead souls living within us.
15. Harry takes mood-altering drugs (which are real herbs that are used by witches and shamans).
16. Use of the "Hand of Glory," a grisly occult artifact that is the severed hand of a hanged murderer. Its fingers are lit and burned as candles. The hand is placed in a house to make everyone in the house fall into a spell.
17. Belief that death is just the "next great adventure," which might be true for Christians, but practicing witchcraft and sorcery is a one-way ticket to hell.
These ideas can be dangerous for young minds. Children are naturally curious to try new things. The Harry Potter series can entice children into exploring the power of evil and in doing so can be snared into it.
Through the Bible, God clearly states we are to have nothing to do with witchcraft and sorcery: Deut. 18:10, 2 Kings 17:16-18, 2 Chron. 33:5-7, and many more.
Our military is fighting the evil enemy abroad. We Christians have our own battle right here on our own soil. Boldly stand up against the evil lurking to snatch our children.
We ask you to lovingly speak to your children about the danger of the Harry Potter series. The only lessons to be learned from Harry Potter are for parents. Teach your children to recognize the enemy (Satan) and that God wants us to have nothing to do with him (Satan).
We are not holier than thou, just concerned Christians saved by God's Grace.
Kevin and Leigh Ann Denlinger
Warsaw
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- Softball Clarifications - Potter Deceives Children
Softball Clarifications
Editor, Times-Union:This letter is in response to Barb Kintzel's recent letter to the editor. As with other editorials and letters published recently, I am concerned about the inaccurate information being printed and considered factual by many.
First, we were Girls Softball State Champions in 1991 - not 1990. It was also stated that the softball parents, along with coach Rod Yoder, built the softball facility. This is simply not true. The letter also stated that the football parents should put in as much time as the softball parents did in building the softball team's current facility.
Because of some of the inaccuracies in her letter, I feel obligated to share the following information:
¥ The City of Warsaw donated the lights and Warsaw Community Schools paid REMC $9,000 to install them.
¥ A local contractor donated materials and four coaches donated their labor for the dugout foundations.
¥ The WCHS industrial arts department built the dugouts.
¥ WCS donated the bleachers.
¥ Pepsi Cola Co. donated the scoreboard.
¥ The softball parents donated approximately $1,500 to $2,000, including one parent's donation of $1,000.
¥ Coach Yoder and the athletic department raised over $25,000 to help pay for the press box, concession stand, surrounding fencing and fence posts, backstop, batting cage and storage sheds.
¥ Rod Yoder was the individual who spent endless hours putting the final touches on the softball facility.
In closing, the softball parents gave good moral support toward the project. While I understand the purpose of the editorial page and the writer's intent to persuade, I do hope acuracy is considered in the future.
Dave Fulkerson, Director of Athletics
Warsaw Community Schools
Potter Deceives Children
Editor, Times-Union:Harry Potter Deceives Children and Adults
Our nation was blatantly attacked by evil on Sept. 11. Our nation is now being attacked from within by evil disguised as fantasy. Introducing children to witchcraft and sorcery, the Harry Potter books and movie is nothing short of another attack of evil on our society.
Harry Potter books were purchased for my son last year after he requested the series following reading the first book at school. Naively, I trusted the teacher's choice of literature for the class. Through the Internet, I learned what the Harry Potter books and movie are all about. This list is of some of the things your children are learning about:
1. Animal sacrifice
2. Non-magicians like you and I (muggles) are portrayed as dull, boring, cruel or useless.
3. Power is the ultimate moral choice, irrespective of good or evil.
4. Blood sacrifices
5. Cutting off the hand of a living person for ritual
6. Boiling a baby alive in a cauldron
7. Bringing an evil wizard back from the dead through the shedding of blood
8. Astral project travel
9. Casting spells and levitation (some are actual spells used by practicing witches and shamans).
10. Being able to shape-shift into an animal
11. A hero, Harry, who tells lies, steals, breaks the rules and cheats by copying another student's homework
12. Approval of astrology
13. Being taught that people can exist without their souls
14. Communion with the dead, dead souls living within us.
15. Harry takes mood-altering drugs (which are real herbs that are used by witches and shamans).
16. Use of the "Hand of Glory," a grisly occult artifact that is the severed hand of a hanged murderer. Its fingers are lit and burned as candles. The hand is placed in a house to make everyone in the house fall into a spell.
17. Belief that death is just the "next great adventure," which might be true for Christians, but practicing witchcraft and sorcery is a one-way ticket to hell.
These ideas can be dangerous for young minds. Children are naturally curious to try new things. The Harry Potter series can entice children into exploring the power of evil and in doing so can be snared into it.
Through the Bible, God clearly states we are to have nothing to do with witchcraft and sorcery: Deut. 18:10, 2 Kings 17:16-18, 2 Chron. 33:5-7, and many more.
Our military is fighting the evil enemy abroad. We Christians have our own battle right here on our own soil. Boldly stand up against the evil lurking to snatch our children.
We ask you to lovingly speak to your children about the danger of the Harry Potter series. The only lessons to be learned from Harry Potter are for parents. Teach your children to recognize the enemy (Satan) and that God wants us to have nothing to do with him (Satan).
We are not holier than thou, just concerned Christians saved by God's Grace.
Kevin and Leigh Ann Denlinger
Warsaw
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