Letter to the editor: Understanding God

In reference to the writer of the letter “God is a problem, not an answer” (July 29, TribLIVE): I’m sure thousands of local Christians are praying for you. You obviously don’t understand the God of the Old Testament that punished us for disobedience and the God of the New Testament that sent his son to die for our sins.

The 10 Commandments are rules to live by. We do have free will. One-third of the angels and then Eve demonstrated that. Does my knowing you’re misinformed take away from your free will? Jesus said, “We will go to a new earth in new bodies.”

I’ve never seen gravity, but I’m sure it’s there. Instead of asking, “What would Jesus do,” ask, “Was that done by Satan’s influence?”

Your view of no God is what communism is. My advice is to ask these questions of a theologian. We must guard against public opinion being dictated by the government media.

Here is my timeline of why you think the way you do:

• Creation and catastrophic changes were taught until the 1925 Scopes Monkey Trial.

• 1963, Bibles removed from schools.

• 1969, start of LGBT movement in NYC.

• 1973, legalized abortion.

• 1980, removed 10 Commandments from public schools.

• 1987, Supreme Court ruled against Creation 7-2.

Political correctness, identity politics, cancel culture and pagan beliefs have resulted in the slow public acceptance of what you never would have accepted a few years earlier. The goal is a step-by-step dismantling of Christianity and Western civilization which are the basis of America.

John Ventre

Hempfield