Letter to the editor: What if we tried to live by Paul's words?

I would never be so naive as to believe for a minute that the United States is a “Christian nation.” It is not, and I suppose that that’s as it should be. But what if we all tried, just tried, to heed the words of the apostle Paul, who said: “Love is patient, love is kind. It is not jealous, love is not pompous, it is not inflated, it is not rude, it does not seek its own interests, it is not quick-tempered, it does not brood over injury, it does not rejoice over wrongdoing but rejoices with the truth. It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never fails.”

What would a society look like that conducted itself according to these words? What would happen to the murder rate, the scourge of drugs, the rate of suicide? How would we treat the disenfranchised, the mentally ill, the homeless? How would opposing political parties speak to one another? Just asking.

Steven Harenchar

Hempfield