Influence of Christ
Recently, some genius paid $400,000 for a letter written by Albert Einstein, where he called the Bible "childish." But the facts are: Einstein is dead and he ain't comin' back, and his greatest contribution was the knowledge of how to destroy the world with the atom bomb. Whereas that "childish," Judeo-Christian book called the Bible gave the world the Ten Commandments and the Sermon on the Mount. History shows that the Bible has also motivated more acts of kindness, charity and sacrificial love than all the other books ever written.
What would truly seem childish is the belief that fish grew legs or that man came from a monkey without any evidence of transitional forms. Yet, this evolution cult dominates the thinking of most of the scientific and political elites and serves as morphine for their souls to numb the consciousness that they are accountable to a holy God and Creator.
When Christ was on earth, his teachings took people beyond the matters of space and time and confronted them with the immutable realities and the glorious hopes of eternity.
Since these eternal realities are often recognized and embraced by unlearned and common folk, they are just as often rejected and scorned by the intellectually sophisticated as insults to their "intelligence" — thus the scriptural truth that God "chooses simple things to confound the wise" and "the foolishness of God is wiser than men." Pity the mortal man who attempts to match wits with the Architect of the galaxies.
Mike Sutton
Lewisville, Texas
Former resident of Randolph County
A short explainer
Washington politics: Stupid is as stupid does.
That's all I have to say about that.
Woody Hinton
Anniston
Leave the trees alone
It is time that Alabama Power Co. should stop wasting our money to convince the powers-that-be to allow the company to chop down the trees in Jacksonville.
Wonder why our electric rates are so high? Stupid stuff like that. We are paying for lawsuits. Get over it. Alabama Power lost. Let the trees stand.
Tina Horn
Alexandria
