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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Teen decries hunting

Dear Editor,

As one teenager, I was terribly upset by the picture in the paper of the dead fawn killed on Youth Deer Day.

I view hunting as a survival skill only, and I take great pride in being a crack-shot and having the guts to finish a kill. I believe that hunting should NOT be a “sport” with dead carcasses as trophies.

Our children need to be taught that this is a life they are taking!

As humans, we always save our children first.

Shouldn’t we at least give fawns a chance to grow up and enjoy life? I feel we also need to teach our children that deer are living, breathing animals that love their babies, and that the adult deer die so that we might have meat on the table to feed our families.

I think that killing fawns should be illegal, and the practice of killing any animal other than a real need for food should be eliminated.

Nature would maintain the balance.

ABIGAIL ROWE Pea Ridge

McNiel expounds ‘truth’

Dear Editor,

You can’t handle the truth is a cliché that Jack Nicholson told Tom Cruise several years back. It turns out that when it comes to what people believe, most people can’t handle the truth. I thought it appropriate to tell all of our local preachers what I had learned, but apparently they are afraid to tell their congregations the truth. Romans 1:18 says, “For the wrath of God is revealed from Heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who suppress the truth in unrighteousness.”

There are millions of people who go to their respective churches every week who know that they are not getting the entire story told to them. I would venture to guess that there are just as many who quit going to church for the same reason.

This is a quote from“The book of Jubilees.” This is one of those books that did not make it into the Scripture. After you read this quote, you will understand why it was excluded. Chapter 2 Verse 18 says, “And he (the eternal) said to us: ‘Behold, I shall separate for myself a people from among the (heathen) nations, and these shall celebrate the Sabbath, and I shall sanctify them unto myself as a nation, and I will sanctify thee unto myself as a people, and will favor them, as I have sanctified the day of Sabbaths, and I will sanctify them unto me and thus I favor them, thus I will favor them; and they shall be my people, and I will be to them their Eternal.’”

Verses 24-25 says: “All who profane this day, (the Sabbath) shall surely die, and all who do any work on it shall surely die forever, so that the children of Israel observe this day in their generations and be not rooted out of the land;

for it is a set apart day and favored day. And every man who observes it and keepsthe Sabbath on it away from all his work will be favored and set apart for all his days like unto me.”

You can read about the Sabbath day in Exodus 20:8-11. It is one of the Commandments. It is not a suggestion. By the way, the Sabbath is on the seventh day of the week. Not the first day of the week as you have been taught.

As I said before, I have already spoken to most of the preachers in this town and I was hoping that they would tell you that the Sabbath is actually on Saturday.

Maybe you should ask your preacher why he did not tell you.

Scripture says in Jeremiah 16:19, “... Surely our fathers have inherited lies....”

For those of you that think this is just speaking to the people of Israel, think again. We have to be adopted in. Into what? Into the nation of Israel which James says, “... To the 12 tribes which are scattered abroad...”

BOYD B. MCNIEL Pea Ridge

Opinion, Pages 4 on 11/30/2011