Bible supports Baptist declaration

Unfortunately, the Southern Baptist Convention is absolutely correct in relegating women to second-class membership in their churches -- biblically speaking, of course. Their Bible, Old and New Testaments, has a sexist theme throughout.

It is only a matter of time until the SBC also prohibits women from speaking in churches and demands that women be excluded from educational institutions (I Cor. 14:34-35).

The SBC insists their Bible and their biblical deities are perfect and without error. That being the case, the SBC cannot only support gender discrimination, but also incest, murder, child abuse, adultery, polygamy, promiscuity, human sacrifice, rape, slavery, ethnic discrimination, lying, stealing, exhibitionism, gambling, suicide, cannibalism, abject poverty, alcoholism, communism, animal cruelty, anger and violence, cruel injustice and ignorance, and more. All of those acts are biblically approved.

They must also accept and believe that the Earth is flat, the sun revolves around the Earth, the Earth can stop rotating, stars can fall out of the sky, donkeys can talk, and the dead can come back to life. Anyone who reads the Bible with one ounce of comprehension, one ounce of honesty, and one ounce of morality and common sense, will conclude that the Bible is one of the, if not the most, defiled, barbarian, absurd and contradictory pieces of literature ever written.

H.E. Harrison
Montgomery

Judging from the way our country has further moved from a tilt to the left to something more like a dive at the polling booths, I will make the following predictions:

Democratic ticket for presidency, 2004: Rodham/Sharpton

Democratic ticket for presidency, 2008: N/A (self appointment) -- Premier Hillary Rodham, USSR (United States Socialist Republic)

Don't laugh.

Armond Simmons
Pell City

There is no reason John W. Thomas continues to bombard us with incorrect history. He does not seem to know the difference between the Pledge of Allegiance to the United States flag and the United States Constitution.

His statement "the United States was established as one nation, under God, and indivisible" is incorrect. Nowhere in the U.S. Constitution are these words written.

Some of the words were written on Sept. 8, 1892, when the Pledge of Allegiance was written. In 1924, the Pledge of Allegiance was modified to the current one, except for the phrase "under God." As a child in school in the 1930s and 1940s, I memorized the pledge and later had a hard time changing it when "under God" was added.

For Thomas' information, the United States government was established as a republic in 1776 and the U.S. Constitution was written in 1787. How could he have knowledge of the history of the Confederate States of America when he apparently has no knowledge of correct history at all?

George W. Gayle
Montgomery

Do tickets reflect profiling? Let's answer a question with a question.

I was at a stop light the other morning (after reading all of the articles that have generated this last excuse for someone to cry "racism") and noticed five vehicles in addition to mine. Four persons (including me) were white, one was Hispanic and one was black. The white and Hispanic individuals wore seat belts -- the black individual did not.

If an officer had justifiably issued the black gentleman a ticket, is that racial profiling? Our preoccupation with "political correctness" is preventing anyone calling something what it is, and that is a person (no matter what color, age or gender) who apparently has no concern about what his preventable death would mean to those who love him.

Teri Baker
Deatsville

For what it might be worth, I have been reading so much about the ordaining of women as pastors that I decided to turn to my latest version of the Bible. Now you may be as surprised as I was at what I found. In the concordance I found the word "pastors" once, "pastor" none.

What I did find a lot of was that in Christ all who are chosen are led by the same spirit. Sort of written in between the lines a lot was the belief of the priesthood of all believers. There was no mention as to these being male or female, black or white, red or yellow, Southern or Northern, Baptist or Methodist, or any of the barriers that so often divide us.

A lot was said about not all people having preacher or teacher or other of the necessary talents, but what was stressed was that everyone should use whatever talents they had been given to their fullest, to glorify God.

Bernard Baker
Ozark

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