Greetings Derek Dalton,

I did not intend for you to feel "put down" by my last letter.  I truly believe that you and your wife are trying to help Randy and I, and for that I thank you again.

The "sarcastic" tone was necessary to illustrate just how utterly ridiculous those things mentioned in the letter are to me.  Nothing can change the fact that the Christian Bible compels its readers to believe in all of them.

Why don't you and all of those reading this letter simply take another look at my last letter and think about the things that a good Christian is required to believe in.  People with little or no education may have little trouble accepting the idea that diseases are caused by demonic possession and can be cured by simply driving the demons out of the ill person...or that Heaven is just a little ways out of sight, even though we've been to the moon and seen stars that are thousands of light years away and there's no sign of any pearly gates...or that Almighty God hears every prayer uttered and knows every thought before it occurs.  But how can anyone who's even had a high school education continue to believe in those ridiculous ideas, which were borrowed from earlier myths and superstitions.  

Derek, it's not you that I am putting down, it's the crazy ideas that plague your brand of religion...and all other religions for that matter.   I sincerely wish that you and Karen would earnestly discuss the things I sarcastically claimed to believe in the last letter and then let me and your readers know whether you and she actually believe in them.

Sincerely,

Greg H.

By the way Derek,

Why did you feel the need to present your letters on a beautiful white stationary-like background and then put my letters against a sickening puke green with brown patches?   Don't you have enough confidence in yourself to provide a "level playing field" for our "great debate"?  Why must my letters be tinged with such an awful background?   Is that really fair?  Does it harm my case against Christianity somehow?

I would much prefer a light grey background (white is too hard on the reader's eyes and uses a great deal of electricity to produce).

Greg