Leftists aren't interested in facts or history; ends justify means

To The Daily Sun,

Reading the most recent unfortunate letter submitted here by James Veverka, I must wonder just what kind of Kool-Aid he's ingesting this time?

He starts out in the very first paragraph, following the stupid example of his President Obama, trying to draw a moral equivalence between today and the Thirty Years War, which started in 1618 and ended in 1648. Then he continues on, seemingly forever, paragraph after paragraph which I can only describe as a load of bull excrement. Finally he ends up telling readers that the anti-slavery abolitionist movement was inspired largely by secularists.

Real history — if James had cared to research it, he would find abolitionist movement was first started by Quakers John Greenleaf Whittier and Benjamin Lay in 1688. Wikipedia credits Quakers and Mennonites both. Puritans got into it in 1701 when Samual Jewall wrote "The Selling of Joseph." The list of clergymen, evangelists, religious scholars and devout Christians is long, but I failed to find any noted secular men among them. I give readers these names to consider: John Greenleaf Whittier, Benjamin Lay, John Woodman, Anthony Benezet, Montesquieu (French philosopher), Granville Sharp, John Wesley (father of Methodism), Benjamin Franklin, Adam Smith, James Otis, Rev. John Newton, (wrote "Amazing Grace"), William Wilberforce, Thomas Clarkson, Joseph Wedgwood, Hannah More, and Sir James Stephen.

James can check with Wikipedia or any of the other dozens of historical sites for conformation of these facts. I also will offer the nationalhumanitiescenter.org and gilderlehrman.org among the many others.

It should be clear to readers by this time that leftists like James are not interested in facts or history and will resort to any means to justify his ends. Their personal attacks, smears and slanders are aimed at those who dare to challenge their distortions and misinformation and say far about them then it does about their targets.

Also, I believe this concentrated attack on Christians is an attempt by the left to draw the attention away from the Islamic terrorists and Obama's dismal foreign policy failures which have created the environment for them to thrive in. President Bush was exactly right with his prediction of what Obama's policy's would bring.

Steve Earle

Hill