From the Desk of Terry Lynch

DATE: Feb. 8, 1999

FROM: Terry Lynch
POB 241035
Montgomery, AL 36124-1035

E-mail: TerryLynch@aol.com

Internet site: The Pyrotechnic Pen

Additional Information: Lynch Links



Letter to the Editor - For Immediate Release

SUBJECT: Love Is The Only Salvation

Ref.: Written in reply to various hate mail received with respect to published letters

Why is it that people who speak out against hatred are the first to be accused of hatred? Why is it that the people who are the first to stand up against prejudice and bigotry are the first to be attacked for their courage? Why is it that the people who cry out for education and enlightenment, for logic and reason, are the first to be ridiculed as liars by God fearing, hypocrites and holier-than-thou self declared repentant sinners?

Is it possible that the truth threatens to destroy ignorance, threatens to change the world and make it a place where all God's children really can exist in harmony? Is it possible that truth somehow threatens the status quo, somehow threatens established religion, somehow threatens this or that church or the archaic faith of some people?

What makes people who think their idea of God is the only idea of God rise up to destroy everyone else who thinks differently? What makes some people so hard hearted that they feel compelled to strike out and attack our president and anyone who supports him in his trials? What sickness, if it is a sickness, causes the unrighteous to take up guns and bombs, to burn churches, to bomb abortion clinics, to kill doctors, to light crosses, to strike out at everyone from the president on down to journalists and private citizens who express ideas or beliefs which differ from their own?

Is it possible that sickness, that hatred is the absence of love? Maybe Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. had it right; maybe Mahatma Gandhi had it right; maybe Jesus Christ had it right: that only tolerance, that only nonviolence, that only love can change the world! For they who bring this message are always the targets of darkened souls!

Sincerely, Terry Lynch
Montgomery, AL
8 Feb. 1999




Lynch is creator of the Help Bill website which is a non-partisan grassroots effort to express support for President Bill Clinton.






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