Silence is a virtue, as history teaches

"Religion is the opiate of the masses" said Napoleon, an agnostic who did great things for civilization after the 1789 revolution in France.

After almost anyone of money, skill, talent, or education was murdered by, what we would have to consider the first Communist revolution in human history, Napoleon was a savior.

An individual with full understanding of the need for education, he established public school and had them taught by the religious, Friars, Monks, and Priests. Although he despised the Church, he considered those of a moral teaching far more capable of creating good citizens.

We would be better with children taught by men with ethical philosophies than by those preaching doctrines of selfishness. Without morals, public education will produce no more than highway robbers. Modern Crime?

The greatest of middling citizenry, Ben Franklin, another non religious man, carried the belief mankind has been better served by religion than without it.

Silence is a virtue; time spent without constant noise and stimulant is good for the character of the person, good for the soul, and needed by society.

Allow us the citizens to regain just a crack in the doorway toward freedom, it might become a fad, then fashion then normal.

John H. Nickels

Libertyville