No group should dictate religious beliefs
Recently there have been several letters to the Herald expressing the need for the return to God and the Bible. These letter writers state that the problems in America are due to the lack of God in today’s society. I think the problem is that these citizens are wanting everyone to adopt their beliefs.
These writers want everyone to believe in their god. These readers want everyone to read only what they sanction. These readers want everyone to live their lives only as dictated by the views of these letter writers. I ask these letter writers how would you feel if it were dictated that they should not believe in a god or that they must believe in reproductive rights for everyone or that they could not read the Bible because it had been banned.
It is great that these writers have their beliefs. What is not so great is them forcing their beliefs onto others. Some people believe in God, want to control what everyone reads/does not read, want reproductive rights stripped from all women, want religion forced into everyone’s lives, etc. There are also many people in this country who want all people to be free to believe or not believe in God, free to choose what books to read or not read, free to believe or not believe in reproductive rights, free to engage in religion or not, etc.
Everyone has the right to their beliefs but when one segment of the U.S. population attempts to dictate what everyone should believe, what everyone should read/not read, how everyone should live their lives, that is offensive and wrong.
Claudia D’Hooge
Glen Ellyn