I would like to honestly thank you for printing Dean Early's column detailing how aggrieved the whole religion of Christianity is, due to your front page photo showing a student flicking off a "preacher."
I was going to write a sarcastic letter. Then, I changed my mind and decided to write a serious letter, picking apart Early's loosely coagulated arguments one by one.
But I no longer think that's necessary.
What needs to be debunked? What really needs comment? Nothing does. Early's letter speaks for itself. Straight from his heart - whenever it actually does beat, mind you. Do I have to point out how Christians are not a single collective entity? That it is ridiculous to think that a slight against any Christian is a slight against them all? If a Christian is executed for committing murder, does that mean every Christian dies?
Must I point to the parts of the letter where it rambles on and on and on? Should I even bother to tell Dean that those "prophets" are no more Christians than Sigfried is a successful tiger trainer? Need it be typed down that they incite college kids to strike them on videotape, so that these "prophets" can sue them and have them kicked out of school? And, if it is not this one, then the others that preach the same detritus do so?
No. None of this needs to be said. I think that once Early started to threaten to beat Christian values into UF students, he already stopped being a Christian.
