CHRISTIAN: In a word, hostile

I would like to know, just what definition Geddie Fredy gives to being “Christian?” According to the contents of Fredy’s letter, to be a Christian: Is to feel hostility toward those who don’t think as you do, believe as you do, or who may even disagree with you. That being the case, then the recent Kootenai Country Republican Party proposal to declare “Idaho a Christian State” was hardly out of love of one’s non-Christian neighbors. Instead it was out of open and active hostility toward anyone who isn’t a “Republican” version of Christian.

Which begs the question, who gave you this authority to make that kind of judgment? Because the New Testament most certainly did not. And as far as I know, only the biblical God can make this judgment (Acts) of who is clean or not. Just as Jesus Christ will “know” who has truly followed his teachings, or not.

Yes, Idaho has its own constitution. However, the radical GOP here in Kootenai County seems to have forgotten one pertinent fact: The 14th Amendment. I’d suggest they study it thoroughly and afterward, reflect very thoughtfully on “Love thy neighbor as thyself.” The second of two greatest commandments, found in the New Testament.

JOAN E. HARMAN

Coeur d’Alene