To the editor:

So you might think it’s crazy that the FLDS children are not allowed to look at the color red and not allowed to have children’s books. And you think it is silly and superstitious that a girl born with two faces is worshipped from miles around as a Hindu Goddess (Journal-World April 9). And you probably think it’s abusive and criminal to refuse medical treatment while relying only on prayer for a dying 11-year-old girl with diabetes. (After all, if prayer really works, why go to a doctor?) Yet, you don’t think it is crazy or silly, or worse, to teach your children that they are inherently bad, “sinful,” because some woman ate a piece of fruit, and that “believing” in a magic martyr “with all your heart” and eating his body and drinking his blood, every so often, will give you life after death, with winged angels, somewhere over the rainbow. No, that’s not crazy or silly or untruthful indoctrination fed to children day after day. It’s just “faith.” And you gotta have faith’ hmm.

Reason, reality, science and nonsuperstitious humanism are patiently waiting outside of the box.

Brenda Frei,
Lawrence