Thanks for Tar Heel story

I would like to thank the Technician for displaying journalistic integrity in not only running the “It’s not easy being blue” article, but also for publishing two responses to it in the Campus Forum. Those responses clearly illustrate the incoherent, inexplicable and juvenile attitudes many in the Wolfpack community have toward my Heels. Keep up the good work.

Chris LittleUnclassifiedCarolina Fan

Answers should be sought with “reasonable faith”

Warren Hynson’s “Eternal destination uncertain” article [Jan. 22] is correct, in my opinion, to show that science has not added much to the “life after death” hypothesis. However, his assertion that quarreling religions having the answer are “slim to none” is ignorant of some weighty facts. Mine is not a “blind faith,” but a reasonable faith. Of all the religious leaders, only Jesus Christ claimed to be God in the flesh and not merely a prophet of God (John 10:30 – “I and the Father are one.”) He received worship (John 9:38, 20:28) and forgave sin (Mark 2:5), something in a Jewish culture that only God could do. He healed the sick, raised the dead, had power over nature and spoke of eternal life. He fulfilled over 60 Old Testament prophesies given for the Messiah. After giving His life on a Roman cross for the sins of the world, judged dead by professional executioners, and laid in a tomb for three days, He rose from the grave alive (I Corinthians 15:3-6). There were 500 witnesses. The 11 remaining disciples went to their graves clinging to their stories of seeing the resurrected Christ. Saul, the Christian killer, encountered the resurrected Christ on a road to Damascus and became Paul who wrote much of the New Testament (Acts 9:1-19). Jesus, who was dead and now lives, had a lot to say about life after death and how to live eternally (See John 3:16 & I John 5:11-13). It’s not our faith that matters, so much as the object of our faith. Wouldn’t you agree that a thinking person, whether he agrees with Christ or not, would at least want to know what He had to say about life after death considering His credentials? I would. Blind faith, anyone?

Michael Mehaffie DirectorCampus Crusade for Christ

Please share your time machine

Matt Walton’s insightful article entitled “Keep illegal aliens out of America” [Jan. 19] made it obvious you at the Technician have gone back to the late 1930s and abducted a member of the National Socialist German Worker’s Party. I’m not saying I would not have abused the time machine. I would have gone back further, kidnapped an easily insulted caveman and sold him to a car insurance company. To each his own. My point is, if you’re going to have some creepy-looking writer spewing forth rhetoric short of “there is a problem in our county and the obvious cause is a minority — lets get rid of them” we know where you got him from. If you’re going to rub it in our faces that you have a time machine, at least be kind enough to share.

Chris EnglishJunior, Psychology