Seth Bloomsburg (Letters, May 5) is oblivious to why many people do not want evangelical Christians in charge of our lives. No, we emphatically do not live in a theocracy and we see no reason we should be ruled by Christian believers.
There is no reason to believe that the Bible is even morally correct, inasmuch as it allows slavery and other abominable ancient customs. It contains no useful scientific information and a lot of misinformation. It does contradict itself in many places, such as the fact that the Book of Matthew's list of the ancestors of Joseph bears no name in common with the list in Luke. (Read it!) Biblical literalists claim that the list in Matthew is the genealogy of Joseph and that in Luke is the genealogy of Mary. So if "J-O-S-E-P-H" can spell "Mary," the Bible can be inerrant.
Don Matteson
Pullman
