Look What Tim's Tumbled Upon

Just . . . Wow!!!

To the editor:

Once again, there were those that proclaimed that they have no king.

Well, I would like to share my king with all of you. His promise is sure. His goodness is limitless. His grace is sufficient. His reign is righteous. His mercy is everlasting. His yoke is easy and his burden is light. He guards and he guides. He heals the sick. He forgives the sinner, and he does so much more. He is the king of kings. His name is Jesus.

Lois Lueck

St. Louis County

A political system rooted in religion is bound to ultimately fail as history has shown us time and time again. And let’s be honest with ourselves. A government based on the many Christian religions is no better and no more righteous than a government based on Judaism or Islam. They just use different words and use different rules to control people.

It is well past time that we make our American government religion-agnostic like it was intended. No more “In god we trust” on our money and in our government buildings. No more “under god” in our Pledge. No more “god bless America” at the end of every speech. It is time to recognize how irrelevant and, in some cases, offensive these words are to a large portion of our citizens. We can do and be better.

Before any of them walk into an airport on duty, we should know exactly what they will be doing in their official capacity, we should have the more than fair expectation that not one of them will be hiding behind a mask, and every agent should know the exact procedure to hand off tasks and actions to appropriately trained TSA and CBP officers who are actually trained to be working at our ports of entry and dealing with travelers and the stresses that come in those scenarios.

Surely, we all can agree that the following list of alternatives would have wide support:

Health Care

Child Care

Medical Debt

Foreign Aid

Food Assistance

Public Programming

Preschool Development

Aid for the Disabled

These are all things that help real people and can have lasting, positive impacts on our collective lives on this planet. We are well overdue on changing the way we think as Americans about how best to have impact, and it all starts by actually caring about each other and electing the right leaders.