Dear Editor,
As long as I can remember, Christmas has always been the most publicly celebrated church holiday of the year. It seems that there was a consensus, because every sermon that I heard He, Christ that is, is was "the reason for the season” The birth of our Saviour.
I begin my letter this way because of a shock that I got from listening to some young fellows discussing about the Bible. It was not about quoting Scripture.
This is approximately how it went. Government goes to church too on Sint Maarten Day and they also go church to thank God after the hurricane season. That means that government believes that God is in control. Then if they believe that, and they believe that we (the youth) are going astray, why don't they who decided on compulsory education try to put young people on fire for God. They have to teach us about the Bible.
At that point I felt that I could give them some enlightenment, so I decided to explain the demand for equal rights by non-believers, and those who have other gods, but I was interrupted with the following. If government is for all the people, then does not the believer have the same rights as the non-believer? Then why is it so that the same governments which engrave and print "God zij met ons" and "In God we trust" on their currency took the Bible out of schools to accommodate the non-believers, but permit the non-believers to have equal rights to the currency? Is not that being unfair to the believer?
My questions might sound a bit far-fetched, but are the non-believers going to demand that Government eliminate those sayings from their currency, and are they going to demand that we break down churches also? Should not the non-believers refuse the guilder and dollar? I would like to see the comparison of crime rate with the Bible in schools to when the Bible was taken out of schools. I would also like for those "grandes savants" to explain why 80 percent of the inmates is younger than 25 years old.
By the way, Joslyn Morton was on the money, but speaking of money, I do not believe that that 13 million was correct, it should have been much more. They know what I'm talking about.
Russell A. Simmons
