RESPONSE: Hate, fear not true religion

In response to Martin Coon, John Stone, and Thom Pace’s articles on the Koran and the Bible:

I’m not siding with any of your views and doctrines on religion. Both religions have committed murder and still do today. I feel religions try to instill fear into the hearts and minds of people of all ages, in order to convert them to their own religion.

This feud needs to end.

Whether you believe in God or not doesn’t matter, because God would not judge us anyway. I choose to believe in God and feel God loves us all the way God created us. I love God and God is too great to need my worship or obedience. God requires nothing of us except to be who God created us to be, and to be compassionate to each other. God loves me for who I am, bad with the good. For even God knows and accepts there is bad with the good.

I would like to believe we all share the same god, and religion distorts God’s true self. People who fight over whose side God is on have it wrong. God loves us all!

So give up the arguing and the killing each other and seek enlightenment with the new generation of the 21st century. These old scriptures were written in a time of superstition and ignorance and need to be interpreted in that light for God’s sake, and our own.

JOHN WELDON

Coeur d’Alene