Little faith in mankind, but plenty in creator

Linda Newcome, Masontown
I get the newspaper to read the obituaries, the funnies and the letters to the editor.” Lastly, I read to see how Morgantown’s City Council is messing things over, and what new taxes or user fees it wants to take from the retired and working class of people.
The national news channels have turned me off to news. I am tired of hearing about the Republicans and Democrats and the behaviors of the American people and the rest of the world.
It is sad that we have created a figure head that we believe can only fulfill our president’s position. I get angry when I hear the so-called comedians being rude to President Trump and his family. Then, I realize that comedy died with the Carol Burnett show and others when comedy was comedy.
I do not know and have never had the pleasure or displeasure of meeting Pastor Terry Hagedorn. But I was appalled while reading a June 27 letter to the editor that claimed Hagedorn was preaching hatred and bigotry. In all of Hagedorn’s letters that I have read, I never once felt that he was preaching or encouraging hatred. I knew he was taking passages from the Bible, not changing them but relating to the readers, what is written in the Bible.
It is wonderful that we live in a country where we can believe or choose not to believe in a creator. I am a believer. My family has been blessed with the simple things in life and I have no desire not to believe.
I thank my parents for providing me the ability to think and reason for myself. I don’t have a lot of faith in mankind but I do have faith in a being that I can’t see.
I look at the natural beauty in a spring flower, the miracle in the birth of a baby, and raw beauty that man cannot create at his best. I thank God for the goodness he has provided us. If, we choose to accept His gift. I think that is what is called faith.