I am concerned that the BI, regardless of its disclaimer to the contrary, is showing an unsupportable intolerance for Christianity that, as funded in part by the State of Wyoming, it should not be showing.
Your opinion section routinely disparages the Christian religion generally, and Christians specifically, without so much any type of counter-speech. (Your Friday “Places of Worship” advertisements are not counter-speech.) A more demanding editorial staff ought to recognize this trend and give Christian students opportunities to write opinion articles that counter these anti-Christian opinions.
As a law student, let me provide an example of counter-speech to Mr. Rooney’s recent and blatant anti-Christianity article to show how his presumption that God does not exist is a rather recent epistemological phenomenon: Historically, and coincidentally independent of whether one believes in an old earth (billions of years old) or a young earth (6,000-13,000 years old), the basic assumption of society and civilization was that a deity of some form or fashion was over humanity. That a deity ruled over mankind is true of Greek mythology, Roman paganism, Babylonian religion, the ancient Persian belief system, Hinduism, Buddhism, Islam, etc. This assumption gave way to science and a deity’s non-existence circa 1885 (Europe) and 1939 (US). It was not until the last 130 years that the basic assumption of society and civilization was that man was alone. 130 years out even 6,000 is a rather short timeframe.
The previous paragraph countered Mr. Rooney’s basic understanding of humanity in less than 150 words. Sure, it doesn’t directly counter his elevation of a modern ethical code over morality. But modern ethical codes are the logical result of one’s belief that there is no deity. To argue that modern ethical codes and that God (for lack of a better word) does not exist are mutually exclusive is to concede that some absolute good must exist somewhere in some form. Otherwise, why have any modern ethical codes? The answer may lie in one’s presupposition that man is god. But, if man is God, why does man die?
Jonathan P. McCoy
Student
