Religious Tolerance Acumen

Rory J. Koopmans, B. Admin., #203, 8912-156 Street, Edmonton, Alberta T5R 5Z2

February Vth, MMX

Hon. David G. Hancock, QC, MLA, Minister of Education, Progressive Conservative, Edmonton-Whitemud

Dear David:

I realize you cannot force Christian or Catholic faculty's & facilities that offer Christian courses to change the style & content of their actual courses. Nor the suggestion that the students use the New International Version of the Bible. While an excellent read, there are certainly other good versions of the Holy Book that have been translated to English. My favorite of course is the King James Version. Its an older way of speaking, but to me a more eloquent way of doing so. Isn't it human rights discrimination to enforce true believers of the Christian word & those of other faiths that might want to take Christian courses & use a version that might be more comfortable to them?

Other options include the New English Bible, Bibles written in other languages, after all who is to say that an English derived course has to have its sourced material from an English Bible when other languages are just as valid? Other choices include the Revised Standard Version, Young's Literal Translation & the Latin Vulgate.

Let us have peace among the Christian flock & peace among those expressing a Christian interest. Make all of the religious courses in Christianity accessible & tolerant for all forms of the written word & associated religious texts such as the Book of Mormon.

Prophecy Fulfilled,

Rory

Souce: The Billy Graham Evangelstic Association.