Open the minds of our young

Dr. Harris Pastides' (president of the University of South Carolina) editorial on civil discourse reminded me of a story once told to me many years ago. It seems that a hunter and a bear meet up in the woods one day. The bear said to the hunter, "Come let us reason together. All you want is a bear coat and all I want is a full stomach." So sure enough the bear got a full stomach and the hunter got a bear coat.

Perhaps a better example that Christians can relate to is when Satan appeared to Eve in the Garden and said, "Surely the Lord did not mean that if you eat of the fruit, you would surely die." Boy, how the human race been in trouble since that compromise.

How do you think Dr. Pastides got his job? By being politically connected. It's not what you know, it's who you know. Our elite network with one another and promote their own. He is going to say and do what the elite wanted.

Take your children out of these government schools. That certainly includes these so-called schools of higher learning. The least we can do is to monitor what is taught to them. Our political elite want to maintain the status quo. In order to do so, they must have access to the younger generation's minds. They cannot afford a generation that is capable of thinking for themselves.

My advice to our local home-grown socialists, if the fire is too hot, get out of the kitchen. Develop a sense of humor. You are not getting out of this life alive, and you are certainly going down with the rest of us.

Andy Windham

Wagener