Crediting U.S. achievements to faith leads to pain, suffering

Editor,

I originally found the Barack Obama concert to be inconsequential. I believed bringing up memories and feelings of old grudges and betrayals could only bring more hate and angst into the world. People there spoke with phrases like "minority" and "long-awaited." They thanked God and declared everything to be just. And it is just and very much overdue. But there is something wrong in what they said: They focused on a god or some sort of faith.

That is what is wrong with almost every government. I believe we need faith in something to survive, but we need to acknowledge all of the pain and suffering in this world that is being caused by proclaiming faith in worship whenever we succeed. When people start to make claims, others feel like they need to assert their own faith to validate themselves. This sort of back-and-forth leads to the problems we face in the world today. Yes, we need to accept each other and figure out some way to coexist, but, all in all, that is the problem. In accepting one another, we make the claim that maybe our faith is not valid. By accepting someone from another faith, we acknowledge ours might not be right. Compromising our own stakes in our life for another is something that most people just won't do.

I went for a run earlier and stopped at the store. As I walked out of the store, a homeless man asked me for some change. I told him I was sorry and that I didn't have any. But as I approached the curb, I turned around and yelled, "But I hear there is some coming."

Nick Christian

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