Editor,
Mr. Buddrius, I believe you are mistaken as to what exactly the opinion page is about. In the Daily Lobo, the opinion page is a place for UNM students, faculty, staff and community members to voice opinions that may or may not be politically correct. It is a place that incites conversation within the populace.
You’ve offered two examples of “anti-Christian rhetoric.” The first was a political cartoon that shows a mainstream news anchor creating controversy between scientific fact and religious speculation. The second was an opinion article that challenges the Catholic Church’s right to hold mass on campus.
Political cartoons are satire. Say it with me: satire. They poke fun at different institutions and individuals. This particular cartoon pokes fun at both fundamentalist Christians and news organizations. Saying that the Daily Show with Jon Stewart is a more valid news source than actual news channels is scathing! And it’s laughable to consider “Creationism” or “Intelligent Design” to be on the same level of validity as scientific theory.
If the scientific world adopted every religious doctrine as fact, we would be ensnared in contradiction. The fact that we have classifications for different types of creation myths should give you some idea as to just how many there are.
No one can prove Creationism because it’s not repeatable.
Christian doctrine dictates abstaining from testing God or God’s acts. But you may believe whatever you want in your own time. What is being attacked is religion acting like science and expecting to be respected.
As far as the scientific community has found, the Earth is not flat, and for the 4.5 billion years the Earth has been in existence, multi-cellular life has only been around for about one billion, and there were dinosaurs before there were humans.
You also challenged the opinion article “Duck Pond service not without sin” by Jose Flores. I agree with you, the article is strongly worded. It aggressively challenges the Catholic Church’s right to hold religious ceremonies on campus — and look what it accomplished!
Since it was published, there has been mass debate on the Daily Lobo website about whether the Church should be allowed to host this event. The consensus is that the service is legitimate and should be allowed. If the Daily Lobo were really “anti-Christian,” don’t you think it would have curbed the criticism of the article? If it really were, do you think they would have even let you publish your article?
This is a capitalist nation, and if you want a newspaper or news source that vehemently defends one ideology or opinion against another, it will not be that hard to find. As far as I’ve seen, the Daily Lobo is a student news institution that does its best to keep opinions in the opinion section and objectivity in the rest.
It is a student organization, so it’s not perfect, but it is not blatantly and strongly for one agenda or another.
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Max McGuire
UNM Student
