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 The Chronicle welcomes you online! Please feel free to respond to these editorials or letters to the editor by sending your letters to the editor.

We condense letters; most, as published, won't exceed 300 words. A letter must include the writer's name and city, which will be published, and an address and telephone number for verification, which will not be published. Writers may be limited to one letter every 30 days. Open letters, letters to third parties and poetry are not considered. Letters from people living outside the Chronicle's circulation area usually are not considered.

Worries letters fan religious `hatred'

Web posted December 25, 1999

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Editor, The Chronicle

Letter writer Richard Hogue, in his defense of the Rev. Timothy Fellows, referred to the Rev. Dan King as being intolerant. I suppose Rev. King is intolerant of people who slander other peoples' religion. I know I am.

Mr. Hogue may not realize it but most intelligent, compassionate Christians do not accept Rev. Fellows' brand of religion. His idea of religion has nothing in common with the philosophy of love taught and practiced by Jesus Christ.

I do not believe that Rev. King is in favor of censorship, as Mr. Hogue suggests. I get the impression that he was suggesting to this paper that yelling fire in a theater is inappropriate. And that is what this paper is doing when it allows letters to the editor that fan the flames of hatred among the world's great religions.

Do you print vulgar or derogatory letters by white supremacists? If not, why do you print such letters concerning religion? ...

Hoyt Goodson, Waynesboro