OpinionOctober 30, 1998

To the editor: Regarding cockfighting: Perhaps the greatest reproach of all is when men seek to drag God into their schemes of sin and ungodly pleasures, accusing him of being responsible for their reprehensible activities. One example was on television when this guy sought to defend cockfighting for pleasure and profit by saying that he is a Christian and that God made roosters to fight. ...

Sanford Berry

To the editor:

Regarding cockfighting: Perhaps the greatest reproach of all is when men seek to drag God into their schemes of sin and ungodly pleasures, accusing him of being responsible for their reprehensible activities.

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One example was on television when this guy sought to defend cockfighting for pleasure and profit by saying that he is a Christian and that God made roosters to fight. Can't you just picture Jesus and his apostles and a host of his born-again, Spirit-filled saints laughing, whooping it up and casting their bets as feathers fly and blood spatters everywhere?

SANFORD BERRY

Marston

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