Dear Editor:
Re: Christian upset over billboard, The Record, Jan. 3.
The front page article about the Centre of Inquiry Canada’s billboard is thought provoking. Someone who is not a christian does not mean they are anti-god. Inquiring is a gift of our brains, our minds and one way humans grow.
Mark Jaskela says “… that somehow belief in the Bible is some kind of assault to freedom of thought…”
Well, isn’t the billboard a freedom of thought and not to be assaulted?
The motive behind the ad may be to promote evidence-based thinking and a way to get energy around creation and values.
If christians like Jaskela feel this freedom of speech has gone too far, I ask, ‘“What is being threatened here and why feel threatened from a different way of believing?” If we are free to believe within reason, as quoted in the article, who defines “within reason”?
Kimberly Hayek, via email
