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Eckhardt replies TO THE EDITOR: In answer to your comment on my letter about abortion, you again avoided quoting the scripture in Romans 3:3-4 so I will again quote it to you: "For what if some did not believe? Shall their unblief make the faith of God without effect? God forbid: Yea, let God be true, but every man a liar." First of all it was not me who in any way condemned this coed for her shameful act but the word of God is that which condemns unrepentant sinners. Exodus 20:13, Galatians 5:21 and Revelation 21:8 and many others. Secondly your remark about me being out of touch with reality is really going in line with most peop le's misconception of God. The fact is God is trying to get us to conform to his image not trying into conside ration mass starvation is kind of avoiding the issue of this particular incident. (Although it is WRONG even for that reason.) This girl has an abortion because of something she had no right doing. Lastly you stated that if a woman wants to have an abortion she should be able to with the minimum of trouble. Well, in answer to this, if you don't believe the Bible, why let it worry you what a Christian said? ' But remember, the reason man needs salvation in the first place is his insistance on doing what he wants instead of what God put him here for. ti' Get a sporting look at Fashions presented b) presented by us. Door Eatonc Voice God's word will not return void no matter how many people scoff at it. It will accomplish that which it was meant to do. I just pray that the Lord will open your eyes so that you will be able to see that the reason for the problems in our coun try are because man is doing it his way instead of God's way. He that hath ears, let him hear. Thus saith the Lord, Isaiah 55:8-9 "For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways saith the Lord. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts. REPENT AND BELIEVE THE GOSPEL. BOB ECKHARDT Technique poor TO THE EDITOR: It appears that Robert Eckhardt is the Self-appointed Evangelist of U.S.C. What he doesn't seem to understand is that it is easy to con demn an act until one is faced with the same problem. I, toe, am a Christian and am proud of it but if I were a non-Christian and had read his sickening letter I would be farther away from Christianity than before! In short, Eckhardt's technique is in POOR taste. BETSY BREWER Pz t oo mn n c' of the Both dogmatic TO THE EDITOR: I would like to reply both to Robert Eckhardt's letter concern ing abortion and to your editorial criticizing him. You both appear to be taking positions founded on little else than dogmatism. Mr. Eckhardt's opinion is that abortion is a crime against God, and to support this idea, he quotes extensively from the Bible. Whether the Bible is The Truth or not is irrevelant here. In the first place, as one scholar (whose name I can't remember) once pointed out, it is possible to justify almost any position the way Mr. Eckhardt does merely by juxtaposing the proper Biblical quotations. Secondly, inas much as debates on public issues are supposed to be waged with reason and facts, it is not enough merely to say that "This is what the Bible says; therefore it is the truth." There are many people who do not believe that the Bible is The Truth, and among those who do, there is no consensus as to what the Biblical Truth is. All Mr. Eckhardt does is to state an opinion and then say that no one can be allowed to criticize it. I do not deny his right to do this, but it is not a very good way to convince others of the cor rectness of one's opinion. Concerning the editorial reply: it seems to have become an article of faith among most of today's youth that morality is completely a per s+I>! Tusdy,Ocobr 0 /oe' Camus oo ervice sonal decision. But the lack of some i enduring moral standard destroys morality. If there is no standard, anything, including robbery, rape, and murder, can be justified, 1 because, without some standard. there is no way judge anything. Who are we to say that a Charls Manson belongs in jail? He may only have been following a different "moral standard." As with Mr. Eck hardt, the editors are attempting to place their opinion above criticism (I am refering to the comment that the coed who got the abortion "should not be criticized.") by dog inatically appealing to their par ticular Truth; in this case, moral relativism. Further, the editors state that 1 abortion can be justified on the basis of increasing population and 1 possible mass starvation. Since when have they taken it upon them selves to decide who shall live and who shall die? If we carry this idea to its logical conclusion, we shall have to support euthemasia for the old and the incurably ill. There is no justification for killing now so that we can avoid a possible danger later. Finally, it is often said that women should be allowed to have control over their own bodies. The objec tion is both fallacious and irrevel ant. It is not the woman's body and life that are going to be destroyed by the abortion, it is the baby's. No one is asking the baby whether it wants to be aborted or not. Besides, if the coed had exercised sufficient control over her body, she would never have had to face the question of whether she should get an abor tion or not. t PETER ROEST Stuff your ears t TO THE EDITOR: I decided to write this in response to Bob Craft's article on October 23, t "Ian and the Rabbit Suit." t Most of what Bob said was criti- a cism of the concert-goer, not of Jethro Tull, whom the article should a have been written about. C His view of the entertainment e given by Jethro Tull was an obvious indication that he thinks he is more GAME The Gamecock is published twice during the fall and spring semester holidays and exam periods. Change of address forms, subscrig; should be sent to The Gamecock, 29208. Subscription rate is S3 per s< received $38,000 from the student ai dents to a subscription. Offices of The 319 In Russell House on the universit' and 777-4249, news, and 777-3888,a paid at Columbia, S.C. Although The Gamecock is a public, sit y of South Carolina, it is not an off; The opinions expressed herein do ni the university, the student body, or all Editor ... .. .... .. .. ..... I4anaging Editor ........................ asistant to the Editor................ News Editor ................... Sports Editor .................. Asst. Sports Editor.............. 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Bob Craft should tay away from concerts and listen ;trictly to his stereo, which can't urt his ears, (unless in the hands )f "puerile jerks") and which also :an't distract him with any enter :ainment which he considers insult ng. BOBBY DESPORTES Any argument rO THE EDITOR: In regards to the abortion arti :les, letters and editorials: we per ionally do not believe in the act of ibortion, considering the denial of ife to any being (born or unborn) o be an act of murder. However, ve do not place ourselves in the ilmighty and omniscient position to udge - to condone or to damn - he actions of anyone whose posi ion may differ. Still, we do not agree with your tatement that "Not everyone elieves in God, or the 'Bible kind if God,' and in a country constitu ionally dedicated to religious oleration, religious arguments gainst abortion have no place." In a country such as this, ANY rgument has a place, religious or therwise, whether acceptable to ach individual or not. 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