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Dear Mr. Einwechter: Your article The Guilt of Innocent Blood in the May-June 2000 issue of The Christian Statesman is compelling.

However, I am left uncertain about your agenda. Is it to influence legislation or, in light of your remark (p. 26): "This nation will not properly obey the law in regard to the punishment of murderers, or the law of Deuteronomy 21:1-9... until the people have been converted to faith in Jesus Christ...", is it to evangelize? It would be helpful to me, and others perhaps, if you would set out a brief outline of the legislative agenda that would bring U.S. law into compliance with biblical law. Perhaps just such an agenda has been developed by the NRA. If so, would you please direct me to it. If not, it would be a valuable tool for us interested in law.

Sincerely, Al Carter

Editor Responds: Your question about the article is appropriate. I do desire to influence legislation on the matter of the death penalty for murder. My specific applications are directed to that end. However, I can see how the statement you refer to might give another impression. My point was that full obedience to God's law on the matter of murder and Deut. 21:1-9 awaits a time when the people of this nation have embraced the lordship of Christ and its full implications for politics and civil law. Perhaps I should have added a closing sentence in that paragraph to the effect that in the meantime we ought to use all the means available to us to influence the laws of our land so that murder is punished with death.

Part of the problem is that many Christians have no biblical understanding of the issue of murder and capital punishment. The article is intended to help remedy that problem and arouse the church to the seriousness of the guilt of innocent blood that rests on the people who will not punish murder in accord with God's law.

Your fascist views on school prayer clearly violate the First Amendment, and it makes me sick that you Christians want to impose your beliefs on the rest of us. As a student (and an atheist), I would let the students pray as long as they don't waste my time, but when a time is designated for religious kids to pray, then it imposes on productivity. Those minutes add up to hours and days that my time is wasted so others can bask in their fantasy world, when the time should have been used for education.

--D. P., Internet

Editor Responds: Your atheist views of school prayer violate a true understanding of the intent of the First Amendment, and it troubles me that you atheists want to impose your materialistic/profane beliefs on the rest of us. Believing prayer to the living God increases productivity, while the real waste of time is living the life of the person described in Psalm 14:1: "The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God."

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