Contemplations [Archives:2006/925/Letters to the Editor]

By: Gary Vey
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I was born into a Christian family and raised in a Catholic church. I'm not what you would call a very religious man, but I do believe in God and I do have a good understanding of right and wrong.

About three years ago, I visited Yemen and toured the whole country, from Sada'a and Sanaa to Al Mulkullah and everything in between. The people were friendly and respectful. But more than that: they were very religious.

Several times every day everything stopped and men, women and even children paused to remember that their life belonged to God.

Here in America we have people who call themselves religious, but they usually only attend church and think of God for one hour a week ) if even that. Most just claim to believe but their actions suggest that they aren't. Our president is such a man. He goes to church and, as we Americans like to say, “talks the talk but doesn't walk the walk.”

What God loving man would start a war, invade a country and kill and maim thousands of his own people and innocent civilians, run torture prisons and lie to the very people who elected him? Here in my own country I am fearful to write this letter and it may well be that I will “disappear” for doing so.

But I am writing to ask all of the God loving people in Yemen to pray. Pray that the evil people who are planning ) right now ) to invade yet another Islamic nation, Iran, will be somehow stopped. Pray that we will not see this powerful evil force kill thousands more innocent people in the name of oil and power.

And, after you have done that, please pray for me that I do not end up in a prison for writing this request to you.

Gary Vey / viewzone.co

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