Blind faith failure

re: "Trial begins in 'rotten' Vatican financial scandal" (BP, July 27, 2021)

 
Dear editor,

Perhaps if the blatantly sacred Vatican had over the centuries acquired a bit more democracy and some decent morals instead of infallible popes issuing divine commandments, its church would today be less blessed by the same systemic corruptions that traditionally define all conservative systems of undemocratic government founded on blind faith in a totalitarian ideology.

 Felix Qui
 

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The above letter to the editor is the text as submitted by Felix Qui to the Bangkok Post.

 
The text as edited was published in PostBag on July 29, 2021, under the title "Blind faith failure" at https://www.bangkokpost.com/opinion/postbag/2156463/lets-be-objective
  

re: "The Voter Fraud Fraud"

re: "The Voter Fraud Fraud"  (The New York Times, July 11, 2021)

 
Do citizens cease to be citizens or persons when they commit a crime?

Is committing a crime really enough to deny a citizen an equal right to a voice in determining the form of their society, its governance and the laws that are held to apply equally to all?

Why should a person respect a law if they have been denied the possibility of a having a voice in making that law?

There seems to be something undemocratic, and contrary to the values of respecting individual liberties and the pursuit of justice, in the very idea that felons be denied a voice in their society.

Is it quite American?
 

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The above comment was submitted by Felix Qui to The New York Times article.

It is published there at https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/11/opinion/texas-elections-black-people.html#commentsContainer&permid=113609495:113609495

  

Publicity stunt is rich

re: "Vaccine alone no cure for Covid's ills" (BP, Editorial, July 11, 2021)

 
Dear editor,

No, dear Bangkok Post editor, I think a more honest perspective is that it is not particularly "commendable that Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha and his cabinet are willing to donate their salaries for the next three months to Covid-19 sufferers." That cheap publicity stunt is as cheap as the miserliness, the meanness, of their efforts to justly distribute the wealth of the Thai nation among the Thai people who create it when compared with the extravagantly luxurious "sufficiency economics" lifestyles (Soi Thonglor after dinner? Or front seats at he boxing stadium?) of those same very rich people (a new diamond encrusted watch? – merely borrowed of course; or perhaps a new Ferrari to clean up any inconvenient policemen in the path?).

Please do some investigative journalism and report the percentages of their wealth that these very rich Thais in Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha's cabinet of his collection of the best of the best have donated to help others. How do those numbers compare with the 30% standard set to date by such genuinely philanthropic benefactors as Mackenzie Scott, Bill Gates and so on? Those percentages, and the corresponding percentages philanthropically donated by the richest of the Thai elite, are what will tell us more truly how benevolent, righteous, compassionate, and generally decent Thailand's super-rich truly are.

 Felix Qui
 

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The above letter to the editor is the text as submitted by Felix Qui to the Bangkok Post.

 
The text as edited was published in PostBag on July 12, 2021, under the title "Publicity stunt is rich" at https://www.bangkokpost.com/opinion/postbag/2147143/deaf-to-wake-up-call
  

Jail the charlatans

re: "Devil pact British teen murdered sisters, expected to win lottery" (BP, July 7, 2021)

 
Dear editor,

The story of Danyal Hussein who, under the influence of divine promises of imminent riches on Earth, murdered his two sisters, and would likely have gone on to murder more sacrificial victims in holy offering to his inspiration, the "Mighty King Lucifuge Rofocale" (a name new to me, but as noted their number is truly beyond legion), is an ugly reminder of the sway that such unsubstantiated supernatural beliefs continue to hold sway over too many humans. We all of us really should know better by now.

This sad but all too true tale from the realm of the supernatural, wherein abound an infinity of demons, gods, devils, goddesses, angels, sprites and the motley other sacred ones is yet another litany of the supernatural willfully deluding poor human saps with tall tales that never, ever come true. The charlatan divinities demand endless human sacrifice in return for amazing promises that are never, ever fulfilled.

There really should be a law against such blatant, persistent charlatanry. Has a single one of them ever provided even the merest shred of verifiable evidence that any of their claims might be true rather than purest fakery? It's time humanity threw these deceiving demons, gods, angels, devils and their all their sacred ilk into eternal prison where they rightly belong.

 Felix Qui
 

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The above letter to the editor is the text as submitted by Felix Qui to the Bangkok Post.

 
The text as edited was published in PostBag on July 9, 2021, under the title "Jail the charlatans" at https://www.bangkokpost.com/opinion/postbag/2145947/deadly-drivers
  

re: "How to Destroy Truth"

re: "How to Destroy Truth"  (The New York Times, July 1, 2021)

Time to get back to the classics that founded Western civilization before the despotic Middle Eastern invasion of Christianity. What American schools, along with those of every other nation, need is more classes in Homer supplemented by Plato.

And the other shining fruits of thousands of years of thinking and story telling. But start with Homer and Plato: the best antidotes to Bible thumping bigotry in all its myriad forms.
 

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The above comment was submitted by Felix Qui to The New York Times article.

It is published there at https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/01/opinion/patriotism-misinformation.html#commentsContainer&permid=113490678:113490678