BINFORD, N.D. -- It's incredible to me that professing Christians want to return to the dark, dangerous day of the pre-Reformation when evil prelates dictated the lives of the people in the pews ("Pastor endorses McCain from pulpit," Page A1, Sept. 29).
In those days, even a Christian's life was in jeopardy if he or she didn't follow the will of the church-state rulers.
I am thankful that God provided the world with Martin Luther and other Reformers at the time, so that today I can worship my Heavenly Father according to my conscience. I would think every Christian would feel such thankfulness, too.
I would never again darken the doorway of a church where the pastor tells me who I should vote for.
From what I've seen of the right-wing "evangelical" behavior during these past eight years, it is almost enough to feel "a plague on all their houses." Allen Osmundson
