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To the editor:
I am surprised that none of your readers responded to Rill Fitzsimons’ letter about religion and morality (Aug. 2'\). 1, as apparently is Mr. Fitzsimons, am an apostate of long standing but, if none of the faithful want to answer him, I will.
To put it as gently as 1 ean, Mr. Fitzsimons has both his facts' and his arguments wrong. He says that the founding fathers, “steeped" in religion", favored slavery. Well, steeped they may have been, but some were not at all religious in the conventional sense of the term. More importantly, some and perhaps the majority did not favor slavery. They did, however, need southern votes to secure the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution and so they compromised.
Mr. Fitzsimons believes that children need to be taught to question authority. Perhaps he doesn’t know children as well as I do. They do indeed question authority, and often with a well developed moral sensibility. I can't quite tell whether he really believes the kids are all being led astray by Wall Street scandals and the likes of Jim Bakker. If so, he should visit the -1-H clubs, the Scout troops, the church teen
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