LETTERS: All hail bacon, something everyone can worship

I loved the article, "Church of Bacon cooks up ambitious plans for center" (Oct. 31 Review-Journal). But it seems that Nick Aquilina, in his letter ("Church of Bacon," Wednesday Review-Journal), thinks the reporter and editor should take religion more seriously and that the article should have been placed in the entertainment section. Kind of like how at the library, the Bible is placed in the fiction section?

The Church of Bacon is only different from other religions by the fact that bacon is real. You can see it, smell it, wrap it around stuff and eat it, too. I have the right to go to a church and worship bacon if I wish to, just like any religious practice.

We all know that some "gods" don't like bacon, or shellfish or mixed-blend fabrics, but do condone slavery, murder and rape. I'll stick to eating bacon.

Mr. Aquilina wonders where our country is heading, and the answer is nowhere. As long as religions want to keep our country in the Dark Ages, we will not advance. We will only roll over to the hate, bigotry and ignorance provided by a 2,000-year-old storybook that was copied from earlier myths and fables. I was 9 years old when I realized that God and Santa were the same person. It's just sad that it was God who killed all of his creations but a few because he had a bad day.

Hail bacon, and praise the lard!

Henry Spalding

Las Vegas

Not a death sentence

I'm sure most of us were glad to see Ammar Harris get the death penalty for the horrific crimes he committed, although the chances of that penalty ever being carried out are pretty slim ("Harris sentence: Death," Thursday Review-Journal). Harris will now spend countless years on death row at taxpayer expense, while his attorneys file appeal after senseless appeal. He will probably die of natural causes or old age before the state ever puts him to death.

This is one case where there is no doubt what occurred or who committed the crime. His sentence should be carried out within 30 days.

Tim Hicks

Las Vegas

Killer in hiding

Regarding the article on convicted killer Ammar Harris ("Strip shooter refuses to listen," Tuesday Review-Journal), excuse me? I cannot believe what I just read. Perhaps someone can explain to me how a person guilty of 11 charges, including three first-degree murder counts, can refuse to appear in court for testimony from the victims' families. How can this be possible?

Harris should have been bound, gagged and carried into court if necessary, and been forced to listen to every single word the victims' families had to say. Where is the justice for them?

Kristine Maly

Henderson

Gun-control hypocrites

I'm not one who complains much about anything. However, I'm fed up with politicians, especially Hillary Clinton and anyone else running for president, who say they will take law-abiding citizens' firearms away, which means taking away our right to meet armed force with armed force.

What is sickening is that these same anti-gun folks have armed security, in the form of the Secret Service and/or highly paid security services. State governors who are anti-gun also have armed security details, and sheriffs and chiefs of police all have the right to carry under after they retire.

It's all political garbage, paid for by hard-working voters who supply the tax money. Yet I have never heard a debate moderator mention this, perhaps by asking: "Do you think it's fair for you and your family members to have armed security paid for by American taxpayers, whose Second Amendment rights you want to take away, when their only personal protection may be a personally owned firearm?"

I'm confident millions of law-abiding gun owners who are members of both political parties have asked themselves, "Who do these arrogant politicians think they are to assume their lives are more important than those of the people who put them in office?" I believe the majority of nonpoliticians who support gun control are criminals who cannot legally own a gun and those who believe the police will save them.

Security is not a basic police function. I would have no problem with registration of handguns if I trusted it to end there, but I feel it would jump-start total confiscation. Many shooting incidents over the past few years have happened in states with very strict gun laws. I agree there are some people who should not own guns, but punishing everyone for the crimes of a few is not the answer.

Ed McCourt

Henderson