Help The Churches?

Contributed

People are both narrow-minded and short-sighted. A community embodies schools, churches, youth clubs, dance halls, rum bars, bus stops, farms and many other human social and economic organizations. 

In some areas, the church is the school or vice versa. The community must be seen as a holistic sociocultural and economic organization. The church is an important part of that community embodiment. 

Church and schools are responsible in many instances for the dissemination of morals and the maintenance of the moral fiber of our communities, country, and people. I am no religious fanatic, but the historical and present sociological impact and importance of the churches cannot be ignored.  

I am from Bethel Town in Eastern Westmoreland, and that community was created by the Baptist Church in 1838 to settle some of the 450,000 newly freed slaves who became instant squatters. The church and school were literally one. While I have no war with Mr Warmington's point of view not to assist churches. In this case those ideas  should be set aside as he becomes more holistically enlightened.

Contributed by

Michael Spence