Medical building needs covered drive-through

I am a patient with Kannapolis Internal Medicine with Carolina Medical Center.  I was a patient before the move to the biotech campus. My request is that David Murdock put at least a one lane drive-through at the back of this Medical Building which faces Dale Earnhardt and N.C. 3 and remark the parking lines.

I have been soaked trying to get to a wheelchair from my car with the aid of my husband. My husband was soaked also. I have seen many nursing home patients go through the same thing.  Sick children and x-ray patients have experienced the same.

Kannapolis Internal was located on Jackson Park/Lane Street, Kannapolis, before the move. We had a wonderful covered drive through at Lane Street.  Even the Bank/Credit Union on Dale Earnhardt next to the Medical Building has a covered drive though for their customers.

Through my research, I have found out that Castle & Cooke built the building owned by Mr. Murdock.  Even before the building was built, CMC battled Mr. Murdock to put the covered drive-through on the building.  The answer was no because the covered drive through would  not match the other buildings on the campus.

Please, Mr. Murdock, be a humanitarian and add this addition.  There are a million reasons that you could use not to do this, but there are thousands entering this building daily who need this service.

— Jane McKnight

Salisbury

Evidence of evolution

I would like to respond to the articles “Losing Faith” and “Questions about Evolution.”

I think there is sufficient evidence for evolutionary concepts. For example I hear tell that chimpanzees share 95 percent of their DNA with humans. A chimpanzee has the same number of teeth a human has..

As for finding answers in the Bible or in the church, doubtless everything that’s come out of churches in the past 1,600 years is absolute, scientific fact. To give some examples: It’s a sin to give pregnant women pain killing drugs, and astronomers have discovered a hole in the sky, the entrance way into heaven. Pakistan is going to launch World War III in 2000. When I was about 9 years old, I told my Sunday school teacher I didn’t believe a donkey talked in the Bible. He acted like he was going to hit me. A full grown man intimidating a 9-year-old boy over something that sounds like it came out of Dr. Seuss.

As for “Losing Faith,” I suppose it was bound to happen. This isn’t the middle ages. I once wrote a letter to my neighborhood preacher. I told him in 40 years it will be harder for guys like him to exist and get anywhere. People weary of religion, like women got tired of wearing corsets. He’s lost half his congregation. I suppose they got tired of him telling everybody nonbelievers are fools and anyone who believes in evolution is an idiot. I think that only goes so far.

I like the idea of this universe being the result of chance. Because if it is, then nobody is going to hell. Nobody going to hell. Isn’t that a terrible thought? And without hell, Jesus might not be a $71 billion-a-year government-subsidized industry, right up there with McDonald’s and GM. Praise the Lord!

— R. Howard Andrews

Spencer

Let us pray

If you look carefully you see almost all objection to “officials” praying before a meeting is the First Amendment language “Congress shall make no law respecting the establishment of religion.”  The objections are followed by feelings of oppression, being in a minority or being downright insulted by their prayer.  I might point out that there is a comma followed by this phrase in the First Amendment which further states, “Or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.”  We don’t hear much about this concern — “the free exercise thereof,” when Christians pray.

I spoke with a friend about this and he asked me, how would you like someone giving a Muslim prayer before every meeting?  My first response was, I would not care but thinking carefully about it, I think it would grow old fast and I might feel just as others feel about Christian prayer on every occasion.

On the other hand, suppose you happen to live in the Middle East where the predominant religion is Muslim; would you expect to hear a Christian prayer?  Not on your life. It would not be permitted.

I find it hard to understand exactly what religion is being established.  When we say someone is a Christian, we find a great plurality of beliefs.  Further, there is no insistence that you pray along or even become a Christian.

I think the greatest objection I have is that many Christians join in this debate with their concern being about the “political correctness” of Christian prayer; which only serves to further divide our country.  There is nothing in the Constitution concerning hurt feelings.

Unlike President Obama, I feel we are a Christian nation and very accepting of contrary religious beliefs.  So, let the Christians pray, for goodness sake!

— Richard Roberts

Kannapolis

Conservatives stray

  The conservatives that run the North Carolina House of Representatives have released a budget spending plan that would spend a billion dollars more than the current budget. They want to give a 2 percent pay increase to all state employees, and retirees.

   I thought that conservatives were against more government spending. I guess I was wrong. In creating a new budget, legislators should take the current budget and downsize it by 10 percent, but for some reason, the conservatives that rule our state want more government spending.

—  Chuck Mann

Greensboro

Brave writer in action

Thank you for the great article in Sunday’s Salisbury Post on Larry Macon. I have stood in my yard many days watching the air show. He is one “crazy pilot.”

Now I can put a face and story with the pilot and plane I so admire and get to watch, free of charge, I might add.

I have admiration for David Freeze, also, for his bike rides, keeping on when things were medically tough for him, but most of all getting in the Pitts Special 2B aerobatic plane with Mr. Macon.

— Linne’ Wallace

Salisbury

On ‘Dog needs shade’

The writer is responding to a May 19 letter to the editor.

I just read a letter from a Jack Cornatzer from Salisbury, a concerned citizen. The story was very painful for me to read, being an animal lover. I hope something is being done so as nothing happens to this poor innocent dog, such as contacting animal control. I hope for the animal’s sake he will be taken care of — in a good way, of course.

— Ann DeVoil

Salisbury