San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1924-03-30
NO PROFIT IN RELIGIOUS
ARGUMENT.

To the Editor:
Well sir, seems that Mr.. Wee has
opened the battle again and | can't
help but say that | admire his ability
to take punishment.
As near as l can make out. the
whole works started over the Bible
being read in the city schools. but
it seems TO have drifted into politics.
religion, the marriage question. labor
situation, tax reduction, scarcity OF
Scotchmen in heaven, amount of kick
in bootleg whiskey, the amount of
peanuts an elephant can eat, why the
ocean is SO close to the shore and
| am beginning to wonder where il
will all end.
To get back to the start, maybe Mr..
Wee will agree with me when / say
that religion is bad thing TO argue
about. SO far as making any head
the cannibals in Africa about the diff
ference between flapper and a
kangroo. and the ACCESSIBILITY OF
recognizing Soviet Russia. There real
ly amt no use. On one occasion.
was having somewhat of a friendly
dispute with a friend of. mine (of an
opposite faith) and after we had dis
cussed and cussed the merits and de-
merits of the Ku Klux Klan (always
good argument) the city admins.
tration. the "Bok Peace Plan" and
several other things, of more or less
Importance. we finally drifted on to
religion. We knocked each Others
religion pretty good and things were
getting about as warm as summer
time along the equator, but when j
claimed, more of less truthfully, that
religion had caused, with all it's good
more wars than any other thing
blaming his religion for a good part
of it, and giving him few examples
that would have convinced flea on
Mexican hairless dog, or a bow
legged rhinoceros or even pigeon
toed jclIy-fish, he rubbed his partly
bald head, / suppose in an effort to
find a place for it to sink in, then,
like a man, on whom bootleg whiskey
and the saint-vitus dance had started
working at the same time, he jumped
up, went through several of Walter
Camps "Daily Dozen" and finished
by calling me narrow minded and
several other unpleasant things. And
| had convinced him of absolutely
nothing.
There you are. You can't convince
man his religion is wrong, be he
Protestant, Catholic, Jew, Mohamme-
dan or so-called, heather, so what
the use in trying.
Now for the Bibles.
You tell them Cor they tell you)
one Bible or the other is all wrong
They will say theirs is as good as
yours and las you have already seen
cheaper. To be sure the cheapest
things are not always the best, but
for instance, they may argue that YOU
can get a wife for little over n dol
lar first installment), whereas you
can get the measles, chicken pox,
k-jaw, whooping cough and love
sick for nothing and MS n matter of
fact. they are somewhat similar 70
having q wife, except that you still
have to keep on paying for the wife
even after you get rid Of her. To be
sure. the cheaper things may kill you
but so may n wife, so it is a pretty
good argument at that. do not
mean to create the impression that
their Bibles are better than ours.
for I don't know, | have never read
them.
You can't convince man he's wrong
Though evidence be ample,
By telling him to watch your dust
And follow your examine.
c. D'YROMA.