First Hawaiian renovation
results in weighty problem
Today, now that the FHB building is completely rebuilt and is indeed a magnificant structure, I find the new automatic voice and visual weight scale to be a complete abomination!
Who wants his weight flashed on a large screen following a visual "welcome" by the president of the bank? I would think a pretty girl with a beautiful smile would be more appropriate.
The culmination of my complaint was reached when my resulting weight flashed on the screen and was a full pound over that of Bank of Hawaii's scale. Something must be done to correct this intolerable situation!
Robert M. Lowe
Don't blame institutions
for their perverse leaders
Those who pursue God for spiritual reasons mean no harm to anyone, as do the scientists engaged in the definition of our universe. The real danger with any institution is that institution's application, not the institution itself.
Would Darwinistic theories have caused the Holocaust (as McMullin claims they did) without Hitler? Would Christianity have initiated the crusades without the religious leaders who ordered them? No.
We can neither condemn nor exonerate entire philosophies based solely on the actions of the leaders who have applied them. Obviously, no one theory is perfect, and therefore no theory can claim absolute freedom from the potential for abuse by ruthless leaders.
We would be wise to recognize that both science and religion have contributed greatly to our lives, and that the bad must be taken with the good.
Bret Heilig
Kailua
Much more good than bad has come from religion
Science: Bible-believing scientists have included Francis Bacon, Isaac Newton, Johann Kepler, Michael Faraday, Blaise Pascal, Lord Raleigh, Samuel Morse, Georges Cuvier and Louis Pasteur.
Medicine: Hospitals were virtually non-existent before Christians went forth to care for the sick.
Charity to the poor: The American Red Cross, Salvation Army, Christian Children's Fund, World Vision and other organizations.
Education: Christians founded almost every one of the first 120 colleges and universities in America.
Music and Literature: Artists whose works resulted from a desire to glorify God include Michaelangelo, Shakespeare, John Bunyan, Charles Dickens, Hans Christian Anderson, Johann Sebastian Bach, George Frederich Handel and Antonio Vivaldi.
Bigotry and hatred toward religion and Christianity are not new. But such old biases do not justify blaming India's poor on Mother Teresa's faith.
Men who desire to serve Christ may be battered, but we are undaunted.
Bill Lawson
David Youtz
Spending federal money
is no way to help economy
It didn't work!
Japanese landlords are now slashing residential rental rates by 50 percent.
During the '70s the U.S. government spent lots of money likewise to get the economy moving again. Even President Nixon was reported to have said, "Now we are all Keynesians."
It didn't work!
Instead we got "stagflation." This was low output, high inflation and rising joblessness.
Now Hawaii is talking about pumping up the economy by embarking upon a billion-dollar public works construction program. In its aftermath, are we going to say it worked? Or, are we going to say it didn't work?
How did the U.S. get out of "stagflation"? Lower taxes, less regulation and more investment in the Reagan years.
Rijo Hori