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Politics : Should God be replaced?

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To: Solon who wrote (17153)4/20/2004 4:09:35 AM
From: average joe  Read Replies (1) of 28931
 
Angry letters to God prompt call to police

God doesn't have a ZIP code or a post office box, so some letters addressed to him are being delivered to a St. Paul church.

St. Paul police were called to Como Park Lutheran Church last week to collect the most recent, an angry 17-page missive someone left in the lobby.

An officer concluded in a preliminary report: "No specific threat to anyone but God."

"It's not a crime to write an angry letter, as long as it's not threatening or harassing, even to God," said officer Paul Schnell, St. Paul police spokesman.

Earlier this month, a garbage bag full of letters to God and a paperback Bible were found in the church. The letters appear to have been written by the same person.

The church received similar letters two years ago.

"I assume that he thought this was the place to drop them off because that's what we're all about," said the church's administrative secretary, who wouldn't give her name.

Though the secretary isn't clear why the letter writer is angry with God, she gets the idea that he was wrongfully blamed for something when he was young and he's asking God, "Why did you let this happen?"

twincities.com
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