WHY MT VIC CROSS AND PARAPARAUMU STATUE SHOULD AND WILL STAY PUT (Letter published in Dom Post, April 24)

 

David Bernard, who complains about the Mt Victoria cross, and J Chris Horne (Points, April 22) who carps at the statue at Paraparaumu, sound like a pair of grumpy old men. May I refer them and Horne’s ‘increasing multitudes of non-believers’ to the facing page’s headline Faith ... energises the Queen at 88, for the reason why the cross and statue should and will remain where they are. 

Julia du Fresne

ORIGIN OF EARTHQUAKE STRENGTHENING HYSTERIA IS DEMONIC (Letter to CHB Mail, April 21)

 

 

The Christian Churches of Central Hawke’s Bay and many people in the wider community must be shocked and saddened by the closure of the beautiful and beloved church of St Mary’s. We empathise with its priest and parishioners and with the Waiapu Diocese, caught on the horns of the ‘earthquake strengthening’ dilemma which is crippling denominations throughout the country with a huge financial burden. 

Given that we’re infinitely more likely to be hit by a bus crossing the road than by falling masonry in a church, this smacks of mass hysteria and demonstrates a total failure of Kiwi common sense. What’s more, the timing of this announcement, on the eve of the Easter Triduum, confirms my belief that it’s origin is demonic. 

Julia du Fresne

THE MEDIA HAVE FAILED UTTERLY IN THEIR BASIC DUTY OF REPORTAGE (Letter to Dom Post, April 15)

The public have been ‘lulled into a false sense of security’ (Kiwis taking to ‘hillbilly heroin’, April 15) not just over oxycodone, but also in regard to a major reason for so many New Zealanders’ addiction to it. Like Charlotte Dawson they’ve undergone abortions and are paying a terrible price, some like Charlotte with their lives. And why have we been lulled into this false sense of security? Because the media in refusing to acknowledge the damage done not just to the unborn but to their mothers and fathers, have failed utterly in their basic duty of reportage.

Julia du Fresne

THE BIBLE ESTABLISHED GENDER EQUALITY (Letter to Dom Post, April 10)

Nicholas C Sault (Letters, April 10) says the Bible’s injunction to women that ‘thy husband shall rule over thee’ condemned women to subjugation and lost opportunity. He neglects to mention the other side of the equation - which established precisely that gender equality he seems to think we recently invented - that her husband should toil and sweat all the days of his life. Or that this unhappy arrangement was a consequence of husband and wife both deciding that rather than follow God’s design, they’d do their own thing. Thousands of years on we’re still doing it, and look where it’s got us.

 

Julia du Fresne

GOD NO LONGER GETS A CAPITAL G (Letter to Dom Post, March 27)

I’ve noted recently that your paper seems to have abandoned the grammatical imperative of according proper nouns a capital letter, at least in the case of the deity, Mother gets the phone call she dreaded, April 1, being a case in point. To be consistent you will of course accord the same treatment to such as the dominion post, prime minister key and very obviously, mohammed. Things could get interesting. 

Julia du Fresne 

44% INCREASED RISK OF BREAST CANCER AFTER JUST ONE ABORTION (Letter to Dom Post, March 27)

Do the 3000 New Zealanders who in response to the no-makeup selfie trend have donated $50,000 towards research into breast cancer realise meta-analyses already carried out report a 44% increased breast cancer risk among women with at least one abortion? And that the risk rises to 89% after three abortions? 

Perhaps research is needed more urgently into the meta-profits being made in the international abortion industry by pharmaceutical and medical companies, the reasons why feminist and pro-abortion lobbies continue to be powered by Government acceptance and legislation, and why the media will not investigate and report on this leviathan which has claimed the lives of so many women throughout the world.

 

Wake up, women! You’re being taken for a ride.

 

Julia du Fresne