Dear Mr. Tovey

Submitted by Debanjan Banerjee (India), Dec 31, 2011 at 03:35

Dear Mr. Tovey,

Wish you a very happy and prosperous new year. You are right that it matters to India more about the kind of policy the prospective Ameircan president takes and not who the person and his personal beliefs are.

The main contention here is that the constitutional laws of America which govern the political process are pretty much archaic and surely does not reflect global will.

Since America is the ost trongest nation on earth and the decisions that American presidents make have a bearing upon the lives of most of the people in the World , is it not a bad thing that non-Americans are not allowed any saying in how America is governed.

For example how farmers from Virginia and other places of rural America are given more electoral power and say in choosing a US president than say an intellectual in the Arab World or China or Russia for example is to me not only immoral but beyond human norms.

Also I believe immigration rules in America are by their own deiftions immoral and unbiblical since Bible does not talk about immigration rules or interest for that matter. Thereby do you not think that people like you in America who claim to be Christian are doing unbiblical things by supporting American bankers as well as immigration laws ?

Another relevant question here is that most Christians in America (and this is true mostly about Christians in America) consider the World in terms of a contstant battleground between good and evil. But the question is what is good and what is evil ? Why good and evil are there in the World ? Why are they fighting against each other ? Can there be god in evil and vice versa ? Can you kindly answer all these questions about good and evil Mr. Tovey ?

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