Letters: Millennials determine new standard of virtue

Millennials have set a new standard of virtue other generations should follow. Photo/Getty

My kids, who are Millennials, have the millennium bug.

It's a social disease that enables them to see through the various cons and frauds that we, older people, want to practise upon them.

All of our causes, propaganda, "scientific studies" and research, (all carefully designed to get them to do what we want), are detected by them easily, and avoided the way an experienced rat avoids a trap.

Why they have this uncanny ability to detect our plots, schemes and social engineering is a mystery (maybe Helen Clark, with her massive social engineering campaigns has something to do with it?) But they definitely have it.

Curiously, Millennials are typified by a sense of virtue that has been missing for decades. It's not a virtue they learned at school, or from the media, either.

Or at home.

Older generations need to measure themselves by this new standard of virtue, to be taken seriously by the new post-1990s human variant.

GJ PHILIP
Taupo

Julie Calnan (Letters, April 30) writes against "good Christians" demonising homosexuals based on the Bible. She then says, "Surely it is time to stop cherry-picking quotes out of a 2000-year-old book".

To me, the issue isn't about demonising homosexuals but about opposing people who twist the 2000-year-old book to accommodate their agenda and then attack others.

Calnan herself has cherry-picked Bible quotes out of context to attempt to justify her argument.

The scriptures she quoted could, as she says, be used to justify child abuse, slavery and not eating certain foods. This is similar to how other selected verses have been used to justify exploitation of the environment, apartheid, anti-Semitism and the oppression of women.

However, when the whole of scripture is taken in context none of these evils is justifiable. There are other passages that present opposite views and wider understandings.

On the other hand, when the whole Bible is considered, homosexual behaviour cannot be justified.

There is not one scripture to plainly support it and it takes a lot of cherry picking to get rid of the nine passages that identify it as sin and the numerous mentions of male-female marriage (including Jesus' own words).

BOB BOARDMAN
Ngongotaha