Hell House destructive

As to King’s Chapel Church and Sandra Murray (Letters to the editor Nov. 2), we can only wonder what good can come from scaring the bejeebers out of small children in Pastor Daniel Bracken’s Hell House. Aside from stunting the intellectual curiosity of the kids who are subjected to this perversion of Jesus’ message, the potential damage done to a child’s psyche should qualify as child abuse.

Pastor Bracken is evidently an acolyte of the Pastor Keenan Roberts, who says of his original Hell House, “If they [children] end up having nightmares as a result of experiencing this, I think there’s a higher good that would ultimately be achieved …”

Noted conservative philosopher and author Christopher Hitchens gives us hope: “If religious instruction were not allowed until the child had attained the age of reason, we would be living in a quite different world.”

One, I think, preferable to one that allows Pastor Bracken and his followers to inflict this silly, yet destructive, Hell House upon the small and innocent.

Bill Siedler

Wasilla