The letter “We need to maintain values of America” (Dec. 13) is sad and is un-American and is un-Christian. What I read in that letter was anger, disdain, disrespect, and the rantings of a lost soul.

The writer makes two mistakes. The first is to claim he understands American culture. He believes it is failing because of immigrants from other cultures — and he implies that he means other non-white cultures. He believes those immigrants from white Europe are the only ones worthy of respect and worthy of admittance.

The writer’s disdain for those other cultures reveals more about him. He is narrow-minded. He is angry. It’s a lie to claim it’s those “illegals” he really hates; he simply hates those not white.

No one is forcing him to experience Somali cuisine.

No one is trying to impose sharia law on him. Lies and propaganda make him think that is the case. He is angry because he is expected to be politically correct, to cast aside some of America’s past such as racism. He refuses to understand that American culture is evolving and growing and is all inclusive. I’m sure he’s angry. I even say that. But the earliest Irish immigrants were hated. The wave of Germans and Poles were hated. The Italians were hated. So now non-whites as a group are hated too.

His second mistake is to claim he understands Christianity, to believe he is a Christian. Instead he expresses the attitudes of Christian nationalists who want to force their twisted version of Christianity on everyone — ten commandments in every school (how ironic–sharia law would do the same). Christian nationalists are not really practicing Christianity, nor is the writer. Let’s not forget Jesus was a Jew from the area of Palestine, looked like a Middle Eastern man from that area (dark-skinned, no blue eyes), spoke their language, never said “Merry Christmas” to anyone nor did his apostles. He called to his disciples and to us to join him rather than command them. He did not carry a gun — or knife. He disdained violence. Christian nationalists would have refused Jesus entry into this country.

Here is the point and it is the most important point.

This was a letter filled with hate sent in the Christmas season when our country nationally celebrates a Christian holiday, closes its federal buildings, its stores, its schools. And that Christian holiday has at its center someone who was an “illegal immigrant” fleeing to another country when an evil leader condemned all male infants of his age to death. He was one whose teachings espoused love and forgiveness, not hate and bitterness.

I would encourage the writer to return to his Bible and to his Ten Commandments and study. Do you have them hung in your own house, sir?

Diane Andrasik is a Dunkirk resident.