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Rev. Arie Bertsch, Minot
After two weeks of Lloyd Omdahl’s “Local Opinion” articles in the Minot Daily News and other major newspapers throughout the state, criticizing clergy and churches, I have to speak up.
First, Omdahl made the comment, “We have prominent preachers trying to be kingmakers in secular politics.” (This was in his “COVID-19 Message for the Clergy”.) I see the same thing of him. I see a politician and bureaucrat trying to be a pastor or theologian. It is evident from his article that he is neither a pastor nor a theologian. He misquotes the Bible text that he uses, he takes them out of context, and he only uses some parts of Scripture leaving out the rest.