Free to disagree
In the secularist tradition, Mr McBay brought up the crusades, inquisition and the like, despite them being utterly irrelevant to the topic. I do not make it my business to stir up anti-atheist sentiment by tirelessly cataloguing and recounting their misdeeds. Secularism, being an entirely negative movement, must rely on demonising “religion” as though it were a single uniform entity defined by its worst manifestations.
John Munro asked which “version of Christianity” I think should determine (Letters, 10 May) how much “freedom individuals should be allowed.” Well, mine, of course.
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Hide AdEveryone argues from their own point of view, and there is nothing uniquely sinister when Christians do the same. That’s not to say that I want every aspect of my moral system enforcing by law, but world views express themselves in every context.
Diversity of atheist thought is often cited as evidence of the intelligent free-thinking possible when religious dogma is withdrawn, while diversity in Christian thought is cited as a reason to ignore the views of Christians.
Richard Lucas
Colinton
Edinburgh