HOW I agree with John S L Evans (Your Views, Wednesday, September 26), in answer to these people who continually quote certain Biblical texts every other sentence in conversation.
How sad and pathetic when we live in a modern age of reason where knowledge and truth prevails. It was the actions from the likes of these "Bible thumpers", who spread their erroneous beliefs, which created intolerance and untold misery on people just a few hundred years ago.
While religion, as a whole, has given mankind, on the one hand, comfort, it has, on the other hand, created untold misery and bloodshed.
Why don't these people do their research into the true history of mankind and religion? They will then realise this ancient book, and others, were written in an age when mankind was cursed with ignorance.
We are now in the 21st century where mankind's thinking has advanced tremendously! To be an upstanding and righteous person, one doesn't need to follow any particular creed or dogma, created by priests long ago, only two codes of ethics -- Do unto others ..... and, As you sow ... this philosophy being written thousands of years before "modern" religion came into being. How the world would be a better place if everyone followed this!
Mr R Slater
Darvel Close
Bolton
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