SIR: In answer to the letter headed "Religion of fear" from Mr R Slater in the Bolton Evening News of Wednesday May 20, I would like to say the following.

What if the story of the Cross is not a fairy tale, but is true? What if there is a God and the story of Jesus is true?

What if there is a life after death? What about the history of Jesus? What about Israel? What about Nazareth, Jerusalem, the Garden of Gethsemane? It is all there, You can find out by going there, or looking at the map. Jesus' history is true. Jesus lived, and died on earth in a small area of the Middle East in what is Israel today. That is a confirmed fact of history.

There are over 900 million Christians in the world today. Never mind the mockers of Christianity.

M Maas

Horwich.

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