This letter appears in today's Leicester Mercury:
Why mock those who do believe?
Jobee's attack on bishops ("Remove Bishops from the Lords", Mailbox, April 8), while purporting to be a product of his "lucid mind" (his words, not mine), only managed to display an unhealthy contempt for all things non-secular.
His lucidity was only surpassed by his complete misunderstanding of the difference between poetry and doggerel.
The real question is: why do some secularists and atheists find it necessary to mock religion? Could it be they are unhappy living in their godless world?
Lewis Dunkley, Wigston Fields
You cannot deny Jesus' existence
I hope I may be permitted to respond to criticism of my earlier letter in which I compared the absurdity of the denial of the existence of Jesus Christ to Holocaust denial.
Callum Collier misunderstood my point; it was the very existence of Jesus Christ which was being challenged, and this is a historical fact.
I do not apologise for expressing the truth. Alan Pendragon's letter was more hostile: he may query my simile, as is his right, but it is certainly not puerile.
It is worthwhile pointing out that our Muslim brethren also regard Jesus Christ as a significant prophet in their faith. Even many so-called secularists acknowledge Jesus Christ as a good man.
Mark W. Jacques OP, Quorn
