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The rip of life.(Letters)(Letter to the editor)
SIR: In your July-August editorial you describe a God who is a cruel, self-obsessed despot who rules by terror; and you reject such a God. Who wouldn't?
Later on you say, "science can produce evidence of having some real correspondence with the world. Theology can tell us precisely nothing. It certainly cannot help us find the fictitious you [God], talk to you or tell us anything about what might lie beyond death."
This suggests that you think that it is only with the advent of science over the last three or four hundred years that we have finally been able to get the evidence which enables us to see through the claims of religion. But science scarcely comes into it. You don't need science to be sceptical about the creation story, the parting of the Red Sea, divine command of the elements, healing of the sick and raising from the dead, the resurrection of ...
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