Letter: Toxic brands

IAN Ramsay (Letters, 16 March) asks if the difference between believer and non-believer is not more fundamental than that between one brand of believer and another.

Apparently not, since believers throughout history have spent their time persecuting, torturing, murdering and making war against other believers, and are still at it on a grand scale throughout the world. Most of our intractable global conflicts have religious and doctrinal differences and sectarianism at their poisoned roots.

Non-believers have largely kept their heads down, and escaped relatively unscathed, mainly because they have no priests, no ministers, no rabbis, no imams, no dogma, no doctrine, no churches, no holy books and no organisation. There is no Church of Unbelief, despite religious hysteria over Richard Dawkins and “militant atheism”.

Peter Curran

Main Street

Kirkliston, West Lothian

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