I FEEL I must reply to your correspondent Brenda Knopf (Letters, December 31) – who seems to miss the point of my earlier letter. I do not know the Unitarian church which she obviouslty attends.
To describe the writers of the Bible as fallible makes me think that Moses was wasting his time chipping the message of the ten commandments on tablets of stone.
Which is a pity for at the time it was probably better than the Bill of Rights and the world would be a better place if we utilised them. As for the Unitarian church – which part of the fallible Bible do they use – can you pick and choose? Or is it like scientology invented by L Ron Hubbard for the better off ?
The Christian message is “love thy neighbour as thyself” – which brings me to reiterate that nobody has the right to coerce anybody to do anything against his beliefs. The Government has no right to interfere – it is not a political matter – and we shall watch the next election with interest.
ALAN BLANDFORD, Southampton.
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