Dear Editor:
As an atheist I find that it is impossible to reason with believers, because believers have no reason.
There are things about organized religion which I resent. Christ is revered as the Prince of Peace, but more blood has been shed in his name than than any other figure in history. (If there was such a man at all). You show me one step forward in the name of religion and I’ll show you a hundred retrogressions. Remember, they were men of god who destroyed the educational treasures at Alexandria, who perpetrated the horrible Inquisition throughout Europe and Mexico, preached that death is better than life.
In conclusion: Religion is believing what you know ain’t true!! One shot of penicillin has done more for mankind than all the prayers ever said by ignorant men. Alan Schwartz
Ortonville