Joseph Kennedy
SIR,—What kind of reasoning is it that gives a man credit for a 'strong and enduring religious faith' aside from what it has meant in his life (lain Macleod, June 25)? Furthermore, when we are earlier told that he was (is?) 'only a yard this side of being unscrupulous . . . ruthless, relentless and unforgiv- ing in his ambition for himself and his family,' might he not even be deserving of censure for professing a faith that has apparently not touched him deeply?
Is a person with religious faith necessarily better than one without, everything else being equal? And if people claim this is so, then we'll have to go the next step and ask if a religious scoundrel is necessarily a better person than one who simply cannot believe but remains a decent person.
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