Sir: Please allow Dr Dawkins more space in order to
develop further his hierarchy of crimes. He had already tacitly conceded that a person who killed a four-year-old child with a meagre vocabulary should be punished less severely than one who extin- guished the life of an articulate adult. Please allow him to go on and rank for us the relative worth of the handicapped and the elderly within his scheme. Indeed, sure- ly people who persistently advocate the pernicious idea that there is a God must be worth less than other animals. Perhaps it would be only a minor one, if a crime at all, to feed them to the more valuable lions.
Dr Dawkins is very clever when he is debunking Christian notions, but shocking- ly bad at providing an alternative code of ethics which is even remotely attractive. I, for one, would rather live in a society which took seriously the teachings of Christ than one which zealously implemented the ideas of Dr Dawkins.
Timothy Larsen
11 Winterburn Way, Loughborough, Leicestershire
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