A moral primer
LETTERS
From : Rev Richard H. Hill, David Deacon, Constantine FitzGibbon, E. A. Howe, Josephine Boyle, R. L. Travers, John Biggs- Davison, MP, George Martelli, S. E. Scammell, Adam Sykes, Miss Janet E. Harrison, Miss E. M. J. Pithier, C. M. Cheke, Dr Leon Shirlaw.
Sir: Your contributor, Simon Raven, is always interesting, but I often find it difficult to decide how far he wishes to be taken seriously. If what he writes under the heading 'Religion' in your issue of 2 August is intended as light entertain- ment, the 'adolescent young' for whom he writes may perhaps be lightly entertained, but if they take it seriously they will be badly misled.
The kind of religious faith and outlook which he describes are no more than a travesty of the truth and he seems to dismiss the deep questions of moral philosophy with a superficiality and intellectual arrogance which are ludicrous.
Is his 'substantial primer' intended as a soufflé of cynical wit or as a substantial dish of wisdom?
Richard H. Hill The Vicarage, Bromyard, Herefordshire
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