Belief and reason
Sir: Mr G. Reichardt is justified (October 25) in taking Lord Hailsham to task for his somewhat loose argument for belief in God. However, your correspondent himself is guilty of a non sequitur when he argues that "belief in God has no precise connotation until the believer has defined the degree and method of interference with the natural order wrought by the deity." The Chrisian belief in God is not in a deus ex machina and it does not follow that the person who does not believe in miracles in the popular sense of the word has no right to believe in God. Indeed it could be argued that if the natural order were interfered with and could not be trusted then belief in God might be more difficult for some.
John A. Hall 39 Shedden Park Road, Kelso, Roxburghshire
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