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Sir,—L. H. Carmichael suggests Arthur May reads the Bible through “dark glasses. - ’ Anything is better than reading it through rose-coloured ones, as done by so many. “Christians.” To approach the Bible with honest doubt is not only necessary but desirable, so numerous are the additions, subtractions, anomalies and contradictions. The mythology surrounding Easter, Christmas, the virgin birth and Christ’s resurrection alone testify that genuine doubt has greater value than blind faith. Who does L. H. Carmichael include in his list of damned nonbelievers? He would predictably include the obvious “heathe”— the Muhammehans, the Hindus, the Taoists and the Buddhists. Would he include the untold victims of the Spanish Inquisition, the Albigensian and the “Christian”- Crusades? And the Gnostics, Hussites and Waldenses? All have been Christians, all “believers,” all persecuted in the name of Christianity.. With Nietsche we
may observe, “even God has his Hell: it is his love for man.’’—Yours, etc., BILL FILSHIE. April 15, 1982.
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