Religions
Sir, - As Bill Shepard and Lloyd’ Geering have indicated, neither Christianity nor the latercomer, Islam, have carried out the ideals of their founders, which must point to a growing weakness in the respective messages of Christ and Muhammad. If people fall away from religion it must be because something is missing. Real values — love, tolerance, respect for the moral norms of society, — never alter but they must be related to changing times. This is where fundamentalism in all its forms falls down. The world of the two great prophets (and Buddha) was very different from today’s technological society with its problems of nuclear war, pollution, shortages etc., on a scale undreamt of when the Bible and the Koran were composed. None of these problems will be really solved until religion adapts to modern needs. — Yours, etc., VERNON WILKINSON, May 9, 1984.
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