God and nuclear arms
Sir,—Arthur May becomes more understandable. He is contra-funda-mentalist. So am I, but what I don’t have is an obsession with them. I learned long ago from H. S. Haskins, “Treat the other man’s faith gently; it is all he has to believe with.” I could, of course, quote from the scriptures, but Arthur would probably think I considered them infallible. How quaint. Any way, no-one ever considered Haskins infallible. Then he is anticapitalist. So am I; but I suspect that both of us, if we had any money to invest might think somewhat differently. It is foolish to put God on the side of nuclear aggression, since nuclear aggression is the supreme obscenity; surely we can agree on that. As for Armageddon, I thought when I was there that it was no place to stage an All Black test match, let alone a major international battle. Of course, I speak literally, but Arthur May is the G.O.M. of literalism, is he not?—Yours, etc.,
KENNETH SCHOLLAR. December 21, 1985.
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