READER John Smith attributes most of the world’s wars and atrocities to ‘religions, faiths and ideologies’, and seems to imply that the world would be a safer place if we simply worshipped the things of nature as our ancestors apparently did (Letters, 16th Jan).
Like Mr Smith, I have little time for religion. Jesus had some very harsh words for the religious of his time, but faith we do need since ‘without faith it is impossible to please God’ (Hebrews 11), and we certainly need to worship the Creator rather than the created.
What I am convinced of is that only the gospel message can really accomplish much in putting this fractured world of ours to rights, by bringing sinners (and that’s all of us) to repentance and faith in Jesus Christ.
R H Ashton, Woodland Place, Blackwood
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