Dear Editor:
Your correspondent B. Kendall takes offence at a farce about nuns and wine. There are billions of people who are not in the least offended by mocking of silly rituals that have been created to allow a few “leaders” to control the masses by controlling their actions and thoughts. To bring up 2018 as a reason to be accepting of religious nonsense, and in the same paragraph denying others of their right to laugh at such nonsense, is rather hypocritical.
B. Kendall offers not a shred of offence at the raping and sodomizing of children by the clergy. Not a shred of offence at the coverup of said criminal acts.
What about those of us who are offended by superstitious nonsense being the basis for some of the regulations we have to live with. What about the offensive, to some, presence of monuments to ignorance, otherwise known as churches, which are impossible to ignore. What about the religious programming that pervades the airwaves spreading lies and imploring the susceptible to surrender their money and reason to enrich the likes of Kenneth Copeland, Jim Bakker, Joel Osteen et al.
We no longer need a book that claims the earth was created before the sun and that stars will fall to the earth, to provide us with moral guidance. We no longer need a book that prescribes stoning to death for a number of trivial offences. We no longer need the organizations that use that discredited book to mislead the laity. That these organizations still exist offends me.
Robert Granewall, New Westminster
