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he drink obviously helps, as you can see the world more clearly, but even after three glasses, I couldn’t identify the atheists at the bar.

Were they the ones with black capes and horns coming out of their heads, or were they the ones dressed up as women?

To be honest (which I know is a rarity in this country) I’m not really concerned if people believe in God or in pixies and fairies.

As we all know it is all about faith, and a belief in something that you can’t see, touch, or speak to. I wonder about the members of the radical groups and what they are all about, as obviously they have a problem with atheists.

Let’s put it this way, at least five billion people would not agree with their viewpoint, and if that doesn’t make them think, then God help them.

My advice to them is to forget the atheists, the communists, the Shia, the Zulu, the orthodox and the un-orthodox, the Christians, the Ahmadis, the Mormons, the Sun worshippers and the bone-rattlers, the pigmies, the homosexuals, the East African supreme god Mulungu, the saliva of the Hogan of the Dogon people of Mali, the sacred kings of the Mossi people of Burkina Faso, the West African Eshu, (who as we all know is the messenger between God and humans), Isaiah Shembe the self-proclaimed Zulu prophet, and all the other Gods and heavenly bodies that exist in this world.

It’s all out there in books about the world and its people, what they do, and what they think, and what they believe in, and it all comes under “education” — and please, whatever you do, don’t tell the world you can’t read!

In a world that can split finite atoms, land people on the moon and bring them back, perform incredible laser and cryosurgery, understand nuclear magnetic resonance, and can calculate that Sagittarius is about 25,000 light-years from the Sun, then isn’t it about time that members of radical groups started to do something useful in this world?

Jesus to the Christians was the Son of God, but not to the Muslims, or indeed too many other beliefs — so what do we do about that? Shall we get the angels to toss a coin — heads he’s mortal, tails he’s heavenly? Can you see the futility of it all?

Imagine if you can a world that is totally intolerant, as shown by the members of the group.

In a world where everyone is determined that their point of view and beliefs are the only ones of any value, we would all be at constant war!

David Wallis
Medan