AS a lifelong atheist, I've grown used to reading sickly, sentimental, sanctimonious claptrap from Christians like the Rev Kevin Logan (Letters, June 13).

He seems unaware that most of the UK population lead good, kind, honest and happy lives without the need for God, Christ, churches, the Bible or clergymen like him.

I laughed at his naive description of Christianity as "the creed that has brought law and order to a lost world."

Christians have killed more people and caused more wars than all the tyrants in history.

N FOSTER, Bird Street, Brierfield.

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