Religion’s record
The current tragedy is just the latest appalling genocide in a list that includes the Crusades, the Inquisition, the expansion of the Muslim and the Spanish empires, the Reformation, the Holocaust, the Moslem Hindu riots in the post-war Indian Subcontinent, the endless hostilities in Palestine, the continuing Shia/Sunni bombings in Iraq and many more.
It is not surprising that, despite the good works that many religious organisations do, so many people may feel that the world might be a better and happier place without any religions at all.
HUGH M MACKENZIE
Bonnethill Road
Pitlochry