Sir, – Michael Martin (Letters, September 29th), not unreasonably, asks that “we should also be prepared to ask the believers (by which he seems to mean religious believers) how do you actually know what you believe is true?”
Surely this is a question we should be able to ask of all believers, since non-religious, of which there are many denominations, are also believers even if their belief may be in an absence – something very difficult to prove.
We should also be able to ask all believers, religious and non-religious, about the consistency of their belief system: whether all a religious person’s beliefs are consistent with their concept of God and whether a non-religious person’s belief system stands up to logical examination without the existence of a God. – Yours, etc,
LIAM MULLIGAN,
RM Block
Letterkenny,
Co Donegal.
