IN answer to the question 'Should we stop teaching religion in schools' there can only be one sensible answer.

This country is one of many that is swamped by religions, so numerous, and inventive, that new ones often surface from the mire of lies, fear and ignorance that has been handed down from generation to generation. In desperation to answer the eternal question "Who are we?"

We are what we make of life.

Despite the 'virtuality' brought about by stories or 'spin' often invented by sick individuals 'some not so sick that they believe it themselves' who use it as a force to gain a grip on the throat of life.

The lies and fantasy of religion will continue to lap against the shores of truth for the next two or three hundred years.

But it is losing its power, and eventually it will be drawn back into the depths from whence it came and become dissolved in oblivion.

We only live once!

Tell the children the truth.

R HARVEY-MORAN, Barnes Avenue, Rawstenstall.