Secular dangers

9th March 2001, 12:00am

Professor Dawkins’s creed is that secularism leads to tolerance; that religion has the opposite effect. Which religion were Stalin and Lenin? Po Pot? Mao? It was secularism that wreaked havoc in the 20th century.

Jim Gourlay

48 South View Road

Sharrow, Sheffield

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