Sir, - In his review of Don Cupitt's new book (The Irish Times, November 1st), Donal Flanagan asks: "What future has religion after God? No God, no religion, surely." What extraordinary ignorance, or else arrogance! As if the hundreds of millions of people whose concept of the sacred does not depend on God - Buddhists, Hindus, Taoists, and animists: poor benighted things, all - were thereby somehow deprived of religion. Such parochialism has a darker side, too, when it lends support to the sectarianism that is so very marked, by contrast, among the followers of God. - Yours, etc.,
Redan Street, London W14.