Connie Gordon's letter to the Times-Picayune in response to Crispin Sartwells's column "Let's hear it for the doubting Thomases"- Published in the Times/Picayune on January 6, 2002.

A thousand times thank you for printing Crispin Sartwell's column, "Let's hear it for the doubting Thomases" (T-P, Jan. 3, 2002). A resounding amen to his comments. His words on the senselessness of all religious belief beautifully reflect my own thinking for most of my adult life, especially since Sept. 11, but I could not state it so perfectly.

I have long thought that if intelligent human beings would think rationally and study the world around them, they would see the idiocy of all religious doctrines, and therefore see the dangers religions perpetrate on world society. Not one of them is the right one, for they all believe their's is right; therefore none can be. If there ever was a god/creator, they have long -ignored their creation. Humans alone are responsible for the preservation and perpetuation of life on this planet.

Connie Gordon

The text of Crispin Sartwell's column, as published in the Philadelphia Enquirer, can be read by clicking here.

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