Madam, - Father Leonard Taylor (August 21st) suggests an inadequacy in Cllr Malcolm Byrne's understanding of God as "one of love, forgiveness, understanding and tolerance".
"Laudable as the secular Bible is, there are many pages missing," he says. Yet Jesus picked corn and healed on the Sabbath - both actions forbidden from pages in the Bible.
He refused to condone the stoning to death of Mary Magdalen as ordered from a page in the Bible.
By the looks of it, Jesus would have enjoyed tearing a few pages from the Bible himself! - Yours, etc.,
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DECLAN KELLY, Whitechurch Road, Rathfarnham, Dublin 14.