Writer’s letter was insensitive to faith views of others

Ms. Pargeter’s letter of Saturday, April 22, citing the front page Herald photograph of Friday the 14th, speaks for itself.

Ms. Pargeter, I don’t present myself as an expert on religion, but on this issue I take exception with you. Your ill-considered inferences and one glaring factual error effectively denigrate the religious belief of others, and indeed believers world-wide, at a particularly sacred time in our calendar. There exists within your letter an air of anti-Christian sentiment in the vein and name of populism.

I’m sure the writer understands the evolutionary process in writing. Here is a case where the writer needs to be less heavyhanded, moderate in tone, and would be well-advised to find other sources. Your “Easter as a grim myth” I found to be unnecessarily insensitive and needlessly strident. The indiscriminate shouting from the rooftop of one’s belief or nonbelief in this manner, on an issue clearly sacred at this time to others, has no or limited value. Ms. Pargeter, I believe you are better than this.

Further, as a Catholic, I point to a factual error in your letter which is that, despite your assertion to the contrary, Easter does not exist as a grim myth within the Christian faith. I think most if not all members of the Christian faith, myself included, refer to it as its epicentre, the core of our beliefs and an uncompromisable truth inherent to our faith.

Gerald Morton

Lethbridge