Lancing the boil of organised religion

WA MILLER (Write Back, November 8) raises a valid issue about the ‘Christian world’ in the West. I would refer him to the online site http://universaljourney.org regarding ‘Christendom’.

I would suggest that advocating a truthful examination, especially, initially, within our education system at secondary and above levels, of monotheism’s origins and the subsequent creation of the three Abrahamic faiths in the one God — be that Yahweh, God, The Father, or Allah — could help lance the boil of religions, which are nothing more than the cultural imperialism of creating a shared identity beyond ‘national’ borders.

This was a strategy most exploited by the Romans from early in the fourth century, as they sought to establish (and succeeded) a universal Roman identity throughout the Roman empire before creating a Holy Roman empire.