Fairy tales and fear

I was surprised to see that four pages of Ireland’s biggest-selling daily newspaper

(Irish Independent, August 4) were taken up with coverage of an institution that is based on fairy tales and fear.

The fact that a ‘Tooth Fairy’ or ‘Santa Claus’ around which we can build a moral compass to differentiate between right and wrong still exists is not the issue – this has always been and will continue to be the case until all the gods out there meet up and agree that they are all essentially the same person with the same message: love one another.

Maybe the men who wear pointy hats and sparkly dresses are genuinely scared that some of the kids they are educating to wear pointy hats and sparkly dresses in the future are being educated in a place that allows or promotes the practice of homosexuality, a practice that wholeheartedly embraces the wearing of hats and sparkly dresses.

No, these pointy hat and sparkly dress-wearers cannot even live with the practice of heterosexuality!

The issue is that the moral teachings that we have claimed as belonging to God (or any of the 320 million other gods) actually do exist – love yourself, love your neighbour, love homosexuals, love Muslims, love Protestants, love blacks, love aliens; basically, love one another.

I feel it would be much more practical and a lot more beneficial if the Irish

Independent simply had ‘Love one another’ as its front-page headline and filled the next four pages with genuine advice on how we might achieve this. Name and address with Editor