Sir – Paul Surman (Letters, April 4) must live a sheltered life if he has failed to notice the increasing trend of disparaging religious faith, and Christianity in particular.
Even as an agnostic with no particular axe to grind, I cannot help noticing the frequent reports of Christians being discriminated against at work and in social and other areas.
I have read articles claiming Easter is just a thinly-veiled pagan festival. It appears that humanists and secularists aim to remove all expressions of religious belief from schools and official organisations; and prominent atheists such as A. C. Grayling, Dawkins,
et al argue the futility of faith (although many fellow atheists are embarrassed by some of the specious reasoning in The God Delusion); and so on. Mr Surman comments on Christians trying to convert him; well, that is quite understandable if they feel they have found something worth sharing, and as has been mentioned in these pages previously, there is no shortage of non-believers — in Cornmarket and elsewhere — trying to convince people otherwise. I try to keep an open mind on these matters, but it is pretty clear which way the pendulum is currently swinging.
Cara Robertson, Banbury