From John Ewing
Your editorial “Time to accept that atheism, not god, is odd” makes the case that since atheists are a minority group, they should be considered abnormal (6 March, p 3). However, almost every belief system has a history of stamping out non-believers, whereas there are, to my knowledge, no recorded instances of the reverse, so there is a definite selective pressure against atheism. Calling atheism abnormal is then no more logical than calling left-handedness abnormal.
Preuschdorf, Bas-Rhin, France
