Moral values went out with the bible

I am probably about the same generation as Ray Thursfield ("God forbid US religion", February 25) as about 50 years ago I also turned my back on religion as I was foolishly under the impression that scientists could resolve all problems.

It took me another 35 years to realise I had made a mistake, in fact as a member of the constituency Labour Party I encouraged the removal of religious education from schools.

However, God is a gentleman and when we said we don't want God taught in our schools He left.

We then asked for school Bibles to be removed, to be largely restricted to special studies, and they were. We now have a society which has few or even no moral values and there is no respect for people or property. We have developed the idea that people are not responsible for their actions (it is due to their upbringing; it is someone else's fault).

We are not allowed to chastise our own children so that they don't know right from wrong, then we wonder why we have children murdering one another or committing suicide.

We are indoctrinated in the falsehood of evolution as formulated by Darwin, yet many of the fossils found have actually been rearranged so they fit in with the theory. Scientists are now trying to develop human/non-human embryos. They may well allow a genie to get out of the bottle which they can't get back in, a bit like nuclear weapons

It is on record that Darwin himself was worried and concerned that people had created a religion out of his theory, which is not what he intended.

It is also on record in a number of places that Darwin was a committed Christian in later life, and regretted publishing the theory.

M F Fawdrey, Swallowfield Drive, Hednesford.