Atheism doesn’t need a Lourdes cure — it’s a legitimate belief system

DAVID RYAN’S reply (September 30) to my letter on Lourdes (September 24) upset me a little because of his suggestion that I regard atheism as an affliction that needs to be cured.

I reread my original letter to see where he could have got this impression and came to the conclusion that the headline — not chosen by me, of course — was the source of the problem.

No, I do not regard atheism as an affliction.