Believers are the real victims of discrimination

FOR Andrew Doyle’s information (‘Democracy is abour rights of all’, Letters February 17), my statistics about people’s belief in God come from the Eurobarometer poll 2005 (Letters, February 13).

It can be googled easily without a load of numbers. In it, 73% of people in Ireland believe in God, 22% believe in a spirit of life force (in other words some kind of god or other) and the small remainder, 5%, believe in nothing.

Mr Doyle insinuates that I say we should discriminate against and take away the rights of minority groups. I never said anything of the sort. The only discrimination in this country is against people with religious beliefs. If there’s a “dictatorship”, it’s against us.