An eye for an eye

John Keogh rightly condemns the excesses of practising Christians throughout the centuries but spoils it all by bemoaning the fact that ‘Nero didn’t throw enough of them to the lions’ (Letters, Jan 11).

It is true that Christians do not always live up to the ethic which they preach of loving one’s neighbour. That, however, does not render the ideal invalid.

A Leavy

Dublin 13