Let’s refuse to condemn beliefs of anybody

I am deeply dismayed that Steve McGarry (Letters, July 3), is concerned about the subjective religious belief of someone, even if that person is the Taoiseach. Have we not learned anything?

The events of the last hundred years have surely taught Ireland of the perils in believing that only one opinion is right,….the Christian interpretation. Just look at how this view taught us to treat “fallen women” and their babies, the memorials which we now erect in memory of so many innocent children, show us in sorrow; how wrong we were to trust the beliefs and instructions of a religious organisation.

Somehow, I don’t believe that Ireland is in any danger due to the Taoiseach’s personal beliefs, but we will be in jeopardy if we allow any one organisation espouse again that their belief is the ‘truth’, and that we must follow them and them alone.