Sir, – Patsy McGarry deplores the Bible as being full of “vulgarity and violence” (“In a Word”, June 24th). If the Bible’s analysis of humankind were less specific than The Irish Times’s normal daily output, I would be disappointed. Having lost an accurate view of sin, we would also lose the prospect of forgiveness. – Yours, etc,
DAVID WILSON,
Dún Laoghaire,
Co Dublin.