‘Smart clubbing, unholy nights’

A chara, – While I'm reluctant to add further to the free publicity that the club "Church" has already garnered by shouting "down with that sort of thing" ("Smart clubbing, unholy nights", Life Style, June 4th), there is something deeply disturbing not only in the casual sacrilegiousness of the concept, but in the gushing approval it received in the article.

If such mockery were aimed at the sacred beliefs and symbols of Islam or any other faith it would provoke outrage and be declared at least offensive, if not indeed a hate-crime. Why when Christianity is the target should it be encouraged and treated as good clean fun? – Is mise,

Rev PATRICK G BURKE,

The Rectory,

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Clogh Road,

Castlecomer,

Co Kilkenny.