Madam, - In his Thinking Anew column of October 30th, G.F. tells us that Jesus on the cross is "a symbol of anger, the heartfelt anger of God against the evil and sin of this broken world" and that "his anger was assuaged and exhausted in the person of his own Son".
By coincidence, on the opposite page, Martin Mansergh, commenting on a performance of Gluck's Iphigenia in Tauris, writes that "there is something bleakly contemporary about the theme of human sacrifice", in this case "to appease the gods", and goes on about the necessity to "wean people away from human sacrifice, including self-sacrifice, with strong religious overtones."
May I suggest that G.F.'s god is no different and no better than the old pagan gods in his need to have his bloodthirsty anger appeased - and is not the God of Jesus Christ?
In the light of the international situation, those of us who are Christians need urgently to look at our theology and the kind of God we worship: a god of wrath or a God of love? - Yours, etc.,
SOLINE VATINEL,
Avoca Avenue,
Blackrock,
Co Dublin.