The Archdeacon of Chichester urges the congregation of dignitaries to remember "the many who died for peace, so we may live in peace" ("Troops put on Iraq war alert", November 11).
Tragically, the killing fields of 20th-Century civilisation are testimony to the brutal and undeniable fact that no agreed solution has yet been found to the problem of living in peace.
This suggests all ideologies hitherto constructed, whether political or religious, have been to a large extent false.
Surely, we must now begin to see (and very fast) that unthinking fanaticism, self-righteous bigotry, dogmatic intolerance and war itself are not only an offence against God but also a betrayal of truth and a threat to our survival in the 21st Century.
-Richard W Symonds, Lavington Close, Ifield, Crawley
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