Letter: Proud of our rave in the nave

Sir: Guy Davies suggests that, if Kenneth Wilson no longer believes the Bible is true, he should leave the priesthood and renounce Christianity , and he adds that "perhaps the Rationalist Press Association would give him a job".

I am afraid we have no vacancies at the moment, but the idea isn't as silly as it may seem. We have always had friendly relations with progressive elements of various denominations, several members throughout the century of our existence have been clergymen, one of our leading figures during the first half of the century was the former Roman Catholic priest, Joseph McCabe, and one of our present directors is a former Anglican priest.

A main strand of the freethought movement has always been rational criticism of the Bible and indeed of all religious scriptures and doctrines, and we welcome the very significant work done in this area by protagonists of "Liberal Christianity", which we at least would never stoop to describing as "intellectually dishonest".

NICOLAS WALTER

Rationalist Press Association

London N1