SIR - Recent letters indicate that people have very strong views on religion and non-religion.

Whatever our views on the real life on earth and the unknown future after life it is important that we keep a reasonable attitude to these questions.

Reasonable people can live, in peace, with their neighbours because they are firm, comfortable and confident in their own personal beliefs or unbeliefs and have no desire to change, threaten or destroy those who do not share similar beliefs or points of view.

All true religious and true non-religious people are simply those who have chosen quite different paths in life and the true aim of all of them, should be, quite simply, to be reasonable with one another.

We all tend to believe that we are perfect in our religious, non-religious and general fields of life, but, the fact of life is that none of us are perfect and we can only aim at being likeable, friendly, reasonable human beings in spite of the branded names we place upon ourselves, or are placed upon us by others.

Let us try to be sensible, not excessive, in other words aim for an Age of Reasonableness'.

James Priestley, Denbrook Avenue, Bradford