Letter: The need for bibles in schools

Having seen the headline, 'Every school to get a King James Bible' on the front page of the Shropshire Star recently, my heart jumped for joy.

At last, I thought, someone was doing something to promote Christianity and reinstate values and virtues, which are slowly being eroded.

Sadly, as I read the article, the usual garbage by the usual suspects was rolled out. Though these groups have given themselves fancy names, they are all atheists who try to deny the existence of a creator God.

These people fill our children with the unscientific, improvable lies of their version of how the world came to be. Ask one of these geniuses how (if Darwin is to believed in his fantasy story entitled The Origin of the Species) did the single cell come into being?

Any truthful scientist will tell you that the complexity of the single cell is so enormous that there is no way that bits of inanimate objects could bond themselves together, breathe life into themselves and then become a living being. It is absolutely impossible, which means that his whole theory is non-scientific nonsense.

Also ask these people about the 'anthropic principles' of which there are dozens, and each is finely tuned to enable life on earth. For example:

1. Earth is about 97 million miles from the sun. If we were a bit closer it would be too hot for life on earth, if it were a bit further away it would be too cold for life on earth.

2. If there was a little more oxygen in the air, we would have instantaneous combustion, if there was a little less oxygen we wouldn't be able to breathe. Again life would not be sustainable on earth. As I have said there are dozens of these principles that the aforesaid groups of people label as being 'a coincidence'.

With regard to the cost of supplying these Bibles to the schools – the cost of about £250,000 is a similar to a premiership footballer's monthly pay. It is less than your average City of London banker would receive in bonuses each month. And from the Government spending point of view, it would hardly cover the cost of a single bombing mission over whichever country it feels like bombing.

Finally, but most importantly, the Holy Bible is not just a historically and culturally important book, it is the word of God, and every word from cover to cover is the truth and should be cherished.

J Mills

Admaston