Re: Terry Paulson's April 9 column, "Faith still matters to Americans":

I have faith when I close my refrigerator door the light will go out. I have faith when I get a green light at the intersection, the cross traffic has a red light and will stop. Having faith in imaginary beings and supernatural events based on legends from the Bronze Age goes to show the failure of our educational system.

number of scientific studies already have proved prayers have no positive effect and, in fact, patients in hospitals sometimes do worse when they have faith someone is praying for them. The story of a resurrection of some lord 2000 years ago is identical to the legend of the Egyptian god Osiris/Dionysus, who also had 12 apostles and died on a cross, and preceded Jesus by several thousand years.

There are in excess of 3000 gods mankind has created. You can pick and choose which to have faith in, not that it will make any difference one way or another. Time would be better spent learning some science, which relies on proof and evidence, which faith lacks. \

Morality is not dependent on faith, but on common sense, education and our legal system. Morality existed long before any lords came around, and is different in every society and time period.

- George Pohoski,