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TRAGEDY? (from Jamie A Caryl, biological sciences) I couldn't help but feel somewhat "invaded" on reading the Letter from Barry Holroyd in the June Reporter. Up until the penultimate paragraph, I would have quite happily agreed with his point, although it is perhaps a little arrogant to presume that the public is somehow "tragic" because it is not aware of the contents of the bible.

However, I found the last paragraph a little distateful for this publication as I don't believe this is the forum for attempts to propagandise Christian rhetoric. That being said, it is somewhat contradictory that he should cite the New Testament as a "primary source" as this "source" is itself not a contemporary record made by someone with personal knowledge of the facts but is more a report of the recollections of others; this is not primary, and is subject to the same creative licence and interpretation that Dan Brown has employed.