""Doesn't a religion that goes in for that sort of thing, with that insufferably self-righteous air of thus somehow proving itself better than the rest of you believers, lay itself open to more criticism than, say, Swedish Lutheranism?""

Tell that to the family of the young Irish woman, who recently lost her life because she was refused a termination which would have saved her.

What religion do you think they will find barbaric?

Don T.