Once more Michael Brucciani has been allowed the space to parade his "the End is Nigh" views (Mailbox, August 24).

The gist is always that the human race will face extinction if it denies his Truth. This Truth being a code of conduct which is to be followed without question.

Examples of "liberal/secular" lapses from the code are "killing babies", which, Mr Brucciani may be surprised to know, is still a heinous crime, as established in human law which recognises the distinction between a person and a yet unborn extension of its mother.

Marriage is similarly offered as an ignored and dying institution. In fact, marriage in its many religious and secular forms predates the word of the creator and was simply captured and redefined by Mr Brucciani's forebears more than a century after the founding of Christianity.

Another example often offered is the necessary celibate existence laid down for those unable to find a partner to marry, a denial of natural human practice to which even the trained advocates of his faith seem unable to adhere.

More seriously, what always pervades Mr Brucciani's warnings is a profound lack of faith in the human race to continue to shape its future.

He fails to recognise that those who reject his prescriptive view of life, place our faith in the accumulated experience and wisdom of centuries of human existence, most of which was formed for centuries prior to the arrival of his Infinite Being, and in fact laid the base for its rather late appearance.

Mr Brucciani may believe we are all doomed but we are simply in a process of progressive enlightenment in which decency and good will prevail because humankind is naturally loving and co-operative and does not need a book to know the difference between good and bad. Have faith, Mr Brucciani!

Chris Lymn, Oadby.