Sir – Cara Robertson (Letters, April 11), like Mr Taylor, is short on specific examples.


Having no knowledge of it, I won’t comment on the piece suggesting Easter is a thinly-veiled pagan festival, but she misses my point. To disagree with Christians doesn’t mean, as she seems to imply, that you are, therefore, disparaging them.


She suggests there is an aim to “remove all expressions of religious belief from schools”. Not so, all that is campaigned for is an education that relates to both religious and non-religious beliefs. To take into account the many people who don’t believe in God. It’s about fair representation.


Ms Robertson seems to be responding to noise from some (and I always emphasis some, not all) believers and sections of the national press, not the facts.


I find it odd my comment about Christians trying to convert me is referred to as if I was complaining about it.


To quote my letter, I actually said “They have a point of view they wish to promote. There can be no possible reason to object to that.” Why try to make it sound as if I was complaining?


I mentioned a lack of specifics in Ms Robertson’s letter, so I will supply one for her. A woman was in trouble with her employers for wearing a cross. I was appalled by this, not because I thought she should not have worn one, but because her personal freedom was infringed. I can’t speak for all humanists and secularists, but I’m sure many would have felt as I did.


Paul Surman, Horspath