Sir – I must congratulate Mr John D. White (Letters, April 9) for a splendid letter — albeit a slightly inaccurate one; for nowhere in my original text (Letters, March 12) is there any mention of my belonging to any church.

However, I do have copies of the Holy Bible, the Holy Qur’an, and the Bhagavad Gita, all of which have many things in common, as any religious scholar will know.

The main theme running throughout all the major religions is that mankind did not ‘invent’ religion as is often quoted by science, rather more factual is that religion was ‘imposed’ upon some rather reluctant recipients in nearly every case.

Most human beings are spiritually aware of the presence of God in the universe, even more so now that there is mounting evidence of the evil destroyer which counters any religious conviction, and all things in nature having an opposite must mean that God is a reality. As Shakespeare said in Hamlet: “There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.”

We live in a limited, three-dimensional world in a multi-dimensional universe. How can we possibly hope to understand what the higher dimensions contain?

But that Shakespeare bloke . . . he knew a thing or two, didn’t he?

Edward Sanderson, Oxford