Having read Roger Lack’s letter I would like to add a little of my own interpretation to the mix.

In my science fiction Genesis series I created a being that I called the Harvester, which formed soon after the Big Bang. It fed off the energy of sentient life! No one worshipped it, they just fed it and it harvested their life energy as they died.

Which is more likely? A life form that is made of energy that requires a parasitic form of existence, or the being that has no vested interest in humanity other than overseeing where the ‘souls’ of the departed go to?

Some 250,000 souls taken by the Boxing Day tsunami will have kept it fed for a while, but warfare will keep it topped up! That could explain a lot of things.

Religion is faith without facts. There are no writings to cross-correlate any of the religions of the world. The closest you can get are the Nag Hammadi scrolls, and they tear apart what was much later written by the Emperor Constantine scribes 240 years after the events, who also removed all trace of the other gospels, including the Gnostic Christians.

Read these earlier accounts and a much different story takes place. They are easy to find on Google. Unfortunately, my explanation is probably closer to the truth.

Barry E Woodham Old Town Swindon