My letter about Lourdes attracted the customary sceptical online remarks from the pens of atheist correspondents.

I propose a friendly wager to these fine gentlemen: I’ll bet God does, indeed, exist, against all their denials. He who loses the wager buys the drinks for the eternity which will follow our deaths.

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