In his letter ‘From theocracy to secularism’ (August 18), John Guillaumier opts for a present-day Malta - where divorce and same-sex marriages have already been legalised, where the morning-after pill, assisted suicide, euthanasia, extinction of embryos and abortion may also be in the pipeline, where drugs, very frequent acts of violence, births outside marriage and moral scandals are being reported galore, where, whether you belong to the class of the fat cats or the proverbially poor church mice, you often have to depend on a system of a ‘friends of friends’ patronage - to the simpler, more God-pleasing tranquil life of the 1950s. Then, we were not as economically strong as we are today but were guided by more spiritual values and the State did not deny any form of transcendence...

Well, good luck to him. May he enjoys his Malta for the rest of his days. Still, he should remember that we only live once and if he thinks he’s on the right track, one life as he conceives it will ultimately lead him nowhere.

Furthermore, I wonder why he persists in quoting false prophets and authors who do not realise (at least they pretend they don’t) that a life without God is senseless, simply to promote the whimsical (and baseless) theory that God doesn’t exist.

Anyway, Guillamier seems to have a short memory indeed because, last February 7, in another paper, he declared (albeit sarcastically) that “God knows there is no shortage of shrines in Malta”.

So, he does believe in God, after all, and that’s wonderful news indeed. He’d fare even better if he keeps in mind that God is a mystery and that, without Him, everything is utterly meaningless.