Sir – Oxford’s Sunday [secular/atheist] Assembly organisers readily admit the superficial similarities between their Sunday morning meetings and the churches.

But now, according to an article (January 30) (You can discuss life’s big questions down at the local pub), it is the Christians who are copying us non-believers and organising regular thought-provoking discussions in friendly pubs. Oxford’s well established Skeptics-in-the-Pub’s monthly meetings regularly attract large numbers of seriously-minded people to discuss big questions in pubs.

But it may be Oxford Humanists [www.oxfordhumanists.org.uk] that have developed discussion evenings even more similar to the “Pub Theology” meetings now being offered to Christians at Witney High Street’s Plough Inn — though we tend to address several topics during a typical evening’s drinking. And we also invite other drinkers to join us. Either way, I’m sure all of us non-believers wish our Christian counterparts every success in their pursuit of thoughtful resolutions to life’s big questions — though given some of their premises, we tend to think that’s unlikely.

John D White, Chairman, Oxford Humanists