Sir – Rick Taylor (Letters, May 16) deduces from the number of worshippers that his god is alive and well. On that criterion, the liveliest god in Oxford city is Bacchus.

I’d be more impressed if any god ever verifiably did anything. For example, one could appear to David Cameron in a dream, and reveal that Trident is wicked.

Or another could cause Professor Graham Ward to answer the key question that all theologians fudge: who has the correct conception of Jesus? Is it (a) Jews, or (b) Christians, or (c) Muslims, or (d) none of the above?

Nicholas Lawrence, Oxford