Sir, So the European Court of Human Rights has ruled that to display crucifixes in Italian schools “violates religious freedom” (report, Nov 4). So to offer only, say, soccer and rugby in such schools must violate sports freedom, and for British shops to assault us with ceaseless pop music offends our music freedom. But unless there is something to be free from, the notion is meaningless. Christianity has been Italy’s religion for two millennia; if Italian children are never taught even that, their religious “freedom” will be freedom to move in a metaphysical void — which indeed seems where we are all heading, under such increasingly censorious rulings.
John Powell Ward
Horton Kirby, Kent