The premise of Polly Toynbee's endless tirades against religion (Sex and death lie at the poisoned heart of religion, 14 September) is that religious belief is, always and everywhere, invalidated by instances of abuse and sectional interest and that ignorance of religion's importance in innumerable human lives is a virtue.
We mourn the loss of a very special person whose intellect, love and generosity touched the lives of innumerable human beings.
It appears your newspaper seems to have forgotten the innumerable human rights violations committed by successive Sri Lankan governments, the worst being by the present regime.
This is especially true for vector-borne diseases, where innumerable environmental, human and other animal behaviours and physiologies are affected (36).
So, an administration that showed a public face that professed a belief that every human life was sacred was prepared to treat innumerable humans as nothing more than fodder for the dot machine, merely to prove that the horrific attack in its eighth month in office couldn't possibly have been its fault.
Objects are, in the first instance, just what are ordinarily called "objects"—tables, chairs, rocks, planets, stars, and human and animal bodies, among innumerable other things.
Innumerable varieties, races and cultivars of agricultural plants have been developed to support human and animal demand for food, fibre and building materials.
But you can't watch it for long without being absorbed by its succession of innumerable, overlapping human vignettes.
Consequently, and with the best intentions, we would like to invite you to visit the affected region of Ecuador in the sincere hope that seeing the abandoned toxic waste pits and poisoned waters and hearing the innumerable stories of human suffering will move you to do the right thing.
