The commentary in Sunday’s newspaper by three clergymen opposing physician-assisted suicide demonstrates once more how Christianity revels in the concept of human suffering (“Physicians need not help patients die,” Star-Advertiser, Island Voices, June 2).

This obsession is demonstrated by the fact that Christianity has as its central motif the image of a man being tortured to death, and also by the threat of eternal fiery damnation to those who are not members of its churches.

It took me several of my teenage years to free myself from the horrors implicit in my Christian upbringing, but the day that I finally did so was one of the happiest of my life.

Gareth Wynn-Williams

Kailua

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