There are too many religious holidays in Malta. Most of them should be abolished as not befitting a modern, secular state such as Malta aspires to be.

Feasts commemorating a 2,000 year-old shipwreck, and a long-dead carpenter from Palestine have no place in a secular state; neither does a bizarre feast in remembrance of an “immaculate” conception which was denied by Pope Gregory the Great and by St Bernard of Clairvaux.

I’d like to appeal to Malta’s progressive MPs to initiate legislation which would abolish at least a few of the many religious holidays in Malta as being detrimental to the Maltese economy.

John Guillaumier

ST JULIAN’S