I WHOLEHEARTEDLY support and endorse the comments made by The Reverend Andy Kelso (Letters, April 2) regarding good and evil.

The war in Iraq must be seen, not in the context of a war between Arabs and Westerners or a war between Islam and Christianity, but between good and evil.

Not that Blair and Bush are goodies, but that the Saddam regime is undoubtedly evil, cruel and sadistic.

Ask some of the Iraq people living in our country who fled in fear simply because they dared to oppose the regime.

More people have been murdered, tortured and brutalised by Saddam than will ever occur in this conflict.

No-one wants war - violence is regrettable - but sometimes it is the only option.

I am also concerned about our nation. I am a minister and have lived and worked in this town for over 20 years and I have seen a very subtle yet very clear change in people's attitudes over that period.

The election of BNP candidates in Preston and other councils is deplorable, they are abhorrent.

Yet it can be seen as a people voting because the so-called main parties are not listening to their concerns.

To be British and Christian is seemingly to be marginalised, yet the Christian faith and the Bible are what our legal system are founded on and make our nation great.

I am a Christian and to me it is the best way of living, the Bible is my handbook for faith.

I have no problem with genuine asylum seekers but the many who are not genuine and allowed in, and those who are unaccounted for, do pose a problem. Are terrorists among them?

We need to maintain our culture, our Christian heritage and to not bend over backwards to accommodate others at the expense of our faith and identity. After all, if people don't like it here they can always live somewhere else, maybe Iraq, but then they wouldn't be allowed freedom of faith, speech and Christianity.

So well done Andy - keep up the good work. Like you, I've been threatened, had abusive phone calls, and been labelled a bigot, racist and fanatic.

Yet in my congregation we have Indians, Africans, Caribbeans, Irish and English and I love them all.

Christianity tells me I should but it also tells me there needs to be fairness and justice. There is good and evil but we need to pray and do all we can to see that good prevails.

Rev D M Vaughan

Lodge Road

Smallwood