Brian Boughton, of South Ford Road, Dartmouth, writes: Brian Parker says you have heard his last word on our ­disagreement, so here is mine. He describes himself as a nuclear physicist, yet he writes about the Large Hadron Collider and the Grand Unified Theory of physics as someone who knows nothing about the subject. He quotes statistics about religious faith that are at odds with figures used by senior ­clerics in the Church of England and that bode ill for organised Christianity in this country. He describes the Dartmouth Food Bank Christmas lunch, although he wasn't there himself, and he believes some of the things he has read about it second-hand, but which are untrue. What I will say to him is that when a hedgerow priest dresses up as a Christmas pantomime turkey and waves his arms around, some of us will reach for our custard pies. Clowns in circuses regularly end up with them in their faces, and so should religious clowns. Mr Parker now reveals to us that he has no religious faith himself, and good for him. The Big Bang and the ­beginning of time is a glorious modern discovery and it is of no consequence whether Mr Parker believes it or not.