LIKE Derek Snowdon, (Letters, April 20), I too am sick to smithereens of our preoccupation with the Titanic.

Our once beautifully architecturally balanced Civic Centre is now to be cursed, at a cost, with a Titanic carbuncular growth, during a time of global monetary recession.

We now have new, architecturally ugly, hunchback blocks of maritime flats, cruise ships: I call them Quasimodo 1, 2, 3 etc. At least one of these is said to be ‘virtually unsinkable’. Déjà vu?

With our Western world doctrine of selfish, hedonistic pleasures; fine cars, splendid homes, fine cuisines, wines and the like; lottery and football pools winnings; a billion and more times over, we have broken the very first of the mosaic laws: “Thou shalt not have any strange Gods before me”.

Even many of the working classes have put themselves in hock to banks, in order to take cruises and overseas holidays.

All this while millions in undeveloped countries are suffering from a thousand ills – drinking foul water, starving from lack of food, while others are being wounded and killed with holocaustic savagery.

As a Christian and a reincarnationist, I’m convinced we will all pay a price for our Godless indifference.

HE THOMPSON, Southampton.