Richard S. Russell: Atheists agree that college students should be taught about religions

Dear Editor: “Colleges ought to shed light on religions.” Thus opined Notre Dame’s top academic officials, John I. Jenkins and Thomas Burish. It might surprise them and a lot of your readers to know that almost all atheists are 100 percent in agreement with the sentiment, if only for the reason expressed by Isaac Asimov: “Properly read, the Bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived.”