Religious touts, clowns and the inner city

THE EDITOR, Sir:

SOME foreign religious touts and clowns, mostly from the United States, are bombarding gullible Jamaica with their self-riaghteous eyes and greedy fingers, via television, audience-gathering and stage-hopping histrionic appearances and the marketing of books, tapes and trinkets.

Jamaicans should learn from Bakker and Swaggart et al to be cautious. But, of course, a grievous fault of ours is our poor memory and we enjoy deception whether it is done to us or we do it to ourselves or we do it to someone.

I am thinking that our authorities should invite all these foreign lovers of our Jamaican soul to the extent where they are hell-bent on saving it by staged religious gymnastics, to come and do their stunts in the form of real work in the inner-city and nowhere else in the island.

And for the sake of God's kingdom in Jamaica, let us have fewer of them appearing on television. They serve no useful purpose, but to add to confusion and deception.

I say to our religious leaders: Guard well the gates of the temple. Sleep not. I say to our people, let us not be like sheep which are stupid and smelly not knowing their heads differently from their tails. Be cautious.

I am, etc.,

OREN O. COUSINS

P.O Box 43

Bog Walk P.O

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