Article November 12, 1979 Issue

LETTERS TO THE PRESS

From Christian Science Committees on Publication

JOSEPHINE BOWEN-JONES

A recent statement by a group of ministers included the following observation: ".... if you do not care for your neighbor, one sure-fire insult is to call his church a 'cult.'" Christian Science is often called a cult, out of ignorance or simply because the teachings of Christian Science seem different or unusual. In a letter with both political and religious overtones, a Jamaican council of churchmen wrote to a newspaper listing "cults" they considered a "threat to the psychological stability or economic well-being of Jamaica. " Christian Science was casually included in the list. The statement was specifically corrected by the following letter to the newspaper that reported the clergymen's remarks—and by a follow-up contact with the council of churches.

A letter (Feedback, May 17) associates Christian Science with past and present religious cults in a way that is quite misleading to your readers.

Really, no one with a firsthand acquaintance with Christian Science could see it as a "cult" or feel that it is any kind of threat to the psychological stability or economic well-being of Jamaica.

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