True Christian

I believe Billy Graham is a true Christian using his talents and admitting his faults.

His technique is not a gimmick-type salesmanship. He is not selling papier mache Christs to fools. He winds himself up in prayer with God and then says what he believes. His body movement, mood change and humour are his expression of what Christ has done for him.

The cancer of this age is cynicism. We must be ever so smart and "what all." Why not be tolerant?—Yours etc.,

Not Far Enow

Taking up your challenge regarding Billy Graham, your reporters did not walk far enough. Mr Graham is a Christian Hitler. He is not as evil as Hitler in that he does not use his mass hypnosis to incite his listeners to murder, but he does do so to convince his listeners they can attain easily and quickly to that state of soul that is the result of years of struggle, toil, sacrifice, and heart searing enduring of life's trials.

Though Christianity is one of the foundations of Western Civilization, its more fanatical, misguided adherents, have been the cause of many temporary setbacks.

I should number Graham amongst their number. Not forgetting that he himself is doing very comfortably out of all this.

Messiah Coming

In regard to the editorial on Mr Billy Graham I was one of the curious (cynical if you wish) at Athletic Park and I had the definite impression that Mister Billy Graham was playing John the Baptist to the second coming of Christ.

Vacancy

After listening to Graham I have been inspired to write the following.

Important Vacancy

A vacancy has arisen due to the incompetence of the present holder to carry out his duties as desired. The position is that of . . .

God.

The successful applicant will be required to administrate almost 3,000,000,000 employees and should be an egotistic and self glorifying individual.

He must at all times attempt to inhibit scientific progress, truth, and rational thought.

This position is one of great respect and commands a vast amount of wealth. Applications with testimonials should be addressed to,

Lust for Power

Seeing that the Association of Scientists has taken advantage of your columns for free advertising (their deliciously ingenuous statement of their lust for power can only be so construed) they expose themselves to critical appraisal.

What the Association so signally fails to appreciate in this and similar claims for professional status is that the professionals they quote who must register before practising their professions must do so not merely for their own benefit but for the protection of the public.

Now while there may be grounds for considering the public in need of protection from scientists, nevertheless they have never in any public utterance drawn attention to this need. What they have demonstrated is their craving for greater emolument, greater privilege, more power.

The important feature of the true profession as opposed to the mere trade or craft is that it involves a relationship (often highly intimate) between the practitioner and the client and it is this highly vulnerable relationship which must be safeguarded by the professional organisation. (From this viewpoint teachers of all levels are more in need of recognition as professionals than scientists).

Now, however much the scientist may serve the community, he very rarely does so in the form of this close relationship which is the hall-mark of the true professional and therefore I think his claims to true professional status with the registration and organisation that go with it are quite unwarranted.