Re the recent letters of "Just an Asian" May 16.

Hazlett said Prejudice was child of ignorance, the above letter-writer should not let their dislike of Christianity so cloud their Judgement as to forget the facts.

Stephen Neiil in his well documented book Colonialism and Christian Missions (London 1966) says "The slapdash assertions that the penetrations of the world by political power and the culture of the West has nowhere produced anything but destruction, and that Christian Missions without distinction have been involved in the guilt of that destruction will not stand up to the light of sober historical investigation" (p412)

Has "Just an Asian" ever looked positively at Christian worth. Schools, homes for mentally and physically handicapped, hospitals, credit unions. Your list of glob marxist terms (repression, cancer wart etc.) tell us more about Marxism than mere words. The millions dead in Cambodia under a "liberating" army!

There have been mistakes by missionaries (none by Socialists I suppose?) You will find many dedicated "True Christians working to correct them. To dismiss however the whole work of the Church as joining governments is not true. eg. The Church in the Philippines is clashing with the government over human rights.

Christianity has many indiginous members, who after looking at the faith, accepted it as their own. Are they agents of colonialism? Hardly likely. Do the Indian nuns of Mother Teresa of Calcutta serve colonialism by picking children out of rubbish bins? or by caring for the homeless and dying of that country? Only with Christianity has anything so "radically loving" been done for Calcutta.

You can tell a man by what he does rather than what he says. Glib slogans about bourgeois repression and anti-progressive governments mask a new imperialism. Asian's millions (traditionally spiritual) can look forward to a new set of masters (who see little beyond the temporal) if the so-called loberations of