The Editor, Sir:

It is clear enough that Christian teaching can engender moral hypocrisy. In Jamaica today, politics is corrupting Christianity; it's religious hypocrisy with a political agenda. I have seen it all before in Jamaica.

How can one forget the charismatic Michael 'Joshua' Manley with his famous "rod of correction" that was said to have been given to him by His Imperial Majesty, Emperor Haile Selassie 1, King of Kings and Lord of Lords, Conquering Lion of the Tribe of Judah, to rid Jamaica "of corrupt colonialism and imperialism?"

All those in Jamaica who had bought into that sociology at the time, including our present 'woman prime minister', should remember what happened when the Rastafarians did not get what they had expected.

There are a lot of Jamaicans at home and abroad who do not believe in any God. However, born into a Christian family, and more than that, a family of churchgoers, I have no beef with Christianity or any religion as long as it does not attempt to interfere or force anything on the non-believing population in Jamaica.

The more and more Christian hypocrisy I see each day in Jamaica leading up to the general election, the more I realise come the next election, we are going to get exactly what we deserve.

I am, etc.,

COTTRELL HYATT

chyatt@postmaster.co.uk

London