DANIEL Singh who is quite aware that many who call themselves ‘pastors’ are ‘imposters’ went into spasms of joy over P.I. Peter’s letter, “Daniel is smarter than his detractors think” (GC 14/-7).

Astonishingly, Singh felt rejoiced that he had been uncovered taking an anti-fundamentalist Christian position by believing in archaeology, history, anthropology and the biological sciences and paying great reverence to Dr. Ian Tattersall, a well-known evolutionist! He had been cavorting with human pre-history and slyly pulling the rug from the Hebraic myth of the world being created in 4004#BC when the Indus, Yangtze and Mesopotamian civilisation were at their height. He also deftly pulled the rug from the famous Adam and Eve myth.

Daniel must immediately reject those areas of mainstream knowledge into which he had been unwittingly drawn by the rise of the Hindu underground in his psyche and reaffirm the fundamentalist, one-dimensional, non-rational beliefs. If one does not do this, the stipend which may flow from fundamentalist sources may soon dry up. Singh must understand that American fundamentalists are much more exacting and one-tracked in thinking than the great breadth, openness and tolerance of all ideas which characterise his Hindu background. I do pray that Singh’s excursion into evolutionist thinking does not result in him suffering any financial loss.
KALANDAR BAKSH