I think it is unfortunate that Scientology should be introduced to your readers in Hong Kong ('A church and its critics', Sunday Morning Post, February 2), with a critically-slanted piece from Britain's Sunday Times.
And it says something that the newspaper could not find anyone more credible to complain about Scientology than a couple who had left behind them broken marriages and tens of thousands of pounds in unpaid debts.
People in the newspaper game - probably more so than others - should know well enough that the loudest howls of outrage and complaint very often come from those whose own houses are not in order.
In a world which needs answers to social problems like a person needs their next breath, journalists will do well to look at the constructive sides of things as well.
Scientologists in ever-increasing numbers have been coming to the aid of disadvantaged people around the world, helping to straighten out their literacy and ability to study, dealing with their addictions to drugs, and helping them attain an awareness of ethical values, as well as orienting them and relieving their traumas after natural or human-created catastrophes.
The Church of Scientology has experienced phenomenal growth and activity since the 1993 finding by the United States' Internal Revenue Service (IRS) that the church was a bona fide charitable and religious organisation.