The Headmistress of Central High School has called those who have made negative criticisms in print and social media about the nature of visits to several local secondary schools by an American missionary group, “narrow-minded”.
Kamlawattie Balroop, in a telephone interview yesterday, said she saw nothing wrong with the visit made by the missionaries of the Faithful Word Baptist Church, headed by Pastor Steven Anderson to her school earlier this month.
She described the encounter as “bringing the word of God in the most explicit way. He was sending a serious message to children about hell and how to avoid going to hell.”
Balroop, a Hindu, expressed that people should “accept God no matter how he is coming to us” and opined that a constructionism approach should be taken to the whole issue, rather than a prejudicial one. Religious doctrine and the teaching of religion, she said, is of gross importance for building the moral fibre of students.