Surprisingly, at least to me, the churches up north are seemingly more active than those in Singapore inspite or despite of their majority Muslim population. A click of their website showed that they even organised a public forum on Malaysian's nuclear energy policy.
Straits Times last Saturday also ran an article on Council of Churches Malaysia and demonstrated how Christian organisations can participate constructively in civil society. The CCM has spoken strongly and righteously on several issues including the Shah Alam Section 23 cow's head protest, the death of Teo Beng Hock and Perak political saga.
Reverend Hermen Shastri of CCM puts it most aptly, "I think it augers well for moral responsibility. This is the responsibility of our faith." Already CCM have held dialogues with MCA and UMNO.
Although Christians only make up 9-10% of Malaysian population, I am sure they have much to contribute if they act responsibly and follow the examples taught in the Bible. The pandemic problem of corruption in many ASEAN states can be eradicated if citizens stop participating in it.
What about Spore where the Christian population is much more than 10%? Do we have a positive contribution to make to better Spore? With and In this blog, I say YES!
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Dude, up north is different from S'pore rite? Religion have a say because they also want to hear the Islam side of things but in S'pore we shut off all these 'noises' and only govt and other sanctioned bodies are allow to comment.
ReplyDeletedifferent? yes.
ReplyDeletebut i think we have the right and the responsibility to participate
The only question is how we go about doing it without the sirens coming down on us.
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