Almost Amos

It's never nice to talk bad about the dead, led alone the well respected Mr Lee Kuan Yew.

In the eight-minute long video titled "Lee Kuan Yew Is Finally Dead!", Amos says that the late "Lee Kuan Yew is a horrible person because everyone is afraid that if they say something like that, they might get into trouble."

Amos compared the late Lee to Jesus Christ, by saying both figures "are both power-hungry and malicious but deceive others into thinking they are both compassionate and kind".

He also said Lee's followers were "completely delusional and ignorant, and have absolutely no sound logic or knowledge about him that is grounded in reality". This was what Amos compared to Christians' knowledge of the bible and the religion's priests.

According to Amos, "(Lee) was a dictator but managed to fool most of the world to think he was democratic... by granting (Singaporeans) the opportunity to vote to make it seem like we have freedom of choice".

Other issues Amos raised in the video include the rise in cost of living in Singapore and the high taxation rates the government imposes with little spending on areas like healthcare. He attributed this to a dearth in knowledge about where government monies are spent on and a "suspicious" trend in suing those who asked openly about this.

Amos issued a challenge to prime minister Lee Hsien Loong, when he asked if the latter wanted to sue him for his opinions on the video.

“If Lee Hsien Loong wishes to sue me, I will oblige to dance with him.”

Jesus said, "Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing." And they divided up his clothes by casting lots. Luke 23:34

For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.Romans 6:23

Palm Sunday

It's the day Jesus entered Jerusalem before the Crucifixion

On Sunday, Christians all over the world will be carrying palms and other branches. That’s because it’s Palm Sunday, a celebration of the day Jesus entered Jerusalem before he was crucified and then resurrected, according to the Christian faith.

Palm Sunday includes a procession of the assembled worshipers carrying palms, representing the palm branches the crowd scattered in front of Jesus as he rode into Jerusalem. The difficulty of procuring palms in unfavorable climates led to their substitution with branches of native trees, including box, yew, willow, and olive. The Sunday was often designated by the names of these trees, as in Yew Sunday, or by the general term Branch Sunday.

Remembering Mr Lee Kuan Yew (1923 - 2015)

The Bishop, Clergy and all members of the Anglican church here joins the nation in mourning and pay tribute to Mr Lee Kuan Yew, our beloved founding father of modern Singapore.

He had served the nation faithfully with an exemplary integrity, advancing the well-being of many Singaporeans. The foundation of a confident, mature and socially cohesive society has been laid, making a mark on the world map on so many fronts.

We pray for Mr Lee's family members, especially our Prime Minister, Mr Lee Hsien Loong, that they will be comforted in their bereavement and experience the peace of God.

Mr Lee on Christianity

Perseverance 
Resilience 
Determination

http://billmuehlenberg.com/2015/03/23/lee-kuan-yew-singapore-and-christianity/

You see most Chinese here are Buddhists or Taoist ancestor worshippers, I’m one of them, so it is a tolerant society, it says whatever you want to believe in, you go ahead. And these youngsters, the educated ones, Western-educated especially, now they are all English-educated, their mother tongue is the second language. Therefore, they begin to read Western books and Western culture and so on and then the Internet. So they begin to question like in Korea that what is this mumbo-jumbo, the ancestors and so on? The dead have gone, they’re praying before this altar and asking for their blessings and then they have got groups, Christian groups who go out and evangelize. They catch them in their teens, in their late teens when they’re malleable and open to suggestions and then they become very fervent evangelists themselves. My granddaughter is one of them. She’s now 28. My wife used to tell her look, don’t go for any more of these titles, just look for MRS. It’s just around the corner, God will arrange it.


TIME once made Lee Kuan Yew cry. It was the fall of 2005, in Singapore, during nearly five hours of interview spread over two days. The conversation had turned to family and friends, and faith as a source of strength in the face of adversity. “I would not score very highly on religious value,” said Lee, then 82, still in good health, and a sort of Minister Emeritus. Yet when he talked about the illnesses and deaths of loved ones, Lee allowed himself a rare moment of vulnerability: his eyes welled up.