Helen Ang - Persekutuan Kristian Malaysia (CFM) mengedarkan sepucuk surat bertarikh 18 Julai 2012 kepada gereja-gereja dan penganut Kristian seluruh negara berhubung pilihanraya umum ke-13 akan datang.
Surat yang ditulis atas nama Bishop Datuk Ng Moon Hing, pengerusi Christian Federation of Malaysia, menyeru umat Kristian agar “mengundi dengan bijak”.
Ia boleh dibaca dalam bahasa Melayu di sini — CFM/BM
Versi bahasa Inggeris discreenshot di bawah dari laman National Evangelical Christian Fellowship (NECF).
Surat itu menuntut supaya pemilih mengundi sebuah kerajaan yang akan membentuk
(“Sebuah negara di mana kebebasan agama merangkumi kebebasan untuk menganut, mengamal dan menyebarkan agama di mana ia dibenarkan berkembang tanpa sebarang pembatasan yang tidak wajar dari undang-undang, penegahan ataupun larangan.”)
Bishop’s letter: Christians beating around the bush
You want, you ask upfront, direct and straightforward lah.
Continues from yesterday’s posting, ‘Pesanan Persekutuan Kristian M’sia kepada gereja-gereja berhubung PRU’. Please revert for url link, pdf and screenshot of Bishop Ng Moon Hing’s letter to Malaysian churches and the country’s Christians.
The Bishop interprets the Bible’s message regarding the duty of a Christian. He asserts that “Christians have not only been granted rights of leadership but also the responsibility of stewardship (of the Earth)”.
And that’s why even though Chinese Christians are a minority and Buddhists are the Chinese majority in Malaysia, yet it is the Christians who lead the community. There! Mystery solved.
The reason is not because Buddhists are less bossy. The real reason is because God granted his Christians “the rights of leadership”.
Bishop Ng cites the following verses in the Bible (Matthew, chapter 5, verses 13-15):
13 “You are the salt of the earth. But if the salt loses its saltiness, how can it be made salty again? It is no longer good for anything, except to be thrown out and trampled underfoot.
14 “You are the light of the world. A town built on a hill cannot be hidden.
15 Neither do people light a lamp and put it under a bowl. Instead they put it on its stand, and it gives light to everyone in the house.
Imagine if we were to take verse 13 and replace the word ‘salt’ with the word ‘BN’.
“But if the BN loses its saltiness, how can it be made salty again? It is no longer good for anything, except to be thrown out and trampled underfoot.”
Wink.
Two verses preceding the ‘salt of the earth’ verse is Matthew, chapter 5, verse 11:
“Righteousness” is Hannah Yeoh’s favourite word. Her blog slogan is “Righteousness exalts a nation”.
Whining about “persecution” kinda reminds me of Chan Lilian (Lim Guan Eng’s special officer) who tweeted about persecuted Christians and who was questioned twice by the police in their investigation into her possible sedition.
The succeeding verses in Matthew extort Christians to be “righteous” (chapter 5, verses 16-20). The preacher sounds like a politician and the politician sounds like a preacher. In some specimens, you get 2-in-1.
And here is the Bishop holding a Bersih T-shirt … he claims in his letter that “CFM (of which he is chairman) is not politically motivated nor is it endorsing any one political party”.
Wink and nudge.
The Christian Federation of Malaysia comprises:
- National Evangelical Christian Fellowship (NECF)
- Council of Churches of Malaysia (CCM)
- Roman Catholic Church
“In terms of our vision for a better Malaysia, CFM encourages Malaysian Christians to think about the following priorities — A nation guided by the ethics of respect for human dignity.“
Cross refer to Lim Guan Eng whose Malaysian First speech said, ‘“DAP submits that being Malaysian should depend on certain universal values we share and subscribe, focusing particularly on democracy, freedom, justice, integrity and human dignity.”
The CFM letter also uses the words “democracy, freedom, justice” – but okay lah, after all the Bishop and the DAP sec-gen are both hostage to the same white man tradition.
And to the stock-in-trade words employed in motherhood statements. Other stock Christian phrases include “we’re all brothers and sisters”, “we’re full of love” (but ya’all, unlike us, are only full of hate and venom), “we’re one people”, “everyone are children of God”, yadda, yadda.
Bishop Ng encourages Christians “to use the power of the vote to elect a government that will ensure justice with equity and the well-being of our nation”.
In terms of their vision for a better Malaysia, CFM encourages Malaysian Christians to think about the following priority:
- A nation where extremism of all kinds is rejected and quickly curtailed. Racial and religious bigotry, manipulation and lies that have now come to define the social sphere, the print media and political posturing must end immediately.
Allow me to fill in the blanks. “Racial bigotry” — reject Umno! — “manipulation and lies that have now come to define the social sphere — curtail BTN! “”manipulation and lies that have now come to define the print media” — Ganyang Utusan!
CFM encourages Malaysian Christians to think about the following priority:
- “A nation free of corruption” — ABU! ABU! ABU! — “putting in place strengthened state and public institutions whose members conduct themselves with integrity,transparency and accountability“. SelC-A-T (Competency, Accountability, Transparency).
CFM encourages Malaysian Christians to think about the following priority:
- A nation that works towards the fair and equitable distribution of wealth and ensuring well-being for all, regardless of citizenship status, ethnicity or creed.
“Regardless of ethnicity” (?) Just like Papa and Mama DAPSter browbeating how everybody must be colour blind and beyond race just as their Firster children are.
CFM encourages Malaysian Christians to think about the following priority:
- Every citizen and every community should be empowered and enabled to pursue economic activity and achieve advancement duly and fairly supported by the government where needed and necessary without favour or discrimination and without being overly or unfairly supported by the state.
Sounds to me like a call to do away with the NEP.
CFM encourages Malaysian Christians to think about the following priority:
- A nation where language and education are de-linked from political expedience.
Yessss, let’s bring back English and mission schools!!
We Christians voted for PAS in the 2008 GE, but this time around, we will out vote Pakatan "Rakyat", and vote in Barisan Nasional, especially as PAS refused to repeal the 1993 Hudud laws in Kelantan.
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