Christianity, Religious Tolerance and Government in Singapore

My simple

position is

let's stop it before it's too late. It's all silly.

However hard the Christians can try, they are not going to make Singapore

a Christian society.

It's just not possible.

They have tried in China, it failed.

There's something about ancient civilizations, both India and China,

the Christians did not convert.

They converted segments.

You may say superstition,

that Guan Yin or

Da Bo Kung

are all superstitions. You may say Ganesh

with his blue face and multi arms is again superstition.

But it's given succor, comfort, relief to successive generations for

thousands of years. Who are you to say that your Bible is not

superstition?

They have converted whole island communities like Fiji.

All the native Fijians have become Christians, but not the Indians in

Fiji.

So I

tell these Christian groups, let's have a sense of proportion.

Let's live and let live.

You're not going to change the world.

Maybe you change a few individuals for a very brief period of

time. Maybe a few years he gets excited

and he's seen the light.

But he's got to live.

And you look at the Europeans.

They were the earliest Christian nations.

They're not excited. Their churches are being

deconsecrated

and becoming bingo halls.

So

why do we need to be excited?

But we are going through that phase and

I think

sensible, sensitive, but firm government will ride

this passion.

Soft government trying to accommodate everybody will lead to big mischief.