Lighthouse Evangelism

Lighthouse Evangelism Latest News Update, An apology rejected. That is what the online mob is driving at arguing that there are double standards in the government’s treatment of Rony Tan from Lighthouse Evangelism and the 3 Facebook kids who were arrested for racism. One can understand the ire of the mob, that Rony Tan, a community leader, got off easily while 3 originally supposedly anonymous kids would have the good book thrown at them. However, there are 2 important distinctions in this case which most deliberately try to ignore.

Firstly, the 3 kids were anonymous and this suggested that their intention was maliciously “catch me if you can” dumb. The pastor was not anonymous, his identity and video was up for all his community to see in the church’s website, and his intention was just not malicious, just plain evangelical marketing dumb. So dumb that he did not even realise that once it is in the internet, someone would just put it in Youtube and other sites.

Secondly, Rony is a community leader and presumably respected in his church. The government did not want him to become a martyr by arresting him. Rather they wanted to him to apologise as an apology from any leader is something hard to come by. Have we heard any apology from a PAP minister on flawed housing, transport, immigration or health policies? Not a squeak. An apology from Rony, however reluctant, is a more symbolic gesture of him making amends with the Buddhist and Taoist communities.

The Buddhist and Taoist communities graciously sought the opportunity to accept the apology for now. Rejecting it would be bad form, just like making fun of Buddhism and other religions publicly is equally bad form. So at the superficial level, the religions in question are making do with moving on publicly, however grudgingly privately both sides may be.  Let tempers cool first as this is a better option than going at each other’s throats. Hopefully, the lynch mob would get the message and rant now all they want as it is their right, but realise quickly that ranting too long only makes things worse. Would we want to descend to the type of religious tension inferno in Malaysia. www.apknews.com

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