This is disturbing. Woman destroys a Taoist (I think) altar at a HDB void deck claiming (among other things) that you are not right with God. Proudly announces her membership of the Victory Family Centre. Its not just the work of a mentally unsound person but of a particularly deluded adherent of a strand of Christianity which, protected by its middle-class respectability, sees its mission as remaking Singapore in the image of what it thinks Gods word is. She also claims to be the fifth generation of nation-builders (in Mandarin)--again, this isnt lunacy, but a particular religion appropriating the rhetoric of patriotism. Her defenders (yes, she will be defended by false patriots) will point out that (1) the camera operator was clearly aggravating her and (2) the others were burning incense outside of the designated areas. To (1), true, but it doesnt sound at all like he led her on to the surprisingly definitive claim youre not right with God. To (2), she didnt just stop at disrupting the incense burning (not that that would be justified), but went on to attack the religious altar. Her complaint was not just the incense burning; to me it looks like a religious hate crime. The natural (and typically Singaporean) course of action would be to call Town Council or NEA and watch the fun from your window amirite? What emboldened her, a fifth-generation Singaporean, to be so atypically confrontational? In other words, what enabled her to overcome all her Singaporean socialisation? It seems likely that her beliefs are at least an aggravating factor. This is not a slur against all Christians but against those denominations that dont know the place of religion in a secular, pluralist society. Lets not give them a free pass to preach what they preach by dismissing the behaviour of their adherents as siao--because its not madness; its a natural progression of the same thinking that gave us FotF and Honour Singapore. I may only be fourth-generation Singaporean ^^ but I want to know when the tea invitations will be sent out. The Marxist conspiracy might have been a conspiracy against the state, but this is clearly a crime against the nation, and I think nation trumps state.
Posted on: Sun, 19 Oct 2014 12:05:51 +0000
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