Religious groups agree tolerance is vital in multi-racial society

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The church may not water down its stand on homosexuality but hopes for better understanding when engaging the issue with other groups, according to the Bishop of the Anglican Church in Singapore.

Why did he has to say this? Well, this was a continuation from one of his senior pastor who used the pulpit to garner support for some of his church members during the recent AWARE saga.

The Bishop of the Anglican Church, John Chew, said there needs to be some fine tweaking of the way it is handled.

He said: "We have to recalibrate our perceptions, our understanding of the common space and how should we engage and how should we address one another. But the most important thing is that in the sense we are uniquely Singapore."

You can read about it here.

Well he is certainly right as many Christians has been pushing their own agenda without regards to truth and faith they preached. And more importantly, with no regards to feelings of people from other faith.

After all, all Christ wants from us is love each other as He has love us. And hopefully, Christians will heed the call of the bishop.

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Charity and religious organisations are not wealth-generating engines

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A reader of Straits Times, Mr Paul Chan has written to the forum stating "It can't be about top dollar for top talent". What prompted him to write was the special report, 'Medical charities the best paymasters' (March 30), stating pay brackets of up to $300,000 for heads of medical charities and up to $550,000 for chiefs of large religious groups.

This bring to mind the so called mega churches whose self proclaimed pastor is paying themselves handsome salary in the name of God. Well, I am not against paying pastor and church workers well but to the extend of living in luxury of semi-D and conti cars is far too much.

Read about what the buddhist says about paying clergy here.

The reason ? "Charity and religious organisations are not wealth-generating engines. It is against the principle of charity and spirit of religion if office-holders reward themselves excessively from donated funds meant for targeted beneficiaries". So where does your "tithes" goes to?

And one of the mega church even goes to the extend of using donations to build business and property investment. It is ok to build a church for worship purposes but it is another thing to risk funds that should go to helping the needy into investments. Returns are likely to be "boosted" about and reason why the pastors should be paid even more....

So let's hope all these people can wake up and if you are one of such people's supporter, please do reflect.

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