Through it is not my say to “play god” and predict, the fingers can’t help, but typed a collection of jumble thoughts.
It’s the End Of Game, Mate
Worshippers will dutifully respond,
In droves they come, as if for a session.
4000 members to marshal in call,
That’s not counting the sisters elsewhere.
By stats, the probability is known.
A landslide is the answer to be shown.
(Update 25 Apr 2009: Additional resource from Wayang Party – COOS Pastor Shawn Tay rallying troops to support new exco at EGM in the name of “Singapore”)
After this coming sunday, when they all gather and talk about it during Sunday mass, they have 5 days to marshal their forces.
If half of half of those who attends Expo shows up,
Check Mate for the old AWARE.
In the US and UK, they call these Faith Based Initiatives. Lets have a look at what goes on at a national level.
In 2008, South Korean Buddhists launched a protest against the government due to their growing resentment towards a series of government actions that were perceived as pro-Christian.
President Lee Myung Bak, a church elder, had appointed several church mates, including Finance Minister Kang Man Soo, to his Cabinet after taking office in February 2008.
The perception of favouritism grew when he refused to sack Mr Kang for ineffective policies that failed to revive the economy.
The unhappiness among the Buddhists intensified in June when two ministries – transport and culture – highlighted churches and not temples in Seoul in their online maps.
The Transport Ministry said the omission was a mistake by a junior official and later included the temples in the maps.
Following the search of Rev Jigwan’s (who heads the country’s largest Buddhist order of Jogye) car to seek out activists who took part in the capital’s massive anti-United States beef protests, the furious Buddhist community demanded an apology from the President, dismissal of the police chief and legislation to ban religious discrimination.
However, Mr Lee, a staunch Christian, has refused to apologise, saying he has always been impartial.
The government has also given no indication that it will meet the Buddhists’ demands, although Culture Minister Yu In Chon and police chief Eo Cheong Soo have both apologised to the community.