PNG CHURCHES LARGELY IGNORING BIBLE DONATION AS OUR CORRUPT PM USES THE OCCASION TO PARADE HIMSELF AS PNG'S MOST GOD FEARING CHRISTIAN

By Nelson Tendel

The controversial King James I Bible, said by the government to be incredibly valuable and rare, yet photographed last week being carried around by PNG's receiving pastors like a common library book, finally had its day in PNG. Prime Minister Peter O'Neill, arguably the most corrupt PM in PNG history, formally received and made sure he was photographed with the holy book. PM used the occasion to convince gullible and unquestioning souls throughout the nation that he is a devout Christian, not a cunning mega thief who ignored Supreme Court orders to become PM and now uses every legal trick in the book to avoid allegations against him from having their day in court. Yes, this very special Bible is being successfully and impressively embraced by our most corrupt leaders while tens of thousands of PNG Christians look the other way. Isn't that the whole problem in PNG today?

A very expensive and beautiful full page colour advert ran in The National last Friday and again yesterday, all at taxpayer's expense, authorised by the Parliament House Committee. This past week, The National was completely silent on the Bible story. Hmmm? Public money in exchange for silence? The Post Courier in contrast ran questioning articles on both days about the Bible donation. Hmmm? No expensive government advertisements appeared in its pages! What are we to make of all this? That government financially rewards PNG media that publishes only good news about the government or does our PNG media only run articles criticising the government when the won't hand over big money for expensive adverts? Maybe both unethical tactics are at work. Thankfully, the donated Bible has brought this all out into the open.

Thus far nearly all churches in PNG have been painfully silent on what was supposedly a momentous occasion. The reason is obvious - the whole affair was the brainchild and project of the PNG Bible Church, whose kind of fundamentalist beliefs are laughed at by most educated people in developed countries, but which in PNG has risen to the top, pushing aside other churches to gain control of famously illogical brains of Theo Zurenuoc and Loujaya Kouza.

PNG tax monies were misappropriated on a grand scale to send 3 MPs on a junket to the United States. That falls under the definition of corruption any truthful way you look at it. To top it off, only Zurenuoc seems to have attended the American handing over ceremony. What happened to the other 3 MPs, William Powi, Tobias Kulang and Loujaya Kouza? They're absent from all photos that has been posted of the ceremony.

The affair has been one of the best opportunities in years for each of us personally to evaluate our own hypocrisy in fighting corruption. Over the past week, many who say strongly that they're against corruption curiously adopted a new tone. Now they were saying "I'm against corruption BUT...." You mean, you're against corruption BUT because the story involves the holy Bible, we should not criticise what happened? Or maybe you're against corruption BUT because the misappropriation only involved less than half a million kina, rather than the usual tens of millions our politicians misappropriate, we should ignore this misuse of public monies? Why are so many Christians defending the misappropriation of public monies to retrieve the Bible or strangely promoting corruption by denouncing investigations into the finding out the truth about the Bible story? Isn't that the height of hypocrisy, judged against the Bible's very words?

In this "against corruption BUT" debate that has been on the social media, take a moment to pause and think: If Jesus Christ were present, would he also say "I'm against corruption BUT"?

Yes indeed. What would Jesus have done?

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