Thursday, September 2, 2010

New Creation Resurrection?

It has been months after the New Creation saga, where concerns arise over potential misuse of funds. But just last Saturday, the megachurch broke its previous record when it received a grand total of $21.1 million in donations from four services, in less than 24 hours.

Though the litmus test has proven success in showing the church members' faithfulness to the mega church, it seems to only retrieve further undesirable results from netizens.

Whilst some defended the church, most were appalled at how people can get "scammed" and "cheated" again even after acquiring knowledge of fund misuse.

Some even went on to list examples of the money, used for building towering skyscrapers, can be put to better use such as saving children dying in Africa. Statistics such as how one iPhone can save three years of a African kid's life popped up in one of the comments.

Personally, I was rather disgusted when I saw these baseless and seemingly hypocritical cliches appear in response to New Creation's new record. Why talk about saving an African kid, when I can give that commenter statistics that half an hour electricity of using the computer to type his comment could save an African kid for 10 days?

Let's not assume that New Creation Church has, without qualms, misused the funds. After all, they are also Christians, just with different beliefs. Let us accept the possibility that New Creation Church may be using Suntec City for congregation services, and let us be more forgiving towards them.

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