I've been in Malaysia for some months, three really, while I'm waiting for the date to arrive that I'll get back to Oz and continue me studies. And have some fun, and stuff.

But if there's one thing that's gotten me a little bit worked up in the duration of my stay, its coming back to the local Christian scene that's happening around. It's a little bit more than depressing to see once-strong people to be playing Daes Daemar (cue: Robert Jordan) in church! A church divided against itself by having its members look for positions and prestige among their own fellow brethern, and neglecting the one true mission that every follower of Christ needs to attend to.

To spread the Good News. And what are they doing? Putting down opportunities and belittling those who try to make an effort. Imagine, that this was not happening, at least not really when I was still around little more than a year before. It is as though people have lost the real thought, lost their God to replace Him with the priorities of the world. The outside plays a greater importance, it seems, the logic behind it all being that if a church was all shiny white, with a big cross and its members cloaked in respectable claddings, it would attract droves of people to give praise to the Supreme Creator.

But how often is it so? Only if the church is really growing, instead of losing its sheep one by one because some sheep are consorting, to steal the already existing feed from the others? All this while, the wolf sits away and watches, laughing while he waits for the opportune moment to attack the fattened sheep.

Alright, enough with analogies and vague generalities here. What's the deal with the local Christian scene? Why aren't people getting saved, and why is it that some churches compete with each other by stealing members? Why do the richer churches squander their money away without much of a whim, but come to stinge when the poor leaders for Christ ask for help? And you thought Chinese loan sharks were heartless.

And did not God make all man equal? Why is it that some races look at each other with disdain in their eyes? That Chinese will sit on the left and the Indians sit on the right, and both will say that is what is right and should not be disturbed, lest disagreements bellow?


More on this later. I'm a bit sleepy.