KAME HAME HAAAAAAAAArrrgh!!!

Beware, this is going to be long.

Captainball Z was excellent. There was a bigger turnout than I expected, and though SFC won only 1 round (and 6 points) throughout the whole game, I don’t think any of us could care less. The music was good, the performance better and the food was excellent. So much so that I only managed to wrestle out one serving of spaghetti…Sigh.

The vegetable song Samuel and Victor performed probably did not go down too well with the rest of the participants though, irrevocably proving that the people in SFC have weird senses of humor…Yay, that’s why I like them all. “I’ve heard the screams of the vegetable….Carrot juice constitutes murder” Good gracious, I haven’t heard anything so brain popping for a long time.

It was also an opportunity to get more people into Christian United and/or the June camp. JTSy was drifting around here and there passing out forms to the teams, while X and I were simply sitting back sipping 100 Plus and nibbling Oreos. WHERE’S THE CHIVALRY GONE!!?? I tried to help, but its hard trying find the Christians in each team. Short of asking the whole lot who believes in Christ, an idea criticized for being too In Your Face, I really had no idea how to start.


Now I fly off the tangent

On that matter, there’s been the sentiment that the non-Christians in the school feel uncomfortable during the preaching, whether during morning devotions, chapel or various school events. Having studied my entire life in Christian schools (Catholic Maris Stella, Methodist ACS(I) and Anglican SAJC), I’ve never had a morning without devotions, sports competitions without starting with a prayer, and so on. Because of that, I can’t pretend to fully appreciate what my non-Christians friends describe as “the secular experience”.

Nevertheless, my friends, please understand the school’s motives. Christianity believes in evangelism and mission, and it was because of these 2 values that the school was set up. It is therefore, the school’s firm and passionate ethos to continue doing so and spread the good news, and who better to spread it to than to its students? From their point of view, the fact that someone who has spent 2 years (or more) in a Christian institution but does not accept Christ, is something which arouses a sense of failure of moral duty.

Perhaps it comes across as being forceful…I agree. Singapore is after all, a multi-religious society which promotes cohesion between the different beliefs, so the concept of schools dedicated purely to a single religion is somewhat counterintuitive (i.e. does not feel right). I’m sure SAJC isn’t trying to make its students to renounce their faith, but rather to share universal moral values from a Christian point of view.

Of course, everyone’s invited to defend their faith. I can understand how threatened one can feel regarding matters of religion. It’s a prickly subject to say the least.

DANKE