Leongsam, please delete or move this post of mine to the "Trivia HQ" sub-forum if the content of my post is too religious for the "Courtyard Cafe" sub-forum...
And imho, removing all 80+ pap MPs will not make any difference either. In fact, it may be better for ordinary singaporeans.
I'm afraid I don't understand what you mean here... because isn't that a contradiction?
Some years ago, after much thinking, I reached the conclusion that only God can dethrone the PAP because the PAP are simply too powerful for any group of mere Sinkie mortals to dethrone.
That does not mean that I believe that God enthroned the PAP.
God simply did not stop the enthronement of the PAP from happening, just as He has not stopped countless other sins committed all over the world from happening, simply because He
wants humans to have
free will, otherwise they would not be human.
(And obviously, He would like humans to use their free will to choose to do good (i.e. good in the eyes of God); and He wants humans to exist and serve Him because He is a "jealous" God, but that's not a sin for God because
only He has the
right to be "jealous" or even "vain", simply because He's God and even a truly good God, who knows what's best for His creatures, which is why He created them in the first place to share His Goodness with them, even though He did not, and still does not, need any service or love from His creatures, simply because He's perfect and can exist happily without bothering to create anything in the first place; but He bothered to create because He was, and still is, a loving God, who wanted, and still wants, to share His Love and Goodness with
all humans; but that Divine Love and Goodness only exists in Heaven
after death; that does
not mean His followers should commit suicide as soon as possible; they simply have to
patiently "die" a slow "death" (
carrying their personal "cross") while
living without sinning (and repenting for their past sins) on earth until they die in any way other than suicide.)
What He can, and will, do, is to
punish those sinners who
refuse to repent before they die by simply denying them entry into Heaven after they die, in order to be fair to those sinners who made the effort to repent.
In any case, those unrepentant sinners would not want to go to Heaven, simply because they are
addicted to their sins, which means that immediately after they die, their departed souls would want to return to their bodies and also obviously want their bodies to become strong and healthy again, so that they can continue sinning on earth.
This is why in some folk religions (including the Chinese version), such deluded superstitious believers think that there exists some earth-like paradise after death where they can continue committing the same old sins that they have become addicted to on earth before their deaths.
As for atheists who believe that absolutely nothings exists after death, they will receive the shock of their lives (together with the above-mentioned superstitious unrepentant sinners) when they experience
demons dragging their souls to Hell, simply because their belief in nothingness after death is motivated by their desire to maximize their enjoyment of their lives on earth (known as Hedonism) before they die,
without having to worry about being
punished for their sins
after they die.
I'm afraid this is the
true reality that cannot change, even if the vast majority of people either don't believe it or
live their lives in such a way as if they don't believe it (while claiming to "believe").
Once again, sorry if my post is too religious for this sub-forum, but I just felt the need to share this. . . .
