My head is hurting from all the conflicting and stupid (for the lack of a better term) views that people have regarding the recent AWARE leadership shuffle.

AWARE stands for “Association of Women for Action & Research”. It is a non profit organization that advocates “Gender equality for all”. From the name and its mission statement, I think it is clear that it is a feminist organization to all of us. I am all for feminism, in the sense that I believe that men and women should have the same fundamental rights, like the right to vote, the right to employment and such. However the first thing that makes my head hurt is the way that women define equality. The equality seems to only apply to those rights that benefit them. I have yet to come across any feminist demanding the privilege to serve in the army along the men. But let’s reserve that for another post, if I have the time.

What really ticks me off is that AWARE really seem to have been infiltrated. No, I am not talking about the all-Christian, all-Chinese new executive community. I am talking about the previous pro homosexual one. In an organization called “Association of Women for Action & Research” I fail to see the place of a “Male Chapter”. Especially when the leader of the Male Chapter is keen (and I quote) to “deconstruct male gender & male heterosexual hegemony“.  So the male homosexuals are now considered women? WTF?

I can list serveral more examples of how AWARE has gone gay, all the materials and references are provided by the ex-exco of AWARE. It is clear that AWARE does have a pro homosexual agenda. We shall just respect a secular organization’s right to be as gay loving as they wish. After all this is a supposedly free country that still criminalizes sodomy.

Having said the above, I fully understand why the ex-exco bunch of Christians are concerned. By definitions Christians are supposed to be against homosexuals, after all Sodom and Gomorrah were nuked by God for a reason. But by making the showdown public, in a secular country where the number of secular people far outnumber the number of religious faithfuls, this is a battle that they cannot win. Sure enough they were ousted on 2nd of May.

My view has always been that I will respect your fucking rights if you respect my right to view your fucking right as wrong. You have the right to screw with whoever you want (get it? fucking right.) , but I have the right to make a moral judgment on that. Homosexuality is not normal. It is also considered as a sin. Do it if you want.

Now allow my rant to continue. This is directed at the self proclaiming hypocritical Christians who say that they should be against the change of leadership in AWARE. Please fuck off ok? Staying neutral is not the same as going against. I see a bunch of people saying that we shall not judge but they keep forgetting that it doesn’t mean we should just remain oblivious, it just means that we shouldn’t become overtly judgmental. However we should always be ready to stand for what we believe and point out what is wrong. See http://www.biblebelievers.com/jmelton/Judging.html

Any way, as my past experiences show, people don’t like to be wrong. If you manage to prove that they are, they will just deny it. Eventually it just evolve into a huge verbal sparring with no real meaning. I am just glad that I can bitch about it here and forget the next day.

Either it is a coincidence or there is some kind of a master plan that is drawing me to the pious and devoted. Though it could be just the Easter weekend that refocus us mortals back to his omnipresence.

I digress. There is a sudden surge of religious discussion among people that I know for some reason. First the guy with a sex addiction problem confessed to me that he has a secret longing for God. Then the pre-marital sex father who left his wife and child for other woman told me that Easter time reminded him of his days at Church. And finally for tonight’s dinner I met up with someone who told me that he wants to play a bigger role in church activities.

What’s up with all these people? Is there really a call for them to return or is it just another fad?

I was telling my friend that there are only two kinds of people who will actively seek God in their lives. The people who have too much to worry about and the people who have nothing to worry about. The average people who are occupied by their work and only have a decent amount of time to worry about things going wrong in their life tend to not need God. They usually need something beyond their power to control before submitting to God.

My mind is in a jumble of thoughts after struggling for 3 hours with Ajax and then playing Bejeweled. Can’t really make a coherent post, but what I think I am trying to say that if you do just well enough to get by, chances are God isn’t very real to you.

A friend’s family were converted to Christianity after her dad received a miraculous healing from a local Charismatic minister which fixed a lingering backache. She is convinced that because of the experience her father received, all the doctrines preached by that pastor must be the truth.

She has thus fallen into a trap of equating an experience with the truth. Can an experience be misleading or even proven to be fake? The resounding answer is a definite yes. Every religion in the world claims to be able to grant supernatural experiences to its believers, even though logically speaking it is impossible for every religion to be the truth at the same time. Their conflict with each other is obvious.

What is there to fall back on if experience alone does not validate something as truth? Fortunately, for Christians it is simple. Faith is the basis of Christianity, through it we will be able to determine what is true. The next question is how do we have faith? Paul wrote “So then faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.” (Romans 10:17) The key to faith lies in a deep understanding of God’s word. Armed with that understanding and knowledge, we are then able to discern what real spiritual experiences are like. Therefore this healing experience should be examined closely inline with what was recorded in God’s word.

The most prominent acts of healing were recorded in the New Testament and the comparison should be drawn between what was done then and what is being done now. If the modern day healing is genuine we can’t help but to ask why is this gift of healing restricted to controlled environments and fixed number of people. The greatest healer that we have ever known is the Lord Jesus. His acts of healing those who came to him were immediate, complete and in public view of everyone. Not so when you look at the modern day healers. Why is that so? What caused their version of healing to be deviant from the ones we see in the Scriptures? Could it be because they are not the same, but just counterfeits to the real thing?

It is a question that you must ask, if you proclaim yourself as a believer.

Faith is not blind. True faith requires you to understand.