In the wake of the Christchurch mosque attack, we come to find out that New Zealand has removed references to Jesus from the parliamentary prayer, sparking outrage among the country’s Christian population.
Speaker of the House, Trevor Mallard, made the decision to drop references to Jesus in order to make the prayer “more inclusive” for all parliamentarians.
The Guardian reported: A reference to “almighty god” remains, but it is not a specific reference to a Christian god. The protesters want Jesus’s name reinstated, and held signs reading “Dishonourable Judas Mallard”. Around 1,000 people protested on the steps of parliament house in Wellington, arguing that New Zealand was a Christian nation and Mallard had no authority to axe Jesus’s name. “He needs a good kick in his pants, and he needs to actually be removed because this is a Christian nation”, protester Rieki Teutscher told Radio NZ. “We don’t share his atheism.” Another protester, Carmel Morgan, said Mallard should have consulted with New Zealanders or announced a referendum before changing the prayer.
“This is a land of democracy, this is a land of freedom, you know, we want to be a first world country… he took that choice away from us.”
Carmel Morgan
Politicians such as Jacinda Ardern and Winston Peters have said it would have been judicious for the speaker to have consulted more widely before actioning the changes.
Jacinda renounced her Mormon faith because she didn’t agree with their stance on gay marriage, but today she doesn’t seem to care about Islamic states stoning gay people to death. This woman has double standards.
Dunno if it’s quite that simple Angelica. I suspect there is something more nuanced and subtle at play, politically.In my opinion the ultimate aim (per the UN and Lucis Trust 2030 Agenda) is to bring all religions together and “fuse” them into a global religion In order to accomplish this logistical and idealogical “near impossibility”, the moderates of each faith will have “build bridges” while the extremists are eliminated from the process. Note the strange “coincidence” of the Pope’s visit to Morrocco to forge closer ties to Islam that is happening so close to the events here in Christchurch that have caused such ripples around the world. While Ardern may be a former Mormon, she is first and foremost a Socialist (self described Democratic Socialist and Progressive) and was a member of Socialist Youth. In this at least she is consistent. The PR exercise of wearing Hijab however, seems rather inconsistent with Social Justice and Women’s Rights, as other articles here at Uncensored have highlighted. Thanks for the comment Angelica.
Back to the subject of eliminating extremist elements, it will be interesting to see how Sharia Law and suchlike will be tackled, not to mention, at the other end of the spectrum, China’s oppression and “re-education programming” of it’s sizeable Muslim population!