By Mataeliga Pio Sioa
So our Fijian neighbors are rounding up and kicking out members of that Korean Doomsday Christian Cult, ‘Grace Road’!
Truly worth taking note of from our end.
In fact we should start worrying at the chances of any members in this cult who may have slipped out our way.
It is only a short flight from Nandi to Faleolo Airport.
But why should we worry about these people coming if they are Christians? Yes indeed. Why?
Well, if we really want to ask any questions the first one is whether these people are really Christians.
As a country that loves to boast to the world of being ‘Founded On God’ we are suckers for anything to do with the Lord’s name.
The arrested and deported characters behind Fiji’s ‘Grace Road’ cult are not only wanted by international police but appears to be using God as a front to set up controlling commercial ventures on the island.
Therein lies our ‘Achilles Heel’ oh People of God.
We trust too literally in the Christian teaching that you should always treat your fellow man well because Jesus appears in many ways and forms.
Who knows? The person we suspect of evil intentions may be the Divine One disguised to test our faith.
Think about our ‘faifeau’. Why do we hold our men of God in such reverence?
Of course they are not Jesus but it is the closest we are to God in human form – it has been drummed into our ‘Honest to God’ trust since we were baptised.
Remember how these ‘faifeau’ carry on from the pulpit about man being made in His image!
Nothing said though about the woman’s image which we continue to side step as a mystery of faith.
But let’s not point a blaming finger at the ‘goody goody’ teachings of the Good Word.
Remember how the same divine wisdom also warns of ‘wolves dressed in sheep skin’?
There we go! We should take that no nonsense attitude in this ‘Grace Road’ cult threat.
Remember how we are also told to stay alert for the ‘Second Coming’ when the world ends?
Exactly the message these ‘doomsday cults’ take to drag you by the nose of your faith to ‘thy will’.
These religious ‘wolves in sheepskins’, hide behind cunningly chosen names, to drag your faith by the ears and eyes to whatever pathway of deceit in God’s name, they can use to line their pockets.
Surely it is not the first time this kind of fraudulent activity has popped up in our innocent, Pacific God-fearing, Island neighbourhood.
Unfortunately, while the police are there to protect us they are mostly involved after the fact.
In other words the damages have been done already.
Innocence has been betrayed and left to bleed profusely from the henious wounds inflicted of unholy deception.
Ironically, it is easy enough to take off in a huff, fired up and brimming with full loads of determination, to keep these con artists in God’s Holy Name from desecrating our divine faith. But dear Lord how?
It is not like these people will step into Faleolo Airport holding up placards to warn of who they are and their devious intentions.
No sirree. Sorry ‘abouddad.’
All we get to see are saintly smiles, like meekly sheep to the slaughter house, as our beautiful future Miss Samoa’s, glide across in a protective rush with ‘ula’ for a flower welcome to paradise.
Indeed! Paradise here they are. Let’s check out those bank accounts people of paradise. Get them signed up and drawn out so they can start to enjoy the fun in store for them in our Garden of Eden.
Soooo..!!!!
Now for the ‘Million Tala’ question.
Where do we the impending victims go from here? Let’s all give that a thought.
For our sake.