Be careful when passing laws

PAPUA New Guinea parliamentarians are now proposing to declare PNG a Christian Country.
I suggest that we analyse this proposal carefully before we vote it into our constitution.
As soon as we declare and adopt it into our constitution, we would place our nation on a pedestal where the world would take notice of it and would watch and evaluate our moral, social and ethical standards by the Christian name and the reputation we adopt.
Our society today has deteriorated with unprecedented social, moral and ethical decay unlike before.
Corruption in all level of society is rampant. The law and order situation in our country is out of hand and almost unmanageable.
We have deteriorated in moral behaviour to the extent where some respectable people in our society have described situations that have occurred and the behaviour of people who were involved as equal to the behaviour of four-footed beasts.
Mahatma Ghandi, the founding father of the Indian independence studied the Bible carefully especially the four Gospels.
He said, “I like your Jesus but I do not like your religion.”
He found that there were many nominal Christians who do not practise their religious beliefs.
He found that there were many lukewarm Christians who attend church but practise double standards and so he rejected Christian religion.
It is better that Christians practise their religions in their secluded regions and territories in PNG then to advertise to the world their reputation as being a Christian country.
The decay and corruption in human behaviour we experience here would severely tarnish our reputation as a Christian country.
I warn the prime minister that with the rising tide of ecumenical movements the first step you are about to take will lead people championing such a cause to enforce other religious beliefs and creeds.

Xian Analyst