My country is still in the anticipation of the next general election. The other day we were talking about the natives' ancestral land was being usurped by the corporations in northern Borneo. While that is really nothing new, this time someone said that the huge commercial group that attracted the spotlight this time is owned by Christians. That really rung a bell in my head.
A few days back I read that after the conversion of John Newton, he was practicing his faith sincerely but he was still captain to a slave ship. I suppose that these hard working and rich Hock Chew folks originally from the coastal area of southern China probably think that the aborigines as non-people. They might see that God has blessed them with wealth so that they could convert every inch of northern Borneo into oil palm plantations. The green oil would generate more and more money so that they could become wealthier every year. That in itself is probably alright; but think of the aborigines who would have no means of surviving outside of the jungle, they would probably be left with few choices: servitude, prostitution, crime, living near mountains of rubbish as scavengers ....
He has showed you, O man, what is good. And what does the Lord require of you? To act justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God. Micah 6:8
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