The Dark Shadow Shrine

embrace the darkness; that you may see the light nestled within it......

Monday, January 27, 2014

Sun Morning Class: Sun Ho's China Wine MV

I can't locate the City Harvest Church clip which shows the pastor persuading people to donate more money to the church...think the clip has been taken down already...it's an old clip from a few years ago anyway...That clip was disturbingly like a corporate AGM with the CEO doing a sales pitch to its shareholders to inject more funds into the company's expansion. At that time, City Harvest had plans to acquire part of Suntech City. Read: Church going into property investments! There are arguably grounds for saying that religion could be (ab)used as an excuse/licence for commercial profits/gains. Whether the City Harvest example can apply here remains to be seen as the jury is still out on this one.

But HERE is the China Wine MV of Sun Ho, who is the wife of City Harvest Church's pastor. The intention was to use her pop career to attract young people to go to church, a new kind of evangelism, or spreading the gospel! But seriously, looking at the video, who would have thought THAT was the real intention! The church is now embroiled in a court case where they allegedly use church funds (and they tried to hide this from the auditor) to finance the singing career of the pastor's wife. Do read some of the comments pasted on youtube...they're quite funny, and give u an idea of the controversy behind the whole scandal....