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Siding with Prabakaran is siding with Satan

Sisira Pereira,

The Mannar Bishop Rayappu Joeseph is so keen in protecting his Churches and the worshipers from violence. He should be. God asked his servants to treat all human beings alike. Therefore, his Lordship never wastes even a millisecond when the sanctity of a religious place under his purview is violated or when crimes are committed against the civilians in areas over which he has religious authority.

Unfortunately for the Bishop, his jurisdiction had the misfortune of being under the fascist control of the terrorist LTTE for far too long now. Bishop or no Bishop, the killer squads of Prabakaran would not tolerate dissent. Therefore, Bishop Rayappu Joeseph is caught between the heavenly Lord and the Wanni Lord; God and Satan. Thus, the Bishop has hardly had any peace around him let alone reaching out to the masses with it, as the Lord has asked him to. In a situation of being threatened by Satan, being God-loving creatures, we all would expect a high priest of the Christendom, like Bishop Joeseph, to look down upon the devil and its followers and embrace his Lord and the innocents, siding with the Light and kicking the Dark. Nevertheless, what we see from the Bishop is embracing the devil and kicking the light in the dark.

Most of the time, the Government and the SL army comes under the wrath of Bishop Rayappu Joeseph even if a soldier breaks wind towards his area. However, when the LTTE run amok in the Madu church zone, planting bombs and taking cover behind the no war zone, has the Bishop made any tangible effort to stop it? When the LTTE deliberately targets civilians in those areas, he suspects SL security forces, instead of the known Devil hiding in Wanni, who has championed in human massacre for over two and a half decades.

Yesterday, the devil danced in the back yard and bombed the Thalladi Church, destroying it and killing the soldiers who were cleaning the premises on a request by the Church’s officials.

It would have been an unprecedented condemnation from all local and international quarters, had it been the work of the Sri Lanka Army, but now everybody has fallen silent!

Now we are watching dear Bishop, would this bombing of the Church get such “early” attention and strong condemnation of the Devil Prabakaran by your lordship? Or will you let it pass as a trivial case of some old brick walls of not much use being smashed in a crossfire?

The entirety of the Sri Lankan nation knows too well what their Satan spells like looks like.

The question is, dear Bishop, do you?

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