NBCC mourns Nagas’ decay

Lamenting on the deteriorated Naga society, the Nagaland Baptist Church Council today expressed grief that the unrestrained lust for money and power, the crimes of all magnitude and shallowness, is the ‘ugly society that has come out of the lives of all of us.’
The NBCC lamented the corruption in Naga politics that the candidates who fought in the last election ‘reportedly had to spend more than Rs. 600 crores to pay for votes.’ This shocking shallowness of Naga Christians and their meaning of life were revealed; the politicians, the bureaucrats and contractors are not the only ones to blame, the church said is a statement today.
Likewise, the NBCC listed out: the disgraceful scams in the Nagaland Public Service Commission keep surfacing; the massive fraud of the bogus teachers being put on the state’s pay roll resulting in countless genuine teachers not receiving their salaries; senior officials of the state investigating into criminal activities being told not to carry out their tasks on pain of dire consequences; these are the moral and spiritual diet the Nagas feed on daily as they try to struggle for their survival and progress.
“Our people deserve better feeding” the NBCC said. The scams and scandals and the unrestrained greed for easy money have rendered the Naga society unmanageable and unstable, it said adding that the Nagas have become a people with no sense of responsibility for the consequences of their acts. “The manifestation of rampant threat abduction, extortion, killing, sexual abuse, rape and various detestable evils are only the natural outcome. Let us all question ourselves; where are we the Christian dominated State heading?” the church lamented.
“Yet this ugly society has come out of the lives of all of us. That is the honest-to-God truth. And we have no choice but to accept it with all its faults and transform it together for our children to inherit a better, safer society” the NBCC said in acknowledgement. That the church’s leadership is fully aware of “our limitations to meet the challenge of the crisis” but, the NBCC explained, “The church’s commitment to fight for the ways of God to win is unshakable as the battle is God’s battle and He will win if enough Christians will pay the price of obedience to Him”.
“This is our faith and confidence because of him who has called us to stand with him” it added.
The NBCC has called upon all the men of power, wealth and influence, whether mainstream or underground, not to treat God’s values for his kingdom lightly. “Our co-operation with the Deceiver must end” the NBCC added.

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