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		<title>Singapore&#8217;s Brit Hume? Not quite &#8212; this time, there was at least an apology. (With video)</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Feb 2010 13:03:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rony Tan, founder of Singapore&#8217;s Lighthouse Evangelism Church, is in hot water for his recent &#8220;jokes&#8221; about Buddhism &#8212; among then, the suggestion that one might follow Buddhism thanks to demonic forces. The country&#8217;s Ministry of Home Affairs has stated that &#8220;Pastor Tan&#8217;s comments were highly inappropriate and unacceptable as they trivialized and insulted the [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.shambhalasun.com/sunspace/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/ronytan.jpg"></a><img class="size-full wp-image-3073 alignleft" title="ronytan" src="http://theworsthorse.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/ronytan.jpg" alt="" width="108" height="108" />Rony Tan, founder of Singapore&#8217;s Lighthouse Evangelism Church, is in hot water for his recent &#8220;jokes&#8221; about Buddhism &#8212; among then, the suggestion that one might follow Buddhism thanks to demonic forces. The country&#8217;s Ministry of Home Affairs has stated that &#8220;Pastor Tan&#8217;s comments were highly inappropriate and unacceptable as they trivialized and insulted the beliefs of Buddhists and Taoists. &#8220;They can also give rise to tension and conflict between the Buddhist/Taoist and Christian communities.&#8221;</p>
<p>Tan, for his part, has now stated on the Church&#8217;s website that he recognizes that his comments were &#8220;wrong&#8221; and offensive.&#8221; A smart move, if only because such defamation is considered a punishable offense in Singapore. (Frankly, it the move seems as calculated as Tan&#8217;s onstage conversations seem scripted.) But the fact remains: an apology was called for, and, in this case, delivered.</p>
<p>So what did &#8220;Pastor Tony&#8221; say? Here&#8217;s are three videos with Tan&#8217;s divisive comments on Buddhism and &#8220;false religions&#8221; in general.</p>
<p>Have comments of your own? Please share them. Perhaps we can help those who might be given to believing what Tan is saying that, in fact, there&#8217;s nothing demonic about those who practice in a way so different from his.</p>
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		<title>&#8220;A Month of Hungry Ghosts&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Aug 2008 23:24:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We recently got an email from film director Tony Kerns, about his new film, A Month of Hungry Ghosts:
&#8220;Hello Horse &#8211; I found your site a few months back and have been wanting to send you some info about my indy documentary film A MONTH OF HUNGRY GHOSTS.  The film documents an entire seventh lunar [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>We recently got an email from film director Tony Kerns, about his new film, <em>A Month of Hungry Ghosts</em>:</p>
<p><img class="alignleft" src="http://hungryghostsmovie.com/cgi/HG-POSTER-FIRE-small.jpg" alt="" width="171" height="242" />&#8220;Hello Horse &#8211; I found your site a few months back and have been wanting to send you some info about my indy documentary film A MONTH OF HUNGRY GHOSTS.  The film documents an entire seventh lunar month in Singapore in 2005 and captures many events and angles pertaining to hungry ghosts practices in Singapore.  It&#8217;s getting a small theatrical release in Singapore this August and I hope to get it into some film festivals next year.  I thought you might be interested in this project.  We captured a lot of interesting things throughout the shoot.  The site has more info, pics, trailers, teasers and my production &#8220;blog&#8221; about the shoot along with updates on screenings.  Please check it out if you get a chance. Thanks!&#8221;</p>
<p>Definitely, Tony. It looks TOTALLY cool. Let&#8217;s hope it gets around like it should.</p>
<p>Fellow Worst Horses can check it out <a href="http://hungryghostsmovie.com/" target="_blank">here.</a></p>
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