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I read with amusement about how the Chinese community in Hong Kong, Taiwan and China can now offer prayers online to the dead during Tombs Sweeping Day or Qing Ming. Apparently, this online prayer service to the deceased is currently being looked into to be offered to fellow Malaysians in a couple of years too. You can read the full story of the news article here.

The convenience it offers also includes things that people would normally bring along as offerings like flowers and food stuff to the deceased. With this online prayer in place, people no longer need to visit the grave site to offer their prayers and other love offerings.

But is this truly what people want to do? For some people, perhaps out of convenience or maybe even due to geographical constraints, this could be an alternative to show their respects. But for those who do not have to travel thousands of miles across the globe, would you resort to offering prayers virtually? Will it be the same?

If you think offering such prayers online is the same and a good substitute to doing the real thing at a physical location, does this mean that you will also agree to do your prayers online to God instead of going to the temples, churches or mosques?

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• It’s funny how simple it is for people to trash God and then wonder why the world is in the condition it is today.
• Funny how we believe what the Newspapers say but question what the Bible/Quran says.
• Funny how everyone wants to go to heaven provided they do not have to believe, think, say, or do anything the Bible/Quran says.
• Funny how someone can say “I believe in God” but still follow Satan (who, by the way, also “believes” in God).
• Funny how you can send a thousand funny jokes through e-mail and they spread like wildfire but when you start sending messages regarding God, you think twice about sharing.
• Funny how the lewd, crude, vulgar and obscene pass freely through cyberspace but the public discussion of God is suppressed in the school and work place.
• Funny how I can be more worried about what other people think of me than what God thinks of me.

Anything that applies to you up there? I have to admit there are one or two points that hit home with me. It’s time to start thinking…especially that very last point.

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