NBCC is proving to the biggest hypocrite. When the claim of Christianity is said to be 90 plus percent, does NBCC know that the capacity of all the churches in Nagaland can hardly sit 5 percent of its total population? Out of the 5% of Christians attending church service on Sundays, only about 3 % do so on a regular basis, of which again a large portion are alcohol users, which includes children and family members of Christian leaders. Church attendance is highest only on occasions such as Christmas days when most people come with a hangover from partying the night before. Almost all the kingpins in bootlegging, their agents, carriers, outlets, retailers, covered bars, are Christians. Most of the law makers, who voted the Act to effect, use alcohol themselves and they are all Christians. The enforcers they appoint such as police and excise personnel are people who drink up a large portion of their catch though they are also mostly Christians with valid membership in churches. Nagaland is a Christian state in terms of church membership, but as a large majority of Christians use alcohol, in the same vein we can also label Nagaland as a “drinking” Christian state. So what is the Church in Nagaland trying to do meddling in the affairs of the State? Is it not to cover up for their complete failure on the pulpit? Why is NBCC griping about Government's inaction? Don't they use excommunication for members who break the marriage code of the church? If drinking is evil why do they allow alcohol users to retain their membership. Why do they judge breakers the of marital sanctity and wine drinkers differently? The Church should have acted to cleanse itself of the plank in its own eye, before pointing to the speck in the eye of the Government and the larger society.
T. Kevami
