Cool-gal SG can la, coz christian not suppose to be believe in all these. i like neo niang zhang!! and christian normally can eat any food, no restriction.
livspore2006 SG of course can eat lah.... let's not interprete things so narrowly that we become a little fundamentalistic (or extremist?) in our practice. may need to learn to adapt and apply things in our modern context already and not go back to the olden times. if we know a bit of European & American history, we found out how they came out of the "dark ages" by re-intepreting their customs and religious practices to the extent of starting the christian denominations that we know of today. can we learn to separate customs observation from religion? ...
ispyyy SG Eating ba zhang is not praying Qu Yuan lah... sigh... this festival is actually honoring Qu Yuan's loyal. Qu Yuan is a loyal count officer. Not willing to defy his lord and not willing to see his state destroyed. He choose to commit suicide. He is following the sage's teaching at that age. Something like what Japanese in WW2 do when they are losing. Lots of folks are touched by his actions at that time. They do not bear to see his body to be eaten in the river. They threw rice dumpling into the river to feed the fish. They also use Dragon boat to scare away creatures from his body. Although committing suicide is consider a stupid act in this modern world, but the MEANING of his actions truely inspire the people in the future. And hence, it become tradition lor ...
menoob SG christian renounce all chinese cultures cannot attend funerals except those got priest type cant pray father mother ancestor cant use josssticks etc
menoob SG freethinker is everything also can leh means u believe abit here a bit there atheist is everything also no believe
laurence82 SG Qu Yuan is commemorated and honoured as a patriot or heroic figure, not god and its Chinese festival -_-!
<Precious> SG Why not? Bak zhang is food only wad. Why Christians cannot eat? Dragon boat is only a transport.... why Christians cannot sit? TS WAKE UP YOUR IDEAS LAH........!!!
hiphop2009 SG the most funny thing i heard was christian cannot celebrate cny and cannot get ang pow.
t_a_s SG Christian cant do a lot of things, the seven month ghost festival the prayer food can not eat also, cant buy toto, cant drink, like this life is no meaning, must pray b4 eat, must love ur enemy etc
