It appears that City Harvest Church founder Kong Hee has somewhat made peace with the finality of his predicament.

In a Facebook post put up at night on Nov. 20 -- following Kong's sentencing in the day together with five other current and former church leaders to jail terms ranging from 21 months to 8 years -- he thanked his supporters for their devotion.

Kong also said the troubles for his church will soon come to an end, an assertion that is somewhat true as the Commissioner of Charities has said it is resuming the removal proceedings of the church's leaders, following the sentencing.

The aim of this regulatory action is to protect the charitable assets of the charity, the COC said.

However, the conspicuous absence of any hint of contrition in Kong's note will hardly escape any lay reader who has a passing interest in his trial.

He wrote that he is saddened by the length of his jail term and will decide whether to appeal after studying the judgement and sentence with his lawyers, but did not in any way acknowledge any failing on his part at all.

In hunky-dory fashion, he wrote:

As a spiritual family, we have all learned many valuable lessons of life. Moving forward, these lessons will make us better Christians and a stronger church.

This despite Judge See Kee Oon – the Presiding Judge of Singapore’s State Courts – having said during the verdict of the trial on Oct. 21 that the six "had all acted dishonestly and in breach of the trust reposed in them and they played their respective roles in a conspiracy with intent to cause wrongful loss to City Harvest Church and to defraud the auditors".

This is Kong's full post: