Tactical religious person handing out this flyer outside Chinatown Point opposite Pink Dot event

Tactical person is tactical.

Belmont Lay | June 04, 2016, 06:50 PM

A tactical religious person was handing out the above flyer in the afternoon at about 4pm outside one of the entrances of Chinatown Point, which is some 150 metres away from the Pink Dot event happening at Hong Lim Park on June 4, 2016.

The flyer advertised the weekly healing services held at Lighthouse Evangelism, an independent church in Singapore located in Woodlands and Tampines.

The church is founded by Rony Tan, who is the senior pastor and also the one conducting the healing services as advertised in the flyer.

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The list of ailments Tan claims he has healed (listed in a somewhat exhaustive alphabetical order) include: "4-D Addiction", "Ankle Pain", "Broken Marriage", "Constipation", "Deafness", "Miscarriage", "Paralysis" and "Many Others".

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On the next page of the flyer, an example of what "Many Others" can be, includes "Autism":

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Tan is no stranger to controversy.

In February 2010, he was called up by the Internal Security Department after complaints were lodged about online video clips that showed him making insensitive comments about Buddhism.

The ISD met up with Tan and had told him then that what he did was wrong.

Tan later apologised in a statement on his church's website, promising to respect other faiths and "not ridicule them in any way, shape or fashion".

 

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