ID’S PATRICIA DE LILLE SLAMS ANC FOR ‘SELECTIVE USE OF CHRISTIANITY TO FURTHER POLITICAL GOALS’
1 DECEMBER 2008-ID President Patricia de Lille has called on the ANC ‘to stop using Jesus Christ, the Bible and Christianity in general to garner votes from the poor and the vulnerable.
ID President Patricia de Lille has called on the ANC ‘to stop using
Jesus Christ, the Bible and Christianity in general to garner votes
from the poor and the vulnerable.
‘The ANC must be condemned in the strongest possible terms for its selective use of Christianity to further its political goals,’ Ms De Lille says.
The call comes after Ace Magashule, the ANC's Free State chairperson, said yesterday that Zuma had been persecuted like Christ.
The ID Leader says the ANC’s campaign to portray itself and its leader as ‘God-like’ has resulted in talk about the ANC ruling until Jesus returns, parallels being drawn between COPE and Jesus’ donkey, amongst others.
‘We in the Independent Democrats would like to draw the ANC’s attention to the fact that Jesus was never charged with corruption,’ De Lille says.
The ID Leader says that ‘adultery, the machine gun song and Zuma’s failure to condemn war talk and hate speech by the ANC rank and file are examples of why it is insulting to compare Zuma with Christ.
‘Jesus Christ stood for the concept of putting the poor first, a concept the ANC should have heeded when it made the decision to throw away billions of rand for weapons our country could not afford and did not need,’ says De Lille.
‘The ANC will also recall that the Church was against the Arms Deal from the beginning and that South Africa’s most prominent church leader advised Zuma not to stand for the presidency of the ANC,’ says De Lille.
For media enquiries, please call Steven Otter, ID Media Officer, on 084 233 3811
‘The ANC must be condemned in the strongest possible terms for its selective use of Christianity to further its political goals,’ Ms De Lille says.
The call comes after Ace Magashule, the ANC's Free State chairperson, said yesterday that Zuma had been persecuted like Christ.
The ID Leader says the ANC’s campaign to portray itself and its leader as ‘God-like’ has resulted in talk about the ANC ruling until Jesus returns, parallels being drawn between COPE and Jesus’ donkey, amongst others.
‘We in the Independent Democrats would like to draw the ANC’s attention to the fact that Jesus was never charged with corruption,’ De Lille says.
The ID Leader says that ‘adultery, the machine gun song and Zuma’s failure to condemn war talk and hate speech by the ANC rank and file are examples of why it is insulting to compare Zuma with Christ.
‘Jesus Christ stood for the concept of putting the poor first, a concept the ANC should have heeded when it made the decision to throw away billions of rand for weapons our country could not afford and did not need,’ says De Lille.
‘The ANC will also recall that the Church was against the Arms Deal from the beginning and that South Africa’s most prominent church leader advised Zuma not to stand for the presidency of the ANC,’ says De Lille.
For media enquiries, please call Steven Otter, ID Media Officer, on 084 233 3811
