[dropcap]A[/dropcap] Heresy is never a total Falsehood. Heresy is Truth mixed with a small bit of falsehood but shown as the whole Truth. Truth and Falsehood can never Co-Exist together, but in Nagaland it is 'chalta hai', whether sometimes in the Church or in the Politics. This Writer has seen Christians in Nagaland organizing Service to God under the Banner of Naga National Flag: and Church Programs conducted under the commandment of dreams seen at night. At this rate, this Writer fears Nagas may accept whatever the IM and the GoI may decides explaining it away as the Best Solution under the dispensation; even excluding the Sovereignty Issue. And it is doubtful anybody will do much of a protest.
An account of John, one of the Apostles of Jesus, the Writer of the Fourth Gospel, has come to us through Iranaeus the Bishop of Lyon 177 A.D. Iranaeus was a Student of Polycarp and Polycarp was a Pupil of John, one of the 12 Apostles of Jesus Christ and lived in Ephesus around 100 A.D. He must have been about 100 years old then.
One day, it is recorded (Eusebius 3: 28) "the apostle John once entered a bath to bathe; but, when he learned that Cerinthus was within, he sprang from his place and rushed out of the door, for he could not bear to remain under the same roof with him. He advised those who were with him to do the same. "let us flee', he said, 'lest the bath fall, for Cerinthus, the enemy of truth, is within'" (Cerinthus was the leader of the Agnostics, a heretic Group of the time). Even at 100 years old, John 'the Apostle Jesus loved' was true to the name Jesus gave he and his brother –Boanegers, 'sons of thunder', the man who asked permission of Jesus to burn a Samaritan Village for refusing to give passage through their village to Jerusalem.
To the relief of a great many Nagas concerned at the condition of Politics in State; and at last, having seen the picture of evergreen NPF Noke and Dr. Shürhozelie smiling happily together after cobbling an apparently impossible reconciliation again into the same Party; last Sunday, after morning Service, I jestingly told Shürho-o (Good Heath), the Leader of Nagaland Peoples Front: "It is time you need to give a Feast to the People with Mithun Meat"(Nowe Wi dukhri pie mie ze hieshü rei vi liei). (I did not say; "Cow Meat" because I thought it would be a mark of indecency in the present political dispensation for his Party). He laughed merrily enough revealing the golden braces of his Teeth"!
The other day, Mr. Shingya President of NNC (Non-Accordist) gave a statement in the News that he no longer supports the Adinno NNC because her NNC has done nothing this long years. Then following Shingya's statement, there appeared in the News, an appointment in the person of one T. Keyho as the Vice President.
Mr. Shingya is reputed to be an acknowledged Hero for preserving the Khiamniungan land in the battle from others but he is already old and may not be of much service in the battle now; he can scrawl his signature in the Paper and his proficiency in Nagamese at best is toiling just like a person trying to ride a Bicycle for the first time! As for Mr. T. Keyho, the Vice President (not Retd General T.M. Keyho), he is reported to be an old hand in the Naga Movement but his old colleagues have described him as a veteran migratory from one Organization to another. They themselves are hardly any better qualified than President Adinno, and Nagas can not expect from them much.
To be brutally frank and honest, it appears someone clever and artful is using the simple, the trusting and the credulous from the East for the formers own agenda.
Even in the State Political field, this phenomenon is seen. The way people from the East are used to contest, to contend, to protest, to fight, to move forward, to compromise, to offer apology, to sacrifice, to withdraw and to surrender, appears to have been the acts of artful, powerful wealthy people of cleverer characters than the simple, trusting, honest but naïve and fools from the East.
Mo-tse-tung is reported to have encouraged Nikita Kruschev to open atomic war with the West and that in the event, he (Mao-tse-tung) would give 5 Millions Chinese for the contest.
In Politics such Games are perhaps not strange, and as long as naive, credulous, trusting fools are available, others more wealthy and hence more powerful and clever will continue to use them as Pawns.
To utilize the weaker for the interest of the powerful is never a productive good Politics.
