"New Zealand was supposed to be a secular democracy...."

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"New Zealand was supposed to be a secular democracy. But blink, and suddenly we’re living in a tax-funded theocracy built on ghost stories and cosmic real estate claims. Let’s say it flat-out: this country is being governed, influenced, and guilt-tripped by a belief system that no one’s allowed to call a religion — because it’s labeled 'culture.' ...

"We don’t call it [religion], though — because we’re too polite, too scared, or too indoctrinated. ...

"Try this on for size ... a public holiday based on stellar necromancy ... teaching [children] about invisible energies called wairua and mauri ... legal rights, your property, your voice — they all bend to concepts like mana whenua ...

"We are living in a soft theocracy, where only one faith system is state-approved — the one cloaked in carvings and cultural immunity. Criticise it and you’re not debating — you’re blaspheming. ...

"Let’s be painfully clear: this isn’t about Māori culture. Culture is fine. Culture is beautiful. Culture can be danced, sung, and honored.

"But religion disguised as culture, used as a bludgeon against democracy, enforced through law and funded by your wallet? That’s not beautiful. That’s dangerous. ...

"Let’s rip the spiritual scaffolding out of our lawbooks, drop the theological cosplay, and build a country where no one’s ghost gets to overrule your rights.

"Because freedom doesn’t float in the stars.
"It lives down here — under your feet.
"And it's time we fought for it."

~ John Robertson from his post 'New Zealand’s Holy Empire of Make-Believe'

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