Bigger pastures for Destiny

Bigger pastures for Destiny
Destiny Church is calling on members to help build a big complex in South Auckland but denies it plans to create a self-sufficient "walled city". News of the shift follows claims that Destiny asked members last Sunday to sell their homes and donate the proceeds to the complex, which would include a new church, three schools and a medical centre. "It would be completely self-contained," one church member, who did not want to be named, said. The head of the church, the self-styled Bishop Brian Tamaki, told members attending "A Decade of Destiny" conference during Labour weekend that the complex would give the church a big presence in the centre of Auckland. "We have signed virtually for 10 acres with the possibility of another five if we want it and another five acres when we need it, which gives us 20 acres right in the heart of our largest city in our nation," Mr Tamaki said. The complex's schools would mean Destiny members could opt to remove their children from mainstream schooling.

A separate walled city for the Bishop? Is this starting to sound a bit weird now? Sure the black-shirted marching and chanting ‘enough is enough’ was all fun and games but a walled separate city – doesn’t that tend to turn people a bit queer in their thinking and should a cult of personality leader be able to rob his followers blind to build his walled city? Perhaps the Resource Consent process needs to look into the ramifications of dense urban planning by messiah cult figures before they grant the building of Brian’s Ark.