Singapore Work Cult

In the news recently was a mega-church group that decided to invest about $280 million to "build, lease and operate an integrated civic, cultural, retail and entertainment hub". That's pretty amazing if you ask me. It got me curious and I began reading what I can find on the Internet on such mega-churches in Singapore.

I know what you might be thinking. But I'm not going into any discussion about whether a religious body should spend so much on a commercial endeavour.

But I do want to tell you about a dinner and dance I attended last week. Round about midway through the event, the hosts asked all of us to get up on our feet and to start dancing. But it wasn't like a footloose-dance-as-you-like kind of dance.

In fact, it was like a great gathering of free-loving hippies, holding hands and skipping around the table, punctuated by flinging of table napkins and doing hand motions similar to the Great Singapore Workout exercise.

It was all very surreal. But it was helluva funny. And for some strange reason, it felt almost religious at that moment.