Prawn to Bishop

I have no time for the self-anointed Bishop Tamaki. Even less time for him after Garth George’s revelations in yesterday’s NZ Herald and Tamaki’s performance on last night’s Close Up. Despite everything said to the contrary by Tamaki and his cohorts, Tamaki is nothing more than a self-delusional megalomaniac. Read this from Tamaki’s autobiography, and I repeat autobiography—Tamaki wrote it himself: “Never before have the forces of religious, political and social activism converged more powerfully than in the life of Bishop Brian Tamaki.” Has Tamaki not heard of Mohandas Ghandi? We are now told that any of “the 700” approaching The Bishop must kneel before him and those bringing gifts can approach closer than those who aren’t. I can only imagine that those bringing a Harley Davidson for the Bishop, as has happened in the past, can qualify to get right up his arse. Personally, I am just grateful to The Bishop for allowing me to be in the same city. Bishop Tamaki tells us that such protocols and covenants are simply manifestations of respect determined and dictated by members of his church, not by himself. Again he is being disingenuous. One gets the feeling that nothing happens in that church that is not initiated by Tamaki or, more likely these days, his chief henchman and head of the church’s “political arm”, Richard Lewis. Tamaki’s response to the various accusations swirling around and about the church hinge on two factors, that it is all a beat-up by the media and that his church is full of love and does good things. There may be some truth in the first, and Tamaki was essentially made in the media, and he has probably sound evidence for the second. But one is drawn to the conclusion that Tamaki is now out of control and that his church and ministry is less about loving God than loving Tamaki. Or does he now think they are one and the same?

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