Sometime late last Thursday night, or early Friday morning, some person illegally dumped two cartons of household trash alongside the receptacle provided for users of Ahipara's Korora Park. One or two of our numerous wandering dogs had obviously enjoyed the scrapings from the pet food cans and packetsamong the scattered detritus.
Some of us do bit of tidying in the park, particularly around the children's playground, looking out for broken bottles etc, and I began raking the stuff back into the cartons. Then, lo! Before me, inscribed boldly in black felt pen upon the closure flap of one of the cartons, were these words from Romans 13.
I quote, from the cardboard flap: "1. Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there is no power but of God: the powers that be are ordained of God.
"2. Whosoever therefore resisteth the power, resisteth the ordinance of God: and they that resist shall receive to themselves damnation."
May we assume then that our trash-dumper is a studier of the St James version, and probably quite devout? If this transgressor does truly believe that "the powers that be in (in this case those of the FNDC) are ordinated of God" then he/she must also realise that they have "resisted" and must therefore "receive to himself/herself damnation".
If I were this person I would be constantly looking over my shoulder.
