Look, you have to understand the gravity of what is happening here. It’s not a joke, and it’s not just “culture.” We are witnessing the systematic dismantling of the secular state, and we’re doing it under the guise of compassion and inclusivity. It is a lie.

​The MBIE whistleblower footage isn’t just a recording of a song; it’s a recording of a ritual. Let’s be precise. When you have state employees gathered in a government building, engaging in collective, rhythmic chanting, you are no longer in a secular workplace. You are in a temple. And if you think participation is “voluntary,” you are pathologically naive. You don’t understand human hierarchy and you don’t understand social pressure.

​In any high-functioning bureaucracy, the pressure to conform is absolute. If you are the one person sitting at your desk while the rest of the tribe is engaged in a collective spiritual manifestation, you are marked. You are the outsider. That is a form of soft-tissue coercion that is antithetical to a free, individualistic society.

​We claim to be a secular nation. Secularism is the hard-won peace that allows people of all beliefs—and no belief—to work together without being subjected to someone else’s metaphysics. But New Zealand has decided to play a dangerous game. We are embedding esoteric, spiritual language into our legislation and daily governance, specifically from the Māori worldview, and then we have the audacity to pretend it’s just “etiquette.”

​It’s a soft theocracy. That’s the word for it. When the state adopts a specific spiritual framework and mandates its practice in the halls of power, the secular wall hasn’t just been breached—it’s been pulverized.

​You see it everywhere: karakia, haka, hongi, pōwhiri, waiata. Taken individually, the “compassionate” types will tell you they’re harmless. But aim the lens at the aggregate. When the state adopts the rituals of a specific spirituality, it is no longer neutral. It is proselytizing.

​We are trading the sovereignty of the individual for a forced, collective performance. It is intellectually dishonest, it is legally hypocritical, and it is happening because everyone is too terrified of being called a “bigot” to state the obvious truth: A state workplace is for work, not for the state-sponsored manifestation of the divine. Pick a lane. Either we are secular, or we are a theocracy. You don’t get to lie to us and say we’re both.

■ Make New Zealand Secular

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POV: you work at the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment. ( MBIE )

That’s a real audio recording, video sent to The New Zealand Taxpayers Union from a disgruntled worker

Credit to the whistleblower for exposing this.