Content deleted Content added
No edit summary Tags: Mobile edit Mobile web edit |
Floodstreet (talk | contribs) |
||
Line 405:
When asked to describe the rituals, Lee explained:
<blockquote>On set days you've got to give offerings to your ancestors—food and so on. All that is laid out by the servants. But it will go off after my generation. It is like clearing the graves during [[Qingming Festival|Qing Ming]]. With each passing generation, fewer people go. It is a ritual.</blockquote>
Lee was sometimes identified by others as an agnostic,<ref>{{cite news|title=Days of reflection for the man who defined Singapore: A transcript of Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew's interview with The New York Times |url=http://www.todayonline.com/Print/Commentary/EDC100913-0000046/Days-of-reflection-for-the-man-who-defined-Singapore |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100916155824/http://www.todayonline.com/Commentary/EDC100913-0000046/Days-of-reflection-for-the-man-who-defined-Singapore |archivedate=16 September 2010 |newspaper=[[Today (Singapore newspaper)|Today]] |location=Singapore |date=13 September 2010 |pages=14–17 |url-status=dead |df= }}</ref> notably during an interview with Goh Keng Swee in 1983 when the latter identified [[S. Rajaratnam]] and Lee as agnostics.<ref>Cheng, Chan Eng (4 February 1983). [http://newspapers.nl.sg/Digitised/Article/straitstimes19830204-1.2.6.aspx "An Agnostic speaks"]. {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140204045630/http://newspapers.nl.sg/Digitised/Article/straitstimes19830204-1.2.6.aspx |date=4 February 2014 }}. ''The Straits Times'' (Singapore).
| |||