Category: Religion

Good Filipino Catholics agree: Mocha Uson deserves her UST award!

January 22, 2018January 22, 2018 benign0 4 Comments

People who are frothing in the mouth over the University of Santo Tomas’s (UST) Alumni Association awarding Assistant Secretary Mocha Uson distinction for government service should just get over it. “Awards” by institutions nowadays have long been under blanket suspicion anyway. Data generated by social media activity had taken over as more reliable indicators of…

Education, Religion

The annual Quiapo Church Black Nazarene fiesta (Traslacion) and Filipinos’ fascination with crowding

January 4, 2018 benign0 16 Comments

It remains quite the modern-day curiosity how more than a million people would troop to Manila for a chance to catch a glimpse and possibly — hoping against hope — touch the “revered” Black Nazarene figurine. I don’t get it. How is this crowding around a relic different, say, from the 30,000 Filipinos several years ago who trooped to…

Culture, Religion

Fake X-mas: The Filipino’s most awaited gift-extortion season of the year

December 16, 2017 zaxx 4 Comments

The season of lights and carols is finally in the air. Christmas brings many fond memories to most Filipinos, of loved ones and friends all in hopeful anticipation of the Christmas holiday parties and vacation break – and the eve of that day they finally receive their most awaited undeserved gifts and handouts. Caroling and…

Culture, Religion

The Philippine Opposition needs to divorce the CBCP in order to progress their agenda

November 6, 2017November 6, 2017 benign0 6 Comments

Following the big hype leading to Sunday’s “prayer rally” instigated by the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) and the pathetic turnout observed over the course of this little powow, the usual question comes up: What’s next? Evidently this is something that, yet again, wasn’t carefully thought through. Then again, not much thinking is…

Politics, Religion

The CBCP’s Seeking Influence Over the State Isn’t Good

November 6, 2017 ChinoF 4 Comments

One wonders what the CBCP is up to when they say, well… interesting things that seemingly indicate a desire to keep people poor and deprived. For example, remember when a bishop said poverty is not a problem? Some priests even go as far as to say illegal drug use shouldn’t be seen as wrong! Perhaps…

Culture, Religion

Another ‘prayer rally’ proves again the irrelevance and hopelessness of the Opposition

November 5, 2017 benign0 11 Comments

Yet another “prayer rally”, and Filipinos add more proof of how primitive their politics is. What exactly does a “prayer rally” achieve? This latest one today, the 5th November 2017 to be held at the EDSA Shrine is being pitched in an Inquirer report as one that will harbour “no politics, just prayers for healing”….

Politics, Religion

The Philippines’ real tyrants are the Catholic Bishops, NOT its ELECTED officials

November 3, 2017November 4, 2017 benign0 17 Comments

Seems like all the screeching about “tyranny”, “dictatorship” and abuse of “human rights” have for so long been directed at the wrong people and the wrong institutions. Right within Filipinos’ midst is an even more insidious tyranny — one that has renmained disguised under a persona of righteousness that conceals a dark power that has…

Politics, Religion

Military strategy should not be based on the assumption that terrorists may consider ‘surrender’?

October 30, 2017 benign0 9 Comments

Trust Rappler to give air time to any content that works towards painting a beaten enemy of the Opposition’s favourite bogeyman — the Philippine military — as victims of yet another “human rights” travesity. In the “report” Overkill? Some locals question Marawi shelling (seemingly re-published from Al Jazeera), the devastation wreaked upon Marawi City is…

Religion, The South

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