Black Nazarene

I was watching the tv on GMA. And I was wrong after all there was a miracle. There were survivors. There were people who were lucky to survive the event.

So much is wrong in this society, I was raised by parents and grandparents that were seriously religious, my grandfather on my maternal side kisses all the icons of the saints he sees inside a church lucky for him he is “blessed” with longevity, and he is still sharp at age 87. My grandmother on my paternal side brought me to church all the time when I was younger, and I was eager to join her too. I used to wake up at 3am in wee hours of the summer mornings just to join the procession or “salubong” as they call it to celebrate the resurrection of jesus during holy week; I was so active that I really make an effort to be beside the Cart of the “virgin” Mary.

My grandmother probably is the nicest old lady I know, she gave up her studies to make her siblings finish theirs and she became a businesswoman and lucky her she ended up owning several parcels of land in a village Quezon City. Even if her son-in-law swindled her money and issued checks that bounced and yet she never took him to court or take any legal/illegal actions against him. She forgave him in the name of the so called god a supreme being made through the imagination of the Roman slave owners. That’s how nice and forgiving she is.

Essentially my grandparents and parents are righteous people who never took advantage of anyone and they are also just and tried to be fair with everyone. This is how they were raised and this is how I was raised. How come they are so nice in this cruel world? What was their belief? Was it religion? Was it their belief of heaven and hell?

The god described in the bible is probably the cruelest Supreme Being ever created by the imagination of man. If you commit sins against him, steal from others, kill people, have no faith, commit adultery, even imagine doing bad things you will suffer eternal fire, torture, pain blah blah blah but he loves you. Was that cruel or what?

Take a look at these so called devout Catholics, they have these rules that they need to follow for the rest of their lives, love god above all sure that is easy, thou shall not kill ok doable, thou shall not commit pre-marital sex phew hmm let me guess open to interpretation? Shall not do sexual acts before marriage yeah still open to interpretation; there are many similar open to interpretation now because of the billions and billions of hypocrites in the society. The powerful has used religion to put fear into the minds of the weak, the easy to fool and the poor slaves.

What was the bible’s position regarding slavery, read it and see for yourself how strong your faith is in your religion. Follow the best-selling, award winning and most copies sold fictional book of all time the bible. A book that’s full of incest, child-rape, slavery and violence. A book that tells how the world ends, the coming of the apocalypse, the three days of darkness spirits and the blasphemy of the holy spirit is the most or if not the only unforgivable sin. Read it and imagine it is really fiction and you will feel that it is just nothing but a horror story designed to scare and control a fool.

To be continued…..

First post

What do you think of God and religion? I was an extremely religious person a month before today and there are some realizations that I came across while reading a lot of top ten articles over the net. The biggest or at least the one that really affected me was a top 10 list of fictional Christ-like figures that PRE-DATED Jesus, oh yeah they exist for example Hercules the son of a god there also many figures who are of VIRGIN BIRTH! I really believe that the background of these figures where just consolidated and they formed Jesus Christ.

I have this strange connection with my boss from USA who was born a catholic to Hispanic parents. He had always claimed that there is no God and the people in the Philippines are poor because of their dedication and blind faith to Christianity. Of course as a strict catholic I didn’t believe him right away but I did not close my mind as well.

I began reading and researching on that matter that is why I came across the Christ-like figures, like a mad man I was obsessed with this theories, what good has Christianity done to the Philippines?! More bad than good! I saw the news last night about this annual dedication of the black jesus in Quiapo, this is an age long Philippine practice for followers, devotees and people seeking a miracle solution to their problems may it be for their diseases or their poor lives. What I don’t get with this black Nazarene is why people keep on coming to this parade of bullshit, people die every year due to stampede, elderly people get injured, kids lost, snatchers steal people’s money.

People may bash me for my lack of faith but I look at the facts of life, what happened to God’s supposedly divine intervention in EDSA 25 years ago? The country is as poor as ever, crime rates are sky high it has become a career for desperate people, is this part of “God’s” plan. Believe what you want to believe religion is created for people who want someone to rely on; someone who they feel will be responsible to their protection of their lives; a psychological defense against the physically stronger eons ago. There are many reasons why religion was created before the world was discovered that it was round every country isolated from civilization have different religion, what constituted Catholicism, Muslim, Hinduism, Buddhist and any other major religion to be real for majority of the population on earth is beyond me.

If there are aliens and they can see us, hear us and understand us I bet my life savings that they are laughing at us right now. Remember how the Vatican ridiculed Galileo for his theory that the Earth is not the center of the universe?! In all fairness Galileo was incorrect that the sun is the center of the universe but the Vatican is incorrect to say that the earth is the center of the universe, this just proves that all Vatican is just a government who by the years collected what they feel is right and thrown out what they think is wrong. The devotees are just fooled for 2 thousand years of this horseshit.

I came from a movie house and saw a trailer for another sequel of a crap of a series Underworld. Vampires are fictional beings that was created by the Catholics! Don’t believe me? How come vampire hunters/fighters are using crosses as their arsenal against these creatures? Haha why not a Buddha statue or the book of Koran or Thor’s hammer?? The idea of these monsters is to scare people from the medieval era as the Vatican continued to prosecute and execute “witches”. How many millions of people have died due to religion especially Christianity? And yet it was us believers who ask for their forgiveness.

Ponder on these thoughts open your mind not the soul that can’t be seen and never was on any human anatomy books, think! What is religion for? Who have benefited really with religion? Who has documented the existence of Jesus that has really witnessed him? Think! Then believe in yourself!