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…..