I am very interested to advocate the removal those TORTURE-DEPICTING images of Jesus Christ that we see around. It just subconsciously make people tolerant to human suffering. It just pollutes the mind of the children. Parental Guidance is a must.
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If you suffer poverty, if your loved ones are murdered, just go to church, pray, look at the image of suffering Christ, you will probably be rewarded in the afterlife with an honor of a saint.
Showing posts with label On Religion. Show all posts
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Tuesday, February 1, 2011
Sunday, November 14, 2010
Advocacy for Change Starts in One
One most important thing that Christians must learn is how Jesus Christ started as an advocate. Jesus did not start as a group of persons having a common objective. Jesus started his advocacy of love ALONE.
All individual wants a better life; but collectively, as a society, most people does not like "change" especially those who are currently rich. In fact, people have many times collectively gathered to demand governments to torture and execute individuals who have become prominent in preaching ways to cure the cancer of society.
Genuine advocates are gifted with extraordinary bravery and passion. For genuine advocates for change, not being heard is more painful than torture to martyrdom.
Most advocates for change suffer economic loss during their time because people are hesitate to trade, deal business, or patronize their products or profession. The hesitation is a result of fear of getting associated with someone who is hated by society for the change that he advocates.
However, in the modern world that we live now, advocacies spread fast and private/corporate donations to the cause has helped a lot in the success of the advocacies.
Each one of us has advocacies for change in our heart. Some of us feel strongly supportive on environmental protection advocacies. Some on human rights, some on religious evangelism and missions. Some on direct charity to the poor. Some on population growth control. Some on gun control to eradicate gun-aided crimes. Some on cigarette control to eradicate tobacco-related illness. We just dont talk and feel about it without supporting the systematic activities of the advocacy.
Each one of us will benefit from the advocacies of change. It is not good if we are all free-riders beneficiaries of the benefit of change. Each one of us have to give voluntary contribution to individuals and organizations who are brave enough to spend full time in forwarding our favorite advocacies. As members of society, if we want the change we want to move, we have to give support to our favorite advocacies in terms of literary contribution, manpower during rallies, and most important is fundraiser.
These advocates comes in various forms and personalities. Some works for big Non-Government Organizations (NGOs). Some are highly paid media practitioners. There is no need to donate funds to these advocates.
The most important types of ADVOCATES that we need to FINANCIALLY support are those independents who are not tied up to the dictates of any manipulative corporations or personalities. You can find these fund-needy yet very effective advocates as internet bloggers, commentators of issues discussed in social networking sites, doctors who always go out on charity medical missions, academecians who do extention work, preachers who teach values house-to-house, soldiers who want change in their commands, whistleblowers who expose graft and corruptions, witnesses of crimes, and even new aspiring politicans.
Never support nor vote for a candidate for legislative position (Congressman or Senator) who has no advocacy or weak passion on his/her advocacy. Never Support or vote for a candidate for executive position (Mayor, Governor, President) whose personality has tendency to fall short of political will to execute the mandates of the law.
In this world, very few individuals are brave enough to advocate real change. Out of this few, you can only pinpoint one or two rare individuals who are willing to die with their advocacy.
We at present are beneficiaries of advocacies in the past. It is the future that benefits from present advocacies. Lucky are those who advocate change within the institution of the church -- they are connonized as Martyrs and Saints. Lucky are those who advocate change in form of arts and letters -- they are immortalized by the academe. For the advocates whose mere talent is only talking, their advocacies die undocumented. For the future generation to benefit, it is important that the advocate leaves behind traces, footprints, and documents of the arguments of his/her advocacies.
I was once asked, "Sir John, if you lived during the time of Jesus Christ, would you join the people power rally to crucify the man who advocated a major change, or you would be one of his apostles?"
My answer was: "I would be John the Baptist; the first to confirm that Jesus is Christ as he pronounced the now popularized statement saying 'Behold the Lamb of God'. John the Baptist lived as a political exhortationist during the time of King Herod and his wicked wife Heroditas. John the Baptist was executed under a political sword, they cut his head off and placed on a platter, and presented it as gift by Herod the Great to his wicked wife Heroditas who hated John the Baptist because of his exhortations."
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I dedicate this blog to my FB friends who celebrate their birthdays today.
Byron Bautista, Glen Ortega, Guada Labastida Rakic, Mary Alberto, Miles Solomon, Nathalie Gwyn Morales, Novie Mae Engana, Sheena Costillas, Wendy Fricke, Zaleamae Dumadag
All individual wants a better life; but collectively, as a society, most people does not like "change" especially those who are currently rich. In fact, people have many times collectively gathered to demand governments to torture and execute individuals who have become prominent in preaching ways to cure the cancer of society.
Genuine advocates are gifted with extraordinary bravery and passion. For genuine advocates for change, not being heard is more painful than torture to martyrdom.
Most advocates for change suffer economic loss during their time because people are hesitate to trade, deal business, or patronize their products or profession. The hesitation is a result of fear of getting associated with someone who is hated by society for the change that he advocates.
However, in the modern world that we live now, advocacies spread fast and private/corporate donations to the cause has helped a lot in the success of the advocacies.
Each one of us has advocacies for change in our heart. Some of us feel strongly supportive on environmental protection advocacies. Some on human rights, some on religious evangelism and missions. Some on direct charity to the poor. Some on population growth control. Some on gun control to eradicate gun-aided crimes. Some on cigarette control to eradicate tobacco-related illness. We just dont talk and feel about it without supporting the systematic activities of the advocacy.
Each one of us will benefit from the advocacies of change. It is not good if we are all free-riders beneficiaries of the benefit of change. Each one of us have to give voluntary contribution to individuals and organizations who are brave enough to spend full time in forwarding our favorite advocacies. As members of society, if we want the change we want to move, we have to give support to our favorite advocacies in terms of literary contribution, manpower during rallies, and most important is fundraiser.
These advocates comes in various forms and personalities. Some works for big Non-Government Organizations (NGOs). Some are highly paid media practitioners. There is no need to donate funds to these advocates.
The most important types of ADVOCATES that we need to FINANCIALLY support are those independents who are not tied up to the dictates of any manipulative corporations or personalities. You can find these fund-needy yet very effective advocates as internet bloggers, commentators of issues discussed in social networking sites, doctors who always go out on charity medical missions, academecians who do extention work, preachers who teach values house-to-house, soldiers who want change in their commands, whistleblowers who expose graft and corruptions, witnesses of crimes, and even new aspiring politicans.
Never support nor vote for a candidate for legislative position (Congressman or Senator) who has no advocacy or weak passion on his/her advocacy. Never Support or vote for a candidate for executive position (Mayor, Governor, President) whose personality has tendency to fall short of political will to execute the mandates of the law.
In this world, very few individuals are brave enough to advocate real change. Out of this few, you can only pinpoint one or two rare individuals who are willing to die with their advocacy.
We at present are beneficiaries of advocacies in the past. It is the future that benefits from present advocacies. Lucky are those who advocate change within the institution of the church -- they are connonized as Martyrs and Saints. Lucky are those who advocate change in form of arts and letters -- they are immortalized by the academe. For the advocates whose mere talent is only talking, their advocacies die undocumented. For the future generation to benefit, it is important that the advocate leaves behind traces, footprints, and documents of the arguments of his/her advocacies.
I was once asked, "Sir John, if you lived during the time of Jesus Christ, would you join the people power rally to crucify the man who advocated a major change, or you would be one of his apostles?"
My answer was: "I would be John the Baptist; the first to confirm that Jesus is Christ as he pronounced the now popularized statement saying 'Behold the Lamb of God'. John the Baptist lived as a political exhortationist during the time of King Herod and his wicked wife Heroditas. John the Baptist was executed under a political sword, they cut his head off and placed on a platter, and presented it as gift by Herod the Great to his wicked wife Heroditas who hated John the Baptist because of his exhortations."
xxxxx
I dedicate this blog to my FB friends who celebrate their birthdays today.
Byron Bautista, Glen Ortega, Guada Labastida Rakic, Mary Alberto, Miles Solomon, Nathalie Gwyn Morales, Novie Mae Engana, Sheena Costillas, Wendy Fricke, Zaleamae Dumadag
Thursday, October 14, 2010
Prayer for Salvation
You need to input the correct USERNAME and PASSWORD to enter heaven. Username is "IMASINNER". Password is "IACCEPTJESUSASMYSAVIOR". I know a Pastor, he died, while at the heaven's gate, he said Username: "IMAPREACHER", Password: "IHAVENOTSINNEDAFTERSALVATION" -- he went straight to hell. (John Petalcorin, 1987)
Most people answers the wrong Username. Why? Because many believers think that the Prayer for Salvation is a one-shot thing. Well, dude, believe me, the Prayer for Salvation should be your mindset every moment of your life. Everyafter you ejaculate after you masturbate (everyone guilty, no exemption) with your favorite pornstar in your mind, that's a sin in thoughts, and Prayer of Salvation applies, everytime you commit a sin in action, in words, and in thoughts.
The Prayer for Salvation will not make you a perfectly sinless person. You have to keep on reminding yourself that you are just a greedy and opinionated person who wants to survive everyday, who can commit mistake and sin anytime, and others also are just like you.
The crucifiction of Jesus is an accross-the-board bail-out for sinners and this grant is without exemption and without expiration. There is no need to file a claim for that pardon, it is automatic. What matters now is when you commit mistakes, you know that you are automatically forgiven, you are absolutely bailed-out, so I don't wanna hear you look down upon your self as a fucking shit full of dramatic guilt! Get up! Face the world with a positive attitude! Enjoy God's grace! Be a better/improved person everyday!
A better person is one who sinned and reformed. Fraud is he who present himself is pure white robe. We are all spotted cows.
So now, let's sit down, you and me, both sinners, sit down and put down your arms, let's talk about how to make things right so we can both enjoy this damn short lifetime.
How do we earn a living without destroying the environment?
How do we make everyone feel safe without anyone carrying a gun?
How do we earn a decent income in government service without moonlighting some contracts or stealing from the coffer of the government?
How do we serve as preachers without infringement of the rights of the laymen to exercise their individual political right to vote for their personal choices?
How do we govern to achieve the mission of poverty eradication?
How should land, labor, capital, and technology share the fruits of production equitably?
There's a lot of shit in this world that the older generation has passed on to us. Let's fix it, NOW, in our generation. Life is short.
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You can't judge a person with one sin he has commited -- KAZI SHAMS : In our lifetime, we will commit more than a dozen sins; sometimes, every day or every other day. If we will be judged according to every sin we commit, nobody will trust anyone and the world will be the scarest place to live. (Alex P. Vidal)
xxxxx
I dedicate this blog to my FB friends who celebrate their birthdays today.
RJ Cabagnot, Ana Loraine Monterola, Angie Garcia, Bozz Chinichi, Gee Gee Sue, Karlyn Joy Madelo Elizalde
Most people answers the wrong Username. Why? Because many believers think that the Prayer for Salvation is a one-shot thing. Well, dude, believe me, the Prayer for Salvation should be your mindset every moment of your life. Everyafter you ejaculate after you masturbate (everyone guilty, no exemption) with your favorite pornstar in your mind, that's a sin in thoughts, and Prayer of Salvation applies, everytime you commit a sin in action, in words, and in thoughts.
The Prayer for Salvation will not make you a perfectly sinless person. You have to keep on reminding yourself that you are just a greedy and opinionated person who wants to survive everyday, who can commit mistake and sin anytime, and others also are just like you.
The crucifiction of Jesus is an accross-the-board bail-out for sinners and this grant is without exemption and without expiration. There is no need to file a claim for that pardon, it is automatic. What matters now is when you commit mistakes, you know that you are automatically forgiven, you are absolutely bailed-out, so I don't wanna hear you look down upon your self as a fucking shit full of dramatic guilt! Get up! Face the world with a positive attitude! Enjoy God's grace! Be a better/improved person everyday!
A better person is one who sinned and reformed. Fraud is he who present himself is pure white robe. We are all spotted cows.
So now, let's sit down, you and me, both sinners, sit down and put down your arms, let's talk about how to make things right so we can both enjoy this damn short lifetime.
How do we earn a living without destroying the environment?
How do we make everyone feel safe without anyone carrying a gun?
How do we earn a decent income in government service without moonlighting some contracts or stealing from the coffer of the government?
How do we serve as preachers without infringement of the rights of the laymen to exercise their individual political right to vote for their personal choices?
How do we govern to achieve the mission of poverty eradication?
How should land, labor, capital, and technology share the fruits of production equitably?
There's a lot of shit in this world that the older generation has passed on to us. Let's fix it, NOW, in our generation. Life is short.
xxxxx
You can't judge a person with one sin he has commited -- KAZI SHAMS : In our lifetime, we will commit more than a dozen sins; sometimes, every day or every other day. If we will be judged according to every sin we commit, nobody will trust anyone and the world will be the scarest place to live. (Alex P. Vidal)
xxxxx
I dedicate this blog to my FB friends who celebrate their birthdays today.
RJ Cabagnot, Ana Loraine Monterola, Angie Garcia, Bozz Chinichi, Gee Gee Sue, Karlyn Joy Madelo Elizalde
Tuesday, October 5, 2010
Improving the Effectiveness of the Priests?
Someone said: "As much as the PNP needs retraining for effectiveness and worthiness, so does the our Secular Priests. We may ask this from the pope.."
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This guy must be reacting to the participation of the priests in the rally against Reproductive Health Bill. The Bill merely seeks gov't buy condoms in bulk for distribution to the poor.
MY RESPONSE: Of course you can write the pope if that's what you really want. But if what you really really really really really want is to express your thought that priests need retraining, you already said it.
But mind you, the PNP lacked effectiveness, indeed. But the priests, oh, their advocacy effectively ROCKS the whole world.
Now the twist is, I believe in you, Priests need to be trained more to make their advocacies even more effective.
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This guy must be reacting to the participation of the priests in the rally against Reproductive Health Bill. The Bill merely seeks gov't buy condoms in bulk for distribution to the poor.
MY RESPONSE: Of course you can write the pope if that's what you really want. But if what you really really really really really want is to express your thought that priests need retraining, you already said it.
But mind you, the PNP lacked effectiveness, indeed. But the priests, oh, their advocacy effectively ROCKS the whole world.
Now the twist is, I believe in you, Priests need to be trained more to make their advocacies even more effective.
Friday, September 10, 2010
Atheism
So that's it! Just don't believe it. Just be an Atheist. If someone asks you why, just say: "I don't believe in God", plain and simple short message. If they insist to ask WHY, then shoot the big gun and say this:
"You preach to sell a belief. I don't preach to sell a disbelief. Atheism is a disbelief, it is the default configuration of any newly-born. Religious sects sell a belief. Once a person becomes a believer, he pays for the ceremonies of baptism, confirmation, holy mass, marriage, etc etc. Even if the person is already dead, the family still pays the clergy who will sprinkle plain water on his grave."
If they ask who said that, tell them there is a nameless punk in the Philippines who said it.
Most God believers became God believers because they are stereotyped by their families. They were baptized into the belief when they were babies. They were forced to go to Church on Sundays instead of play. But some of them realized at a later age that there is no God, so they RESET their minds back to the original configuration.
"You preach to sell a belief. I don't preach to sell a disbelief. Atheism is a disbelief, it is the default configuration of any newly-born. Religious sects sell a belief. Once a person becomes a believer, he pays for the ceremonies of baptism, confirmation, holy mass, marriage, etc etc. Even if the person is already dead, the family still pays the clergy who will sprinkle plain water on his grave."
If they ask who said that, tell them there is a nameless punk in the Philippines who said it.
Most God believers became God believers because they are stereotyped by their families. They were baptized into the belief when they were babies. They were forced to go to Church on Sundays instead of play. But some of them realized at a later age that there is no God, so they RESET their minds back to the original configuration.
Thursday, September 9, 2010
Religious Superiority Complex
Religious superiority complex leads to wars, terrorism, and suffering of mankind.
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