The Virgin and Child
sigh, no wonder the Church has been having problems keeping numbers
in their pews over the past years, decades even. No wonder there are
fewer young men signing up to be priests, especially if the recent "role
models" are those they see in the past few months.
This
debate is a fear-tactic used by the Church again and again. Before,
historically, it was about indulgences (not giving to the Church = going
to hell), and astronomy (proclaiming that sun is the center of solar
system = going to hell), and countless other proclamations used to fear
people. Now, people realized that whatever the Church says isn't all
true. Will there come a time in history when the Church (of the
Philippines) will retract its statement?
And why is this
issue so big in the Philippines? Maybe because the Church thinking still
has remnants of the Spanish era, where the Church had control and
influence the Spanish government. A hundred plus years later, the rest
of the world has moved on, to be more progressive. Not us.
The great scientist and a devout Catholic Nicolaus Copernicus - the original proponent of Heliocentrism was never reprimanded by the Catholic Church...
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Fr. Abe, CRS
said...
[sigh, no wonder the Church has been having problems keeping numbers in their pews over the past years, decades even.]
EXCUSE
ME OUR PEWS ARE FILLED WITH PEOPLE. I THINK YOU ARE REFERRING TO THE
ANGLICAN CHURCH IN BRITAIN AND NOT TO THE CATHOLIC CHURCH IN THE
PHILIPPINES. OUR CHURCHES ARE FILLED TO THE BRIM DURING OUR SUNDAY
MASSES AND OUR SHRINES ARE FILLED TO OVERFLOWING DURING THE PILGRIM
DAYS. SO BETTER CHECK YOUR FACTS.
[No wonder there are fewer
young men signing up to be priests, especially if the recent "role
models" are those they see in the past few months.]
THERE ARE A
LOT OF YOUNG MEN ASPIRING TO THE PRIESTHOOD. IN FACT, WE ARE EXPULSING
MANY SEMINARIANS WHO DO NOT PASS OUR STANDARDS IN THE SEMINARY.
IF
THERE IS DIFFICULTY IN OUR YOUNG PEOPLE TO CHOOSE THE PRIESTHOOD THOSE
CAN BE ATTRIBUTED TO THE EVIL OF THE WEST SUCH AS PORNOGRAPY, PREMARITAL
SEX WITH CONDOMS, SEXUAL PROMISCUITIES AND LACK OF CHRISTIAN VALUES IN
MASS MEDIA WHICH ARE ALMOST ALL NOT CONTROLLED BY THE CATHOLIC CHURCH.
[This debate is a fear-tactic used by the Church again and again.]
WHAT
FEAR? WHO IS AFRAID OF US? THE CATHOLIC CHURCH IS THE MOST LAMBASTED
AND THE MOST INSULTED INSTITUTION IN PHILIPPINE MEDIA TODAY. BOTH THE
GOVERNMENT, THE BORN-AGAIN, THE COMMUNISTS AND THE ATHEISTS ARE JOINING
FORCES TO ATTACK US. THEN, YOU CALL THAT FEAR-TACTIC. EXCUSE ME YOUR
CLAIM HAS NO FOUNDATION IN REALITY.
[Before, historically, it was about indulgences (not giving to the Church = going to hell),]
HELLO,
ARE YOU A CATHOLIC? HOW COME YOU ARE IGNORANT OF THE CATHOLIC FAITH?
DEFINITELY IT WAS NEVER TAUGHT BY THE CATHOLIC CHURCH THAT THOSE WHO ARE
NOT GIVING TO THE CHURCH SHALL GO TO HELL. NO, NO, NO... NEVER EVER.
NADA, NUNCA, NEVER. IN RUSSIAN: NYET, NYET!!! SO, STOP YOUR
HALLUCINATIONS.
I CHALLENGE YOU TO PROVE IT. GIVE US A GENUINE OFFICIAL TEACHING OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH STATING SUCH A THING.
ON
THE CONTRARY, THE EVANGELICALS, THE BORN-AGAIN, THE BAPTISTS, THE
IGLESIA NI MANALO AT OTHES WERE THE ONES DEMANDING TITHING FROM THEIR
MEMBERS COMPLETE WITH LIST OF MEMBERS AND THEIR SALARIES. SO, BEFORE YOU
ACCUSE US OF SOMETHING PLEASE MAKE IT SURE THAT YOU ARE NOT
CROSSED-EYED. YOU SHOULD SET YOUR FACTS STRAIGHT.
[and astronomy (proclaiming that sun is the center of solar system = going to hell),]
ANOTHER
STUPIDITY. HA HA HA... NEVER DID WE TEACH THAT THOSE WHO PROCLAIM THAT
THE SUN IS THE CENTER OF THE SOLAR SYSTEM IS GOING TO HELL. EXCUSE ME.
YOU ARE A LIAR AND DECEIVER. HELLO, ARE YOU FROM THE PLANET EARTH?
OBVIOUSLY
YOU ARE REFERRING TO THE GALILEO AFFAIR. BUT OBVIOUSLY YOU ARE IGNORANT
OF THE REAL HISTORICAL FACTS INVOLVING THE ISSUE.
BEFORE GALILEO
POSIT THAT THE EARTH ROTATES AROUND THE SUN THAT SCIENTIFIC THEORY
[that time it was a theory] WAS ALREADY TAUGHT BY NICOLAUS COPERNICUS
WHO WAS A FAITHFUL 'CATHOLIC'... AS IN 'ROMAN CATHOLIC'. HE HE HE... THE
SCIENTIFIC IDEA THAT THE SUN IS THE CENTER OF THE SOLAR SYSTEM OR
HELIOCENTRISM CAME FROM A VERY CATHOLIC SCIENTIST WHO WAS CLOSE FRIEND
OF THE POPE DURING HIS LIFETIME.
GALILEO SUPPORTED THE COPERNICAN
THEORY. BUT GALILEO COMMITTED MISTAKES BECAUSE HE WENT BEYOND SCIENCE.
HE TAUGHT THAT THE BIBLE IS WRONG BECAUSE THE BIBLE ACCORDING TO HIM
STATES THAT THE SUN IS THE ONE MOVING. OBVIOUSLY, GALILEO WAS
REPRIMANDED BECAUSE THE BIBLE IS A BOOK OF FAITH AND HE WAS NOT A
THEOLOGIAN. HIS IDEA WAS ONLY A THEORY YET HE WAS CLAIMING THAT THE
BIBLE WAS WRONG. OF COURSE, THE BIBLE IS NOT WRONG BECAUSE IT WAS SIMPLY
STATING BASIC HUMAN OBSERVATION THAT THE SUN WAS THE ONE MOVING. JUST
LIKE UNTIL TODAY WE KEEP ON SAYING: "SUNRISE' OR 'SUNSET' WHEN IT FACT
THE SUN DOES NOT MOVE IN ORBIT.
GALILEO WAS REPRIMANDED FOR HIS
THEOLOGICAL ERRORS NOT FOR HIS SCIENTIFIC IDEAS WHICH WAS NOT ORIGINAL
OF HIM. ANYWAY, AT THE END GALILEO RETRACTED HIS STATEMENT AND HE LIVED
AND DIED AS A LOYAL AND FAITHFUL CATHOLIC. AND SO DID NICOLAUS
COPERNICUS.
SO, PLEASE STOP SPREADING YOUR DELUSIONS HERE.
[and countless other proclamations used to fear people.]
EXCUSE
ME. WHEREVER THE CATHOLIC CHURCH IS THERE IS FREEDOM. OUR FAITHFUL ARE
LIVING IN FREEDOM. YOU HAVE NOT GIVEN A SINGLE PROOF FOR YOUR CLAIM.
[Now, people realized that whatever the Church says isn't all true.]
PEOPLE
HAVE REALIZED THAT THE BEST CHRISTIAN RELIGION IS NO OTHER THAN THE
CATHOLIC CHURCH. AND PEOPLE REALIZED THAT NO INSTITUTION HAS FOSTERED
THE RISE AND DEVELOPMENT OF SCIENCE AND OF JURISPRUDENCE THAN THE
CATHOLIC CHURCH. THAT IS WHY IN THE UNITED STATES THE CATHOLIC CHURCH IS
NOW THE LARGEST SINGLE GROUP AMONG ITS RELIGIONS. IT IS CONVERTING THE
BEST OF THE BEST OF AMONG THE PROTESTANTS.
[Will there come a time in history when the Church (of the Philippines) will retract its statement?]
WHAT
STATEMENT SHALL WE RETRACT? OUR OPPOSITION TO CONTRACEPTIVES AND
ABORTIONS? NO WAY. YOUR BODY WILL ROT INSIDE THE GRAVE AND YOUR SOUL
WILL WALLOW IN MISERY BUT THE CHURCH WILL NOT RETRACT OUR OPPOSITION OF
THE RH BILL. MAY BE IN YOUR DREAMS. IT IS FREE TO ENJOY ONE'S DELUSIONS
AND HALLUCINATIONS IN THIS COUNTRY... IF YOU ARE NOT AWARE OF THAT MAY
THIS SERVE AS A REMINDER.
[And why is this issue so big in the Philippines?]
BECAUSE
IT IS A BIG ISSUE FOR US FILIPINOS. IT INVOLVES OUR PUBLIC FUNDS, IT
INVOLVES OUR MEN'S SPERM CELLS AND OUR WOMEN'S WOMBS, EGG CELLS, ETC. WE
DON'T WANT THE BODIES OF OUR WOMEN TO BE THE DUMPING SITE OF YOUR
ABORTIFACIENT AND CANCER-GIVING PILLS.
[ Maybe because the Church
thinking still has remnants of the Spanish era, where the Church had
control and influence the Spanish government.]
HA HA HA...
ANOTHER FAILURE OF IMAGINATION ON YOUR PART. HA HA HA... WE KNOW THAT WE
DO NO LONGER BELONG TO THE SPANISH ERA BECAUSE WE HELPED IN RESTORING
THE DEMOCRACY IN THIS COUNTRY. THE MANALOS WERE IN FAVOR OF THE DICTATOR
AND OF ERAP THE JUETENG LORD BUT IT WAS THE CATHOLIC CHURCH WHO DEPOSED
THE DICTATOR AND INSTALLED MRS. CORAZON AQUINO, A SAINTLY CATHOLIC
KNOWN AS THE MOTHER OF PHILIPPINE DEMOCRACY, WHO RESTORED OUR DEMOCRATIC
INSTITUTIONS. OUR BISHOP AND OUR FOREMOST CONSTITUTIONALIST Fr. BERNAS
HELPED IN DRAFTING OUR CONSTITUTION. HE HE HE... GET REAL. HE HE HE...
[ A hundred plus years later, the rest of the world has moved on, to be more progressive. Not us.]
HA
HA HA... EUROPE WAS MOST PROGRESSIVE WHEN IT WAS CATHOLIC. IT WAS THE
CATHOLIC CHURCH THAT BUILT THE WESTERN CIVILIZATION NOT THE ATHEISTS AND
NOT THE MANALOS, NOT SORIANO AND NOT THE BORN AGAIN.
BEFORE
EUROPE AND THE U.S. IMPLEMENTED THE CONTRACEPTIONS AND ABORTIONS THEY
WERE ALREADY PROGRESSIVE. THE SAME THING FOR EUROPE. SO THAT TO
ATTRIBUTE THEIR PROGRESS TO RH BILL IS NOT ONLY A LIE... IT IS A CLEAR
MANIFESTATION OF PARANOIA.
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