It has been said that
religion is used as leverage by the Crusaders or inquisitors in taking ones
country. Well. This is true in the Philippines whereby the Roman Catholicism so
dominated because of the Spanish conquerors. They were dominating over three centuries
using starting from a general to priest.
Today, as we reflect this drama, we can say that the
struggle for country is still alive not perhaps in political sense but
religious one. Filipinos belief are syncretisization of animism and
Catholicism. The idols are representative of, as they though, the God or
perhaps gods. This is a saddest drama of all Filipino time. Using the religious
activity to lever the nation. Schools were built and powered by religious
background. How was that possible of dreaming a new reformation if our own
society does not know what is the root of it all? People are complaining. Many
children are hungry, and many religious group being built for million peso
while poor became poorer. My dream is not reformation of religious activity. My
dream is to be Incarnational like what Jesus did. For me ministry does not
belong in the one corner of the church, but in the heart of each individual who
made holy and commanded as you are going, make disciples.
In application, I will rather make a social concern like
education for the poor, shelter for the unsheltered, care for the uncared, and
saved the unsaved.
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