The Catholic Church is Politicking Again!

The passage of the "Responsible Parenthood and Reproductive Health Act of 2012" otherwise known as R.A. 10354 last December 2012 has bruised the corrupting influence of the Catholic Church in Philippine Society. Indeed, it has tarnished its already brutal legacy of misinformation, arrogance and its time-honored tradition of bullying secular leaders that think independently of its irrational, unscientific and medieval doctrines into submission and scaring the ordinary folk into the realm of hell, God's wrath and other also time honored scare-tactics.

Well, it has been recently reported that the church is at it again, this time, a Bacolod City Diocese is actively encouraging the faithful of the said city to reject and refrain from voting six lawmakers who had supported R.A. 10354. Classic, very classic maneuver of a corrupt, morally bankrupt and essentially dictatorial church! That is  more than I can generously articulate when I read the irritatingly familiar but nonetheless ingrained modus operandi of a church who fancies itself and deludes itself of a lot of exclusive access to "truths." I would call them, "truthisms", these are truths for which the Catholic Church has the monopoly upon, including, but not limited to the belief that condoms actually promote the spread of HIV.  Geez, the Filipino people should bury and castrate once and for all this macabre of an institution masquerading as a savior of the conscience and moral integrity of the Filipino people but at the same time replete with pedophile priests who have not only destroyed the lives of thousands of children across the world, but also a clergy that has endangered the lives of millions of people in Africa for promoting unscientific and baseless beliefs, among others, that condom is an HIV spreader!

It seems that the Catholic Church wants to control the mind and thinking of the Filipino people for as long as it can in any way it can. This is obscene and utterly ghastly, instead of pontificating about moral values - it should first restrain its own priests and the bishops and cardinals who condone them by shuffling such rapacious priests among and between dioceses, instead of committing them to serious sex therapy and most of all, defrocking them from the ranks of the clergy.

It is about time that the Filipino people wake up from this ecclesiastically induced coma of reality denial, one nation under a secular and republican system!