The Philippine Roman Catholic Church is on notice!
Attention members of the Philippine Opposition: rather than check your privilege, you should CHECK YOUR FAITH.
It’s high time that Catholic Filipinos start regarding their faith through the harsh lens of reality and modern critical analysis. Only then can real change happen.
Like it or not, the fact is, the Philippines’ Roman Catholic Church is a key part of that dysfunctional status quo under which the Philippines languished as a society for centuries. Its focus on lionising poverty, embedding a deep victim mentality in the psyches of its followers, and promising to them nothing in life and everything in death is a big part of the reason sustainable prosperity eludes the majority of Filipinos today. More disturbing is the key role it consistently plays in just about every national election in the Philippines.
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