Things That Are Bullshit: Church/State Separation in the Philippines

Great job Aquino administration! You ever vigilant guardians of the wall of separation between church and state! Witness this from the recent Reproductive Health debate:

Asked for comment, Deputy Presidential Spokesperson Abigail Valte said Malacañang cannot interfere with what it deems as a Church issue.

“The Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines has a position on the issue of reproductive health. Kung ano ang gagawin nilang hakbang with respect to its flock, so to speak, is beyond the ambit of government. We really cannot comment on anything. It’s between the church and its members,” she told reporters.

Awesome job, Team PNoy! You know how to keep the government out of the church! Come on, how else do we keep the church and state apart? We don’t let the church meddle with the government right?

Right guys? I mean, that’s how walls work right? It keeps two sides separate from each other?

Oh. What’s that? You’re going to keep talking to the bishops about the Reproductive Health bill? While eleven women die each day from maternal complications? Oh. Alright then. I guess.

This is BULLSHIT. Aquino administration. You’re halfway there. So. Damn. Close.

Sigh. Anyway. Hey CBCP, what say you about church state separation? What’s that? Your website is lauding separation of religion and politics? Gasp! You’re the new best friend of secularists in the Philippines! Oh. God damn it. I guess only for the Islamic countries.

Hey so heard about Egypt? They had a people power revolution, that’s cool right? Just like EDSA! Hey CBCP, you were saying something about EDSA right…

18 comments

  1. Ah. Secularism is the right term. But yeah, you're right.
    From the looks of what's happening. It all looks BULLSHIT to me.
    Interesting thread. *thumbs up*

    And oh, btw.

    I made an article. I invite everyone to read it.

    What happens after the RH bill passes and made into a law?

    Click this link –> http://chi-28.tumblr.com/post/...

    Or this one –> http://kevinlimbo.blogspot.com...

    The links contain the same article.

    Please take the time to read everything. It isn't that long.
    It's a brief conclusion of the RH bill passing here in the Philippines.
    This might help you better and rethink everything and also, to prepare yourselves for reality.
    Excuse me, if it's a little badly written. I did it last night in one sitting. I didn't have the time to edit it. And I'm too lazy to fix it now. But I've been receiving good feedbacks from my readers anyway. So go ahead and just mind the issue in discussion.

  2. Want to know an irony?

    The past 2 presidents, who were morally bankrupt, among other adjectives I could think of now, did not have the guts to go against the church (on the RH bill) for sheer fear of exposure (of their plunderous ways). All along, the self-acclaimed "moral guardian" (CBCP) didn't lift a finger to stop the rapacious plunder of our economy.

    Now we have a pious, religious president who has the balls to stand up for what is good and, lo and behold, the moral guardian is throwing everything at him, including the proverbial kitchen sink. tsk tsk tsk

    • Yeah remember Melvin Castro? He'd stated he would support a corrupt but anti-RH president than a non-corrupt pro-RH president.

      Not only do they have no solution, they apparently are part of the problem… given the whole our problems are due to corruption stance.

          • And this guy was a priest at that!? What the heck is the cbcp teaching its flock – that one who commits a grievous sin (i.e. plunder) against millions of pinoys is better than one who simply goes against his religious beliefs? What utter BS!

            By the way, I don't remember why the vatican didn't approve of avatar?

          • It had no religious inclinations except the worship of the land. laymans terms: the movie shows alien hippies who worship the planet as a god. rather than show they have a stereotypical spiritual religion. which to the vatican… was you know: bad.

            Castro was also the nutjob that said the cute mcdonald's ad (2 kids playing lovers) was bad as "Their basis for teaching commitment is too shallow because they based a relationship on French Fries". and wrote an article that he was pleased it was taken down. obvious signs power-tripping.

            just so you know.

            the vatican also condemned dan brown books, twilight (which deserved condemnation) and harry potter (which didnt)

          • You want to know something funnier? The officiating priest said during the homily that when he interviews couple who plan to marry, he asks the basic question "how they met"? If the would-be couple answers 'thru text or internet', he doesn't issue a marriage license? Why? Because the marriage is doomed to fail since the "foundation" of their marriage is texting or chatting! har har har

          • As to the avatar and other movies you mentioned, I didn't know the vatican proclaimed itself as an international MTRCB!

          • Thanks. Had a good laugh. I wonder how many priests and bishops actually saw those movies and appreciated them?:p

  3. there there jeiel you've been hanging with the healthy bunch way too long. calm down. you need a drink dude once again, rejoin the beer group. hehehe 🙂

    btw, i totally agree with what you said.

  4. Bingo! glad someone said it already… the fact that Egypt can duplicate EDSA's People Power should shut people up about the Church's over-inflated role in it. Sure, they helped a little, but it was a drop in the bucket compared to the millions of other civilians who were fighting for their civil liberties, not for the greater glory of some imaginary figment.

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