Damian Sotto

Damian Sotto was a great and a rare Filipino. He was the famous radio broadcaster in the late 50s and early 60s. He cursed to high heavens the saints, filling the air waves with truths against holy scriptures for the masses to listen. He confronted the Catholic Church head on - to put up or shut up. He provoked the thoughts and asked millions of his radio listeners: How could you believe that a white woman who had blue eyes, a brunette, born and raised under a Jewish culture - be the mother of God in a land that was never converted into Christianity? Sotto also found it laughable that the Father of Jesus never married his Mother Mary. Indeed, Jesus was not a legitimate child. I was so proud when I personally met Damian Sotto at the Erewhon bookstore in Padre Faura street, Erminta, Malate in 1963. I shook his hands with great respect and admiration. I said to him in the vernacular: “If only our teachers in school and professors in college possessed a modicum of intellectual courage of a Damian Sotto we Filipinos need no longer be famous the Sick Man of Asia today. Poch Suzara