Corruption in the Philippines

Corruption in the Philippines in this 21st century? Take a good look at corruption in the Philippines in the 19th century.

Jose Rizal wrote in 1886: “In the catalogue of human ills there is to be found a cancer so malignant that the least touch inflames it and cause agonizing pains; afflicted with such a cancer, a social cancer, and seeking the best care for your ills, I shall do with you what was done in ages past with the sick. I shall endeavor to show your condition, faithfully and ruthlessly. I shall lift a corner of the veil which shrouds the disease, sacrificing to the truth everything, even self-love – for, as your son, your defects and weaknesses are also mine.”

Today in our sick and insane society, millions upon millions of college-educated men and women hardly know the real Jose Rizal one of the greatest thinkers the world has ever produced. Under pains of going to hell forever, millions have been frightened to believe that before he was executed by firing squad, as authorized by the power of the Catholic church, Rizal cried by a little boy, begged to go to confession, heard mass, received communion, and retracted. After which never was he even given a Catholic burial, his remains just put inside an old sack and then thrown in Paco cemetery.

Rizal retracted? What brazen lies told and spread by the Spanish catholic friars who, at best, were all a bunch of religious clowns; at worst, a gang of religious criminals as the protectors, if not the managers of the wealth and power of the Catholic church. Poch Suzara