Here's one classic reason why we Filipinos are famous as the Sick Man of Asia, specially as we love, worship, and adore our Jewish Savior, the Son of a Jewish God Jesus - who, instead of revealing to us our purpose in creation and responsibility for our country and its future, declares a lot of holy bible baloney to keep us crippled as a people and troubled as a nation.
Jesus tells us to "take no thought" for anything, "for your Father in heaven knoweth your need before ye ask Him" - a perfect example of that "false security"under which we have lived. This Jesus declaration has no literal meaning nor significance whatsoever, especially for living the good life - one inspired by love and guided by human intelligence.
Yea, let's take no thought for our own welfare and this heavenly Father will let us starve. Take no thought for health and sanitation and we die of this "heavenly Father's" murderous germs, virus, and bacteria. Take no thought for economic justice and we shall remain jobless, pennyless, and worthless. Take no thought for political justice and we have a nation that remains mired in sins and in crimes.
Thought, indeed, the power of thought, is precisely our duty and responsibility as citizens of our own country. Devoid of thought, we have nothing going for us except to wait, like sick men and sick women - for "divine providence."
On the contrary, what we need is human providence: knowledge and intelligence to make right these God-ordained wrongs. We need a real practical beliefs and intelligent social values that will help us help ourselves with pride, self-respect, and dignity. Under these beauties we have a sense of direction as a people and sense of protection of our beloved nation.
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