About three days ago, I've posted a summary of my article on another blog regarding the hesitance of Archbishop Oscar Cruz to give communion to Gloria Arroyo. One raised a comment on that post, saying that "this priest (Archbishop Oscar Cruz) shouldn't be a priest at all! maging politiko ka na lang, baka maintindihan ka pa ng mga tao (better be a politician, people might understand you). He is full of CRAP!" Gelene, on the other hand, says that "when I saw it on the news myself, my initial reaction was to laugh." Jon's reaction was that "let the perfect and holy Archbishop Cruz cast his first stone. Jesus would totally love that." Xio asks if "we really need to add such more drama," referring perhaps to the actions of the Archbishop.
I've never really had a personal grudge against or favoritism towards the church, or Archbishop Oscar Cruz for that matter. And even though there is the constitutional separation of the church and state, I do believe that moral precepts remain parts and parcels of that larger stream we call politics. Laws devoid of moral strains can hardly amount to a binding one, toothless legal doctrines notwithstanding.
Quite apart from being toothless, laws devoid of moral strains, or at least laws soldered into privileges which do not carry a moral ammunition can truly turn this nation ballistic. At the height of these privileges, a democracy yearning for truth and transparency can only get an anorexic serving of those, well below what the democracy expects from the leader of this nation who continues to feign truth and transparency with legal restrictions. Had it been the case that no grotesque face is to be hidden, or that no culpability is to be found, one should refrain from churning reasons of diplomacy and confidentialities when there are none.
Which is why one is more inclined to believe that Gloria and her cohorts have more to hide than less to reveal. With the black-robed prostitutes of the law appointed by the Ewok, it isn't truly that magical to be left in utter amazement or be dumbfounded to have a ruling which sanctifies an executive privilege, a privilege that has truly become one in the literal sense of the word. Which is also why this government, or at least the illegitimate regime of a liar, shouldn't be left dumbfounded, too, when this nation heaves and bereaves on all its deliberate failures, part of that nation taking the shape of a laity of men and women. And while grander numbers of that laity have taken themselves aback from the oils which continue to boil Gloria and her bandwagon, a minority—at least in number and not in voice—remain unabashed, bearding the lions of the Palace with moral sentiments.
Indeed, a polity bereft of morality, or one which is flagged down by rampant corruption and grinded to ail down its knees, is one which is toothless not only in terms of how it projects itself as a regime woven with moral fibers but also in terms of how it fills the gaps of its policies and ranks and files, which makes sense to call it a polity which is truly "full of CRAP," if not flooded by it. Toothless to the point that it won't be having much gums to bite any of the democracy's call for truth, transparency and accountability. Toothless to the point that brushing it clean won't be much of any purpose. Toothless to the point that what is needed is not a mere gargle of morality but a full political surgery. You do so not by heeding ominous signs of forgiving and forgetting. You do so by removing the core of that swollen tumor.
And so you have an archbishop angered by all these, by all these ropes of lies and cheatings and stealings. And yet the best that we can do to is to let that mentality of the crab ensnare us all the more, unsheathe our sword against the neck of a prelate angered by all these instead of pointing it at the neck of the liar and cheater and thief? Jesus or Allah or Buddha would totally love that.
Apart from all these, a sin againt the public should be an impetus enough to go beyond depriving that sinner's body with the sanctity of the body of the messiah. A sin against the public should all the more merit that sinner with severe sanctionining, summoning the wraths of both legal castigation and public condemnation against that sinner's body, and soul if there is.
Toothless as Gloria and her cohorts may be, they remain unfettered from nibbling the democracy's call for truth, transparency and accountability. Some of them still even have almost consumed $130 million borjers.
I've never really had a personal grudge against or favoritism towards the church, or Archbishop Oscar Cruz for that matter. And even though there is the constitutional separation of the church and state, I do believe that moral precepts remain parts and parcels of that larger stream we call politics. Laws devoid of moral strains can hardly amount to a binding one, toothless legal doctrines notwithstanding.
Quite apart from being toothless, laws devoid of moral strains, or at least laws soldered into privileges which do not carry a moral ammunition can truly turn this nation ballistic. At the height of these privileges, a democracy yearning for truth and transparency can only get an anorexic serving of those, well below what the democracy expects from the leader of this nation who continues to feign truth and transparency with legal restrictions. Had it been the case that no grotesque face is to be hidden, or that no culpability is to be found, one should refrain from churning reasons of diplomacy and confidentialities when there are none.
Which is why one is more inclined to believe that Gloria and her cohorts have more to hide than less to reveal. With the black-robed prostitutes of the law appointed by the Ewok, it isn't truly that magical to be left in utter amazement or be dumbfounded to have a ruling which sanctifies an executive privilege, a privilege that has truly become one in the literal sense of the word. Which is also why this government, or at least the illegitimate regime of a liar, shouldn't be left dumbfounded, too, when this nation heaves and bereaves on all its deliberate failures, part of that nation taking the shape of a laity of men and women. And while grander numbers of that laity have taken themselves aback from the oils which continue to boil Gloria and her bandwagon, a minority—at least in number and not in voice—remain unabashed, bearding the lions of the Palace with moral sentiments.
Indeed, a polity bereft of morality, or one which is flagged down by rampant corruption and grinded to ail down its knees, is one which is toothless not only in terms of how it projects itself as a regime woven with moral fibers but also in terms of how it fills the gaps of its policies and ranks and files, which makes sense to call it a polity which is truly "full of CRAP," if not flooded by it. Toothless to the point that it won't be having much gums to bite any of the democracy's call for truth, transparency and accountability. Toothless to the point that brushing it clean won't be much of any purpose. Toothless to the point that what is needed is not a mere gargle of morality but a full political surgery. You do so not by heeding ominous signs of forgiving and forgetting. You do so by removing the core of that swollen tumor.
And so you have an archbishop angered by all these, by all these ropes of lies and cheatings and stealings. And yet the best that we can do to is to let that mentality of the crab ensnare us all the more, unsheathe our sword against the neck of a prelate angered by all these instead of pointing it at the neck of the liar and cheater and thief? Jesus or Allah or Buddha would totally love that.
Apart from all these, a sin againt the public should be an impetus enough to go beyond depriving that sinner's body with the sanctity of the body of the messiah. A sin against the public should all the more merit that sinner with severe sanctionining, summoning the wraths of both legal castigation and public condemnation against that sinner's body, and soul if there is.
Toothless as Gloria and her cohorts may be, they remain unfettered from nibbling the democracy's call for truth, transparency and accountability. Some of them still even have almost consumed $130 million borjers.
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