NOTE: No wrap-up this week as I want to celebrate the holidays. But I will post hopefully this week the first Basado Yearly Wrap-Up. So stay tuned!
WARNING: If you do not want your X-Mas energy and your Noche Buena hit by some reality checks, then this article may not be for you. ;)
Recently I have read a couple of intriguing articles from Raw Egg Nationalist & Nevermore Media that led me into writing this.
Being a native Filipino growing up in the Philippines, I was raised around Judeo-Christian teachings as it is very inevitable considering the Philippines being approximately 80% Christian and 20% Muslims. Basically our country strongly believes the Abrahamic religions and we show it through Mass celebrations, Different feast day of saints, Ramadan, Eid al-Fitr and etc. you name it.
While personally I may not really be religious as I once was, there were important lessons that I still got from the Christian teachings and environment I was raised in. One of the important quotes I was thought which still sticks to me until now is…
Even so faith, if it hath not works, is dead, being alone- James 2:17-26 KJV
Basically the quote is about no matter how much prayers or how much faith you express to your personal belief, it means absolutely NOTHING without the work or execution. And unfortunately the reality of Philippine society (at least from my lens) is the fact that we do not put in the work.
Let me explain…
When I was raised around a Judeo-Christian environment, I was thought that we trust no man and only God. Whenever I go to a mass or any gathering I usually observe the opposite. In masses for example, I would usually observe (especially during election season i.e. 2022) priests and people in the ministries praying to God for a politician or leader that can lead the Philippine nation to the right direction as if prayer only, voting, and democracy are the only ways out of a tyranny especially the tyranny that has exposed itself in daylight with the COVID lockdowns.
While it is true that we are thought in the Christian belief to be forgiving, it is also true that the person who has committed the sin or immoral act must acknowledge their own wrong doings. And unfortunately our own “politicians and leaders” to who we pray to never acknowledge these mistakes and brush it off (i.e. COVID) and just act schizophrenic about it and ignoring excess deaths and all that.
In fact, it is also in Christian teachings to POINT OUT the immoral acts that are going on…
“He who is not angry when there is just cause for anger is immoral. Why? Because anger looks to the good of justice. And if you can live amid injustice without anger, you are immoral as well as unjust.”- St. Thomas Aquinas
Our institutions especially our churches have barely done anything so far into addressing the BS which includes COVID or the full blown woke agenda and most of the institutions are slowly swallowing the whole agenda such as recently as the Catholic Church on the the woke agenda and the refugee crisis.
Not only does these globohomo issues reach our religious institutions but it definitely has reached the government especially recently eith President BongBong Marcos adding more useless bureaucracies by adding an LGBTQ+ committee.
With how much our institutions have betrayed us especially these past 3 years, we really have to reflect and assess why on earth are we still trusting these institutions to serve us when in reality, they almost always do it for the exact opposite of what the Filipino people need in their lives.
Philippine society is heavily fixated in the Abrahamic belief of Messianism where we are fixated with a savior who will come down to the heavens that will save us. I am not here to take a crap on anyone’s personal faith or belief, I believe that people should have that natural right to choose what they believe in. What I am trying to say here here is that the fixated messianic belief that most of us Filipinos have where it reaches to the point of doing nothing at all and just pray that these politicians and church leaders just swoop in to save the day when they are not doing that at all. How does a nation of people that mostly believe God is the sole authority believe in hypocritical politicians and church leaders still baffles me at times. I’m probably just as frustrated as my boy Gerald Celente of TrendsJournal when it comes to religious hypocrisy when it comes to peace and unjust war…
Christmas is supposed to commemorate in the Judeo-Christian/Abrahamic belief the birth of our Lord Jesus Christ (Yes, I acknowledge the highly red-piled people that call XMas a pagan holiday but set that aside here first). But people forget who killed and crucified Jesus which are the high priests and politicians back in that day who are no different than our church leaders and politicians who we put absolute faith to today.
There are plenty of ways to circumvent the globalist/globohomo tyranny of today and putting absolute faith on most of our church leaders, politicians, and people in major institutions is most likely not the way to go. Instead of putting all our faith and trust into them, we must exert and put all our faith and trust into ourselves.
We are our own salvation and we must do what we can to help change ourselves and also thinking locally into finding like-minded people who want to build new systems of living because our major institutions (i.e. Major religious institutions, Educational institutions, government) no longer are doing their jobs in helping society (or whether that is really even what they really do in the first place).
These major institutions are failing and crumbling by parasitic globalists or globohomos in front of our faces and we must need parallel systems and ways of living that supports life and that is pro-humanity. Instead of getting cucked by the Great Reset, we really need a pro-humanity Good Reset….
There is hope for humanity, but we really have to start to think and choose whether we want to change and put in the work into ourselves and with like- minded people and putting more faith into that or we stick to the utopic thinking that there will be a savior in our trusted institutions while getting collateral damage by the crumbling of these old and fragile systems.
The choice is up to each of us…
And this concludes my long and crappy TED Talk. Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays.
P.S. Hopefully this rambling of mine did not mess up your Christmas Spirit and your Noche Buena.
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