Religiosity-Fact or Fiction

A drowning atheist after its boat sunk due to big waves brought by typhoon shouted in desperation, "Lord God if there is God, bring me to heaven, if there is heaven".

Sometimes if not oftentimes in our lives we act like the crying atheist. In good times we never call the name of our Creator since we felt we control everything in our lives. We never see the importance of the existence of everything that surrounds us, as if we never value things. And sometimes we think that we are God or above Him. Killing someone is a proof that someone claims he has authority over the other, a man so powerful that he suppress the freedom of others through human rights violation and the likes. According to our folks, human value and dignity has continuously degraded with the influence of science. Creation of human through cloning, sperm culture through petri dish and others made man believe that he is God. But look, is there a scientist who could suspend death by breathing through the nostrils of a dying man? Or is there somebody who could command the dead "wake up, roll your mat and go home"?

Man will just start seeking God if he felt he is losing his own and money can not anymore retrieve it. From science, man would shift to religion to find the answers of uncertainty. They thought that miracles could just happen like magic, healing instantly even without faith.

Why are we crying for our dead? This is because we never understand the meaning of life, since we never used our lives to become instrument of God. If we just look closely the development of us Filipinos from our ancestors to the present, can we really quantify the difference? The influence of the western culture to our lives today primarily satisfies these corrupt mortal bodies, and we often say "this is good"; yet we sacrificed the souls and spirit to sufferings. Before, God sent angels to warn people for God's wrath to come, but today He shows signs in different form and appearance. The picture above may perhaps be bringing a message to the people especially to Calubianons. The photographer who was positioned uphill near the St Therese of the Child Jesus Shrine in Brgy Abanilla of Calubian wanted to capture the sun rising with the Biliran Bridge as the background. But to his astonishment, the shadow of the Virgin Mary appeared as the reflection of the sun. The atheist if ask for an opinion would just simply say the picture is techically manipulated, but the faithful would perhaps say the Virgin Mother wishes to convey a message to Calubianon whom only the Calubianons can only decipher. When are we going to reorient the value we are having today, the answer is perhaps within the heart of every man.