Photoshopped, you’d say but is it really? Hard to tell exactly
considering that plenty of the INC flock who participated in the demonstrations
most likely had no idea what they were doing in the middle of edsa and being a
bother to metro manila’s normally peace-loving motorists who were then probably quite irate. They managed to bring
metro manila’s traffic on a Friday night which is usually at a standstill to a…
standstill. I avoided edsa during the demonstrations but as someone who passes
through edsa regularly, it’s hard for me to imagine how traffic could be worse
on a Friday night at rush hour on a payday. If I tried really hard to imagine
it, I’d probably see cars going at negative speed in my head… going back to
the offices from which they came, in reverse.
Perhaps separation of church and state is a fool’s dream in a
country that is so deeply religious. Artificial birth control, gay marriage,
divorce: these are concepts that may never find general political acceptance in
your lifetime. A religious group could order its flock to paralyze one of metro
manila’s main arteries and they would unquestioningly do so –because the same
laws that are applied to every man were applied to their leaders. They’d make
democracy work against us if their church leaders also tell them who to vote
for. I’m glad that never happens. What is democracy but an illusion in a
country where individual thinking is controlled by an elite few who claim to be
arbiters of morality and truth.
I am not a religious person and that may even be an
understatement but I have no problems with people practicing their religion as
long as it doesn’t impede on the rights of others, as long as they don’t force
their values on people who don’t share the same views and as long as they don’t
force their version of the truth on me.
Going back to that picture. At first glance it may not make
sense but if you come to think of it, it’s completely logical -makakapunta ba
sila sa kalsada kung di sila nagpunta doon? It only doesn’t make sense because
you’re looking for rational thinking where it doesn’t exist. It was photoshopped
but it might as well be real
