The Secularist Intellectual Colonization

Part 3 of a series

There is also the presence of a strong Western ideological agenda in the push to pass the RH law. It is undeniable that the RH Law is recommended and sponsored by Developed countries, particularly by the Obama administration.

One of the RH Law proponents who professed herself as an atheist argued that if the Philippines will not pass the RH Law then what will the international community say since we have already entered into an agreement that we will pass the RH Law. She is more concerned with the opinions of foreign countries than what is authentically helpful for her fellow Filipinos!

It makes you wonder whether we Filipinos elected our public officials to serve the interests of foreign powers.

Another irony is that the proponents of the RH Law always claimed during the debates that what they are for is to give the people the opportunity to choose, in other words, they are Pro-Choice.

Yet this particular RH Law proponent presented her argument that since the Philippines have already entered into an agreement with other countries to ensure the legislation of a Reproductive Health Law in the country, Filipinos’ got only one choice, to have the Bill passed into Law!

Is there freedom to choose when you got only one choice?

A Battle for the Heart and Minds of Every Filipino Catholic

In the end, the “battleground” is the mind and heart of every Filipino.

There is a need for an authentic Catholic formation so that Filipinos may resist the forces that seek to destroy their moral values and to inoculate themselves against the mentality that intends to replace the Gospel values with secularist and relativistic philosophies.

It is sad that there is a growing trend among the Filipino intelligentsia to dismiss Catholic doctrines as obsolete and ‘out of sync’ with the needs and realities of the modern world.

Although, the Philippines is a profoundly religious country there are observable phenomena of the dichotomy of faith and life. Many public officials and members of the academia virtually marginalized Christianity by confining its boundaries within the walls of churches.

Whenever the Church leaders speak out, the usual retort is that the bishops and clergy should focus on religion and not on political issues, more so they are corrupt.

I believed that among the varied reasons raised by both the Church and the proponents of the RH Law: what matters the most is the formation of the conscience of the people.

Material prosperity does not guarantee that rich are better than those who are poor. Nor does it ensure that those who are poor are more “moral” than the rich or that contraception will result in better Philippine society. There is a need for the development of a well-formed and educated conscience because this will be a sure safeguard against the harmful elements that seek to threaten the integrity of the faith in the Philippines.

At the heart of the issue are the Filipino families, which are what the RH Law and Divorce Bill are destroying.

It is somewhat confounding why is it that the Philippines wants to have the things that many countries do not want to have or want to let go, notably, their aging society, sexual promiscuity, and the trauma of children growing up in broken and mixed families among many other unarticulated pains.

Hopefully, the Philippines will hold on and cherish its Catholic faith amidst the challenges that plague it these days.

To be continued