Conservative Christian institutions build their churches to
the point of it being “unreachable”. No surprise every non-Christian, or the seculars,
views the church establishment as “forbidden”, or in street parlance “masusunog
ako diyan”.
People who say that they are Christians and that other
people must gain what they call “salvation” are being alienated from what
Christianity really means: humbling themselves.
Most conservative Christian pastors prohibit “secular” or what
they termed “di pa hinog” on speaking and quoting their holy book. They view
themselves as “forbidden” and that they are the only one who must be speaking
and quoting their holy book, while others are not. Instead of being weak to
gain the weak, they boast that they are holy, to the point that no “seculars”
or non-Christian or even people in their own herd wants to talk to them.
People who say that they are Christians and that other
people must gain what they call “salvation” are being alienated from what
Christianity really means: humbling themselves.
Most self-proclaimed Christians divorced themselves to the
other ways of life. They don’t mingle on “secular” or non-Christian groups
anymore; secular songs, clothing, idioms, and trends. Because the mainstream genre
for self-proclaimed Christians is pop-alternative rock, they reject other forms
of music such as world fusion. They reject ethnic instruments and called it
pagan. They call this “pang makasalanan” o “makamundo” because they call these
groups “makasalanan”. These self-proclaimed Christians don’t view themselves as
“mahina rin”, that everyone is a sinner, instead they call themselves as
righteous or even infallible. These things turned them “forbidden” for the
seculars and non-Christians, which is why many homes refuse to entertain
self-proclaimed Christian missionaries or call them in street parlance “alive-alive”,
“banal”.
People who say that they are Christians and that other
people must gain what they call “salvation” are being alienated from what
Christianity really means: humbling themselves.
Most self-proclaimed Christians divorced themselves in having
their voices about social issues. When a trapo or a political leader has done a
misdoing, they were silent. They don’t participate in democratization; they don’t
post and talk about it, they don’t support advocacies for State welfare, on the
ongoing violation of human rights, instead they linger in their Church
establishments.
People who say that they are Christians and that other
people must gain what they call “salvation” are being alienated from what
Christianity really means: humbling themselves.
If your church was established to save the seculars,
secularize your institution and yourself. Wala ka pa sa langit, tumapak ka sa
lupa.
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