Throwing the Baby with the Bathwater


Philippines is the only Christian country in South-east Asia. That is what we claim to be, yet the 2nd most corrupt country in the world. See the irony here? Several days ago I saw a magazine whose headline says that Filipinos nowadays do not take on faith as a way of living. Personally, I have known people who do not profess only that they do not believe in God but by looking on the way they act or the way they behave, it seems that you cannot see God in their lives. Unbelievers including Christians who they say they are but in real sense are not make fun when they see Christians raising their hands while singing praises to God. It has become their favorite joke discussion over idle times, over beer while enjoying the endless parody of this world.

Sadly, I just thought that Christians today unconsciously submitted unto themselves into the ways of the world. Some who were brought in a Christians families like we all are, turn back from Him. Friends, we have thrown the baby with the bathwater as M. Scott Peck would say it. We have disregard the truth amidst the lies that surround it. Take Christianity for example - of all religions, I think Christianity has the ugliest history. In the past, the Catholic church have burned witches, killed pagans, destroyed lives in the name of the Christianity. At present, Christianity is dressed with stereotypes - the Vatican, cardinals and priests in an ornately complicated politics, dogmas and doctrines, evangelists gathering a mass of people to gain wealth, church condemning homosexuals, priests molesting children. When we think of these things, it will be easy not to believe in God. In one way or another from our respective churches, our parents, our teachers and even in our life experiences we have a disorted our view of God. These things surround the real nature of God. The baby underneath is not seen because of the murky, filthy bathwater. God is more than all of those things. Do not throw Him away with the bathwater.