Monday, April 9, 2012

Accusations against the vain girl on the cross: I think it's too much

(From Interaksyon TV5)

And so, it goes viral. The tourists who took turns for a picture with a cross spreads like wild fire over social networking sites, which Christians deemed blasphemous. Common comments of those who've seen the pictures would be "dapat ipako na lang yan" or "hindi na nila ginalang yung krus".


But personally, over naman yung ibang accusations against dun sa nagpapicture sa krus. Wala naman silang masamang intention of offending us. They're just VAIN and CREATIVE. Just like most of us.


Yes, it's true that what they did was wrong based on our religion, but we don't have to give out remarks like "ipako na yan!" By doing so, we transform to the very people during Jesus' time that throw rocks to criminals, or even to those who actually shouted for Christ's crucifixion just because he "allegedly pretended to be the Messiah" which obviously offended their culture at that time. 


Pwede namang pagsabihan na lang ng maayos para hindi na nila uulitin. But by making it viral over the net, and adding very-negative-comments-like-it-came-from-a-perfect-person, we grab their chance of redeeming themselves and somehow "crucify" them the cyber way.


Hindi naman lahat nang nakita ko na comments ay katulad ng nasabi sa itaas. Some are actually level-headed enough to see what is happening. Katulad nga nang isang nabasa ko, lahat ng kasalanan daw ay pantay-pantay. Kung tinutuligsa natin ang mga ganito ng sobra-sobra, ibalik natin ang tanong: would we react the same way to those who cheated? to those who practice promiscuity? to those who says bad words? I don't think so. Dahil nga siguro Holy Week noong lumabas ang issue na ito, most people acted na parang nagpapakabanal sila, so over sila sa pagtuligsa sa ganitong "kabastusan".


Let us always remember, all of us are sinners. We don't have any rights to condemn other people, wishing them harm by any means. True, these tourists' posing at the cross may be far, far less sinful than doing or even wishing harm to others.


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