7 Good Reasons to Keep Carlos Celdran in Jail
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Here’s reason no. 7: Carlos Celdran’s Jail Time Is Improving Literacy. Before this interesting man was hauled to jail, who remembered Padre Damaso and how crooked the prayles were? Kids these days wouldn’t recognize the name Damaso unless you lubed it first before sticking it up their arses. Then again, these kids probably think they need to know Damaso like they need tobuy gold bullion, which is so NOT happening in this lifetime! Now, everyone will want to know who this Damaso is, and why he’s getting TV time. Historians and Filipino teachers everywhere will be very happy. Carlos Celdran is npt only re-kindling interest in the Reproductive Health Bill, he just turned into Jose Rizal and Noli Mi Tangere’s biggest publicist! Oh, and this is my labor of love. You can read the other six reasons here. Click on the photo to be redirected to the Facebook page. (Don’t be jealous, friends and family. If they cart you off to jail, I promise to think of 7 Good Reasons to make sure you stay jailed, too! Hahaha!)  Si Carlos Celdran ay tunay na lalake. Ginagawa nyang uso ang mabilanggo!
I’m not anti-church. I’m not anti-organized religion. Heck, I studied in Catholic schools all my life, even in college. I got an excellent high school education for free thanks to the SSPS sisters of Holy Spirit School. So, no, I’m not anti-church or anti-religion. What I’m vehemently against are bigotry, ignorance, antediluvian health policies, and car insurance quotes that rob people blind—but that’s another story altogether. For now, check out the page—and please don’t get me wrong. I don’t want Carlos Celdran to stay jailed because I get off at seeing others languish in prison. I want him to stay in jail for just a wee bit longer to direct attention to the real issue at hand. It’s not the shooter or the gun, people. It’s the why. It’s the Reproductive Health Bill, which is older than my two daughters combined but which never quite took off because of public apathy. UPDATE: Oh wow! Spot.PH is quick. I woke up today to a mention of my 10-hour-old page. |
I was fortunate enough to have joined one of his “Walk this way” tours. I learned more valuable nuggets of Philippine history from him than from any of my history classes… and I spent my gradeschool, highschool, and college years all in catholic schools and universities.
Go figure.
Oh, and if the Church (I love the priests, and God bless ‘em, but some of them should really know when to shut up) really wants to get involved in state affairs, then I suggest that they start paying taxes like the rest of us luckless voters.
Oh, and one more thing…
Most of the people I know who are “lapsed” Catholics, ex-priests, and even atheists point out that the reason for their loss of faith is because priests tend to meddle too much into politics.
If the PHILIPPINE Catholic Church were run like a truly service-oriented enterprise that value the comments of such disaffected stakeholders, they would have long ago “fired” such priests.