Chuck wrote:I'm told that there is a book of some sorts around that says something along the lines of:
"Let he who is without sin cast the first stone...."
I'm beginning to think that 'ucdailoi' must live in a quarry!
That book is a fairy story written by shrewd men to control the gullible and use them for their own devious means... Its playing out as we speak, some just refuse to see it...
My journey to the Philippines last year saw poverty on a scale I could not believe, only because there has been so much investment and attempted development in the country but religion holds the poor uneducated peasants in the grip of fear hanging the wrath of god over their heads if they use birth control or dont give to the church..
In Roxas City, poverty is rife, but the church was having huge renovations completed... My wife and I put a waterproof roof on a shanty with 2 adults and 5 kids. We supplied them with cooking material and clothes as well as some money to start a fish drying business....
I know that the grip of fear which is taught to them will overcome anything I could do in such a short period of time... It just re-enforced what I have seen in many other parts of the world..