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“When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. And that's my RELIGION.” - Abraham Lincoln, 1809-1865, Sixteenth President of the USA "The rich swell up with pride, the poor from HUNGER." - Sholom Aleichem, 1859-1916, Ukraine-Born American Writer “If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them”. – Isaac Asimov, 1920-1992 "In all institutions from which the cold wind of open criticism is excluded, an innocent corruption begins to grow like a mushroom - for example, in senates and learned societies." - Friedrich Nietzsche, 1844-1900

I do not consider myself religious in any way - lest someone charge me as riding the high morality horse; hereunder I only want to highlight the believers' inconsistency to their professed Christian religion or belief system.

I address all Christians though Roman Catholics are the majority in the homeland. Not our Muslims who generally see their religion as a way of life and internalize their beliefs, and therefore not comparable to the "split-level" or compartmentalized Christianity exhibited by Filipino Catholic Christians.

Sometime ago, I attended a wedding ceremony. I normally do not attend such happenings but can not say no this time. During the Mass, I guess it's...