A Very Educated INC Comment…
Finally, a very “Educated” Comment… Kudos To Rizalino L. Arrabis (Most Probably from Tamuning, Guam… please verify sir 
) I dont really get ”educated” comments like this…
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Rizalino L. Arrabis Says:
October 24th, 2007 at 4:21 am eI was in grade five when I first realized that a lot of people were persecuting the Iglesia Ni Cristo for I had several classmates then who were members of the said group. They were subjected to jeers and mockery in the presence of teachers and parents without them lifting a finger to stop the abuse. My classmates then were being shouted at even in public. All of my I.N.C. classmates were my best of friends because they behaved quite different if compared to others of the same age and grade.
My father, who was a public school teacher, and grandfather then would always coax me not to mingle with troublemakers in school. This was the reason why I chose my I.N.C. classmates as my playmates and lunchmates. They were so nice to me especially during lunch for I end up eating several delicacies for we shared our food together. In return, I gave them protection from the bullies who did the abuses for it was apparent to me that these people were not doing anything wrong. They were just behaving within the standards of society. I did not become their classmates in high school for they stopped schooling because of poverty. Yet, the friendship was still there because on my way to school and back, I would sometimes see them giving pasture to their farm animals. Whenever such occasion arises, I always depart from my conversations with them with a happy smile for my bonding never ceased with the passage of time. Sometimes, I would be bringing home lots of fruit for they never stopped doing their hospiatality to me.
A few years later, I went to the United States to join the Navy and without knowing it, my bonding with the I.N.C. members continued. As an expatriate longing for friendship, it became clear to me that my best optionwas to befriend the I.N.C. community. For it’s them who will offer their unsolicited help like rides to work for free without asking something in return. It’s them who acted like your father, mother, brothers, and sisters in the absence of your real ones. What more can I say?
I went to Japan for a permanent change of duty station. This is where I became an Iglesia Ni Cristo. For why should I resent them? Why should I reject their teachings? From the solemnity and discipline of their worship services, true teachings, spirit of brotherhood, unity in faith, etc., etc., I never found one that is offensive to my sound judgment. It deals purelywithin the confines of a true christian church and with the gospel preached by the prophets, apostles, and Jesus Christ.
Perhaps, because of my longing to see my province, Cebu, I would oftentimes reminisce of my past and I always think of my Iglesia Ni Cristo classmates even in my dreams. They seemed to be the same. They appeared to me as if we were still in our elementary years. The elements of innocence, hospitality, playfullness, and brotherhood are still so prevalent in their actions. And one day, I had to go home for my father died, a victim of the same people who abused my classmates. I had to go home after thirty two long years of being away.
The abuses to my classmates were also done to my father. The skeleton of a soon-to-be chapel then of the Iglesia Ni Cisto in my town was destroyed by bullies headed by a town policeman. The same policeman raped two women while in jail for trump-up charges and I know that my father was in pain when he died. Someday, justice will come for not everyone is sleeping. Woe unto those who thought that they had escaped punishment. Poetic justice had come for the policeman was allegedly killed by a sparrow unit of the New Peoples Army. I call that as the irony of justice. During the wake, my Iglesia Ni Cristo classmates were present and we hugged one another as bothers-in-christ. The emotions were mixed and though sadness was in the air because of the demise of my father, still the atmosphere of happiness was not lacking. For why would you not laugh in the presence of your dear classmates and loved ones? Why not laugh when your past glory is being replayed through the recollections of your classmates? Why would you not laugh in the presence of your brothers-in-christ? I just felt that I am a son who lost his father but found everything
worthwhile in my classmates, my brothers-in- christ. My classmates are now well-off in life. I did not rent any vehicle during my stay in Cebu. A car was provided to me free of charge. Even when we visit the famous resorts of my hometown, Daanbantayan, Cebu. I am still their classmate, friend, and brother. I will always treasure them for without them, I am nothing but a lost soul. Give love then to the Iglesia Ni Cristo. Just listen and go with them. You have nothing to worry but the ignorance and fanaticism of the centuries imposed by invaders in search of gold and silver.
Although my views are not changed by such passion which Mr. Arrabis has, (although he moved me with such…) it was relentlessly shunned by such comments like:
(From Lennon Bautista of Makati and Batangas City, Philippines - lennox7678@yahoo.com.ph)
The Who? Says:
October 5th, 2007 at 10:01 am eAko po ay INC pero d ko alam na sa amin pla yung Alagad party list na sinasabi mo. At 22o po na depende sa district kung cnong iboboto nmin kc iba ang ibinoto ng INC sa Batangas e. Porke ba’t miembro ng INC ang ilan sa kasapi sa Alagad means sa INC na yun. hahaha! baka amin din ang Jollibee at McDo. Galing mo pa namang mag-english pero bulok ng logic mo. In short, BOBO ka pa rin. Ba’t d mo tanungin ang ALAGAD mismo kung sa INC cla. Natatakot ka cguro na mapahiya sa sarili mong BLOG ano. Well gudluck na lang sa BLOG mo… Mas laliman mo pa english mo para mas mukha kang kahanga-hanga pero sana nmn e may sense…ARAY!!! Tagos ba? hehehehe.
The Who? Says:
October 5th, 2007 at 10:16 am eComment para kay Phantom…
Ang isyu d2 ay kung sa INC ang ALAGAD at d kung ano pa man na pilit mong isinisingit. Ganyan na ba talaga kadesperado ang sekta mo? Nandung pati pagkamatay nina Napoleon, Alexander at Marcos ay napasali? Baka nmn gus2 mo na ding isali ang Global Warming. hehehe. Pls comment on the issue and not just using this BLOG para manira. Palagay mo ba paniniwalaan ka ng mga readers. hello… D sintanga mo ang mga readers d2 ano! Back 2 d issue… Amin ba ang ALAGAD? pa2nayan ninyo? Pag napa2nayan nyo, magpapatiwalag na ako sa INC… and that is a promise.
P.S.
relevant sa issue ang gus2 kong comment mo ha. Baka pati ikinamatay ng isda sa Manila Bay ay isali mo? isa ka pang BOBO! Wala kang pagkakaiba kay El Diablo este El Critique.. hehehe. TAGOS na nmn!The Who? Says:
October 5th, 2007 at 10:42 am eExhibit A:
The bird: Si Felix daw yun(ravenous bird)…e bat kalapati yun? hahahaha
palpak! ravenous na pla ang mga kalapati ngaun…hekhekhek..Exhibit B:
A URL link…. NOT FOUND !!!! tsktsktsk! ayus evidence mo ah..not found! palpak na naman! hekhekhekExhibit C:
…belongs 2 religious group… Pre, alam mo ba meaning nang word na belong.. nasasama o kasama at hindi nagmamay-ari!PURO PALPAK ANG EVICENCE MO AH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Gawa ka na lang kaya ng party list mo… “PALPAK” ang ipangalan mo….hekhekhek. O kaya naman ay “ANOBAYAN” hahahaha. Pde ring “CIBAKIN” nyahahahaha. kaka2wa nmn BLOG mo. Tnx sa pag repost ha. napasaya mo ako.
Again, such comments contradict the justifications of Mr. Arrabis… Pity…Pity…Pity… I do not see any relevant arguements with Mr. Bautista’s comments rather just to flame; a common “practice” I get from your “bretheren”…
Given such views by Mr. Arrabis and Mr. Bautista, we can only have a bottom line for this agenda: That we are all entitled to our own views and criticisms; and that, we stand to criticize and/or accept such facts. I for one have my own standing; a stand to what I believe is right, having my own freedom and not a biased freedom protected by such congregational acts of manipulation, deceit and conspiracy…
“Bato bato sa langit ang tamaan ay mga fanbois… 
November 19th, 2007 at 3:28 am
Historically, the corruptions in the Philippines were started by the Spaniards who came to the islands in search of wealth. Magellan came from Portugal and was serving the Spanish crown. In search of the
Spice Islands, his fleet was blown by a strong typhoon towards the Philippines after coming from Guam, whom they called as the Ladrones Islands. They plundered the Marianas yet they still had the courage to make the unjust accusation that the natives were thieves. It may be noted that both Spain and Portugal were the superpowers of yesterday and these are Roman Catholic countries vying for world supremacy at that time. The corruptions of the Spaniards as well as the crimes of the Roman Catholic Church in the Marianas against the Chamorros are well documented in the historical archives of the
commonwealth. People in the islands are mostly Roman Catholics and whenever there is a newspaper
account of a corrupt practice in the government, Filipino expatriates would readily say,” just like the
Philippines”. The first recorded corrupt practices of the Spaniards as well as the Catholic Church in Cebu was the claiming of the islands for the Spanish crown, plunder of the treasures of the natives, despoiling the honor of the women in the presence of husbands and parents, slave treatment of the natives, and the demand for tribute for the Spanish crown and the Holy See. It was for these reasons that the natives
resented which lead to the untimely killing of Magellan and the embarrassing and speedy departure of the fleet for its return voyage to the Iberian Peninsula. Since then, several Iberian navigators and conquistadors came to the islands thereby making it as ” Spain’s share in its first colonizing movement in the Far East.” Although most of the islands in the
archipelago were subjugated through brutal repressions, the southern part remained free. However,
the desire of the natives to be free were never lacking. A series of insurrections, rebellions, and revolutions readily ensued all over the islands and throughout the entirety of Spain’s dominion of the country and its people. Some of these uprisings lasted for a hundred years such as the Dagohoy revolt in Bohol. The country was then ruled by appointed governor generals who were mostly archbishops of the Roman Catholic Church thus most of the uprisings had anti-religious and anti-catholic overtones.
Too much taxes were surprisingly imposed on the toiling natives although they were already converted to Catholicism. The friars of the catholic church mostly benefited from the labors of the Catholic
agrarian toiling hands by doing nothing. These negative, UN-christian, and heinous practices then became a social cancer. Countless heroes and martyrs of the catholic plundered archipelago had tried to introduce a panacea for the social cancer but they failed because of the arrogance of the catholic
archbishops. Instead of rectifying the mistakes, the friars continued to suck the sweat and blood of the
populace. Those who had the courage to dissent, were either imprisoned, killed, or exiled to the Marianas. A national revolution later cropped up under the leadership of a warehouseman, Andres Bonifacio.
But this was discovered prematurely before its outbreak because of the confession of a catholic woman
to a priest. The revolution became unfinished more so because an imperial power with Protestantism
as the country’s majority religion came and added to the confusion. It offered help to the revolutionaries
under Emilio Aguinaldo. Yet, its offer of help was no help at all for its first act of corruption was the
absconding by its Hongkong Consul of the money given to him by the general for the purchase of arms
and munitions. Later, a catholic christian country would sell the catholic christian Philippines, including
the inhabitants thereof, to a protestant christian country buyer for the sum of $80,000,000 under the so
called “Treaty of Paris”, the mentioned city being a catholic christian city of a catholic christian country
of France. Worst of all, the Deed of Sale executed between the vendor and vendee and duly testified by the christian catholic country of France, included the Sultanate of Sulu which was never under the yoke
of the christian catholic vendor and even by the vendee, when it attempted to protestantize the area in
the latter years. Now, the Philippines is 80% catholic and its the only one in Asia with such kind of religion. I refuse to
call the country as a christian nation due to the following reasons:
1. Catholic Philippines failed to convert any country in Asia to Catholicism. True Christians are supposed to be the light of the world and the salt of the earth. Yet, the country is well-known for its corrupt catholic priesthood, politicians, and human rights violators. The catholics in the Philippines hold offices in the government starting from the president down to the lowest public officials. From the offices of the catholic bureaucrats, mansions of the catholic landlords, and camps of catholic generals to the convents, monasteries, nunneries, and pulpits of priests and nuns, the elements of corruption, deception, and bribery are ever present.
2. Catholic Philippine religious leaders are against the poor. Oftentimes, priest and nuns would only brush elbows with the elite. No visitation is done to the poor. The holding of the mass for the dead are gladly done for the well-to-do but not to the poor. The intensity of the ringing of the bells during mass
for the dead varies greatly.
3. Catholics in the Philippines do not have the spirit of brotherhood. They kill, maim, despoil, cheat, bribe, corrupt, and dishonor each other. Yet, those who commit the most heinous of these offenses
are oftentimes treated as heroes by the catholic church authorities. It is improper for the catholics and the protestants in the Philippines to blame the Iglesia Ni Cristo
for their immoral acts. These corruptions were already long in existence in the corridors of the catholic and protestant churches prior to the re-emergence of the Iglesia Ni Cristo in these last days.They have to accept the realities of their faith. Satanic and pagan doctrines of the catholic and protestant churches will never convert Asia to Christianity especially with the recent announcement of the Vatican over the rejection of the false doctrine on purgatory. The Iglesia Ni Cristo have been right all along that the purgatory was a man-made catholic doctrine.
November 21st, 2007 at 6:10 am
Sir Rizalino…
Well said, well said…
although, I want to strike out some pointers.
1.) Corruption has been around, yes, in all of 19th and 20th century. I personally do not think that religion has something to do with greed, It is how monetary powers manipulate a person or an institution. Let’s take the case of Alagad, Given that Alagad is “alleged” to be a political body of the INC, would be “evil” for some institution to have one if it aims for the good of all? As I said before, it is not questionable for such political body as long as it entrusts fair judgment to all and not to INC’s political interests alone.
2)Yes, I agree with the “harsh” beginnings of the Catholic “Domination” and they, of not having, a brotherhood. With your statement of “They kill, maim, despoil, cheat, bribe, corrupt and dishonor each other”, does it not happen in the ADD, Moslems and the INC as well? I, being still with the INC, have witnessed such “Questionable Course of Actions” in the INC itself and yet my elders forced themselves to be blinded to such.
3) You also stated that “Catholic Philippines failed to convert any country in Asia to Catholicism”, how does the INC react to the Taoist, Maoists, Buddhism, Islam, and Shinto that are surrounding the Philippines? Do they treat them as Religion Vagabonds that “Kill, maim, despoil, cheat, bribe, corrupt and dishonor each other?”
November 21st, 2007 at 6:05 pm
I have answered the long posts of Rizalino Arrabis here:
http://josepherdon.blogspot.com/2007/11/STUPID-INC-MEMBER.html
with evidences and graphics.
please visit it.