Lord Jesus Christ's last commandment given to His disciples was to "love one another as I have loved you"

As a Christian born in the only Christian country in Southeast Asia, I came to a point of realization since 1988 when I was baptized in the Holy Spirit. It was then that I began questioning the relevance of the fraternity system and its culture, proven to be violent all these years, to the development of man in particular and the Filipino people in general. With a despicably awful track record of deaths due to hazing and fraternity wars, it is therefore important for men, especially my countrymen, to find time and reflect on the relevance of this brotherhood system especially in relation to their coexistence with other sectors of society and to their spirituality.

I dedicate this blog to the victims of all these mess all these years, to all the people especially the love ones of the victims affected by it and to all fratmen who honestly and sincerely desire for genuine change.

This is a challenge to all fratmen. If you so desire to be real men let's therefore face the real problem squarely and act to find the real remedy to it. And since the reasons behind all these conflicts is hatred, it is therefore right to start forgiving because after all most of us are Christians and because it is the right thing to do.

Wednesday, September 5, 2007

STOP THIS EVIL CYCLE!

Several weeks ago I chanced upon a blog of UP law students as I try to do research about fraternity violence. One student laments about how the people easily forget all those bloody deaths. The message also pointed out that it will take another death of another victim for people to seriously act and stop this evil cycle.

Today I got an email and the message focused on an article written by Prof. Leonor M. Briones. Death in the Family presents us with a cyclical pattern of this evil culture of violence:

1. news breaks out .
2. media provides gory details.
3. family expresses anguish, calls for justice.
4. subject hits public affairs, TV shows and radio programs.
5. UP community holds candle marches .
6. UP frats sign peace accord.
7. after 2 months (at most)…forgotten. The young life snuffed out becomes just another statistic.
8. until the next hazing related death .
9. repeat process from # 1.


Clearly this pattern we see in our universities most probably all over the country, what with the existence and proliferation of fraternities in its campuses, is just part of another bigger cycle which I am afraid to imagine:

1. student enrolls in a university
2. student becomes student leader in campus politics
3. student joins a fraternity
4. student becomes involved in the bloody frat culture of violence with all its evils and deceptions
5. student graduates (luckily if he is alive)
6. student carries the evil frat culture
7. student becomes professional
8. student, now a professional, becomes a politician
9. student join the ranks of his brods in politics
10. back to #1

Okay, we are happy that this student graduated alive. But what is the kind of culture inculcated and forcibly indoctrinated into his mind and heart while undergoing brutal initiation rites? Will he surely become a true gentleman who will fight to keep right when right and to set right when wrong without becoming a deceptive liar, enjoying wealth and power and holding the reigns of the government?

Will he not exhort his younger fraternity brothers to take revenge for him because he was mauled in a fraternity rumble when he was still a student? How influential is he and how strong is his resolve and how deep is his spirituality to inspire his brothers to forgive enemies?

All these years our country has suffered. All these years politics proved to be dirty and our elections bloody. So where did those erring politicians learned their evil trade? Isn't it that the priests who act as servants of God the Father Almighty always say "Go in peace to love and serve the Lord" after all the people have eaten the host to become part of Lord Jesus Christ body?

People better think deeply about their spirituality. If they can hide from the law of men because of their expertise in going around the law, the wrath of God the Father Almighty is waiting to be unleashed!

Who can hide from one's conscience? Who can hide from God the Almighty Father?

The enemies of God the Father Almighty are those fallen angels who joined Lucifer in his rebellion. These same evil spirits, called Legion, belong to those entities that influenced those Biblical personalities from Saul, the unfavored king, to Judas, the traitor. They belong in hell and continue to influence people. And when people are baptized in the Holy Spirit and backslide to completely abandon their faith in God the Father Almighty, these evil spirits will indwell in these kinds of people.

So how could one resist the temptations and influence of these invisible and evil entities?

To stop this evil and all its influences is to humble ourselves in front of God the Almighty Father, be baptized in the Holy Spirit and wear the Armor of God as explained by the apostle Paul. And to endure till the end as a true believer one must follow the Two Commandments that Lord Jesus Christ taught His disciples.

While we are witnessing the outward signs of the battle between good and evil, a lot of people do not realize the spiritual battle involving invisible evil entities at play here.

If we really love our fellowmen we need to love them the way Lord Jesus Christ loves His disciples.

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