HYPOCRISY is the contrivance of a false appearance of virtue or goodness, while concealing real character or inclinations, especially with respect to religious and moral beliefs; hence in a general sense, hypocrisy may involve dissimulation, pretense, or a sham. Hypocrisy is the practice of engaging in the same behavior or activity for which one criticizes another.
By itself and based on its definition there is nothing remotely good, spiritual or otherwise with hypocrisy. Just imagine doing it in the name of God.
In any book, hypocrisy is bad practicing it with a holier-than-thou or more-popish-than-the pope attitude, more so. But using the pulpit as what is being done by some priests in the Philippine Catholic Church is probably the worst of its kind.
Lately, archbishops Luis Tagle and Socrates Villegas have been raining fire and brimstone with their biblical proportion sermons and issuing pastoral letters against President Rodrigo Duterte and almost anything remotely resembling or associated with him.
The so-called running priest Fr. Robert Reyes has been running left and right in front of the TV cameras protesting the evil Duterte and at the same time doing pray-overs for “never was and not former” Chief Justice Maria Lourdes Sereno who, incidentally, is not even a Catholic and who strictly prohibits making the sign of the cross at the start of any deliberations/caucuses of the Supreme Court justices.
Fr. Robert Reyes has also been very generous with his pray-overs for jailed drug protector Sen. Leila “frailties of a woman” de Lima.
Add to that the ringing of the church bells every time a pusher or addict is killed during police anti-drug operations.
Yet strangely enough these so-called men of God are as quiet as a church mouse – yes, not a sound – at the more than 60 schoolchildren who died because of Dengvaxia vaccinations and more deaths to come as 800,000 plus schoolchildren were vaccinated with the experimental drug Dengvaxia courtesy of then President Noynoy Aquino, former Department of Health secretary Janette Garin and Budget secretary Florencio Abad.
No pray-overs for the grieving mothers of the dead schoolchildren, not even a step from the so-called running priest Fr. Robert Reyes.
Just to rub it in excerpts, the latest report from Reuters on Dengvaxia:
Study confirms higher risk of dengue in kids who got Sanofi vaccine
By Julie Steenhuysen
CHICAGO (Reuters) – An analysis of data on Sanofi’s dengue vaccine, which has been given to more than 800,000 school children in the Philippines, confirms it increases the risk of hospitalization and severe dengue in those who had never previously been infected with the mosquito-borne virus.
The findings, published on Wednesday in the New England Journal of Medicine, offer fresh support for the World Health Organization recommendation in April that Sanofi’s vaccine should not be used without testing for prior dengue exposure. Currently, there are no widely available rapid tests for prior dengue infection.
In November, Sanofi issued a warning that its vaccine could increase the risk of severe dengue based on a new analysis of blood samples from thousands of children who received it. A newly developed test allowed the company to determine which children had been previously infected.
The study authors calculated that if given to 1 million children over age 9, the vaccine could prevent some 11,000 hospitalizations and 2,500 cases of severe dengue. But it could also lead to 1,000 hospitalizations and 500 severe cases of dengue in children who not previously infected.
There you go no amount of denial or passing the buck from then President Noynoy Aquino will save him this time from his responsibility in sentencing 800,000 schoolchildren to “death by Dengvaxia.”
This is the report that the “devotees to the cult of the yellow ribbon” does not want the public to see.
And the church bells are silent, still no ringing of the bells. No fire and brimstone sermons from the pulpit against the perpetrators of “death by Dengvaxia” either. It does seem that these 800,000 schoolchildren sentenced to “death by Dengvaxia” by Noynoy Aquino are not worthy of any prayers from these so-called men of God.
Oh well, Noynoy Aquino, the fruit of the loins of a “hero” and soon-to-be-proclaimed saint, cannot be responsible for the – “God forbid” – death of more than 60 schoolchildren; it’s just not possible, he’s infallible.
But if it were Rodrigo Duterte then the whole scenario would be totally different i.e. the church bells would be ringing 24/7 and exorcism would be de rigour for the whole Duterte clan.
Adam Garrie of www.eurasiafuture.com said in a recent article:
Now after a string of priests were found dead in the Philippines, some are pointing the finger of blame at President Duterte himself. To put this in context, Duterte’s opponents, whether in the Liberal Party opposition, the anti-Duterte media or the Catholic Church, tend to blame Duterte not only for all their personal misfortunes but for anything sinister they come across through the course of their daily lives. The ousted former Supreme Court Chief Justice Maria Lourdes Sereno, for example, continues to blame Duterte for the fact that she lost her prestigious job, even though in reality it was the other judges on the Supreme Court who voted to remove her.
And that fully explains what is hypocrisy in the name of God. (brotherlouie16@gmail.com/PN)
