If the
Caucasian-Americans and the African-Americans after hard and trying times are
united as one people and under one flag in the United States of America, there
is no reason for the Muslim-Filipinos and the Christian-Filipinos not to be
united in Southern Philippines for the sake of progress and peace.
As far as I know,
before the Christian missionaries came to our motherland and before the Islamic
practitioners reached the shores of our country, there were two religions in
the Philippines, and those were paganism and animism. Paganism was a religion
all about praising nature, it was about treating the trees, the stars, the
moon, plants and even animals as gods. Animism was a belief of early Filipinos
that things, plants and animals around them had spirits.
It is also evident
that we both the Filipino Christians and Muslims alike look the same for we
both belong to the Malayan race (brown race). The ways of life of both groups
like farming, fishing, etc. etc. are almost the same hence, it is very clear
that both groups are more or less not distinct and unique from each other. What
made these two sets of GOD's creation different from each other are their
religions.
So, why is it that the Christians and Muslims are fighting with each
other in Southern Philippines? It is very clear that the Moro rebels' basis for
separation or independence for the Philippines are deeply rooted on their
religion. Don't they know that the word religion derives from the latin word
RELEGARE which means "to be one with GOD"? So why fight with each
other when all religions in the world have only one sole purpose and that is to
be one with GOD? Why?
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