Monday, July 24, 2006

Feng Shui and other superstitious beliefs.


Kris Aquino, an actress/host here in the Philippines played as a mother who believed in Chinese superstitious beliefs in their movie with a title, "Feng Shui". In the movie, she noticed an antique "bah-gua" left by a man in the bus. She found that bah gua and decided to find the man who left it in the bus, but sad to say, she was not able to find that man. So she decided to take ownership of that bah-gua. On her way home, the guy who left the bah-gua in the bus was suddenly hit by a car, and this was followed by numerous deaths to the people who looked at their reflection in the mirror of the bah-gua. For each death, Kris Aquino gained good luck, she won raffle draws, earned big money from her job. And this luck also became a benefit for her family. Now she has to stop the curse of the bah-gua before it can affect more people including her family.

In this world that we live in, many people believe in superstitious beliefs. I'm not only reffering to Feng Shui, I'm also reffering to some beliefs that other people dovotedly believed. Most of these beliefs are a complete non-sense of unreaserched crap. It's sad to hear that most of these people are catholics, catholics that are active to their faith in serving the Lord, and catholics that belong to religious organizations. They tend to say that they love the Lord and are willing to offer their own life for Him. Yet when you go to their house, you'll see a bah-gua above the door of their house and inside the house, also above the door, you'll see a crucifix. A perfect example of unfaithfulness to the Lord, both Christianity and Feng-Shui being practiced.

When you go to some restaurants, you'll see in the counter a gold cat waving its hands vertically forward and backward, a green frog with a coin in its mouth, or a happy Buddha raising its hands in the air holding something. All of these next to a Sto. Nino (image if the infant Jesus), an image of Mama Mary, sometimes, even a relic of a saint.


My friends, if we are really catholics, we must have our faith 100% in God. He is the only one that we should trust. We shall not follow any other God's before Him.

1 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

dude, pilipino taio. nkasnayan n yn. alam mo nmn kse.. mrmi chinese d2.. it's not surprising that their influence is great hir.. but they should know this: there's no such thing as luck. maybe chance, but not luck. Well, at least that's my opinion. =D

=p -???- =p

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