Thursday, January 01, 2009

'Ang Dating Daan' and "iglesia Ni Cristo'

It was one of those no-classes-boring-afternoon-nothing-to-do moments when I decided to watch TV. I was browsing channels when I stopped at Brother Eli Soriano's show, "Itanong mo kay Soriano" with the slogan, "Itanong mo, biblia ang sasagot" (or something like that). So the show goes like this, a curious person will ask Brother Eli in front of thousands of people and Brother Eli (who is up on stage) will answer the question using some verses found on the bible.

Brother Eli displays a well educated knowledge of the bible, and not only that, he MEMORIZED it. Like, hell yeah, WORD FOR WORD. People applause every after answered question and Brother Eli seems to love it. 'Ang Dating Daan' practically became famous because of Brother Eli for answering questions that were based from the bible and that is practically the main reason for its continuing increase of followers.

 

I changed the channel and was shocked to see Brother Eli Soriano AGAIN in the 'Iglesia ni Cristo' channel right next to the channel of Bro. Eli. So the channel of Iglesia Ni Cristo and the channel of Bro. Eli Soriano are actually right next to each other.

The 'Iglesia ni Cristo' shows Brother Eli giving out statements that completely contradicts his previous statements, they show his inconsistency of words and they would even go as far as interviewing a former member of 'Ang Dating Daan' and telling them how it ruined her spirituality.

I have nothing against the members of these two religions but this has become my form of entertainment when I have nothing to do.