Greetings of Peace and God’s blessings!
While you greet us with poisonous arrows, we still greet you with peace because our God is a God of Peace. Our God is not a stupid God. He is our Father and any insult directed at him is an arrow directed at us because He is our Father. Evidently, we worship different gods, a difference that is irreconcilable. But there is only one God!
While we lament your foul words unfit for a president of a nation, we hail our God as a forgiving God, forgiving our weakness and sinfulness as human beings. He calls us to the highest perfection yet compassionately accepting our puny efforts and mistakes. Yes, we admit that in the Catholic Church, we have many sinful members and sinful priests, even sinful popes. God in his mercy has kept us united in his fold.
Your god, according to you is a perfect god and you claim to be his perfect human being. One of the irreconcilable differences is that our God does not rejoice in murders, especially in extrajudicial killings with special choice of targeting the poor and helpless.
We believe in the dignity of everyman redeemed by God and that we are all one family. We do not murder sinners; we believe in his capacity to reform. Only God can give life and only He can take back life. Our God cannot be your god because you rejoice in killing and have promised to defend the murderers with your all-powerful presidential pardon.
Your men have killed at least 38 people everyday in the past 2 years, and you think with that you can solve the problem of our country. But what is our problem? The problem we see is poverty. The poor have nothing to eat and prices of basic goods are rising. You spend our money in arms and befriend China who is eating up our natural resources. Truly the God we worship and the god you worship are irreconcilable.
WE DO NOT WISH YOU ILL, Mr. President. We pray for you and for a common understanding of how we can help our country.
JULIETA F. WASAN, Ph.D.
President
Sangguniang Laiko ng Pilipinas
