De-Christianized Philippine politics

De-Christianized Philippine politics

The Maguindanao massacre bespeaks of the kind of politics we have in this country. Human life, it seems, is not precious in our political arena anymore. Gone are the days when politicians, at most, would besmirch only their rivals with contemptuous issues. At this time, unscrupulous politicians who dread they can be unseated in the elections silence to death their political contenders who are auspicious and service-oriented.

How many of these kinds of inhuman atrocities could have prevented had the government done something before to resolve the political differences in Maguindanao? Could the political lords in Maguindanao have stockpiled high-powered firearms if the government, particularly the military and the police, did its homework like intelligence network? Could anybody just slaughter the innocent lives of the victims of the massacre if he thinks he cannot be exculpated by the powers-that-be?

I just wonder how many of our public officials were elected into public office based on their platforms of government, credentials and character and not on the barrel of their guns as they use this to bully and terrorize people to vote for them. Such that when they are elected into public office, they act like self-empowering kings and queens who could do whatever they please in their political turfs even to the point of exterminating the lives of our people.

Politics in the country is seemingly de-Christianized or a Godless human activity. When shall we place God and his teachings at the very center of politics? Let us use politics for our own good based on the Gospel values. St. Thomas Aquinas says: “God is not offended by us except at what we do against our own good."