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| The Watchtower, June 1,2015 issue |
The Watchtower published by Jehovah Witness Organization is an interesting reading material. Only that I no longer practice Christianity or Catholicism. I was heavily catholic. I was enrolled in St. Louis School Center during elementary days and entered a Catholic High School in Isabela but was cut short because of an accident. I used to volunteer to help serve in First Friday Mass every month throughout the school year. I tried to be an alcolyte for once and the uniform was terrible. I have memorized all the popular prayers that has been officially approved and used by our school. During October, Rosary Month, I was a few who endured an hour bowing our heads and holding to the rosary , flipping each bead between my fingers every after Ave Maria ten times. Yep, and I had never imagined myself 8 years forward to have forgotten all the prayers and even Honor Thy Father has slipped out from my semantic memory. It took me to be transferred to a Government School, a melting pot of different people, to make me an atheist.
I was in my third year when I met Rona Tan, a heavily JW worshiper. I frequently come to her home and see stacks of The Watchtower on her bedside. I loved reading! I read any material that has the language I can understand, even a phone manual would not be an exception.
Holding with no profanity, sarcasm or whatsoever, the religious journal is a good reading material. You see, it does not only publish an advocacy for religious but it reasons out peppered with logic as well. With that of the latter, the magazine also tackles things from a field that religion grew adverse to; Science. It has also covered one of the most controversial topics which was marriage and contraception. But, it was not written in any way opinionated but it was far more objective and informational. Still, it asserts the importance of faith as well.
With that alone, I wonder how big is the gap between science and religion.
In the Film Adaptation of Dan Brown's novel, Angels and Demons, a former priest attempted a great leap to correlate science with religion. It was not anything subversive against a belief, but it shows that the millenia-old church is ready for a vast dynamics in their belief. As Rev. Patrick McKenna has said, "If science is allowed to claim the moment of creation, what is there left to God?" Turns out, he was a big bastard who cannot stand the bridging between science and religion.
Should the church stay out from the premises of science? That is not possible since the pontiff ,Pope Francis, is a scientist himself. Shame on you, Rick Santorum. Pope Francis studied chemistry and was a chemist prior to priesthood. This gives him the right to warn and talk about the climate change. Wait, I'll edit that. Everyone reserves the right to be concerned about climate change whether you're a scientist or a farmer.
Some readers might find themselves furrowing their eyebrows thinking, "Why are you talking about religion if you're an atheist?" That is the good thing about being one, because you tend to rationalize everything without feeling blasphemous about it. The thing is that, respect should be applicable to everything. Not because I am an atheist is that I have the credit to become an ass and setting negative views about a church I formerly belonged to.
Read more, kids.
Holding with no profanity, sarcasm or whatsoever, the religious journal is a good reading material. You see, it does not only publish an advocacy for religious but it reasons out peppered with logic as well. With that of the latter, the magazine also tackles things from a field that religion grew adverse to; Science. It has also covered one of the most controversial topics which was marriage and contraception. But, it was not written in any way opinionated but it was far more objective and informational. Still, it asserts the importance of faith as well.
With that alone, I wonder how big is the gap between science and religion.
In the Film Adaptation of Dan Brown's novel, Angels and Demons, a former priest attempted a great leap to correlate science with religion. It was not anything subversive against a belief, but it shows that the millenia-old church is ready for a vast dynamics in their belief. As Rev. Patrick McKenna has said, "If science is allowed to claim the moment of creation, what is there left to God?" Turns out, he was a big bastard who cannot stand the bridging between science and religion.
Should the church stay out from the premises of science? That is not possible since the pontiff ,Pope Francis, is a scientist himself. Shame on you, Rick Santorum. Pope Francis studied chemistry and was a chemist prior to priesthood. This gives him the right to warn and talk about the climate change. Wait, I'll edit that. Everyone reserves the right to be concerned about climate change whether you're a scientist or a farmer.
Some readers might find themselves furrowing their eyebrows thinking, "Why are you talking about religion if you're an atheist?" That is the good thing about being one, because you tend to rationalize everything without feeling blasphemous about it. The thing is that, respect should be applicable to everything. Not because I am an atheist is that I have the credit to become an ass and setting negative views about a church I formerly belonged to.
Read more, kids.
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