Friday, January 20, 2006

Are You Sure It's Catholic?

Hi people!
Do you give to the weekly basket offering in Church? I hope you do, and I hope it's not some thoughtless handful of coins, but something you feel came from you-- from the heart.
I'm not into the giving-till-it-hurts bit. I'm more into the giving out of love, with a happy heart.
And here it goes: at the crazycult, i've actually heard a teaching that you SHOULD TITHE FIRST befor you pay any debts: as in forget paying the debt if it means you wouldn't be able to tithe.
Every week someone goes onstage and reminds everyone of their duty to tithe and give "love offerings". They exhort everyone to give with a smile. And you know what? You're not the only one smiling. They're laughing... all the way to the bank (which isn't actually a bank, but the evil one's cabinet in her bedroom).
A priest once said to me that the Catholic Church says Catholics should tithe only to ordained ministers of the Church. Read: priests and higher. Which makes the system of the crazycult ultra dubious. You see, the evil one and her family, believe that as self-proclaimed priests, they are entitled to ten percent of the income of the people in their cult.
As i found out from ex-crazycultists, the evil ones treated ten percent of my hard-earned money as theirs, in the guise of me, offering it up to God. And so, there is never any public accounting of all the money turned over to them. No matter how much people gave, the roof of their center still leaks, and richer cultists still get surprise calls from their facilitators asking them to bring 100 thousand pesos to the center (where the evil ones live) that same day, because meralco is going to cut off the electricity to the center.
The center, which was "loaned" to the cult, is being used by the evil family as their personal home, where two of their private businesses are housed. They're the ones who use the electricity so why on earth do they have to squeeze out money from their members for these things when they already have the hundreds of thousands of pesos turned in weekly in the form of tithes and love offerings?
Because they're busy shopping in Shangri-la, Podium, and Rockwell; buying fifteen thousand peso eyeglasses, montblanc pens, rav4's, x-trails; opening restaurants in makati, and vacationing abroad when someone gets a broken heart.
Yup, they're really crazy over there.
I pity the naive ones who fall for it every single week.
When they sign their names on the tithe envelope, they unwittingly tell the evil ones how much they make and how much more can be squeezed from them, while the people they entrust with their hard earned cash greedily take, and are answerable to no one.
And that is why PI always over dresses on every occassion.

3 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

nakakabaliw, promise...hehe..i had fun reading all the realities that we had before...gud thing, it's an "old-life" na...praise God for new life!!

8:36 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Actually, for me, ok lang yung tithing for as long as their is some sort of accountability involved. I mean, sometimes, it might be a good way to raise funds. It's only sad when some people manipulate it to enrich themselves or to maintain a certain lifestyle. Pagnanakaw na rin yun. Sa community yung pera, hindi sa mga elder.

6:05 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

tithes and love offerings turned in during prayer meetings are for the work of God, not to sustain a family's extra-lucrative lifestyle!

let me add, before i left that group, they were asking for donations in order to set up a center in one far flung areas, which would be around P100,000, imagine, the tithes being collected is enough to pay for the construction and yet they decided to burden their members again (well, what can we say, that's their expertise)!

and another trivia, members are monitored if they gave their tithes or not. The "servant"-in-charge of that area said so.

and did you know that if you give a huge tithe you will automatically become the evil one's bestfriend! (example, they have a new branch called roundtable disciples where, ONLY BUSINESS EXECUTIVES are allowed to join). and if there is an activity in the center, the members of this branch can sit beside the evil ones! contrary to the bible's advice to give a seat to the least one in the group than the rich ones (see timothy)

and lastly, if you give huge tithes and offerings, you'll easily be promoted to fulltime servanthood. Question, aside from the household servants can you name a fulltime servant that isn't well-off! WALA!

indeed! thank God for new life!

1:46 AM  

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