Respect Begets Respect.

Photo grabbed on Facebook

RESPECT.

First, I do not know how you define ‘Respect’. I do not know how you define respect in your dictionary. The only thing that I know about you is that.. I know you know this ‘Respect begets Respect’

Secondly, before I scribble down my thoughts let me tell you this before you make a judgment. I am a sinner. I do not read the Bible every day and I do not know everyone in the Bible nor everything in the Bible nor every verse in the Bible, I sometimes fail to pray the rosary daily, I sometimes fail to attend the novena, and yes, I don’t get to complete all those Sunday masses in a year. I even left a religious group. I know, tell me. I am a sinner.

I woke up today, thanking my God for another day, thanking my God that finally I didn’t have any palpitations as early as that (my mama will surely get mad when she reads the word ‘palpitations’ Poor little me I’ve been having some on and off palpitations for almost a week, brought about by caffeine, little physical, mental and emotional stress and lack of sleep), so moving on, I checked on my Instagram and saw a photo of a woman posing on the crucifix for fun (taken on a holy week). I was like what-is-this-girl-thinking, seriously? Yadah yadah yadah.

 I checked on my Facebook timeline and the photo has gone viral, well there were several people who even posed for that. Heck.

Just like what other people say, it is not a matter of religion, it’s a matter of respect. I want to quote what my friend, Monique Fajardo, said about those photos ‘Whether you are roman catholic, protestant, atheist, buddhist, muslim, etc. we should at least have respect for the belief of others. The crucifixion is very sacred to us Christians, that's why other people react so violently at this, i mean you wouldn't want something you respected so much be seen as a joke by others. It's not a matter of religion too, because for all we know some of these people might be Christians themselves, it's just a matter of RESPECT.”

Those who get to read my blog posts know that I am no angel. I am no angel BUT I do believe in my God, I do believe in the Gods of other religious groups. Yes, I may be a sinner BUT the God that I have taught me what respect is about

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This aint a joke. I think those people need to go back to the time when they were little with the Golden rule being taught to them.

Why did I blog about this? Because it pays when you respect other people. I mean, you can not choose to love every single person in the world BUT you can give them the amount of respect that they deserve. 


Again, respect.. begets..respect.

love

the little kid