BY ATTY. BATAS MAURICIO



    CRIME WAVE IN PH: THE REAL CAUSE: Catholic bishops are correct that there is a crime wave almost everywhere in the country now, but what, really, can we do to stop it? If we are to believe the bishops, crimes have become unstoppable, with the government and law enforcement agencies appearing unable to do anything to stop it.

    What, really, is happening to our country? How did we come to this state of lawlessness and grave absence of law and order? Many answers will be offered to explain this phenomenon, including poverty and hunger, but I am sure it will all boil down to godlessness.

    Many Filipinos no longer have the fear and love of God in their hearts. Many of us no longer have sincere faith in God, largely because we have been deprived of God’s teachings from the Bible, so that we can now be heinous, we can now be corrupt, we can now be brutal and murderous beyond measure.

    Indeed, only people who do not have the fear and love of God in their hearts can torture and kill their fellowmen, can bring themselves to burn their victims to hide the crime, can later eat and sleep as if what they did was an ordinary act, not a grievous sin to God.

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    GODLESSNESS WILL BRING OUR PEOPLE TO DESTRUCTION: Godlessness is a situation foretold by the Bible. Let us read that in Romans 1: 28-32: “…Furthermore, just as they did not think it worthwhile to retain the knowledge of God, so God gave them over to a depraved mind, so that they do what ought not to be done.

“They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit and malice. They are gossips, slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant and boastful; they invent ways of doing evil; they disobey their parents.

“…they have no understanding, no fidelity, no love, no mercy. Although they know God’s righteous decree that those who do such things deserve death, they not only continue to do these very things but also approve of those who practice them…”

    How do we reverse godlessness then? In 2 Chronicles 7:14 of the Bible, this is what we should do, according to God: “If my people who are called by name will humble themselves and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, will forgive their sins, and will heal their land.”

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    WE MUST READ THE BIBLE AND PRAY: We are therefore called upon to go back to God, to listen to Him through His Word once more, to stop sinning and obey His commands. This is the only way that crime waves can be stopped, and for our country and its people to be placed under the protection of God.

    I am therefore calling on everyone out there: let us start, even if only among ourselves, to go back to God. Let us start reading our Bibles and, even without anyone seeing or knowing, we obey God’s commands written in it. Let us start earnestly praying for ourselves and for our country and people.

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Crime wave in Ph: the real cause


    CRIME WAVE IN PH: THE REAL CAUSE: Catholic bishops are correct that there is a crime wave almost everywhere in the country now, but what, really, can we do to stop it? If we are to believe the bishops, crimes have become unstoppable, with the government and law enforcement agencies appearing unable to do anything to stop it.

    What, really, is happening to our country? How did we come to this state of lawlessness and grave absence of law and order? Many answers will be offered to explain this phenomenon, including poverty and hunger, but I am sure it will all boil down to godlessness.

    Many Filipinos no longer have the fear and love of God in their hearts. Many of us no longer have sincere faith in God, largely because we have been deprived of God’s teachings from the Bible, so that we can now be heinous, we can now be corrupt, we can now be brutal and murderous beyond measure.

    Indeed, only people who do not have the fear and love of God in their hearts can torture and kill their fellowmen, can bring themselves to burn their victims to hide the crime, can later eat and sleep as if what they did was an ordinary act, not a grievous sin to God.

                    -ooo-

    GODLESSNESS WILL BRING OUR PEOPLE TO DESTRUCTION: Godlessness is a situation foretold by the Bible. Let us read that in Romans 1: 28-32: “…Furthermore, just as they did not think it worthwhile to retain the knowledge of God, so God gave them over to a depraved mind, so that they do what ought not to be done.

“They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit and malice. They are gossips, slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant and boastful; they invent ways of doing evil; they disobey their parents.

“…they have no understanding, no fidelity, no love, no mercy. Although they know God’s righteous decree that those who do such things deserve death, they not only continue to do these very things but also approve of those who practice them…”

    How do we reverse godlessness then? In 2 Chronicles 7:14 of the Bible, this is what we should do, according to God: “If my people who are called by name will humble themselves and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, will forgive their sins, and will heal their land.”

                    -ooo-

    WE MUST READ THE BIBLE AND PRAY: We are therefore called upon to go back to God, to listen to Him through His Word once more, to stop sinning and obey His commands. This is the only way that crime waves can be stopped, and for our country and its people to be placed under the protection of God.

    I am therefore calling on everyone out there: let us start, even if only among ourselves, to go back to God. Let us start reading our Bibles and, even without anyone seeing or knowing, we obey God’s commands written in it. Let us start earnestly praying for ourselves and for our country and people.

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