Sign of the Times

Mortal bodies going against a part of the "Body of Christ".

The video shows a group of feminist using their half naked bodies in protest against the political involvement of a particular Christian church in their society.

They are mocking the Christian faith -- particularly the Catholic church -- by sticking their butts with crucifixes as they chanted their slogans, which say:

"Your Pope, keep it inside!"

"Your religious morals, keep it inside!"

"Your faith, keep it inside!"

"God is not a magician, Pope is not a politician!"

With their sarcastic messaging, they are boldly conveying their rejection of Christianity. For them, the only place for Christianity in this high-tech modern times is inside the asshole -- meaning to say that Christianity must have no place in politics and even in society.

Escalating open anti-Christianity, particularly anti-Catholicism, is not just manifesting in Rome and in many other cities around the world, but also particularly in the Philippines which is Asia's bastion of Catholicism.

Anti-Christianity's first priority of attack is the Catholic Church. Their initial objective is to first fracture further to some degree the largest and most organized Christian religion in the world. And then it would be relatively easier for them to destroy the already-fragmented and not so largely organized other Christian groups such as the various Protestant denominations which broke away from the Catholic church many decades ago.

Their popular effective old strategy is to divide and conquer by first attacking the Catholic church at its two major weaknesses, namely, the weaknesses of its ordained ministers in keeping with their vows of chastity and poverty. They attack the church with scandal exposés such as sexual harrassment issues involving priests and bishops. They also attack with exposés of wealth and possession issues involving the church. These attacks are designed to trample on the holiness and the sanctimony of the church's image in order to destroy its credibility and reputation and so as to weaken the public's trust (most critically, the trust of its own believers) towards the priests, bishops, and ultimately the entire hierarchy of the Catholic church.

Many Filipino Catholics may deny it, but in the Philippines, local anti-Catholicism is seemingly fast gaining ground and it now has an increasing number of vocal as well as silent supporters, ironically, who are members of the Catholic church's own flock (as well as supporters who are members of other Christian denominations and non-Christian groups). This is mostly due to the fact that the recent State leadership enjoys a formidable number of supporters of which majority are mostly cradle Catholics.

The clash between our State leadership and our local Catholic church on matters of morality and on issues involving human rights violation committed by state authorities particularly in their "war on drugs", has divided and polarized the Catholic believers' support. The State leadership's bold attacks on the beliefs, practices, priests, and bishops of the local Catholic church have now started to fragment and undermine the support of many Catholics for their own church and ordained ministers. As a result, aside from cradle Catholics, you will now also hear baptized and confirmed Catholics boldly criticizing, cursing, and maligning priests, bishops, and the Catholic church.

These recent days are days of great shaking!

Christian believer, where does your faith stand?

Can your faith and conviction withstand the darkened hearts of those who are influenced and utilized by the spirit of darkness to neutralize and imprison Christianity in the asshole of anti-Christianity?