Five ways to holiness

I’m not trying to annoy anyone belonging to some religion by writing this but I’m really getting pissed at those people who take the Bible too literaly. Yes, I do agree that YOU have to take it literally sometimes, but the people I know are taking it to heart so much that what they profess to be “holy” is becoming ridiculous.

Here’s an example session at our house when my sister’s “sister in the church” came up today to do their weekly bible study. Their topic was: How to achieve holiness. Anyways, their study concentrated on the physical aspects that one should have to be considered as holy.

(1) Women shouldn’t wear pants because it is a man’s clothing.
Now how is she sure that pants ARE men’s clothing? In the old times, the people wore robes right? From what I know, prostitutes wore pants in the Old Testament. I’m not sure about this though. Nevertheless, it still opposes whatever bullcrap she said. When my little brother asked why they were so strict about this, she just said “E ayaw mo naman maging bakla diba? Ang lalaki na sumosuot ng palda ay bakla samantalang ang babaeng sumusuot ng pantalon ay tomboy” Hearing this, I was like WHAAT?? Ang layo ah..

(2) Women shouldn’t wear jewelry
Her logic of this statement is very very weird. You shouldn’t wear jewelry because it says in the Bible that women should focus on being virtuous and not on beautification. Yes, she does have a point on this; but she added something that was totally out of range. She said, “Makikita naman na ayaw ng Diyos ang magsuot ng kababaihan ng mga jewelry dahil mananakawan lang ang mga taong may suot ng mga hikaw, kuwintas, pulseras…” Hay naku, I mean so ganun pala kaya naging bawal magjewelry ang mga babae kasi mananakawan?

(3) Women should not wear make-up because it covers your natural beauty
She said here that women who wear make-up are “makasalanan” because by wearing make-up, women are actually rejecting their natural beauty which was given by God. It is a sin to do this. Kahit anong line daw sa face, it is bad. Then my brother said, “Panu na yan kung patay na? Nilalagyan ng make-up yun dba? Sino na ang may kasalanan?” Her answer was, “ Edi yung taong naglagay ng make-up” So I was thinking, make-up artists and plastic surgeons should go to hell. Hahahahaa =P Ok, not me but I’m thinking that she seriously hates those beauticians in salons. The next part would show how against she is with them.

(4) Women should have long hair
This statement, I think, is already considered as an old saying, however, grabe nanaman ang sinabi niya “Hindi dapat pinuputulan ang buhok dahil ang ibig sabihin ng ‘long’ in the first place ay ‘uncut’” Well, I don’t know much about the origins of the word ‘long’; but she’s taking the word much too literally. She said that even if the hair grows 10 ft or so it’s still ok basta it’s uncut daw. Yuck. I could just imagine her hair brushing against her butt while she’s giving birth to her brown babies in the cr. Ayayayaay…And she also said about the hair having life but not growing because my sister was wondering why the sister’s hair stopped growing. Such a complex rthing to say. I don’t know why di nagets ng sister ko yun but diba? Kapag you don’t cut your hair for a very long time mamamatay siya diba? And dahil patay paano na siya hahaba e patay na nga. Kaya nga when you want to grow your hair you should have it trimmed monthly.

(5) Physical baptism can erase all your sins
Now this is a bit controversial among various religious sects, but again her logic is comical. “Sasabihin mong lawasa ang tubig na ginamit sa iyong baptismo diba ngunit hindi mo ba napapansin na ang lawasa na iyan ay galing sa Diyos? Galing ang tubig na yan sa natural na kalikasan. Iyan ang ibinigay ng Diyos sa ating mga makasalanan para malinis ang ating mga kasalanan at para maging banal tayo” And then my sister said, “ E panu na yan? Araw-araw tayo gumagawa ng kasalanan? Ano yun? Paulit-ulit tayo magpabaptise?” “Oo”

hahahahaa, funny dba? All throughout this so-called bible study, I was like grabe ano ba ito? My sister was wide-eyed and listening to the “sister in the church” once in a while saying “Panu na yan?” “Patay! Kakabili ko lang ng ganito ganyan. Bawal pala?” Tsk. Tsk. Ayaw makinig sa akin tapos naniniwala naman sa ganyan. It just goes to show how fast people are fooled by the religious leaders. Hanep.