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(Letter 16) Imaginary worlds
2007-06-17 11:21:00 Dear Father, WHEN I WAS yet a naughty small and cute boy, my cousins teased me that I should not go to dark places because there were evil witches and ghosts hanging around to take me. I wasn’t afraid then because you taught me that such beings have no existence. I was five years old. And so, I was not afraid of the dark. Instead, darkness was afraid of me. Yes, we all know that there are More About: Letter , Worlds
(Letter 15) Disappointed with religion
2007-06-16 05:43:00 Dear Father, I REMEMBER YOU told me last December about your frustrations in religion; Evangelical Christianity in particular. You narrated to me stories of how you ministered to and worked with the indigenous communities in Mindanao, southern Philippines. You pastored a small congregation but you were not satisfied with the ecclesiastical rules, so you eventually left the church and lived with More About: Religion , Letter
(Letter 14) War machines
2007-06-16 04:54:00 Dear Dad, LAST NIGHT I wrote to you about music. Music that liberates. But this afternoon, there is another music played in the air—the sound of death. I am speaking of warplanes. War machines. Machines of death. In this present evolution of human species, people invent machines to defend themselves and to advance their political and economic power. From tanks and submarines to warplanes—all More About: Letter 1, 2, 3, 4 |
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