PARADOXICAL

Of all the interviews fielded to me this year, this one is the one I like best, although it is too short.

1. What are your spiritual beliefs?

2. How do your beliefs teach you to treat other people?

3. Do you think people today value things too much? Why?

4. What values should young people remember today?

5. We know how people these days have been valuing material possessions, wealth, money etc. more than human relationship, ethical values, and integrity to the point that they reverse the concept of “People were created by God to be loved, and things were created to be used.” In your spiritual beliefs, what is your take and argument about people reversing this concept?

Answers:

1. My spiritual beliefs are thoroughly Christian and Catholic, not because I was born into it but by choice, after studying by myself the history of religion and philosophy.

Of course, I am constantly being influenced by other belief systems like the Catholic charismatic movement, Protestantism, indigenous beliefs, superstitions, but I consciously try to separate these from orthodox Christianity.

2. If I am kind and the humane type of person today, that's because of my conscious choices because I know myself, I know what evils lie deep within my heart. I am by nature a mix of good and evil. I always try to choose what is good.

3. I think so, because in general we judge people by how they look, what they own, what their socioeconomic status is, and so on. In females and males, it's biologically wired. Males need to show off that they can feed a family. Females need to feel just as secure, that they are potentially mating with someone who can provide for them.

4. There are so many values that young people need today but ideally, they should discover all these slowly on their own. But in terms of teaching them directly, I'd focus on the values, both apparent and hidden, in the 10 commandments.

5. From another lens, valuing people foremost through materialism is a sign of a broken world, a world of evil and corrupted values. It's the consequence of the wide acceptance secular humanism instead of Christianity. In secular humanism, man is the center of the universe instead of God. Because of this belief, the focus and importance shifts to mankind, what man needs and wants, instead of God.

posted by Resty Odon  # 6:00 PM