Why do “filipino” “catholic” “men” practice self-flagellation and self-crucifixion?
Not all Filipinos are Catholic. My wife isn’t. I’m usually the one to speak against the Catholic church, but actually the Catholic church does not support self-flagellation and self-crucifixion in the Philippines. This is well documented. There are plenty of other things to attack them on such as Mary worship, idolatry, and necromancy.
“filipino” “catholic” “men” do such things in disobedience to the Church. It is said that if a lie is repeated often enough and loudly enough, people will come to believe it. That isn’t necessarily so. A real whopper may never be believed fully by anyone, no matter how often or loudly it is proclaimed, but for a whopper to be effective, it does not need to be believed in every detail. It is enough that it leaves behind a bad impression. People will think that if anyone bothers to promote such a lie, there must be a kernel of truth in it. The same goes for exaggeration and false implications. Distort the truth and people will think it has some basis in fact. Take a truth and phrase it in such a way that it looks suspicious, or juxtapose it with an acknowledged evil, and the mind will be tempted to draw all sorts of ill-founded conclusions. The following are three examples of the whoppers, exaggerations, and false implications found in the writings of professional anti-Catholics. These a
