a question to the filipino catholics.?

Question

are you proud to be roman catholics even knowing that your ancestors were converted to catholicsm at the point of a sword? convert or die method of the spanish conquistadors. are you aware that your ancestors are forced catholics?

Answer 1

I'm a Filipino Catholic and proud to be one. And before you start questioning our heritage, maybe you should do some background research. When the Spaniards came to my country, it was accidental. It wasn't like they set out just to convert us. And as far as I know, no force was involved. The tribal chief's wife found Christianity to be a better religion and was able to convince her husband and villagers to convert. The Spaniards even gave her a gift: a statue of the Child Jesus (Santo Niño). Would the Spaniards have time to dole out gifts when they're busy threatening people?

The point is, that happened well over hundreds of years ago. Do you think we Filipinos still feel forced into Roman Catholicism at the point of the sword? We're the largest Christian country in Asia, and we wouldn't have been that way if we Filipinos changed our minds about our religion just because some dummy thinks we should be ashamed of our history. Didn't you ever stop to think that maybe we chose to remain Catholics, and not just forced into it?

And stop making it sound like it's all our fault.

Answer 2

Apparently by your question you are not acquainted how catholicism came to the Philippines. True the spanish conquistadors came to the Philippines but it was accidental in view that circumnavigation of the world was true goal of Magellan. The Spanish friars who by decree are with the spanish conquistadores started befriending the local population starting with the tribal leaders spouses and slowly introduced the idea of christianity to the womenfolks. The women finding that christianity offered a better life than their own pagan gods started with their husbands and slowly convinced them of christianity.

Now where is force involved, none because that was how they started involving the various tribal leaders and warriors by giving the Word of God to the womenfolk first the children afterwards then last the warriors. Men converted to Christianity and catholicism due to the influence of their wives. The children growing up in this environment will naturally also adhere willingly to Catholism and then to their offspring and so on.

Don't you ever wonder why the Philippines is the only Catholic and Christian country in Asia?

Even now in church councils and congregations women play a major part in it as can also be seen in any former spanish colonized country like Mexico, Puerto Rico and the others. It can be said at South America it was by the point of a sword where whole civilizations were given a choice of die or convert.

But in the Philippines none of this happened in fact if not for the ideas of independence, taxation with representation , and equal racial rights the Philippines would be a Spanish colony up to now.

A mother teaches her children what to believe in, A wife tell her husband so. I rest my case.

Answer 3

I am a Filipino and I am not proud to be a victim of the biggest deception in the world. I am also very sorry that the fear injected into the minds of our elders have been carried by my people for many generations. However, I find my fellow Filipinos have lived with their sincere love and respect for life. Someday I hope, that we will wake up to really see the illusions which this false teachings have taught us all. I still believe that we will know reality from the truth.
Also, we are not the only nation that has been converted into this belief under the point of the sword. Many religions not only Catholics are able to do the same who are able to embrace the same lies.

Answer 4

I do not think my husband or mother in law feel that way.
They (we) are devout Catholics.
Put your anger and sword somewhere else.

Roman Catholicism is #1 in the major branch of Christianity



Christianity began in the 1st century AD as a Jewish sect, and shares many religious texts with Judaism, specifically the Hebrew Bible, known to Christians as the Old Testament (see Judeo-Christian).

There is a diversity of doctrines and practices among groups calling themselves Christian. These groups are sometimes classified under denominations, though for theological reasons many groups reject this classification system.Christianity may be broadly represented as being divided into three main groupings:

1) Roman Catholicism: The Roman Catholic Church, the largest single body, includes the Latin Rite and totals more than 1 billion baptized members.

2) Eastern Christianity: Eastern Orthodox Churches, Oriental Orthodox Churches, the 100,000 member Assyrian Church of the East, and others with a combined membership of more than 300 million baptized members.

3) Protestantism: Groups such as Anglicans, Lutherans, Reformed/Presbyterians, Congregational/United Church of Christ, Evangelical, Charismatic, Baptists, Methodists, Nazarenes, Anabaptists, Seventh-day Adventists and Pentecostals. The oldest of these separated from the Roman Catholic Church in the 16th century Protestant Reformation, followed in many cases by further divisions.

Estimates of the total number of
Protestants are very uncertain, partly because of the difficulty in determining which denominations should be placed in this category, but it seems to be unquestionable that Protestantism is the second major branch of Christianity (after Roman Catholicism) in number of followers.

Answer 5

if anyone should be ashamed, it should be the old Spanish conquistadores, for forcing their own beliefs on people without respect for the people's own culture and beliefs, thinking that their own European lifestyle (and religion) is superior to others.

Nevertheless, I'm happy to be a Catholic. And there's no such thing as heritable shame. I have no guilt over what other people have done in the distant past.

Answer 6

When the Spaniards came and conquer the Philippine Island, the natives are already worshiping idols and images. They just replaced the idols. Its true that they are converted at the point of a sword, but today it is already matter of choice. Its up to the person what religion he/she is going to be a member of.

Answer 7

I think filipino christians are great,really beautiful.

Answer 8

..and I ask you how do you know that? Were you there when everyone converted to Catholicism?

Answer 9

oope? i don't know.