30 December, 2007

What would happen if the Virgin Mary came to Bethlehem today?


While I was searching the web, I found this year-old article.
http://www.alternet.org/blogs/peek/45906/

I agree with the idea of difficulty for her to come back because of the complexed political system around the area especially of religion-backed up issues from thousands years ago. But I'm glad that the place is still habitable for humans. Well, in some places, bombs were dropped to the churches and people would not go back to the area because of the danger. This is true in some African nations, you know. In Nagasaki, we have the great artifact showing the compassion of the Virgin Mary. There was a church under the Nuclear bomb dropped. The Virgin Mary's sculpture was destroyed but the facial part was found from the rubbles.

That area, Uragami, have been used for the land of Christians, minorities, and criminals for few hundreds years. If you know Japanese history, Christianity was brought by the Father Fransisco from Portugese. Because of the political problem with the teaching, the old Japanese government banned the religion, and sometimes they hunted down the believers in rural areas. When they were found as Christians, they were sent to death. If they were lucky, they were sent out to the certain areas.

The Virgin Mary is with us. Anywhere I go, I am with her.

If she comes back to Bethlehem today, she probably stay with the people oppressed and try to experience the sufferings of the people with them. God gives us the difficulties and challenges to our faith just enough that we can handle. I'm glad that she went through enough difficulties few millennium ago, so she was able to bear the Son of God and now stays in the heaven. She has done her challenge as a human being with fresh. If she comes back to Bethlehem today, she could use the form that she appeared to St. Bernadette and St. Juan Diego. That way, everyone can see her as the real Virgin Mary.

I hope the US government does not use high-tech weapon that they were planning to make a holographic image of Allah in Iraq. They better do it with the figure of Satan instead, and put the narration, “Science conquered the God's people, ha ha ha..”

Seriously, we should have a world-level organization to protect our religious rights. The organized stalkers in my case are using rosary and the Virgin Mary's figure for psychological anchoring. The rosary use by them started from SJSU gang stalkers.

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