DivIde et tempera: sige pa, sige pa, sige pa more!

BAYANGGUDAW NOTES. 21 JAN 2016. THUR. N2.
DivIde et tempera: sige pa, sige pa, sige pa more!

THE RECOURSE TO the sense of established religion to fight a war not of their own making is something bad.

It is bad tactic.

It is bad public policy.

It is bad religion.

Here comes this recourse to 'Christianity' for whatever is worth to defeat ISIS/ISIL/Daesch/IS for whatever its medieval worth in Souther Philippines.

The images coming to us are surreal, even hyperreal, and thus, devoid of material form, as the ideological opposition becomes a case of war, of bullets flying in the air, and not caring at all if these bullets get into the sinews of living people.

There are justifications, as a matter of course, with the Red God's Soldiers crying foul about land grabbing and the assault of the ISIL and those BIFF and MILF renegades, and thus, the RGS's defense of their right to live, the right of their communities to live on forever, and the right to their dignity and self-respect.

They are not the paramilitary force of the past, they say, like the Tadtad and those other violators of human rights at the height of the anti-insurgency campaigns during the Marcos Regime, and at the time Enrile was simply spelled power.

The fusion of war and the the divine is something curious here.

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