[The Wide Shot] How can prayer defend the Philippines from China?

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Religion is a powerful force that can inflame nationalism – and awaken Filipinos to a sense of pride, loyalty, and courage in defending the West Philippine Sea. Reality is that defense of our territory is one of the issues that Filipinos care about the least, according to a Pulse Asia survey released on April 5. The most important issue for respondentswith 70% of them selecting this as “most urgent.

“Where the state was persistently weak in its governing infrastructure or ‘standoffish’ in its intentions toward society, it conceded everyday tasks such as education, health care, and adjudication of disputes to the Church. It also failed on a national scale to develop any secular symbolic alternative to religious attachments,” Busse and Slater said.

“An ineffective and uninspiring state thus allowed the Church to insert itself into social life as a more constant source of solace, service, and protection than the state itself,” wrote Busse and Slater. I know: the ideal situation is that the state would be effective and inspiring, and that no “substitute” like the Catholic Church is needed. In the context of the West Philippine Sea, the best scenario is that the state can galvanize Filipinos to action.

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