I might have been misled

In my constitutional law lectures, years ago, on the freedom of religion, I attempted to reduce the definition of religion to its simplest term as the relationship of man with his Supreme Being and the concept of prayer as man’s communication with God.

- Aven Piramide

Well, I am not really a religious person but I pray to the Lord God Almighty wherever I can be - in church, at home, in the farm, anywhere, everywhere. Even in the presence of many unfamiliar faces, I always close my eyes, bend my head down and find time to mumble the Lord’s Prayer in the most reverential supplication.

In such a religious context, I looked forward, with deep reverence, to the announced three-day prayer rally organized by a non-Catholic religious group few days ago. I imagined thousands of people assembling in one place “to commune with God” for “transparency and better government.” Such a nobility of intention! It was a patriotic cause wrapped with a spiritual garb. Who would not be persuaded to join such invocation of Divine intercession to secure better government. Undoubtedly, not only members of that religious organization attended the rally. There were Catholics, protestants, Christian groups and probably even some agnostics who so thought that the cry for transparency was a highest national cause that putting their warm bodies in the crowd was the least they could do.