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Nothing To Lose

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I was reading  this article  about a so-called “healing priest” and it struck me that even in the 21 st  century, people are still gullible enough to trust “faith healers.” There are a lot of reasons for this (poverty and miseducation among them), but  in this day and age ,  you’d think that people  would think twice about trusting those who claim to heal all kinds of diseases through prayers and faith alone. Mind you, the “healers” would make it clear that their healing powers did not come from them, but from a “higher power.” These mysterious power source would range from the Baby Jesus (or the adult one), “Mama Mary,” from a magical dwarf (I’m not kidding), a mysterious hermit, or even from an old lady who claims to be a reincarnation of Jesus. Filipinos lap these up. Even today, there are many p eople in the country's rural areas that still believe in  anting-anting  (amulets). It’s not a coincidence that people in areas that are mired in poverty and with low literacy rate