David, Cladie Nimfa D.

April 10, 2018

3AFM PHILO01

Martial Law and Religion

Romualdo E. Abulad, SVD, Ph. D

Martial law is indeed the darkest in the history of the Philippines and the author of the

article wrote on how dark and evil the constitution was in the hands of Marcos. In his writing, I

can surely imagine how traumatizing it is to experience such great horror in the society. The main

problem or should I say question that is being imposed in the article is about President Duterte.

Will he be just another Marcos? According to the article, “When President Duterte threatens to

kill, he is actually instilling fear in those he would like to behave in a certain manner.” He uses

words to build fear in those people, a warning to those who are in need to change for good. Let’s

just take for example the drug war in which President Duterte talks about a lot from the very

beginning. Warnings has been everywhere yet others still chose to continue their wrong doings

that made the President do what he had planned to do. The author also tell us that the voice of the

people is the voice of God. Martial Law was finished with the voice of the people and that is what

God wants to happen, so is the election of Duterte as the Philippine President, especially since the

elections turned out to be reliably clean and honest, as well as credible. People generally agree

with President Duterte’s fight against corruption. He calls the attention of everyone and every

sector including the church trying to eliminate corruption. So far both people and God have not

yet wothdrawn their support to the duly elected president.

“The general will, or the good will is within us and is the source of all that is good.”