Meet a lunatic : Pushing out the pushover

The lines are drawn. The flashpoints are building up. We need to shed off our pushover type of Christianity to effectively grapple with the intensifying challenges we have at hand.

The world is drifting to uncharted waters of secularism, each time deepening and worsening. Faith and religion are put on the back burner. Ideologies, full of so-called practical and get-real guts, take over.

Local and world leaders are increasingly showing atheistic or agnostic visions of life. Systems and structures are patterned after these worldviews. The effects are now conspicuous in people's mentalities, cultures and lifestyles.

We are actually being pushed to make a radical choice. Are we still with God or against God? Do we believe in the spiritual and supernatural world, or there are just material and temporal realities around? We cannot remain undecided, unsure which way to go or jump.

Christian believers are now asked to be consistent all the way in their spiritual and moral life. All aspects, all levels, fronts and fields in life have to be covered. A certain kind of Christian militancy, different from the political and social one, whether leftist or rightist, is desired.

We need to put more range and depth in our Christian life, overcoming a two-dimensional mindset that has been dragging us down to complacency, inaction, flippancy, superficiality, isolationism and the like.

Now is the time to clearly see the indivisible link of faith and religion with all our other concerns. In fact, now is the time to deepen our conviction about the leading and inspiring role of our religious beliefs in all our earthly affairs.