Adultery as proof of 'loyalty'

"If Magellan did not Christianize the Philippines, we would have been ruled by Muslims and the most dominant religion today would have been Islam."

By Alex P. Vidal


WHEN the Spanish expedition led by Portuguese Ferdinand Magellan arrived in the Philippine archipelago on March 16, 1521, Reformation was already fast spreading in Europe. 
Rev. Martin Luther was the precursor of Protestant movement when he posted 95 Theses in the Cathedral that infuriated both Pope Leo X and King Charles V.
Luther was declared an outlaw by the emperor at the Diet of Worms in 1521 and was excommunicated by the pope.
If Magellan did not Christianize the Philippines, we would have been ruled by Muslims and the most dominant religion today would have been Islam.
Muslims, by the way, are allowed by their Koran to have multiple wives. 
If our national religion is Islam, many Filipino males today will have more than one wife--as long as they can afford to rear multiple families. 
No need to maintain a concubine.


RESTORED 


In Europe, when Charles II was restored to the throne after the death of Oliver Cromwell, the five judges who had sentenced Charles I to death were arrested and convicted of treason against the Crown. This was the final sentence:
You shall go from hence to the place from whence you came, and from that place shall be drawn upon a hurdle to the place of execution,  and there shall hang by the neck 'till you are half dead, and shall be cut down alive, and your privy members cut off before your face and thrown into the fire, your belly ripped up and your bowels burst, your head to be severed from your body, your body shall be divided into four quarters, and disposed of as His Majesty shall think fit.
Thus began a historic era, which interestingly enough has had its parallel in our own day. 
We have all seen how folks have become superpatriots and vigilantes out of fear that they may be suspected of subversion.


INTERESTING


This happened in a more interesting way at the beginning of the reign of Charles II. 
The Puritans (who were now the traitors) had imposed a very strict moral code upon the people, which brought in its wake the same old villainy which has oppressed people through all the ages; being reported by friends, neighbors, and their own children for violating Puritan taboos against sex, dancing, kissing on the Sabbath, play acting, and gaiety of any kind. 
Thus the best way you could show your loyalty to the Crown was--to have fun.
Adultery was the most convenient way to prove that you had never been a follower of Oliver Cromwell, and the folks went--all out. 
If a man and woman were on a journey and they suspected the coachman of being a Government agent, they went to all sorts of extremes to prove their "loyalty" and throw the fellow off the track.
And so when the coachman peeked, and saw what was going on back there, he shrugged his shoulders: "Those people are all right, they ain't no Puritans."