Separation of Church and State

HOW DO WE IMPLEMENT the inviolable separation of Church and State without impugning on the divine mandate of Almighty God to deliver our people as one sovereign nation distinct among the other nations of the one family of the nations of mankind?

Indeed, the divine mandate is to deliver all of the nations of our one family, to guide us, in the long march of the generations of our peoples, through safe paths of peace across the wilderness of this midnight world as one whole nations together within a one whole brotherhood of nations. Let us not make the unhappy mistake of the first world and associate our God with religion, thus making our Lord as a figment of an obsolescent idea that needs to be conveniently withdrawn from the so-called modern world. There is so much sadness prevalent in those places as stark and as real as the visible poverty we are used to see here in our country.

My dear Filipinos, our Almighty God is directly associated with reality, He is the cause of all that is real and no religion need give birth to the One Who gave substance to all things created, seen and unseen. All religion is a response and a testament to His enduring Reality. O my dear nation, there is no other foundation as firm and an anchor as steadfast against the buffeting winds and stormy temper of this tumultuous and uncertain world than the unchanging Light of the One Light Who is without equal or comparison, our one Almighty God.

I am very, devout Catholic and I will not impose my religion on anyone unwilling to listen but I will relentlessly defend by my life or by my death God's constant reality and God's unity from all who will rob my Lord of the truth of His existence. Those who would make Him a fantasy of little children to be shed like an embarrassment when the heart hardens and mind of the man can no longer understand what little children can so easily understand.

I am no one but a common person with faults as numerous as the hairs on my head, a suffering sinner struggling against his sins, therefore to deny me or my dear ones both our means and our ends in our common human pursuit of true liberation and happiness by alienating me or my community to the reality of the one Almighty God by banishing God, God's mention and God's vital participation in our shared national dialogue is also to deny me of my natural human freedom and as a citizen of this free Republic, I will consider this an brute act of tyranny, an act for which I am duty bound by sacred trust to my God, to myself, to all my fellow citizens and to our common posterity to resist with armed force.