Manny Pacquiao (Prize Fighter, Convert)

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Okay, you hear of people that are esteemed by others, that have some influence over others in small or more significant ways.

Well, I've always admire Manny Pacquiao, and now I am feeling that effect others have experienced with other people. When I first discovered Pacquiao left Roman Catholicism for Protestantism, I did not know what to make out of it. I had for years personally seen great conversions and miracles if you will, among the small Evangelical churches. I could never quite understand it and always asked myself, "What is it about these Protestant churches that they make these great conversion?" But I had always dismissed the Protestant story of the Bible.

Now, my admiration of Pacquiao--to me one of the greatest men of my time--is leading me back to revisiting that question and dismissal.

Here is Manny Pacquiao:

A video of part of an interview he gives. He speaks in this video of giving money away, of faith in God and not material things, and of forgiveness towards those he caught stealing from him

http://sports.yahoo.com/news/manny-...Rjb2xvA2JmMQR2dGlkA1ZJUDUzN18x?.tsrc=lgwnthis

I'll finish in a post beneath this with a few of the rest of my thoughts. But let me say first, that Manny Pacquiao is emblematic of the Protestant Resolution to the Great Dilemma: To whom do you go to? To where do you look?

The Protestant Resolution:

To whom: Jesus.

To where do you look: The Bible.

You Protestants can now count among you (Pacquiao) one of the toughest, one of the most courageous, one of the most generous, one of the most compassionate, and one of the most remarkable men of our time. Manny Pacquiao.

 

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Here are other parts to that interview.

Scroll to the video where it says he's thankful to God for giving him the abject poverty, hunger, homelessness, and the virtual nothing he had in his early life. That he still has "the heart of the poor" as he says it.

In Depth with Graham Bensinger :: Episode: Manny Pacquiao

Understand, I come from a Milwaukee culture in which gangsters flashing money counts, people boasting how great they are counts, even small Protestant pastors rolling in cash and nice cars counts. But few men (in the "First World" at least) are cut from the same struggles of life and grit that Manny Pacquiao is. I'm certainly not. My life has been pampered and I've lived like a king compared to him.

But money can change people. Understandable. You get used to the fine life, the ease and luxury of modern materials, and high social status people and all that socially comes with that. As charitable as Oprah is, I do believe money has changed her into a female "baller" and "diva" of sorts that would have a hard time even having to come back and live my material and social quality of life, and she was raised with less than me! LOL.

But Manny does not seem to be the Mayweather or Pastors of L.A. (reality show) kind of material "baller." And I'm not knocking Mayweather or even those L.A. pastors. I'm just saying.

Manny Pacquiao's story also contradicts the sociological story of feminism and the theological story of the Roman Church.

Feminism--as a militant narrative of "truth"--sends the message that all boys are born privileged into kingship, luxury, and high status no matter where on earth they live. That none knows the struggle and poverty of girls and women, because no female has been granted nobility or high social status in the history of the world. Therefore, unlike Pacquiao who has "the heart of the poor" specifying no gender or sex, and inclusive of both genders and both sexes, feminism has "the heart" of only one sex.

The Roman Church yaps about that no man can meet Christ but through it. But Pacquiao's story seems to suggest--that in his mind and heart--to him he left the Roman Church for Christ. Pacquaio says he picked up the Bible one day, read it, and discovered adultery was wrong. As a Catholic he was a big adulterer apparently. And having been to Catholic Masses here in the USA where I can't remember the last time I ever heard any priest talking about sin and the need to convert from sins, I can believe it that Pacquaio needed to receive direction from the Bible. And Pacquiao claims God speaks to him.

What is that Jesuit priest's name, "Coyne"? The scientist involved in cosmology or something. He condemns Intelligent Design completely. He says he does not believe in miracles and he rejects all notions that any miracles have ever taken place within Catholicism or Christianity. But he says he believes in God because that's a matter of "faith." Pedophilia-like mind grooming.

Look, majoring in biology, myself believing in biological evolution (not every proposition or narrative within that theory), and more importantly having taken a philosophy of biology course, I know it is impossible to believe in God but not believe in an Intelligent Designer.

And Coyne is well educated enough to know that. So, he's playing mental gymnastics and street corner pimp hustling talk (common today among the adherent's of Romanism). That's like me saying, "I believe in black people being equal to white people, but I believe objectively black people are inferior to white people, but it is by a matter of faith that I believe black people are equal to white people."

And boy... do the adult members of Romanism love that kind of uppity intellectual yapping with its pedophile-like mind grooming tactics.

But Manny Pacquiao is probably less formally educated than me. But he speaks and believes with a simplicity, an honesty, and a sincerity that does not involve pimp talk gymnastics and conniving.

Like President Putin of Russia. Manny Pacquiao is a soldier. And when he thrusts his sword into the ground the earth around it shakes and rumbles.