Graciano Lopez Jaena

For Rizal, Filipino religious devotion was rooted in superstition, indoctrination, and blind acceptance. It dulled the people’s minds and perpetuated their enslavement. Worse still, combined with a desperate desire to atone for guilt and to placate a deity whom the priests portrayed as vengeful and merciless, religious devotion made people passive to tyranny.

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