EDITORIAL — No Tylenol in heaven

Tomorrow, God in heaven will be jolted by a barrage by prayers, the sheer diversity of pleadings and numerical extent of sources of which He has never encountered before in all the millenniums since creation.

And if God were not God, He probably would be knocked silly off His chair on learning the prayers all come from one direction, a tiny archipelago on the fringes of the Western Pacific with enough audacity to call itself the Cradle of Christianity in the Far East.

Ahh, talk of taking the name of the Lord God in vain, God would probably muse. But God is in a bind. He has committed Himself. He has promised to hear all prayers without exception. If only He had been forewarned of something like the Philippines.

Yes the Philippines. Tomorrow, all the self-proclaimed heroes and saviors in that quarrelsome country are to gather in prayer - a prayer rally they call it - to ask for God's intercession over a problem called charter change.

Charter change has divided the nation between those pushing for it and those seeking to reject it. Those for it and those against it are themselves split into those of noble intentions and those driven by no other motivation than to protect their selfish interests.

Caught in the middle of all these divisions are those who have not made up their minds, those who do not know what the heck all the fuss is about, and those who no longer care anymore where the shouting will take them.

At the rally will be a confounding assortment of religious leaders, politicians, and civilians of prominence and anonymity. Among the religious will be devout ministers but there will also be self-made evangelists, hotheaded agitators, and even an alleged sex offender.

Among politicians will be those honestly against charter change, as well as those only after their own survival. There will even be those who are after something more sinister, like the downfall of government, if conditions permit.

In the ranks of the civilians will be those who truly care for their country. Yet there will also be those who were ordered to come, those who came for the fee, and those who simply cannot control their curiosity. Poor God. There is no Tylenol in heaven.