With $200m at stake, even Jesus would tell Manny Pacquiao to get on with it
24 December 2009
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Of all the stories swirling about Manny Pacquiao’s blessed head this Christmas week, the one in the Philippines Inquirer that claims he told 1,500 Filipinos God once appeared to him is by far the strangest.
Anyone familiar with the zeal of Catholicism will understand the deeply religious boxer will not have made the claim lightly.
According to the country’s largest broadsheet newspaper, Pacquiao revealed at a birthday party held in his honour in General Santos City: “In my 31 years here on earth, God appeared to me once and told me to have unconditional faith in Him. That is true. I was not yet very popular and world champion when our God appeared to me …
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Even if said in jest, saying that Jesus will tell Manny to go on with it because US$200million is involved is simply blasphemic, and takes out of context Jesus’ hatred for the money changers at the temple whom he drove away.