El Shaddai unofficially endorses Villar

It has been reported that the Catholic group El Shaddai exclusively invited presidential candidate Manny Villar and his running mate Loren Legarda when its leader, Bro. Mike Velarde, held a prayer rally in central Hongkong recently.

While Velarde disclaims that he has formally endorsed Villar’s candidacy, his actions and words were enough indication and clue where his heart belonged to, thus, undeniably signaling his flock to follow his lead.

Definitely, this is a big boost to the Nacionalista Party’s standard bearer who is said to be closing in on Noynoy Aquino’s poll survey ratings amid verbal assault that the son of democracy icon and former president Cory Aquino is an inexperienced neophyte and only has his name to boot while portraying himself as a rags-to-riches businessman and savior of beleaguered OFWs.

But, doesn’t it make you wonder why a Christian like Velarde throws in his lot behind Villar and not at his fellow Christian leader, Bro. Eddie Villanueva, of the Jesus Is Lord Movement’s political party, Bangon Pilipinas?

Doesn’t Velarde subscribe to Villanueva’s “politics of God?”

How odd it has to be that while they share the same goals in preaching practically the same religious ideals and beliefs, they, however, don’t share the same political platforms.

People know that like Villar, Velarde has also become a very wealthy man.

Perhaps the idiomatic expression we have been hearing that, “birds of the same feather flock together,” is true.

It is just as true as when we hear people say that, “politics makes strange bedfellows.”