I cut my flesh with a whip when I see the King of Spain in offering to the Apostle Saint Jacques. It turns out that each year, is the monarch to the cathedral, with a wealth of mitred bishops and botafumeiro flying, to "ask for Spain". In his last appearance he asked the Saint to lend a hand to the Spanish for early resolution of the severe economic crisis.
I do not know where to begin to bring to the spirit of my readers how ridiculous it seems to me.
First, are we not a Secular State? So what does the Chief of State, in dress coat, identifying himself with a particular religion? Why is he saying such nonsense to a wooden saint?
The king should also know that the economic crisis - according to several bishops - is a divine punishment sent down by God because of the moral degradation of our society. So, the king should not interfere with Divine Justice. On the other hand, we all have it that the King is a well known sinner, what moral authority may he have?
It is similar to the protest of certain prelates when they installed the first lightning rod: bad because they thought it was an interference with the justice of God. If God sent a thunderbolt to kill someone, what kind of arrogant was Mr. Franklin (inventor of the lightning rod) to stop it?
If Spain is doomed to go through an economic crisis, because God so determined, who's the King to interfere?
Get out of the way, King of Spain. Let God have His ways.
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