The Christian Republic

 📘 The Christian Republic

A model of a nation illuminated by the values ​​of Jesus Christ

By Vera Bolaños, author of The Philosophy of Light

In a world where political structures are weakening, where systems seem to forget the human being, and where faith is sidelined as a social hindrance, a luminous, courageous, and necessary proposal is born: The Christian Republic.

This book is neither a utopia nor a call for religious imposition. It is a profoundly spiritual and humanistic vision, based on the Philosophy of Light, which proposes a way of organizing society based on the eternal values ​​of the Gospel: justice, truth, compassion, equity, and dignity for all.

✨ What will you find in this book?

• A clear and innovative definition of what a Christian Republic is (not theocratic, but inspired by Jesus).

• Founding principles for a nation guided by light.

• Concrete actions to eradicate poverty, live a just economy, and promote the common good.

• A new economic theory: the evolution of the economy, which unites the best of socialism and capitalism, to put wealth at the service of all.

• A public spirituality centered on the Holy Spirit.

• Spiritual education, luminous culture, soulful leadership, restorative justice, and religious freedom.

• And a profound proposal: building a civilization of love.

🕊️ Who is it for?

People of faith, committed citizens, leaders, young people, Christian communities, social thinkers, and anyone who believes that another way of governing and living together is possible when God is at the center.

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✍️ About the author

Vera Bolaños is a Guatemalan writer, author of 17 books, and creator of the Philosophy of Light, a spiritual approach that promotes inner and social transformation through a relationship with the Holy Spirit, luminous consciousness, and the full experience of love and truth.

“Light is not just for prayer. It is for organizing nations.

It is time to govern with the heart of Christ.”

— Vera Bolaños

Guatemalan Holy Week as Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity

 On November 30, 2022, the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) inscribed Guatemalan Holy Week as an Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity.

Guatemala is a multicultural country, yet Holy Week unites the entire country. The processions are seen as penances offered to God. Carrying these large processional floats is a way of doing penance for sins.

Guatemala has the largest procession in the world, with the largest float. It is the one at the Church of Our Lady of Remedies, Calvary in Guatemala City, which takes place every Good Friday. This procession is notable for the float, which measures between 25 and 27 meters long and is carried by 140 people per block.

People request their appointments to carry processions a year in advance. My mother was very devoted to going to see the processions. My father took us for walks on those days, but we always tried to attend Mass.

Processions in Guatemala were introduced during the colonial era, due to Spanish influence and the arrival of the first brotherhoods. These brotherhoods, religious organizations, established the first processions to venerate the passion and death of Jesus. The first brotherhood in Guatemala was formed in 1527, dedicated to the Virgin of the Conception.

I remember my mother taking me to visit the Blessed Sacrament, and on my birthday, which always falls on different dates before or during Holy Week, I would get up early to go to Mass. I always remember her praying the rosary. My mother was very devout; she always prayed for all her children.

I thank God that I was born in this country. Despite its flaws, it has that devotion to Jesus, and that's where I learned to love him. I once dreamed about it. I was walking down some streets and saw him passing by carrying the cross, and he said, "Help me with the cross." The dream impressed me because I was there watching him carry the cross along the Via Dolorosa.

Another aspect of Guatemala is the carpets they make with so much love for Jesus. They make them out of sawdust, so they can carry the processions. They are works of art. Throughout the country, Ladinos, Indigenous people, and tourists all come together to make the carpets. Antigua Guatemala is the most visited place by foreigners to see the spectacular processions and the atmosphere of devotion that prevails. Holy Week in Guatemala is a beautiful event.

GUATEMALA IS NOT A MONARCHY

In European countries, monarchies exist because the people want them that way. I notice that they like their monarchies and support them; it's like an ancestral reflection of their identity.

Monarchs are given salaries and their expenses paid. As they are established nations with strong economies, they logically have the money to pay them this amount, in exchange for activities that benefit their nations, as in England and Spain. They carry out acts of state and public relations that benefit their countries. I have noticed that Queen Letizia is looking to help poor women in some countries suffering from extreme poverty.

History shows us that many monarchies have fallen, for example the French one, where while the monarchs lived very well, the people suffered from famine. The Russian monarchy, which unfortunately suffered persecution, and well, there are so many historical films about those monarchies that have fallen.

I compare President Bernardo Arévalo, his wife, and children to the French monarchy. A few weeks ago, the first lady held a baby shower for her daughter at the presidential residence. The Secretariat of Administrative and Security Affairs of the Presidency of the Republic reported that they spent Q170,000.00 for the family event.

I believe that catering for a baby shower is an excessive expense that has offended the population, given that Guatemala cannot be compared to European monarchies, which can incur expenses for their monarchs' events.

The president has a salary, and the first lady should not touch public funds for personal expenses. They also point out that the children there are still eating and living at the presidential residence to avoid personal expenses.

President Arévalo remained in power because the population dreamed of "the democratic spring in Guatemala" with former President Jacobo Árbenz, or Juan José Arevalo, father of the current President Bernardo Arévalo.

The sad thing is that Bernardo Arévalo doesn't even dream of resembling his father. He's been gorging himself on cakes that are overcharged and tripled in price and billed to who knows which family and friends, in order to benefit from exorbitant bills. It's worth seeing how much the baby shower cakes were overpriced and who benefited.

This situation has disillusioned Guatemalans, seeing how the budgets in several ministries are not being implemented, and all the government's work is slow or simply not being carried out. Seeing how, overnight, he wanted to force lower-class people to buy car insurance, without even considering that the people often don't have money to eat or feed their families. 

I've been paying car insurance for years on my 2001 car. I do it in case I get a flat tire, they'll come and change it, ha ha ha, or if the battery dies. Thank God I have a new battery now, but when I can't afford insurance, my kids pay for it. Newer model cars all pay for insurance, but for those of us who don't have newer models, paying for car insurance is a luxury. I'm not against car insurance, but it should be done intelligently and offer low-cost insurance depending on the car model, rather than being forced overnight.

And now, with this baby shower situation, it's clear that the tenants of the presidential palace are only thinking about filling their stomachs and pockets with our tax dollars. This presidential outlook contrasts with the Guatemalan reality, as UNICEF indicates: Guatemala is currently the sixth country in the world with the worst rates of child malnutrition.

Artículo de Unicef, desnutrición infantil en Guatemala

Guatemalan women, mostly indigenous, are malnourished and logically have malnourished children. It's inhumane for the president of Guatemala to spend money on a baby shower for his grandson while Guatemalan children, who are his responsibility, are dying of hunger. He should feel a little ashamed. The first lady is supposed to work and ensure the development of Guatemalan children, yet she doesn't even consider her conscience, and they have no heart or love for the Guatemalan people. The presidential couple believes they are a monarchy, while here we are a Republic, with severe childhood malnutrition.

This is why God wants to defeat secularism in the State, because those who have Jesus in their hearts would work for the poor and fight to overcome childhood malnutrition; they would not tolerate the people suffering from hunger. Let us remember Mother Teresa of Calcutta, a great Christian who worked for the poor. Not all Christians are like her, but true Christians suffer when they see the hunger of others.

THERE IS NOTHING TO CELEBRATE ON WOMEN'S DAY

 In Guatemala, years ago I was preparing to wish "Happy Women's Day" and one day my son told me, "I don't know if I should wish you Happy Women's Day, because many women tell me that there is nothing to celebrate" and then I realized that we have nothing to celebrate because of the conditions of Guatemalan women, especially indigenous women.

So gradually we stopped celebrating and almost no women celebrate it, only some cultural activities or the popular demonstration that they do in all countries are held.

Worldwide, women suffer violence, contempt for their talents, envy, harassment because of their condition as women, injustices. In Spain, Mexico, Honduras, Brazil, the Dominican Republic, these are countries on the list of International Organizations that support women because they are murdered daily.

Now I understand why God named me Abraham, because he wants to show that a woman can bear that name and be worthy of hearing his voice. And why did Jesus make me his disciple? Because they only register male disciples.

Those who slander, defame and harass me, want to see me as a prostitute or a servant, do not accept my talents as a writer, do not accept that God sets his eyes on me as a woman. As several female poets say, men accuse us of being "crazy and witches" when we are intelligent and get ahead and have success.

I have a cousin who when he looks at me says, "Hello, Nobel Prize for Literature" in a mocking way, he envies me and there are many like that, they cannot stand that I am a writer. Another nephew told me when the Brewery published my book "The Wonderful Journey of Grandfather Rafael", "now you are famous" because the Brewery manages the advertising media and they made a great presentation for me, I attach the photos so that they are more envious ha, ha, ha. 😂😀

Every day I pray a Hymn to the Holy Spirit and ask Him to help me become a better writer every day and worthy of the trust God has placed in me.

I share the Hymn for you to pray, John Paul II, he prayed it since he was a child to understand mathematics and he became Pope, it is miraculous.

Hymn to the Holy Spirit

Photographs of the Presentation of the Book "The Wonderful Journey of Grandfather Rafael" in 2016, when I became famous, ha, ha, ha. 😉 Here is some news from that day.

Book presentation

I had so many interviews that I thought, "It's exhausting to be famous" ha, ha, ha.

All the books have already been sold, I have a few copies left that I have to deliver to a school, I am going to publish another edition, now that I have my Publishing House. 👌

The envious tell me, the Castillos from the Brewery, only exploited your grandfather and they are shit, because they are millionaires and we are not, but my grandfather was a worker and it is true, they did not give him a pension because at that time there was no labor code in Guatemala, and my grandfather was left without a job because he was old and died. And my father received an inheritance but he didn't have the intelligence to manage the money that my grandfather gave him. My grandfather had a lot of money and he was a great gentleman of his time.

The Brewery published the book because it was the story of its beginnings and they supported me as a writer. I'm not going to fight with them because that would be a bad idea. They always buy the new books that I publish for the children of the Castillo Foundation.

Dictatorships an ideological imposition

Dictatorships are ideological impositions because the ruler wants to stay in power at all costs to prevent another ideology from ruling. That is why leftists see Cuba as the mother of their ideology. However, no one wants to see a mother living in extreme poverty.

Pope Francis agreed with President Biden for Cuba to grant freedom to 553 prisoners, I am very happy for these people. I also don't see feeding 553 prisoners as being favorable for Cuba, as the people suffer from so much economic poverty. Because that is the sad thing about dictatorships, that the rulers accumulate wealth while the people live in extreme poverty.

Pope Francis has a good relationship with the left, John Paul II initiated this position when he visited Cuba and Fidel Castro was governing.

In Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro imposed a dictatorship, because apparently he will allow other presidential candidates to run but he will always be the winner. I have seen publications from Venezuelans who say that they live very well with him, but I see many Nicaraguans asking for money on the street, they go to Mexico and then to the United States. 

Mr. Edmundo Gonzáles came to Guatemala to visit President Arévalo. He claims to be the winner of the last elections in Venezuela, but Nicolás Maduro is the son of Chavismo and continues to sit in power there. 

Here in Guatemala there is a sector of rich families that are some from the center left and others from the extreme right and hate Maduro, so I believe they will support Mr. Edmundo Gonzales.

In Nicaragua, Daniel Ortega and his wife govern, children of communism from the cold era and unfortunately they say that the wife has a group of satanic witches who are her government advisors. They removed the Catholic Church because they are antichrists and now they are removing Save the Children because they are afraid that Donald Trump will order a coup d'état.

Against dictators, the only solution is coups d'état or the people's revolution, or for the dictator to die, either by divine command that gives him an incurable disease as he did with Chávez, or dies from another cause.

Dictatorships only provoke hatred, no one supports dictators, because they are taxes and human beings by nature seek to free themselves from those political ties. Dictators see enemies everywhere and begin to imprison and murder their adversaries, which causes national and international rejection.

The Philosophy of Light is against dictatorships, whether left or right, and as a human being who believes in God, I pray that this entire situation can be modified for the good of the people. 

The Philosophy of Light is not a political ideology, it is a discipline that studies the fundamental principles of reality, existence and knowledge. Their form of government is based on governing people with love and peace, as is the heart of Jesus.

Christian Republican system of government

The philosophy of light proposes a Christian republican system of government. This is a way of governing according to Jesus' love for human beings. It is a republicanism that unites all citizens without distinction of religion or belief because it trusts in love as a unit.

The crisis of values ​​from the humblest house to a government entity exists and is due to the lack of faith in love. The mandate of love is the teachings of Jesus Christ, a love that leads us to act in a supportive manner as the exercise of a civic culture. If we act like this, everything will find harmony and we will gradually find peace, respect, love for humanity and every living being.

The republicanism of love will always lead every citizen to do their part in whatever is within their reach and thus achieve daily progress as a nation. An ethical State built with a solid foundation of love is a strong State that will successfully raise a nation.

The Guatemalan Constitution contains articles that do not allow the change to the republican form of government, but it will not be a radical change, only “Christian” will be added, so the name of Guatemala will be the Christian Republic of Guatemala.

A Christian form of government does not mean going against other religions or violating their dogmas or beliefs. It is only a way of applying the teachings of Jesus, a loving style of governing. Christian values ​​are based on love and there are Christian social doctrines that can be taken into account to organize the State.

Love is the most sublime and penetrating force as Gandhi said, and Jesus came to show us this great commandment of love. Jesus did not only come to cement a religion, he came to teach us how to live together in the Kingdom of God.

A Republic governed with Christian love will never condemn other beliefs if they do not go against human rights. The term religion means to bind and unite, but that is what religions do the least, for the moment they divide us. If we apply the commandment of love this would end.

If a ruler works with Christian love, he will achieve great progress and if a nation is governed in this way, it will reach a high standard of living and will be an example for other States. That is the republican form of Christian government, a light that illuminates the suffering of so many human beings today.

Proposal for Constitutional Changes

This proposal has been in place since 2012 and I have already presented it twice to the Congress of the Republic of Guatemala.

IT IS NOT THEOCRACY, THE CHURCHES ARE NOT PRESENTING THIS BUT ME, VERA BOLAÑOS.

Title III The State

Chapter I The State and its Form of Government

Article 140. State of Guatemala. Guatemala is a free, independent and sovereign State, organized to guarantee its inhabitants the enjoyment of their rights and freedoms. Its system of Government is republican, democratic and representative.

By changing the system of government:

Its system of Government is Christian republican, democratic and representative.

Justification:

If the State of Guatemala or another State is organized to guarantee its inhabitants the enjoyment of their rights and freedoms, then its system of government can be changed if its citizens decide by majority. If the provisions of the Constitution are not respected, the Constitution is being violated. Citizens of all nations have the right to change their system of government.

By requesting to form Christian or other religious States, the constitutional order is not being altered but rather a right is being exercised.

Chapter III International Relations of the State

Article 149. International Relations.

Guatemala will regulate its relations with other States in accordance with international principles, rules and practices with the purpose of contributing to the maintenance of peace and freedom, to the respect and defense of human rights, to the strengthening of democratic processes and international institutions that guarantee mutual and equitable benefit among States.

The proposed change is to add:

Guatemala, due to its Christian republican system of government, has the right to promote the creation of other Christian Republics, as well as Republics of other religious denominations.

Justification: Guatemala, by spreading the philosophy of light and inviting other Republics to change their system of government, is not violating international rights, because the application of a philosophy is a movement that other Republics are free to consider applying. Its application is not being forced or coerced, but rather it is a social process of a natural nature and citizens can exercise the right to change their constitution.

Article 151. Relations with like-minded States. The State will maintain relations of friendship, solidarity and cooperation with those States whose economic, social and cultural development is similar to that of Guatemala, with the purpose of finding appropriate solutions to their common problems and of jointly formulating policies tending to the progress of the respective nations.

It is proposed to add:

Guatemala, due to its Christian republican system of government, can promote the political, economic and religious integration of other nations that wish to join the Union of Christian Republics or those of another religion and belong to the International Organization of Countries Like-Minded to Philosophy or the Union of Religious Republics.

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The Republics of the Philosophy of Light

The Republics of the Philosophy of Light can be of different beliefs, meanwhile, respect human rights, live in harmony internally and with other peoples. I wrote that in the book God and the Nations, the only thing I called "Religious Republicanism" there, but a Guatemalan philosopher who has since died advised me to change the name so that I would not be identified with the "Republicans" of the United States, he, he he.

Life takes many turns and now I support the Republicans because of the question of values, the thing is that I no longer like the Democrats because of Obama who has opposed the Christian Republic and has tried to discredit me so that I do not have credibility and the People don't support me. 

When Obama won the presidency of the United States, I dreamed of him as an elephant blocking the sun from me. That told me that he was a dark being, someone who opposed my goals.

Well, continuing with the previous topic, I thought about changing the name "religious republicanism" and then I named it "Philosophy of Light."

Yesterday I saw the movie "María" on Netflix and I understood that she lived what I am living, that evil, that is, the ugly bastard, is always trying to block the mission entrusted by God, and it made me be more patient and move forward, because the will of God is our guide.

In this link I explain about the Christian Republic: https://philosophyoflight.blogspot.com/2024/12/christian-republican-system-of.html

Well, what I want to indicate is that, if the Jews want to build their Jewish States, then let them do it, but they will be of the Philosophy of Light when they live in peace and not in war, likewise the Islamic States can be of the light, as long as they live in the light of God, respecting human rights.

God through Jesus becomes a God of love, when the Archangel Michael told me "The fight is against the secularist State, there evil will be defeated," that is my enemy: "the secularist State," it is not men, nor should I provoke a war, because if Jesus is love, I cannot raise a Christian Republic through war.

Well, I want to make it clear that I am not against anyone, only evil, if the Masons act according to the will of God, through mutual respect and light, then they are not my enemies, my only enemy is the State that distances God from its actions.

My objectives are to fulfill what God wants and help humanity to get out of war, poverty, hunger... Every decision I make I invoke the Holy Spirit.

I remember that my mother, may she rest in peace, was such a good woman, she took care of me with so much love, she told me: "When you were born, a doctor who looked like Jesus came to the delivery, and he loaded you with so much love." joy and showed you to everyone so they could see you, I am sure it was Jesus." Now that I have lived so many spiritual experiences with Jesus, I am sure that God and his son Jesus sent me to earth to raise the Christian Republic and bring light to the nations.

I am sure that my mother was right, Jesus welcomed me when I was born, I love him with all my soul, and I want to fulfill the mission that He and God want me to fulfill.

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