
Originally Posted by
The_Child
does ust teach the real rizal? hehehe. this has a lot of presumptions.
it presumes there is real rizal? but who is the real rizal? according to guerrero? according to ocampo? according to zaide?
the problem with Philippine history is that it is a victim of its own analysis, particularly colonialism. we have the notion that ust because it is a royal and pontifical university is deplorably close-minded, dogmatic, and exactly the school which rizal alludes to in his novels? ( a tendency of our history to demonize spanish colonialism) this is of course a joke. ust even during time of rizal has a very impressive library, and even today, in the philippines i think its library is only equaled by ateneo. back then, ust already possess copies books on masonry, on voltaire, so many books that is even 'indexed' by the church.
and even today, whether rizal really retracted his membership from masonry is left to interpretation. there is NO compelling evidence yet in any rizal literature that can prove with certainty that he retracted or not his affiliation to masonry.