Look: ‘Angry Netizen Says Santo Niño Is A Powerless Statue’

Angry netizen mocking Cebu’s Sinulog Festival draws flak on social media.

Sinulog-Santo Niño Festival has been mocked by a netizen, and called the celebrants as “idiots” has gone viral on social media.

Facebook user Licinio Angel Lopez Talip took to social media and expressed his anger for a netizen who ridicule the Sinulog Festival.

Talip posted a photo of a certain Mercy Mirata who expressed her disgust towards the celebration of Sinulog-Santo Niño Festival.

In a Facebook post dated January 14, 2017, Mercy Mirata claimed that the festival is an inconvenience.

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According to sources, the cellular signals on January 14 and 15 were shut down in Cebu.

Because of this, Mirata said that the celebrants who are participating at the Sinulog-Santo Niño Festival were ‘idiots.’

She also wrote in her lengthy Facebook post that the patron saint of the Sinulog Festival Santo Niño is a powerless statue.

Mirata claimed that the security measures imposed in Cebu for the festival had affected everyone whom she called “taong matino” because of those “idiots” that were celebrating the feast day of their “impaktong diosdiosan,” she said.

She said that the Santo Niño is a statue without powers so additional security measures had to be taken to avoid bombings.

Mirata’s Facebook post has outraged the netizens on the social media. Many of the social media users were quick and lambasted Mirata for her disrespectful attitude.

The Facebook post earned different reactions from the online community. It became the hot trend topic over the social media after it has been shared by some of the netizens who were not only surprised but were also angry for post.

It generated a lot of negative reactions, mostly lambasting her for contemptuous remarks against the city’s patron saint.

As of writing the original post of Mirata has already been deleted.