The second symptom of the illness of man’s faith stems from relationship among fellow human beings: The Politics of Marginalization; more forcefully, Ang Politika ng Pagkamanhid. The Rich Man did not mind Lazarus, covered with wounds and praying for mere crumbs that fall from his table. There was a great chasm between them, even,though Lazarus was just at the Rich Man’s door. Because the Rich Man was already comfortable, his world no longer accounted for Lazarus. Farther and farther, every single day, araw-araw, until every single day reached forever at death, and the chasm became permanently unbridgeable. Man responds to a similar situation every single day; a tap on the car window for every street children begging for coins; an absent nodding of the head for a lola on the umpteenth retelling of the story of her life; bribing for one’s convenience. In a sense, this politics of marginalization is necessary to the economics of affluence. Once man starts serving mammon, one can no longer be present to the people around him.