Tag: atheism

Youth Party-list Representative Raymond Palatino Doesn’t Have a Prayer

June 21, 2012 Hector Gamboa 58 Comments

So Youth Party-list Representative Raymond Palatino introduced a bill banning religious ceremonies and symbols in government buildings and institutions. Palatino states that his bill: â€œâ€¦just wants to implement the constitutional provision on freedom of religion where the state should remain neutral and cannot favor any religion. There should be no state-sanctioned religious ceremoniesâ€. Supporters of…

Politics, Religion

Does avowed atheist Red Tani BELIEVE or KNOW something about Renato Corona’s personal wealth?

May 28, 2012 benign0 31 Comments

I posed a simple question to avowed ‘atheist’ Red Tani of the group Filipino Freethinkers (FFT) after checking out a rather quaint cartoon he drew that implies speculation about the personal wealth of Supreme Court Chief Justice Renato Corona who currently stands on trial before a Senate impeachment court. My question to Tani was this:…

Civics, Politics, Religion

Filipino atheists give atheism a bad name

August 9, 2011July 7, 2018 benign0 30 Comments

It used to be debated among people who possess real insight and was marked by intellectually stimulating arguments being lobbed back and forth from one camp to another. Now this whole “debate” between “atheists” and the religious has all but gone old. It’s like a hit track that was once played in trendy clubs suddenly…

Culture, Lifestyle, Religion, Society

Ultimately pointless: the secularist and atheist ‘debate’ versus the religious

May 31, 2011May 31, 2011 benign0 24 Comments

Many “atheists” fail to appreciate the size of the beast they are up against when debating with the religious. It is not that the religious are smarter. Far from it. It is their numbers — the rate at which they physically multiply, the sheer number of warm bodies that they can rally behind the drivel…

Religion, Science, Society

Has atheism become nothing more than the latest fashion statement?

April 16, 2011April 16, 2011 benign0 60 Comments

Religion is a favourite topic of mine. I find pleasure in pointing out the wonderful variety of paradoxes, incoherent constructs, and logical conundrums that tend to reveal themselves quite easily when using religious dogma and doctrine as building blocks for developing one’s thinking. An example is how one can piece together two fundamental Catholic beliefs…

Culture, Religion, Science, Society