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Why the CBCP is not a credible judge of who or what is “fake” or authentic

June 27, 2017October 30, 2021 benign0 13 Comments

It is quite rich that the venerable Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) would so pompously issue a list of Websites Carrying False or Unverified Contents [sic]. This is coming from a clique of renowned Filipino “thought leaders” who endorse medieval ideas like creationism and, as a matter of policy, apply only circular logic…

Media, Religion, Science

How one becomes a Yellowtard

May 16, 2017 benign0 23 Comments

A person becomes a Yellowtard not because he is better or smarter than all the rest but because he prefers to allow popular but obsolete clique sentiment to hijack his better thinking faculties. Indeed, it seems too much of the “right” kind of education could be the culprit behind the scourge of Yellowtard disease. What…

Culture, Politics, Society

Filipinos need to lighten up about Tito Sotto’s “Eat Bulaga” humour

May 5, 2017 benign0 5 Comments

The reality is, Tito Sotto has full license to crack misogynist jokes in Congress because it was the stardom brought about by his gig in popular noontime variety show Eat Bulaga that got him the votes to begin with. In short, Sotto’s character merely reflects the character of the society that ushered him into power….

Culture, Media, Religion, Society

Is there such a thing as a part-time Roman Catholic?

April 11, 2017 benign0 8 Comments

In the coming Easter season (“holy week” to Filipinos), there is, again, a call to reflect on our spirituality and what it means to be Catholic. To most Filipinos, being a “good” Catholic is to go through the motions of what Catholic dogma dictates. And in this season of prayers and visita iglesias and avoiding…

Lifestyle, Religion

Is Philippine House Speaker Pantaleon Alvarez saying extra-marital affairs are “normal”?

April 7, 2017April 7, 2017 Ilda 6 Comments

Current Speaker of the Philippine House of Representative Pantaleón Álvarez recently came under fire after his extramarital affair was exposed. To be precise, he copped some flak from some sectors of society, but not all. Apparently, it was an “open-secret” in Congress that Alvarez has a girlfriend, but for some “reason”, presumably because he is…

Civics, Lifestyle, Politics

Dutertard vs Yellowtard: Cult of personality is a hard Filipino habit to break

April 3, 2017April 3, 2017 benign0 12 Comments

Filipino activists have it all wrong. The scope of their advocacies is defined by people, and not by principle, issues, and ideas. When one defines her interests or advocacies around a person, she necessarily locks herself into a non-negotiable loyalty to that person’s own advocacies. It is a lazy sort of advocacy — picking based…

Culture, Politics, Society

CBCP’s “Walk of Life” stunt illustrates just how primtive a society the Philippines remains

February 21, 2017 benign0 12 Comments

As expected, the Inquirer Editor stepped up as chief cheerleader in the recent “spate” of street activity, specifically the so-called “Walk of Life” organised by, who else, the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines (CBCP). Crowing about the 20,000-strong “crowd” that gathered in Luneta to sing hymns and wax prayerful over the situation of the…

Politics, Religion, Society

The spectacle of nuns who presume to be politicians’ “guardian angels”

February 19, 2017 benign0 9 Comments

What is it about nuns and the way they play “guardian angel” to supposedly “oppressed” public figures? Back in 2008, it was star “whistle-blower” Jun Lozada — a key witness in the ZTE broadband deal — making a spectacle of himself hiding behind the skirts of a phalanx of nuns as he emerged from hiding…

Politics, Religion