Problem of Evil

Here is another article I wrote back when I still considered myself a liberal theist. I am now practically a deist. Here’s an African child, about three to five years old, maybe eight or nine (it’s hard to tell the age of this little girl because starvation and disease have distorted her body and... 

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Learning from Dr. Seuss

In my first year as an atheist…well I always feel the need to debate. I don’t know…must be an ego trip or something?
That was a long time ago.
Do these debates really have some use?
In an article in a certain Freethought magazine, Prof. Richard Dawkins in an interview said something about why he… 

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The Atheist Professor with no Brain ?

Doug Kreuger has expanded the well-known Christian legend of the atheist philosophy professor who is unable to prove that he has a brain. (Special thanks to Steven Carr for this post.) “LET ME EXPLAIN THE problem science has with Jesus Christ.” The atheist professor of philosophy pauses before... 

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A benighted and repressive Comelec

Just last week, in the column “Sometimes, TV doesn’t suck”, I asked whether religious persons make fair and objective leaders who will think, decide and act in favor of the common good rather than in compliance with their own religious biases. Today, I have to ask that question again in reaction... 

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Mystery Shopping – 450 PHP per shop

Greetings from AQ Services International! We would like to invite you to apply for a mystery shopping program. It would require you to mystery visit several petrol stations. 1. For these mystery shops you need a PERSONAL CAR (motorcycles are not allowed). You are required to observe the service and... 

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“The Force” is strong with me

Greetings my fellow Padawans, Many Christians are cashing in the Star Wars universe, connecting their belief with Star Wars terminologies like “The Force”, “Jedi”, etc. Well… I really do not know anything about Christian business strategies and tactics but I know something about the Star Wars... 

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Colors of the Wind

In a certain Christian group in Friendster, a certain Jean asked: …if you are a skeptic or atheist, why you choose skepticism or atheism? What are the benefits with your choice of being a skeptic or atheist? If you are a believer before, then why backslide from being a christian, your reasons?... 

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God’s Word on a Sunday Morning: Homilies and Reflections

Will you watch the movie 2012? The Mayan calendar, it is said, predicts the end of the world in 2012. And the world is going to end with a bang. The Scriptures seem to paint the end of the world in the same way. Or does it? (33rd Sunday in Ordinary Time B) Related posts:God’s Word on a Sunday... 

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Filipino Freethinkers meet Risa Hontiveros

Thanks to Carlo Ople, Benj, Tania, and I had an enlightening evening with Rep. Risa Hontiveros-Baraquel. It was enlightening for this skeptic to see that there was still a flicker of hope in our government. Here is a politician who recognizes the rights of minorities — including freethinkers —... 

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The Newfound Church of Comelec

Religious homophobes and bigots alike seems to have found their new Church inside the Commission on Election (Comelec), as it recently released one of the notorious decisions this godforsaken country ever witness right before our very eyes: the rejection of Ang Ladlad for party-list electoral accreditation... 

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