Mike Aquino

Dr. StrangeBrain, or, How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Lose My Religion.

Mike's note: while watching "Harapan" on ABS-CBN last night and surveying the faces in the anti-RH crowd, I spotted someone I...

“Contraception Doesn’t Decrease Abortions” – Busted!

Many studies show that abortion rates recede if decision makers are provided enough information and a wider range of contraceptive choices.

"Sleeping with the Enemy": A Conversation with Armida Siguion-Reyna.

When she served as MTRCB chief, Siguion-Reyna believed that her role as chair was not to serve as a guardian of morality, but as a guide to help the movie industry mature and provide better quality output. In this view, sadly, Armida is in the minority.

With Apologies to XKCD…

Awesomely epic photobomb from yesterday's rally in front of the CBCP. That’s Red Tani of Filipino Freethinkers behind him, together with an homage to a classic xkcd cartoon.

Now Who’s Being Unreasonable?: Carlos Celdran, the Catholic Bishops, and the Failure of Reason.

I sympathize with the folk who find Carlos Celdran’s actions offensive and unreasonable. But let me suggest, too, that there’s enough unreasonableness to go around, and maybe it didn’t start with Carlos shouting in Manila Cathedral.

FILIPINO FREETHINKERS JOINS P-NOY IN SUPPORT OF RATIONAL FAMILY PLANNING POLICY

President Aquino has recently verbalized his support for government health offices to offer artificial family planning methods alongside natural ones. We...

In the Philippines, Wolves Amidst the Sheep?

A 2004 report by the Catholics for Free Choice and Likhaan finds that no priest accused of sexual abuse in the Philippines seems to have been successfully prosecuted. In fact, most of them seem to be in active ministry today.

Filipino Freethinkers Film Festival 2010 Challenges Religion, Celebrates Reason.

The Filipino Freethinkers Film Festival is the first film fest in the Philippines intended to challenge your thinking about belief, faith, and reason.

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