Morality

It’s Monday now and no one seems to have noticed any mysterious disappearances involving people shooting up into the sky. Seems like the Rapture was a bust.

The Church is out of step with the Filipino people who have realized that compassion for those neglected by society is more virtuous than infantile and dogmatic obsessing over purity and virginity.

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

The Christian apologist William Lane Craig says that certain actions like rape and torture are not just socially unacceptable behavior but...

"If God does not exist, objective moral values do not exist," says an apologist. This will soon be followed by the contention that objective moral values do exist, leading to the inevitable conclusion that, well, God exists.

A hundred years after the first International Women's Day, Filipinas still do not have power over events only women face—risks...

This past Thursday, February 3, Ryan Tani and Garrick Bercero of the Filipino Freethinkers were invited to lecture at the De La Salle University in Manila. Tani discussed the problem of evil and how it is inconsistent with the Christian God while Bercero spoke about how a godless morality is possible.

One of the issues being debated by freethinkers is the source of our morality. Some atheists postulate that morality is just the product of evolution while agnostics point out that there are cases of altruistic human behavior that have nothing to do with propagating one's genes, and theists claim that our moral values must have therefore come from a Moral Lawgiver.

So I seem to have opened up a can of worms when I tried to point out the absence of empirical...