Jong Atmosfera

Whenever believers try to defend their faith in an intervening God using reason (or more precisely, pseudo-reason), the critical thinker cannot help but point out the fallacies. There is this email being circulated that tries to explain the problem of evil and why God allows pain and suffering.

In Andrew Lloyd Webber's rock opera Jesus Christ Superstar, Judas sings Heaven On Their Minds, expressing his concern about how Jesus' influence was getting dangerously out of hand. With a hindsight of 2000 years, let us look at how Judas' forewarning fared over the centuries.

I had often read that Power is the most addictive drug. With “conventional” drugs, you get high for a few hours. With Power, you get high continuously for years. With conventional drugs, you feel like you can do anything. With Power, you actually can do anything.

Shortly after Karlo's article What's So Wrong With Objectivism was published, someone went berserk and got busy writing against the Filipino Freethinkers and even created a Facebook page called EXPOSING THE FILIPINO FREETHINKERS: The Enemy of REASON.

If there's one good thing about living in a predominantly Christian country, it's the four straight holidays from Holy Thursday to Easter Sunday. And the good thing about being a heathen is that one gets to really enjoy these holidays without feeling guilty about indulging on food and drink and not spending precious hours listening to the Seven Last Words and having to get up at Easter dawn with a hangover from Saturday night's binge.

Our whole universe was in a hot dense state, a singularity - you can't predict its fate Then nearly fourteen billion years ago expansion started. Wait... Space-time became a growing estate.

I just had a three-mile run and a quick shower, and the endorphins are still kicking in. Runner’s high, they call it. Now I’m sitting in front of my PC trying to update my blog and hoping to get a “writer’s high”. And should I fail to get the creative juices flowing, there’s a bottle of Scotch sure to give me a real kind of high every time.

In the FF forum and Facebook page, every once in a while someone oblivious to the standard definition butts in with the assumption that freethinking means setting the mind completely free – unrestrained even by reason, logic, or reality. More commonly, people have assumed that freethought is synonymous to atheism.

When observing the complex beauty of the natural world and the diversity of plants and animals and how each species' characteristics seem perfectly tailored for a particular lifestyle, it is not difficult to jump into conclusion that everything was designed.