Jong Atmosfera

The endless meddling of the CBCP in the affairs of the supposedly secular State from one presidency to the next drives people to angrily invoke Article II Section 6 of the 1987 Phlippine Constitution: The separation of Church and State shall be inviolable. But as tempers cool down and rationality takes over, one begins to wonder if the CBCP is indeed violating this rule.

"The atheist's morality of "do no harm" is actually much more complex than the theist's "10 commandments" when actually put into practice. By no means, however, does this make the atheist's morality inferior. Our morality is more nuanced, which many theists interpret as lacking principles, because they are unable to understand what isn't spelled out exactly for them in a simple list."

To a freethinker, no idea is sacred; the worth of all truth claims is best determined by skepticism, rational inquiry, and scientific testing.

Morality has always something to do with how we relate to our fellow human beings (unless you consider masturbation a moral issue), and we are only as moral as how we treat others in relation to our society's standards.

It is a common warning that when drinking, one should avoid any talk on religion or politics because that's a recipe for disaster.

When religious leaders endorse political candidates, there is an implied underlying assumption that they are 'merely' announcing the will of God to the people.

Here is Weird Al's Amish Paradise, a parody of Coolio's Gangsta's Paradise. I changed some words and phrases to turn it into Fundie Paradise while loosely retaining the general flow of the song. I suggest you play the video and sing along with the new 'lyrics' I wrote below.

With the recent embarrasment brought about by one of our articles, I sometimes wish that the Filipino Freethinkers had a formal organizational and editorial structure where we could actually sanction erring members and take down their articles. But the FF is not a formal organization, and the fact that most of our readers – and critics – believe otherwise does not change this.

"Not much experience is needed to be fully aware of human weakness and to understand that human beings—and especially the young, who are so exposed to temptation—need incentives to keep the moral law, and it is an evil thing to make it easy for them to break that law."