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Prayer in Politics

Incompetent candidates seem to have flooded the top ranks of the election results and there is no other way to rectify this situation with an omnibenevolent God than to say that "He has a plan" — the glorious exemplar of non-thinking that appears at the end of every wild theodicean goose chase.

AIDS Candlelight Memorial: Many Lights for Human Rights

Although the event is on May 28, please RSVP soon, because we need to send the organizers a list of participants...

Religion, Politics, and Alcohol

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

FF Top Ten: May 5, 2010

Premarital sex, alien first encounter woes, and the charismatic leader's uncanny ability to shut down critical thinking. Prepare for an other nerdtastic serving of the Filipino Freethinker's bi-weekly news!

Divine Revelation

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

Event: LGBTQIA Flores de Mayo

Facebook event page (written by Beatriz Torre) Sunday, May 2, 2010 5:00pm - 11:00pm Metropolitan Community Church Quezon City, 56 Mindanao Avenue, Quezon City PRIDE &...

Meetup: May 2 at Shangri-la Starbucks

Facebook event page Agenda: * Storytelling: Have you ever debated a family member about religion? * Discussion: What kind of activism do you think...

Writing a Social Commentary

One of the primary objectives of this blog is to encourage people to express what’s on their mind when it comes to socially relevant and often controversial news and current events. But of course before such exchange of ideas can start, a good writer has to open up the topic with a well-written intro on the issue. Hopefully, these series of articles aimed at developing a responsible writer will help everyone come up with their own future posts. So we begin with lesson one. After you’ve decided on a good topic that piques your interest (and hopefully everyone else’s), you have to decide on the tone. Most social commentaries fall in either one or a combination of any of these three...

FF Top Ten: April 25, 2010

Apparently, it's gotten so hot that Manila experienced its two highest temperatures for this year. Last week. Grab a cold drink, and welcome to this week's news updates!

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