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.
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!
When religious leaders endorse political candidates, there is an implied underlying assumption that they are 'merely' announcing the will of God to the people.
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(written by Beatriz Torre)
Sunday, May 2, 2010
5:00pm - 11:00pm
Metropolitan Community Church Quezon City, 56 Mindanao Avenue, Quezon City
PRIDE &...
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...
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!