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Sometimes, being nice to people is not being nice to the truth. Politeness must never be allowed to trample honesty. Offending by telling the truth is not being rude, keeping the truth from others is.

All creators are mothers, and all creation is like giving birth – painful, bloody, and dangerous.

...should I be open about my secular humanism to my students when I know well that my opinions will bear the seal of a teacher’s authority? After all, am I not a math and science teacher, not a social science teacher? Can’t I just be silent about my opinions, wear the robe of neutrality on sensitive issues and get on with science education? After all, a good science education is an avenue to progressive thinking, is it not? Perhaps there’s no need to use my influence as teacher to “preach” secular humanist values. Perhaps I can just teach science well and let the brightest among the kids find their own way to secular humanism.

Last Saturday, I went to my first LGBT Pride March under the banner of the Filipino Freethinkers. It was worth every...

A Filipino Freethinker gives a quick recap of the EPIC excommunication party.

A Filipino Freethinker recaps her very first LGBT Pride March.

Our old friend Minyong Ordonez is back! This time, he's decided to take the time to link New Atheism to nasty social ills such as suicide, broken families, and prostitution. An article bashing New Atheism without one utterance of Baby Eating? I don't think so!

Dear Dad, Today I would like to talk about events that are of great importance to a democratic society: elections. Two elections have...

I write primarily for two reasons: To present accurate data to a topic, and to call out poorly made arguments, and those who make them. Today, you get to see me do both.