Social Justice

It is an unwritten rule in Filipino Freethinkers that those who participate in the discussions must use reason and avoid citing dogma. And except for the occasional troll, I think this rule has been quite effective. While non sequitur arguments are still employed from time to time, I believe what matters is the attempt at using reason especially for those who, until just recently, have for so long taken for granted the factuality of certain traditional beliefs.

Before I start, I would like to thank the Christians who visit the Filipino Freethinkers website and grace its pages with...

Note: This was written by Kenneth Keng. I could go into the history of the Episcopal Church of the Philippines, detail its...

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.

Given the many different failures that the current economic system has been producing recently, it's probably time to step back and look for their root causes.

Update: According to a GMA News TV article, Secretary Valisno was misquoted by the CBCP article: "The DepEd is not putting...

The CBCP began fulfilling their duty as sex education consultants by doing three things: (1) urging President-elect Aquino to scrap sex...

"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."

It was inevitable. Oft it's been said, an idle mind is the devil’s workshop, so I knew if I’d be cooped...