Religion

by Ramon Garcia A reflection on that Valentine's Day evening when everything began to fall into place for me.... at the time...

The Merriam-Webster website definition for patronize here that I use is the following: “3 : to be a frequent or regular customer or...

Last night I watched Creation, a film about the life of Charles Darwin and how he came to write On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life. What I found especially moving was his own struggle against the authority of religion and the beliefs of his religious wife. With religion he had no qualms, but the fear of breaking his wife’s heart almost stopped him from finishing his book.

I had this very interesting discussion on the article Malum Prohibitum. My opponent was stressing that I had no right to declare any crime as malum in se (wrong or evil in itself) because I could not present an objective point of reference as to what constitutes right and wrong.

This RockEd Radio episode was supposed to be Dean Jorge Bocobo's commentary on the Black Nazarene, with me chiming in every...

The problem in a “reason vs. faith” topic is we sometimes face with semantic difficulties. It is really more of a “what is the definition of faith you are using” kind of a problem.

What do you do when you see the train coming? Common sense tells you to stay away from the tracks. What happens when you are short of cash? Do not spend. It's just common sense.

Where was the God that believers, mostly Christians, claim to be true/existing, loving, and powerful? Why would God allow this to happen?

In law, a crime can be categorized as either malum prohibitum (“wrong because prohibited”) or malum in se (“wrong or evil in itself”). In a civilized community, murder, rape, theft, robbery, and kidnapping are generally perceived as mala in se regardless of where they were committed or even if there were no written laws punishing them. On the other hand, illegal possession of drugs or firearms and traffic and tax violations are mala prohibita – crimes in certain societies because their statutes made them crimes.