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Philosophy and the tragic virtues, or Philosophy as an ode to life

  All of philosophy originates from two things – burning curiosity and uncompromising honesty. All the other rudiments of good philosophy like...

Malta says “yes” to divorce, “yes” to secularism

Yesterday, the pro-divorce movement won the referendum on divorce with a majority of 54%, ending a battle that has delayed the...

Rough Notes on Secularism, Democracy and Human Progress, Part 3

In part 1 of this series, we looked at what secularism is. Part 2 examined the relationship between the church and...

Rough Notes on Secularism, Democracy and Human Progress, Part 2

In part 1 of this series, we looked at what secularism is. Today we examine the relationship between the church and...

Rough Notes on Secularism, Democracy and Human Progress, Part 1

Image by Olivander, used under creative commons license. Secularism and democracy are legacies worth fighting for, because they in union provide the...

What The Debate About the RH Bill Shouldn’t Be About

There are some laws that a country should pass if it is to make progress into the 21st century. The Reproductive Health...

The Incredible Shrinking Mother Church

The Church is out of step with the Filipino people who have realized that compassion for those neglected by society is more virtuous than infantile and dogmatic obsessing over purity and virginity.

National misogynist hero

An undisputed national hero and distinguished gentleman representative from Sarangani, Manny Pacquiao was staunchly against the RH Bill. He quoted the Bible, and said, in effect, that any attempts to curb reproduction was against the will of his god. While we’re not sure how the personal religious beliefs of this pregnancy-challenged man have to do with us uterus-carrying citizens, people pointed out that his wife Jinkee has admitted to being on the pill. Now he’s bragging that he made his wife Jinkee stop taking pills and have more kids.

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