Philippine Atheists

CBCP: Part Of The Corruption Problem

admin — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 03:11:16 +0000

The Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) is part of the corruption problem not the solution to it.

Join the forum

admin — Mon, 18 May 2009 05:38:39 +0000

Join the Philippine Atheists forum and discuss atheism in the Philippine context. What does it mean to be an atheist in one of the most religious societies in the world? Or if you are the theist who is open to discussion and learn in the process, or just simply to engage in a religious debate with atheists and co-theists alike, come and join us. If you have not joined yet, please click here.

First Filipino Freethinkers’ Forum Videos

admin — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 14:46:52 +0000

For those who were not able to attend the First Filipino Freethinkers Forum, the videos are now available from the Filipino Freethinkers’ YouTube channel. Enjoy!

Congratulations to the Filipino Freethinkers community for this successful forum!

Filipino Freethinkers’ Forum on February 28th, 2009

admin — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 07:54:53 +0000

All systems go for the First Filipino Freethinkers Forum happening on February 28, 2009 at the U-View in Fully Booked in Taguig City. There is limited slots for this event so please reserve now. For details, please checkout the Filipino Freethinkers website.

Philippine atheists net communities

admin — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 15:46:29 +0000

Taking a hint from an enterprising guy, I have created new accounts in YouTube and FaceBook. If you have accounts on those sites, please join/link with the community there. See you there!

Darwin Day 2009

kapanalig_sa_wala — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 22:08:08 +0000

Today we celebrate the 200th birthday of Charles Darwin. The man most responsible in illuminating us about human origins. Happy birthday Charles!

Below is a picture and caption from Wiki about the first documented sketch of the Tree of Life drawn by Charles Darwin.

Charles Darwin’s 1837 sketch, his first diagram of an evolutionary tree from his First Notebook on Transmutation of Species (1837) on view at the the Museum of Natural History in Manhattan.

First Filipino Freethinkers Meet-up, February 1, 2009

kapanalig_sa_wala — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 15:48:05 +0000

There was a meet-up by Filipino Freethinkers limited to 20 people to discuss and plan the First Filipino Freethinkers’ Forum at the end of this month and as earlier announced here and elsewhere. The meet-up was very successful with 26 people attending. You can check out the participant write-ups here (Benj), here (Danny), here (Max), here (Mike), and here (Rence). You can check all the photos in the Filipino Freethinkers web.

Congratulations Red for a wonderful job organizing it!

First Filipino Freethinkers’ Forum on February 28, 2009

kapanalig_sa_wala — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 04:39:24 +0000

On February 28th, 2009, Filipino freethinkers will gather for the First Filipino Freethinkers’ Forum. If you are interested and consider yourself a freethinker, please join Pinoy Atheists at Yahoo! groups.

Secularism for the Philippines

kapanalig_sa_wala — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 17:56:36 +0000

The Mindanao problem cannot be solved by drawing imaginary lines dividing our territory based on what is the majority religion prevalent in the various regions, for example the imaginary homeland called Bangsamoro. That is just emphasizing one of the reasons why the conflict exists in the first place – overly emphasized religious differences resulting to skewed public policies favoring the majority – making the minorities feel like outsiders. At the highest level, it boils down to the Catholic Church’s dominance over the religious minority at the national level. If you cede some parts of the country to the Muslims, you are technically betraying the new religious minorities that will be created in the new Muslim-majority territory and the cycle repeats perhaps in a smaller scale. Then what? The Muslims will impose their morality into public policy, e.g., shariah law, on everyone in their new mandate as the Catholics had been doing for centuries already. In my opinion, part of the long-term solution to the problem with the Muslim minority is a road that has not been considered by our very religious Christian/Catholic/Protestant leaders because it’s against their religious beliefs: secularization of the Philippine government. This is mandated by that piece of paper we call the Philippine Constitution, that the separation of church and state should be inviolable. But what does it mean if this principle has not taken root in our society? It’s like anything else in the constitution, really. Ignored. Our government has four branches: the three, executive, legislative, and judicial are supposed to be (in theory) co-equal, while the fourth branch is the non-taxpaying, vast land-holding Catholic Church whose role is to be our governments’ authority on truths and morals and represented by their bishop leaders, and so is more privileged. This is a historical artifact of the officially the same Church and State during the Spanish era. As long as our government keep on consulting the Catholic Church for policies that affect everybody, the motivation to secede will be stronger. Our country should honor the principle of separation as enshrined in the constitution as an element to any peace agreement with the religious minorities.

Case in point, and this was highest in the time of Cory, the president attends Catholic mass in official capacity. Even masses are held in Malacañang from time to time. The president and her government as well as all public officials should practice their religion privately. We can start by issuing rules and policies like official public events should not be started with a Christian prayer, public schools should not build a Catholic or Protestant chapels within its territory, or that the Cult of Mary or the Santo Nino should not be allowed to display their imahens in public offices.

Congrats, Benj!

Euri — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 08:36:32 +0000

On behalf of the entire Philippine Atheists community, I would like to congratulate Benj Espina of Atheista.net for winning the Philippine Blog Awards 2008 Best Personal Blog category.