A Whole Lotto Fun By Marcelle Fabie Nation, there is truly nothing greater than feeling joy and happiness for the good fortune of another person. It feels as if there is a kind of bond that we manage to share with those who are so blessed: a sharing of joy and happiness that cannot but [...]
Hell drives economic growth and the dangers of doing a Bernie Villegas
January 4, 2010 By 16 Comments
Well it seems that religious belief especially in a place for the baddies, we call hell, sheol or inferno is somewhat correlated with economic growth according to this study. I’m sure the researchers used some sort of meta-analysis (I haven’t seen the academic paper) in their conclusion that Protestant economies were about 35 years ahead of [...]
Science and religion in Philippine education
July 7, 2009 By 35 Comments
Science and religion is a big issue in the United States, and increasingly in other developed countries such as Australia, Canada and the UK. In other countries of the European Union, it was until recently a non-issue. During the early years of John Paul II’s pontificate, the well known evolutionary biologist Stephen Jay Gould who [...]
Wooden Idolatry Versus Swine Flu
April 28, 2009 By 27 Comments
Here is how grim it was in Mexico City last Sunday: Soldiers in surgical masks shooed away the faithful at the cathedral, … Inside, Cardinal Norberto Rivera delivered a sermon to nearly empty pews, his pleas for divine intervention relayed over television and radio. “Grant us the prudence and serenity to act with responsibility and [...]
On Mike Tan’s speech to the 2009 science class of UP
April 26, 2009 By 56 Comments
The University of the Philippines College of Science (UPCS) in Diliman yesterday held its recognition ceremonies honouring the class of 2009. The UPCS was founded in 1983 with the split of the College of Arts and Sciences into colleges of science, arts and letters and social sciences and philosophy. In the past two years, social scientists [...]
Simplifying the unknown
April 20, 2009 By 216 Comments
While people seek comfort in religion for assurance that they simply wouldn’t blink out when they finally croak, religion for its part has dismally failed to deliver on its end of the deal and provide a convincing concept of eternal existence that the modern human mind could at least explore in the way that it [...]
Damaso Lives!
April 10, 2009 By 71 Comments
Here are some posts and pictures I snapped of his handiwork to prove it.
Jesus to Mary Magdalene: “Noli me tangere!”
April 7, 2009 By 82 Comments
The Explainer with Manolo Quezon (6pm Tuesday ABSCBN Cable News ANC) tackles the historical Jesus. I’m on the panel with Ms.Gang Badoy and UST Professor of Theology, Fr. Efren Rivera. REMBRANDT‘s famous painting portrays the moment Jesus Christ utters that famous phrase in the Gospel of John 20:17 and immortalized in Rizal’s novel. It is [...]
Religious Education As Mental Child Abuse
February 2, 2009 By 131 Comments
A CASE CAN BE MADE against certain private religious schools — namely the biggest, most lucrative and most prestigious ones — for exercising a little-noticed form of mental child abuse. Both in the manner and content of instruction, I assert that early childhood education by organized Religions is a form of brainwashing against helpless children [...]
Sto. Nino de Bernas, Conyo
January 20, 2009 By 183 Comments
[R-18: Please do not touch me if for some reason you find a discussion of wooden, costumed idols personally offensive. More so avoid it, if you find a discussion of human, costumed idols offensive.] Fr. Joaquin Bernas, S.J. was wearing his friar’s zuccheto, a touch akimbo, in yesterday’s column about the Sto. Nino feast and [...]
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