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Hell drives economic growth and the dangers of doing a Bernie Villegas
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 [...]
The Will of the Frailes vs. the Will of the People
Now that Speaker Nograles has signaled a call for a debate and a vote, the CBCP has called on its legion of rabid fanatics to punish members of Congress who are supportive of the Reproductive Health Bill. This is to be expected of course, given that our sainted frailes have closed their eyes and [...]
Population, Development and the RH Bill, Knock Knock Bernardo Villegas
“How did we get to where we are?” asks University of Asia and the Pacific economist Bernardo Villegas. He says poverty in the Philippines is a result of many factors. To his mind, however, a large population is not one of them.
I find this explanation laughable especially during these times when the only countries in [...]
Benedict Condemns Millions to Die of HIV/AIDS
This post is NOT about the existence of God, but the existence of Evil.
God, if you are there, please save Africa and the rest of the world from annihilation at the hands of Your hard-hearted Pope!
Hindi lang Sex, Hindi lang Condom
Malinaw ang nilalaman ng Reproductive Health bill na ngayo’y nakasalang sa Kongreso. Hindi lamang ito patungkol sa sex at condom. Higit sa lahat ito’y tunkgol sa mga tao at ang pagbibigay ng kakayanan sa mga ina’t ama at ang kanilan mga anak sa buhay ng nararapat.
Tayong lahat ay nalalayong itaguyod ang buhay. Ang dapat nating [...]
Paternity uncertainty and the financial “crisis”
As if the problem of catching up with the need to employ at least 1.5 million Filipinos being added to the labour force every year was already an insurmountable challenge in itself (given the inherent inability of Pinoys to create employment-generating capital indigenously), there is the other whammy now hitting our fortunes with the disappearance [...]
On the Right to Choose
I ran across this while looking for something else and I remembered that Health bill the church wants squashed. It is a video blog by American blogger Lindsay Campbell several months back. She talked about Abortion and the Right to Choose. Yes, she’s a feminist but listen to her argument. She makes a whole lot [...]
P.S. to HB 5043 – reproductive health bill?
The following was originally a comment to the article, “The Redundancy of The RH Bill“, penned by Primer C. Pagunuran.
It challenges reflection that a lawyer, instead of a doctor, is the chief architect and single strong advocate of House Bill 5043 which actually consolidated into one, House Bills 17, 812, 2753 and 3920 in this [...]
The good, the ordinary and the ugly
There are historical patterns that if we care to seriously reflect on would inform us of certain repeated forces known to have driven great events, among which is this: That history is often made by people and institutions in power and by how their power is employed by them to produce goods and services for [...]
The Redundancy of RH Bill 5043
The Reproductive Health and Population Development Act of 2008, or RH Bill 5043, as it stands, has been at the center of much of the heated debate which has been revolving around such issues as poverty, abortion, contraceptives, and the role of the church in our nation’s progress as it deals with population. The [...]
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