Philippine Atheists

El Shaddai mobilized vs signature campaign. While I would prefer a society where religion is a spent force, a social phenomenon too weak to be a factor in shaping public policies, it’s within the religionists’ right to express their own (collective) political opinion as fellow citizens. But how are we sure that when religious groups like El Shaddai mobilize their people, the members themselves take part on their own free will and not just pawns blindly following their leaders?

Building religious groups is a very profitable way of investing one’s energy where the rewards often include power and money as found out by these now-rich leaders who will not hesitate to wield the same power and money to influence public policies that affect everybody - believers, agnostics, and atheists alike. In our country where religion and politics are so intertwined, and where organized religion is as strong as ever, founding a new religion is a proven vehicle for achieving considerable success in putting one’s political agenda on the discussion table.

I myself am against the signature campaign launched by the greedy selfish politicians so they can plunder the nation’s coffers longer than what their terms now would allow but I wish there are more secular and effective ways we can stop these endless schemes by the demons of Congress and Malacanang.

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From time to time, our theist brethrens have cried foul over the violence that has been pandered by Hollywood and other secular shows. They claim that such movies are an “affront” to their conservative values and morals.

Having said that, their moral aversions are not restricted to religious movies and other shows that harbour a religious overtone. The Passion Of The Christ, for example, had enough BDSM scenes to ensure that a seasoned BDSM practitioner would be able to relate to, if not achieve orgasms several times over. Continue Reading »

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Today is Palm Sunday. It marks the beginning of Holy Week as celebrated by Christendom. Palm Sunday commemorates the triumphant entry of Jesus Christ to Jerusalem. I don’t really understand why they call it triumphant because a few days later he was to be arrested and put to death by crucifixion.

This time of week, specially on Thursday and Friday, Metro Manila will be reduced to ghost town as people head to their home provinces to meet friends and relatives and watch the endless reenactment of the life of Jesus Christ. This holiday season culminates to Easter Sunday commemorating the alleged resurrection of Christ. That is, if we believe all the story to be true. The picture above is the poon dead Christ as paraded in the streets like how the Italians did in the Godfather movies. Here is another picture of the same poon taken a few minutes earlier.

Both pictures taken Good Friday of 2003.

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Tis a dream opportunity of just about every American liberal who harbours some form of innane frustration at the White House Chimp and his crony gang: To publicly rebuke him for his half-assed, fascist policies that seem more at home with Nazi Germany than democratic America.

Enter Harry Taylor, a true-blue liberal, who managed to sneak into a conservative-packed North Carolina forum, hosted by the chief simian, George W. Bush.

The questions he addressed to the Simian, plus his hard-hitting rebukes, were hardly addressed by Bush, although he did a half-hearted attempt at explaining away the use of phone tappings, as provisioned by Congress under the Patriot Act. Continue Reading »

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contributed by Zach

I am an atheist. I have been one since I graduated from my nun-run catholic high school, where one of the most sacred holidays that they celebrate is the season of Lent. I remember back then, that I had to bring home the missalette (the pamphlet for mass) home every Sunday as proof that I did go to mass, and we had to write a paper about the priests’ sermon that Sunday and if there were any special announcement from the cardinal or pope (politics on the pulpit) for we had only one acceptable reason why we could not attend mass, and that was when we were sick. Come Lenten season, which by the way for those non-knowing people actually starts on Ash Wednesday. Lenten season is 40 days people. Not one week. Meaning, the nuns would remind us that Friday should be a meatless meal day from Ash Wednesday onwards. Special prayers had to be said. I have forgotten the other things that back then I had to observe, my family being strictly devout Catholics also. Continue Reading »

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