In Jesus Christ country my dear Philippines, being an atheist can be so trying. If you tell people about your atheism up-front, and I am finding myself doing that more and more now than before such that nowadays I make it a point to do that all the time if I think it will clear things out and avoid any surprises, it becomes difficult to strike any meaningful conversation about why people believe what they believe without getting myself into debates that are sure to turn acrimonious. Often, the response is so-so, but sometimes it’s difficult for people to understand that you don’t believe because the concept of god - in all its nonsenseness - is for them self-evident. For most of my adult life, I thought I could sweep under the rug the question of “god”, to reduce it as a non-issue, but events the last five years woke me up from my long slumber to the reality that there are people bent on forcing their faith into shaping public policy that affects everybody believers and non-believers alike. If that be our collective fate, then let us bring the debate into the mainstream consciousness.
Is YouTube censoring atheistic/anti-religion materials? Apparently, it deleted the account of a popular atheist Nick Gisburne when he uploaded a video targeting not Christianity but the religion of peace: Islam. The original video was allegedly deleted by the site after being tagged by other users as having “inappropriate content”. Here is the same video uploaded by another user.
The Pinoy Atheists had a small EB held January 6th, 2007 at some chicken restaurant somewhere in SM North EDSA. See our pix:
In the picture are, from left to right: female guest, Chris, Tony, Igme, and Oliver. Not in the picture is Eric who was snapping the picture. Also not included is Mon who joined us later. The Pinoy Atheists hold regular EBs, most specially around year-ends.
