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.
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Please come and participate in the only forum that caters most especially to the Pinoy atheists.
Philippine Atheists Forum
We’ll see you there.
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Pacman says he will definitely run in May. Read the article here, if you are in any bit of interest.
So, can you honestly tell me, Pacquiao can and will be able to fit in?
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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.
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Apologies for the slow update of the site. We are currently cleaning up the spambots. We will be back to normal programming in the next few days.
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Richard Dawkins statement in the Root of Evil “…there would be murderers all around the world who want to kill you and me and themselves because they are motivated by what they think is the highest ideal ….. the suicide bomber believes that in killing for his god he will be fast tracked to special martyrs’ heaven.â€
This chilling exaggerated scenario is probably designed to frighten the religious towards atheism but when considered closely is revealed as being very shallow. It has little to offer in the pursuit of enlightenment and rational scientific thinking. Continue Reading »
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In accepting his nomination to become the 22nd chief justice of the Supreme Court, Reynato Puno had this to say:
“With this acceptance, I pledge to do what is expected of me: to espouse no ideology but constitutionalism; to uphold no theology but the rule of law”
Meanwhile the law is being raped by, who else, our honorable lawmakers, to suit their insatiable greed. This is one of the times I dearly wish there really is a hell. But these devils may find it too familiarly cozy to matter.
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I was giving somebody some tips of what he could do just in case he’s in a totally lost and some Christian, appeared and said that this is a better tip than what I had given.
Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own. (Matthew 6:34)
I honestly don’t think it’s better to wait for God to respond to your prayers than you doing something about it. It’s just some lame excuse not to do anything. When you are at lost, isn’t it better to find a way than just wait for what will happen the following day? At least, in the end of the day, even if what you did didn’t help much, at least you did something and you wont regret that you did it too because you know you worked hard to do it and at one point, you learned something out of it. Like for example you are in a low financial situation, isn’t it better to look for side jobs around town or look for something where you can earn money to support yourself rather than pray and kneel all day in front of the altar asking God for financial aid? It’s as if God would come down from heaven and give you money. Nothing will happen if you would just sit there and watch at the sky wait for for a dove to deliver your monthly allowance from God or wait for God to burn the plant standing beside you just to respond to your petty problems on which, you yourself can resolve. You’ll just trouble yourself more by doing it, not to mention fooling yourself too. I’m not telling people to stop believing in God. I’m telling people to stop relying everything to God when you can find ways to do it yourself.
As Tony would always say, nasa tao ang gawa, hindi na kailangan ang awa.
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Blessing - the type that is supposedly dispensed by a “god” - is a word that doesn’t make much sense to me. There is a chain letter that has been making the rounds in the internet ever since the forward button was invented and where the following line appears:
If you woke up this morning with more health than illness…you are more blessed than the million who will not survive this week.
What kind of twisted reasoning could justify your health as being “more blessed than the million who will not survive”? I thought we are told time and again that blessings are supposed to be coming from a benevolent, all-powerful and just being called god? Why would a god choose to bless one and not bless the million others? Isn’t this an example of sheer self-centered-ness? And if we consider for a moment that this is contrary to their belief that there is a paradise waiting for us in the after-life, shouldn’t we really say that the millions who will die of illness are more blessed for entering paradise sooner?
If you have never experienced the danger of battle, the loneliness of imprisonment, the agony of torture, or the pangs of starvation …you are better off than 500 million people in the world.
500 million starving or tortured or a war refugee because god was busy giving blessing to you? This is hard sell. You are indeed special, sucker! What would you tell the 500 starving people, then? That they are less worthy of god’s blessing that their role in the Great Plan is to starve to death?
If you have food in the refrigerator, clothes on your back, a roof overhead and a place to sleep…you are richer than 70% of this world.
If that is a blessing then whatever happened to the Christian teaching about the poor being blessed for they will inherit the earth? Never mind having the refrigerator, dude. It’s good that the original author stay anonymous. It would just make him look blessed by his god with plenty of common-sense-less-ness.
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The Pope quoted Byzantine Emperor, Manuel II Paleologos, back in the 14th century as saying “Show me just what Muhammad brought that was new and there you will find thing only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached.†The place that this statement was made was amazingly insensitive because this place in Germany is where there are thousands of Moslem “Guest Workers†who have been subject to ill treatment by local Fascist thugs. The Pope therefore will have fueled this racism.
Was this uttered as a slip of the tongue? Hardly in fact the Pope has form on this because just a few months before he was elected, he spoke out against Muslim Turkey joining the E.U. because he argued “Christian Europe must be defended.†The Popes credentials as anti Islam must now be well established within the Moslems world irrespective of any apologies he may make.
If the Pope really wanted dialogue with Islam leaders as he professes, he could have balanced his remarks with mention of one of his predecessors, Urban II who first summoned a Christian Jihad against Islam. He could have also drawn attention to the born-again Christians who have been at the forefront of support for the invasion of Iraq, the invasion and occupation of Palestinian land by Israel, the threat of the use of nuclear weapons against Iran and the whole “Reorganization†of the Middle East in which many thousand of Muslims have lost their lives.
If the Pope had bothered to read the bible, which it seems the Roman Catholic Church rarely recommends, he would be cognizant of the passage written there to the effect; “Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother’s eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye?â€
As far as my opinion goes I quote Shakespeare’s “A Plague on both Their Houses†but the hypocrisy and double standards shown in the Pope’s words make me want to vomit!
Doug Adam
Philippines
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