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Category: Religion

Holy Week! Party Time!

Posted on April 16, 2011 By benign0 12 Comments on Holy Week! Party Time!
Holy Week! Party Time!

Is “Holy Week” a time to party and go to the beach? Definitely! When else do Filipinos get two week days off with a whole weekend sandwiched in between? Who wants to stay at home and watch all these bearded men walking around in sandals and robes on TV? And why (oh why!) is Holy…

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Glitz and Glamour, Religion

Has atheism become nothing more than the latest fashion statement?

Posted on April 16, 2011April 16, 2011 By benign0 60 Comments on Has atheism become nothing more than the latest fashion statement?
Has atheism become nothing more than the latest fashion statement?

Religion is a favourite topic of mine. I find pleasure in pointing out the wonderful variety of paradoxes, incoherent constructs, and logical conundrums that tend to reveal themselves quite easily when using religious dogma and doctrine as building blocks for developing one’s thinking. An example is how one can piece together two fundamental Catholic beliefs…

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Culture, Religion, Science, Society

Real advise for Filipinos desperately praying for jobs

Posted on April 5, 2011April 6, 2011 By benign0 11 Comments on Real advise for Filipinos desperately praying for jobs
Real advise for Filipinos desperately praying for jobs

Joblessness is indeed a big problem in the Philippines. It is Third World labour supply on steroids — an exceedingly pathetic situation that sees the economic value of Filipino labour utterly flattened under the sheer weight of the vast numbers of warm bodies out on the streets in jeepney- and bus-loads looking for jobs. The…

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Development, Economy, Education, Lifestyle, Religion

Why do Filipinos grieve noisily?

Posted on March 31, 2011March 31, 2011 By benign0 12 Comments on Why do Filipinos grieve noisily?

It baffles me the way the furor over the execution of the three convicted Filipino drug mules in China reached the crescendo that we are seeing today. It’s as if this thing had not been hanging over Filipinos’ heads for the last several months. It first captured the broader public awareness when the Philippine Government…

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Culture, Religion

Reform by mob: does it always work?

Posted on January 29, 2011 By benign0 20 Comments on Reform by mob: does it always work?

Some recent events in Egypt and Tunisia illustrate the whole trouble with street mobs supposedly calling for “reform” – that in a situation described more by anarchy than any sort of clear higher purpose, it becomes difficult to sort the devils from the angels. Reports of looters vandalising ancient Egyptian artifacts and of Tunisian shopkeepers…

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Culture, Featured, Media, Politics, Religion

Burma and the Philippines: struggling for democracy

Posted on January 13, 2011February 2, 2021 By Ilda 27 Comments on Burma and the Philippines: struggling for democracy
Burma and the Philippines: struggling for democracy

In a move reminiscent of its coverage of the late Former Philippine President Corazon “Cory” Aquino’s political career, TIME magazine has recently featured on its cover not once, but twice in less than two months, another woman who is touted as an icon of freedom and democracy. Burma’s long suffering and recently released political prisoner,…

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Development, Education, Politics, Religion

King of Comedy Dolphy faces the Inquisition

Posted on December 21, 2010 By benign0 71 Comments on King of Comedy Dolphy faces the Inquisition

Today I find myself on the side of Philippine Media as they lock and load for what looks like the gathering storm of a monumental battle against the Forces of Primitivism. On the side of modernity is Dolphy, the King of Comedy, who stands before the Inquisition accused of heresy. This “heresy” involves what sounds…

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Media, Religion

The CBCP and its primitivist crusade against reproductive health

Posted on December 1, 2010 By benign0 66 Comments on The CBCP and its primitivist crusade against reproductive health

According to Fr. Melvin Castro, executive director of the Episcopal Commission on Family and Life of the Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines, “the Church needs to intensify its information drive on the [Reproductive Health] bill”. This is his “solution” to bolster the Church’s primitivist position on reproductive health in the face of mounting evidence…

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Development, Education, Lifestyle, Religion

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