17 February 2019

• Why is there widespread, even intense, belief in the existence of God, or gods?

  In this era of rationality and scientific thinking, which emerged only in the last 300 years of man’s 200,000-year history, it is, if you think about it, astonishing that most of humanity still believe in an invisible God, or gods. Anomalies attributed to Him (thunder as Thor throwing his hammer) or to his purported representatives […]

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• Dengvaxia, MRT-3, e-passports: The worst cases of corruption in PH history

  NEVER again! The P3.5-billion purchase of and mass inoculation with the defective Dengvaxia vaccine; the turnover of the P5-billion maintenance contract for MRT-3 to favored cronies; and the P38-billion passport-printing monopoly given to a private firm. In just six years of the Yellow regime, undertaken were the worst and most despicable cases of corruption in […]

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• Inquirer editorial a despicable, shameless bullying of a broadcast journalist

  THE Philippine Daily Inquirer’s (PDI) editorial the other day was a despicable case of bullying a journalist — veteran TV news anchor Jiggy Manicad. It sets a new low in shameless hack jobs in media. In a television interview, Manicad had responded to a question regarding the news website Rappler: “I think the government has […]

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• Do religions make good people do bad things?

  Astonishing as that question might be, it has been the subject of intense debates among thinkers around the world, given the inescapable fact that among the worst genocides and atrocities in history had been committed in the name of God. Nobel laureate physicist Stephen Weinberg had succinctly described the “affirmative” side in these debates: “In […]

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• Moro conflict never was about religion, but over land

  OTHER than their sheer insane cruelty, what is so condemnable about the bombing of the Jolo Cathedral last Sunday and that of a mosque the other day, is that it is the nth time that a tiny group of the younger generation of Moro insurgents is attempting to portray the decades-old conflict in Muslim Mindanao […]

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