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December 31, 2013 Dear Friends and Relatives: At the end of each year, we all greet each other: - HAPPY NEW YEAR! Never, do we ever, greet e...

The secret why other Asian countries are economically ahead of the Philippines is no secret at all. Our Asian neighbors have been substantia...

Unlike the rest of our national heroes, Rizal was the first and only Filipino revolutionary of the mind. He was the first Filipino who thoug...

Rizal’s biographer – Leon M. Guerrero, clearly notes that Rizal returned to the Church of his youth in extremes of self-abasement, frenziedl...

The shame in Rizal’s life is not the retraction of his deeds, writings or personal conduct. Such retraction was only a frailocratic figment ...

Rizal was a product of Ateneo and Santo Thomas; yet both Catholic universities continue to assassinate the character of this great humanist ...

Rizal was involved not only with the cultivation of the mind but also with the development of the human knowledge. The exact opposite of wha...

Jose Rizal pointed out that evolution in education, ( not reliance on foreign investments ) is the best hope for our nation to enjoy the hig...

Rizal struggled not only against Spanish authority, but against superstition. He fought not in the battlefield, but in the minds of men and ...

After a hundred years, how influential has Jose Rizal been on the Filipino as a people? Millions today would readily give credence by listen...

Rizal’s enemies were the theologians who gave themselves fancy titles: soothsayers, seers, charmers, prophets, enchanters, sorcerers, wizard...

Rizal, indeed, was a great thinker. He clearly saw in his day what we vaguely see around us today: religion and diseases flourishing hand in...

If the Spanish friars had only introduced the concept of humanism instead of establishing in the Philippines religious barbarism and other f...

Rizal never said or wrote: “It was my pride that ruined me.” Those words were put into the mouth of Rizal by his official prize-winning biog...

What kind of men needed to see Rizal dead, discarded and forgotten? Were they men of reason, logic, science or philosophy? Were they avid re...

Before he died at the age of 98, mathematician-logician-philosopher- humanist Bertrand Russell said, “If we must die, let us die sober, and ...

In his Science and Religion, Bertrand Russell wrote: “Now logical unity is at once a strength and a weakness. It is strength because it insu...

To worship the unknown is childish and to worship the unknowable is even more childish. In the Philippines, for the sake of our prayers and ...

Bertrand Russell wrote: “Men pass from birth to death, sometimes happy, sometimes unhappy; sometimes generous, sometimes grasping and petty;...

For: TIME magazine Intelligent Design The push to teach “intelligent Design” in America raises a qu...