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To: Freethinkers Forum Feb. 28, 2009 Fr: Poch Suzara, chairman, Bertrand Russell Society, Philippines Subject: Message We we...

The Pasig River is 26 kilometers long, 50 meters wide, and an average of four to six meters deep. The river basin includes: Pasig City, City...

Christianity has quite effectively accomplished great things in the Philippines: Frightened the Filipino. Divided the Filipino. Controlled t...

God hears the cries of the poor. Well, if this is true, how come the poor are getting poorer and their cries are getting louder? Indeed, how...

Our workers are better paid and indeed highly respected for the hard work they do in foreign countries. In our own God-forsaken country, how...

The Sick Man of Asia is not only a patient inside our hospitals. He is not only a teacher or a professor inside our schools, colleges, and u...

I regard myself as a guardian of freedom. Especially intellectual freedom. I refuse, however, to respect nor do I try to preserve the rights...

If there is indeed such a thing as God’s will or God’s plan, why should we waste precious time and energy praying daily to Mary, the holy Mo...

After 15 years in prison for the crime of murder, this Pinoy prisoner was released. He was pardoned by the President of the Republic. In an ...

We are told that if your life is in trouble, there is always God to fix it. We are not told, however, that everybody’s life is in trouble of...

“Suffering can teach us about what we can’t learn in any other way.” Philippine Star, Feb. 18,2009 On the contrary, if I may borrow from Be...

Scientist Richard Dawkins wrote In his great book THE GOD DELUSION: “The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character ...

“Two billion years ago,” wrote Carl Sagan, “our ancestors were microbes; half-billion years ago, fish; a hundred billion years ago, somethin...

The “unknown” and the “supernatural” are one and the same mysterious hogwash. Explaining the unknown by means of the supernatural, or explai...

Every time a high official is installed in the United States government or installed in the Philippine government – the first they do is to ...

We are more prone to hate than we are to love. Hate is more contagious than love. Even among the believers of the faith there is more hate ...

Science has already proved itself triumphant in all of its respective fields of endeavor. Indeed, science based on reason, is what we know. ...

“It is preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents men from living freely and nobly.” Bertrand Russell...It is, i...

“Science,” wrote Bertrand Russell, “is at no moment quite right, but it is seldom quite wrong, and has, as a rule, a better chance of being ...

The Vatican State currently maintains bilateral diplomatic relations with 172 countries, which is actually one more than the United States G...