March 19, 2011, COMING OUT event for ATHEISTS in the PHILIPPINES
Four centuries, nine decades and four days ago (March 16, 1521), an alien ideology inundated the Philippines like an un-ebbing tsunami — depositing alluviums of fanatical superstition — that continues to shackle the nation to this day.
But March 19, 2011 marks the dawning of a new day in the Philippines reminiscent of the Katipunan’s… Cry of Balintawak in 1876 and that of the Kabataang Makabayan of the Anti-US Imperialist Propaganda Movement in 1964. On this day, emerged the Philippine Atheists and Agnostics Society Inc. (PATAS) and ignited its own torch of liberation. This time, against clerico-fascism and its cassocked charlatans — to unchain the people from the grinding poverty, the decadent culture and the fatalism that feed the oppressive and exploitative status quo. They also valiantly declared to all and sundry their severance of their allegiance to a ghost with the monicker “God” and renounced the so-called “Bible” — a tome of fraudulent history interlaced with lies and canards deodorized by mantras of seemingly wise-sounding parables.
Yes, indeed, “We can do — and we can be good — without a ‘God’!”
Long live and forward the struggle against clerico-fascism!
Expose and oppose all forces of superstition!
Mabuhay ang masang Filipino!
by Ilving Tabios-Zamora – PATAS, BOD