John Michael Silerio

Secular humanist, freethinker, nonbeliever, heretic, atheist, skeptic. Whatever you might want to call it. Being irreligious in a country full of devoutly religious can be a struggle. It's not all about just having the freedom to say that one is unconvinced of God's existence, but also about the freedom to question the authority through rationality and to squander superstition. This is John Michael Silerio: writer, researcher, historophile, and inquisitor. A former HUMSS student, I am currently studying BA History at the University of the Philippines. 

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I am an ex-Christian (an ex-Catholic to be exact) and officially came out as a non-believer on 2019. To get the story straight, I am an agnostic atheist. I don't believe in the existence of God because all of the arguments that theologians and apologists have presented are pretty unconvincing, thus giving me no reason to believe in any kinds of doctrines of faith. Wanna chitchat with me about deep stuff? I'm all ears. Philosophy, history, politics, religion, evolution, cosmology, they're all on the table. Just to be clear on my political leanings, progressive socialist is probably the label with the closest approximation to my stances. 

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Sapere aude!