In the early 60s the proponents of the “there’s no God,” “God-is-Dead” and the more cautious but also anti-religion “leave us alone to define what God is” mentalities had not yet won the print and broadcast mass media, There were discussions then about the “sense of shame” and “the sense of sin.”

These discussions were in radio and TV talk shows and on the pages of The Manila Times. Young people don’t know that this paper was the largest-circulation and most-respected newspaper before it was destroyed by the Marcos Martial Law dictatorship. Many of the present college students don’t even quite know what the Marcos Martial Law regime was all about.

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