My wife is Filipina and still somewhat Catholic but somewhat. Our daughter who turns 21 in a couple of weeks is atheist and my wife has no problem with that.

I live in Australia but have been to the Phillipines a few times, have friends that live there and here. All of them are Catholics, and very serious Catholics too, except one. She treads verily around them. I say exactly what I think about all the religious stuff, they are very nice about it but that is probably because they are a polite people. I am amazed how the church there justify their wealth while a large percentage of the population are very poor.

I'm Chinese but was born and raised Episcopalian in the Philippines till I was 13. Drives me crazy how pretty much the entire population of the country is religious.

I dated a Filipino who belonged to the Church of Christ... not the American one, but the Filipino on... Boy they took crazy cult to a whole other level.