My Filipino Friend on the Greatness of Dr. Jose Rizal

I give space here for my great Filipino friend - Gil C. Fernandez - on his views about our Jose Rizal. I said it before, I say it again: If only our schools, colleges, and universities taught less about Jesus Christ by teaching more about our Jose Rizal - the Filipinos today would be one of the healthiest people and the Philippines one of the wealthiest of countries in all of Asia today. Poch Suzara The Catholic Church is the greatest beneficiary of Spain colonization of the Philippines. It has gained unimaginable wealth and power, amidst poverty, overpopulation, suffering and misery of the Filipino people. It has introduced the concept of heaven, hell and purgatory to obtain obedience from the people. Confession, to control the community, a classic example was the discovery of the Katipunan, which was leaked out through the confessional. It has spread alleged miracles to fool the people. It exploited the people as proved by the possession of the best lands in many parts of the country; the biggest tract of lands in central Luzon belongs to the Dominicans. The most expensive schools and hospitals belong to this church, and the biggest depositor in the Bank of the Philippine Island is the Archbishop of Manila. And this church, the richest church in the world, has not been paying taxes to a country which is considered one of the poorest countries in the world,-- which is the Philippines. Even after more than a century after the catholic religion was declared not the official religion of the country and the introduction separation of Church and State in the Philippine, the Filipino people still suffer from religious fanaticism. There is still a very important need for the Filipino people to learn even more the life, works and writings of Jose Rizal. As I said before, let the words of Rizal serve as a boost in our morale, not to allow the continuation of this ruthless tyranny, hypocrisy, and the taking advantage of our poor people by this powerful Catholic Church. Let Rizal be the inspiration of our youth, a role model in the struggle for a good life, and to emulate the virtues of this great man, -Dr. Jose Rizal. Written by Gil C. Fernandez, August 2008 Springfield, Illinois Facebook# Twitter# Google#

War

War is always big business for the munition makers. They naturally do everything possible to market the idea of war such as war is the only way to settle international disputes. More often than not, the munition industry will even concoct such disputes by declaring it to be the war for freedom and democracy, or for God. In fact, war is mostly about men killing other men so that the munition makers will earn big profits. Poch Suzara

Indecision

When you do not or cannot make a decision, indecision takes over. When you refuse to think for yourself someone else will think for you. At most time, it is usually referred to as having “faith in God’s Will.” In the meantime, there is no such as thing the right decision or the wrong decision. There is only evil of indecision. We must face the fact that life is a series of decisions. We must learn to never be afraid to make decisions. Poch Suzara

Loneliness

Loneliness has always been an emotionally painful experience. Today, however, paradoxically enough, loneliness is a shared way of life. Even within the family members. In loneliness, they pray together to stay together. Too bad prayers don’t work. More families are derailed in this century than it was during the last century. Poch Suzara

Progress

If Progress only means the accumulation of money, then it becomes a mockery against human decency. In fact, progress should be like a flowering tree with many branches extending to the future. As a product of the power of the intellect, progress is not revolution. It is evolution. Progress should mean a better tomorrow than it was a better yesterday.
Take, for example, progress in education: more and flexible learning should occur outside, rather than inside, crowded school rooms. Poch Suzara

Jonah

“I cried out to the Lord because of my affliction, and He answers me.” Jonah 2:2

It is incredible how the religious bobos would readily believe what Jonah wrote in the bible. If this were true, however, how come millions upon millions of Filipinos who cried out to the same Lord because of their affliction, no Lord answers them? Instead, they ended up dead and buried. Their remains are found in the cemeteries throughout the Philippines. Poch Suzara

American Politics

Whether we are Democrats or Republicans, despite our differences, we all belong in the same sinking American economic boat. All of us, while jockeying for power within it, are all basically committed to preserving the dying “Military-Industrial-Oil-University complex” of the USA.

There is hope, however, in the new presidential candidate of Barack Obama. There is a great chance he could bring real change in America. For one thing, he will transform the White House into a more prestigious Black House.

It is time for us Americans to enjoy real freedom; not the freedom of lies; but the freedom from lies. Especially the freedom from government lies. Poch Suzara

Divine Boredom

Here’s an example of divine boredom as written in the bible: “I form the light and create darkness: I make peace and create evil: I the Lord do these things.” Is. 45:7. Indeed, evil is mostly derived from boredom, especially from divine boredom.
Boringly, bible readers excitingly call it: divine wisdom. Poch Suzara

Organized Religions

Historically, no doubt, organized religions have flourished. But what flourished alongside with organized religions, however, has been the fear of thought, hypocrisy, dishonesty, criminality all rolled into one bundle called “social insanity.”

In the meantime, most men are proud of the religion taught to them during childhood years. It has given conscience that is good; unfortunately, good for nothing. They cry like little boys for peace. As if there is such a thing as peace. They ignore the words of their own Jesus who admitted: “Think not that I have come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword.” Matt. 10:34. Poch Suzara

Bread Crumbs

According to the bible, man does not live by bread alone. Is this the reason why Christian charity never distribute loaves of bread to, but would even remove bread crumbs away from, - the Filipino people in this spiritually poor and morally backward country? In the meantime, when Filipinos accept poverty and insanity as the normal Filipino way of life it can only mean malevolence on the one side; and, on the other, - decadence. Poch Suzara

Jose Rizal

Jose Rizal was a man of science. He was not a man of religion. He was publicly executed by religious morons precisely because he exposed the nature of religion in this country as nothing but harmful superstition. Poch Suzara

College Educated

It is precisely those who are selfish, greedy, stupid, and insane – in brief – college educated men and women who make me happy to be a high-school dropout, and who make me proud to be an atheist.

Take a good look at the men and women running our corrupt and rotten government. All of them are college educated. All them believe that God is great, especially in the national business of forgiving the sin of degradation and the crime of corruption! Poch Suzara

Book Learning

Learning by reading books is utterly worthless unless it is used and verified with variegated experiences in life. Only then can it begin to affect our power to think. It is the love of life that educates. Outside academic wall, books have been and still are the only kind of teachers and professors that I could love and respect. All my teachers in school were frightened of divinity, if not terrorized by deviltry. Thus, they only taught me how to have faith in mediocrity, and how to love and respect religious mendacity that's always in cahoots with hypocrisy. Poch Suzara

Morality

Our moral values are based more upon garbage than it should be upon real human values. Morality should solely be about alleviating human suffering, and eliminating human poverty, and indeed, about establishing a healthy and a sane society where we love, not hate, one another for our country’s sake.

Morality is silly if its purpose is to please a mysterious divinity. In brief, morality is a necessity for the good of society established with scientific veracity, not with silly religious mendacity. Poch Suzara

Misology and Theology

Misology – the hatred of reason – is a great evil. Misology is no different from theology – another great evil. Theology hates reason especially as reason promotes the beauty and the power of thought. Poch Suzara

Frank Sinatra

Most people have only thought of Frank Sinatra as just a great and a famous singer. Only the esoteric few knew that he was fearless thinker too. Listen to the words not of someone who kneels, who didn’t have to take the blows, but nevertheless did it his way:

"There are things about organized religion which I resent. Christ is revered as the Prince of Peace, but more blood has been shed in His name than any other figure in history. You show me one step forward in the name of religion and I'll show you a hundred retrogressions. Remember, they were men of God who destroyed the educational treasures at Alexandria, who perpetrated the Inquisition in Spain, who burned the witches at Salem. Over 25,000 organized religions flourish on this planet, but the followers of each think all the others are miserably misguided and probably evil as well." Frank Sinatra, Playboy Magazine, Feb. 1962

If only the other famous singers of our world possessed the intellectual calibre of a Frank Sinatra – ours, indeed, would be a healthy and a peaceful world.

“Frank, wherever you are, I love you. Thank you for having been in our world a great example of a melodious and harmonious grace for the human race.” Poch Suzara

Jose Rizal

Rizal stood by himself alone in his struggles against religious stupidity in our country. A group of religious morons, however, the Spanish friars, got Rizal arrested and jailed to face death by firing squad.

With Rizal dead and gone - out of way, the Spanish friars could then insure that religious stupidity could remain as one of the greatest of blessings from divinity perpetually enjoyed in this only Christian country.

Indeed, take a deep look at us Filipinos in the Philippines in this 21st century. Look how we enjoy with blind faith our love for God up there by hating one another down here! Poch Suzara

Ninoy Aquino

He said: “The Filipino is worth dying for.” Do any of you really believe that Ninoy Aquino now in heaven with God is so proud and eternally happy of the fact that the Filipino proved him right? The Filipino killed him.

In the meantime, I am told my own own friends and relatives and other associates that I should not refer to ourselves as a nation of religious morons. Poch Suzara

The Power of Universal Stupidity

In God’s kingdom is the power of love. In the devil’s kingdom is the power of hate. In man’s kingdom is the power of fear. Combine inextricably the three kingdoms and they all add up to the kingdom of universal stupidity.

To think that for thousands of years science had to painfully struggle against religion for its right to be born, to grow, and to develop and mature. And to think further that in this 21st century, the religious victims here and there are using radio, television, internet, and the mobile phone – all miraculous products of science - to preach the Word of God to fellow religious victims everywhere. Poch Suzara

Life After Death

To pretend that we will happy or unhappy after the death of the body is to pretend that we will be able to see without eyes, to hear without ears, to taste with a palate, to smell with a nose, and to feel without hands and without skin, and especially to think without a brain.

There is obviously no such thing as life in the hereafter. To begin with, it is not possible since there is no such thing as life in the herebefore. Poch Suzara

World Peace

Fucking around with religion is much more fun than fucking around with women. There are no deadly consequences in fucking around with religion. There are no unwanted or unloved babies born only to survive miserably under subhuman conditions.

World peace can only be the basic product of children born loved, wanted, and needed under health and sanitation that insures peace on earth and goodwill to all men, women, and children. Poch Suzara

Synagogue of Satan

When I was a little boy in school I was frightened to believed in the existence of the synagogue of Satan. Rev. 2:9. I imagined then how sane our world could be if we were all taught to fear not the synagogue of Satanism, but to love instead the synagogue of humanism! Poch Suzara

Million Deaths

Millions of people are killed each and every year in God’s name, or Allah’s name, or Yahweh’s name. Now my friends and associates are shocked because I consider such sacred horrors as another word for “love of God” syndrome. Poch Suzara

Bible Untruths

It does not matter if there were truths and falsehoods written in the bible? The important issue is who is to determine which among the inspired authors of God dealt with falsehoods while writing biblical nonsense in the bible?

In the meantime, if God were all that almighty, why would he need to inspire bible characters to preach the gospel to all nations? well, if God were all that powerful, how come only the Philippines got to be the victim, not the master, of Christianity in all of Asia? Poch Suzara

Galileo

In 1983 the Vatican indeed apologized to Galileo for being right and the church wrong in that 17th century dispute. Indeed, the earth goes around the sun, and not the sun going round the earth. But if Galileo was right why should the bible readers still have faith in the bible incredibility as worthy of reliability or veracity? Poch Suzara

I thank

I thank the inventors, the discoverers, the scientists, the explorers, the philosophers and freethinkers of this world.

As for the bible writers – they can all fly a kite. So what if Jonah was swallowed by a whale? Where in the bible does it admit that the whale was inspired by God to swallow Jonah? Poch Suzara

Hinduism

I have every respect for Hinduism. She has no dogma, no pigma, and no hogma. Indeed, no creeds or doctrines. Hence no spirit of missionary imperialism in cahoots with capitalism especially the kind more known throughout the world as Americanism.
Moreover, I love Hinduism because she taught me to believe that even as I am an atheist, there is always the god in me. Wow, such honor! Poch Suzara

Various Gods

The Chinese have their own God. The Indians have their own God. The Japanese have their own God. The Jews have their own God. The Arabs have their own God, etc. Except the Pinoys. We have yet to have our own God. We have been conquered and colonized, however, to believe in the God of the bible – a book written during ancient times by the superstitious morons of other foreign places. Poch Suzara

Christianity

Christianity has always persecuted the living and God has always burned her dead.
Christianity may be described as the spread of sacred timidity as inspired by a divinity always in cahoots with deviltry for the sake of social insanity, not to mention political stupidity in the Philippines, eternally. Poch Suzara

Rizal

We love Rizal; but we love even more the religious morons who had Rizal arrested, jailed, and executed more than a hundred years ago. Hell, we even allowed the Rizal killers to take ownership of our schools, colleges, and universities. Especially to teach the Filipino youth to believe that Rizal died a repented Catholic as he retracted hours before the power of theocracy condemned him to death. That’s how sick we Filipinos are as the Sick Man of Asia in this 21st century. Poch Suzara

Worthless Evidence

You may have all the evidences to prove the case against the evils of religion. Such evidences, however, are utterly worthless to a blind man blinded by blind faith. Indeed, what can one expect of a blind man going inside a dark room looking for a black cat that is not there, but found it. Poch Suzara

The Pope

The pope asks the religions of this world to fight terrorism. Indeed, let us fight religion – the worst kind of terrorism. What could be more terrorizing than to twist and distort the minds and hearts of children in school to believe that there is a better world to come after death; and that while we are on this earth to believe also that God does provide because He has a never-ending love and grace for the human race. Poch Suzara

Spiritual Hunger

To satisfy my spiritual hunger, never, would I ever again swallow junk theology known as “the bread of life” taken from biblical baloney. I would rather question everything. It is the very foundation of both spiritual health and mental wealth.

In the meantime, the idea that a heavenly Father required the earthly death of His son Jesus as a ransom paid for our sins is nothing but theological junk. How could any one believe in a God guilty of the crime of child abuse? Jesus was not child? Well, what could be more childish than a child crucified and crying on the cross: “My dad, My dad, why hast thou forsaken me?” Poch Suzara

Life on Earth

Life on earth may be expensive but it does include a free trip around the sun annually. Poch Suzara

Born Ignorant

We are all born ignorant, not stupid. We are made stupid by religion which is what, for the most part, our schools, colleges, and universities has been all about. Poch Suzara

Holy Baloney

The Christians, Muslims, and the Jews have not ceased hate and war against each other. And yet the holy baloney that it is, just because we atheists condemn their mutual historical never-ending carnage, the Christians and the Muslims and the Jews have not also ceased to declare that there are no atheists in foxholes.

In the meantime, the religious morons of this world all share a sad similarity together: They are not allowed to see the difference between the power of stagnation and the power of confusion. They are allowed, however, to have faith not in reconstruction, but in mutual obliteration for the sake of eternal salvation. Poch Suzara

Repentant Sinners

If God, at any time, could easily and readily forgive repentant sinners, then Christ totally wasted his energy dying on the cross for the sins of the world.

In the meantime, I ask: what exactly have we Filipinos got anything to do with the death of a Jewish Son of God on the cross in a Jewish land as written by Jewish authors of God some 2,000 years ago? Poch Suzara

God’s Kingdom

“My kingdom is not of this world. John 18:26. Well, if this were the case, why would God bother with our world to begin with? Isn't it already too much that we have to bother with deviltry, must we also bother with divinity? Leave us alone! Poch Suzara

Wanted

Dead or alive. Anyone who can make me feel ashamed that I am an atheist. The Christians, Muslims, and Jews in this 21st century still hating and killing each other in God’s name all make me proud that I am an atheist. To think that as an atheist, there is no room for me in a foxhole. It is already standing room situation only. Pretty much occupied by Jews, Muslims, and Christians at war against each other since God knows when. Poch Suzara

Biblical Stupidity

My Strength is made perfect in weakness. 2 Cor. 12:9
Corinthian must have been steep in stupidity. There is no such thing as strength. There is no such thing weakness. There is only the perfection of stupidity especially as it is at home with eternity.

In the meantime, a divinity who already has the power, the kingdom, and the glory should have no need of a stupid bible to spread his word anywhere? To think bible believers continue to be impressed with such religious strength or, as the case may be, - religious weakness. I'd rather be impressed with religious sanity, if in fact, there is such a thing. Poch Suzara

Biblical Diet

“And I took the little book out of the angel’s hand, and ate it up; and it was in my mouth sweet as honey: and as soon as I had eaten it, my belly was bitter. Rev. 10:10. Such is God’s sacred word as a biblical diet. Poch Suzara

Psuedo-atheists

Our schools, colleges, and universities continue to twist the minds and distort the hearts of students with stupid religion. The religious morons, however, are still insisting that we must take it easy and be rational in treating such ancient barbarism.

In the meantime, I ask: how exactly could we grow as a people and develop as a nation when we our motto, under Christianity since the 16th century, has been “Take no thought for the morrow,” not to mention “Resist not evil?” Poch Suzara

Courage Versus Cowardice

Courage has more to do with facing reality as we know something about it. Cowardice is about being afraid of fantasy as we know nothing about it. Poch Suzara

God Bless

Every minute, hour, day, week, month, and indeed, every year during the past 400 years – the words “God Bless” have been said by every one here, there, and everywhere in this only Christian country in Asia.

The result thus far, among other horrors, is the need to know just exactly how blessed we are as a spiritually poor people, and just how blessed we are morally bankrupt nation. Poch Suzara

An Idea

An idea is a greater monument than a cathedral. A cathedral is nothing more than a monument to human stupidity. Look how our mindless politicians in government still visit a cathedral to thank God for his blessings. They are among the wealthiest men and women as public servants of our poor and backward Republic. Poch Suzara

Sales Ability

Your sales ability for the sake of productivity is mostly depended on how you sell first your personality. It is the only way to establish a business relationship based upon credibility, reliability, and indeed, efficiency. Poch Suzara

Free Will

Where in hell was our free will to choose not to be created at all? Especially on this speck of dust called “earth” floating aimlessly in space?

Millions of years before birth, we were non-existing. Millions of years after death, we will again be non-existing. What’s the big fuss all about being gifted with free will by a creator when we have had no say in the matter if we should wish to exist or not? Or, since we are already here existing, even whether we should have the free will as to when we should like to continue existing or not? Free will sucks! Poch Suzara

We Are Not Religious

We are not religious. We are superstitious. We carry false beliefs on our backs. We are crippled by its weight. Under this delusion inextricably mixed with ecclesiastical confusion, we seek individual obliteration, not national reconstruction. Poch Suzara

Wisdom

The religious morons of this world continue to believe that wisdom can only come from the religious answers supplied to them by other religious morons. On the contrary, wisdom can only be the result of, if not by, the intelligent habit of questioning everything.

Take, for example, the claim of Jesus teachings considered as the paragon of wisdom. It is baseless. It is worthless. To begin with, Jesus himself never intelligently questioned the legitimacy of the own birth; especially as His father never legally married his Mother. So what if the Virgin Mary was also taught to take no thought for the morrow as God will provide? What has that got to do with love of mothers and respect for fathers of this world? Poch Suzara

As an Atheist

I am most proud that there are no atheists in foxholes. After all, such foxholes are already filled with Christian and Muslims and Jews killing each other in God’s name.

I am even more proud that there are no atheists installed in our corrupt government. Indeed, all of our corrupt government officials are theists. They all love, worship, and adore God who is always ready and willing to forgive them of their sins and crimes. Poch Suzara

British Convicts

A bunch of British convicts started out Australia some 200 years ago. Somehow, these convicts had faith in the human capacity. They were given a chance at reconstruction, rather than obliteration. Australia today is one of the most advanced countries in the world. She enjoys so much respect and dignity globally.

The Philippines, on the other hand, was started out by a bunch of Spanish Catholic Friars some 500 years ago. These friars loved only divinity. They hated the human capacity. They couldn’t care less about humanity or social sanity. What was most important to them was the spread of Christianity. The Philippines today is one of the most backward, if not the poorest countries in the world. It is the only Christian country in Asia since the 16th century.

Indeed, thanks to the Spanish Catholic friars the holy bible was introduced to Filipinos. Today we Filipinos are still deeply inspired with what the bible teaches: love not the world, neither the things in the world. John 2:15

I have already visited many countries in the Far East and in southeast Asia. I also worked and lived in America for some 17 years. But I have yet to visit Australia – I hope to do so before I leave this world. Poch Suzara

Life After Death

If it turns out that there is life after death and I have yet to do something with a God in hell or with a devil in heaven, I say: no way either way. I would rather kill myself.
If it turns out, however, that I could continue reading more books in life after death, oh yes, yes, yes! I look forward in the next life to building my personal library. I hope to enjoy eternal reading and eternal learning. That’s the only kind of eternal salvation I would be interested in. Oh yes, I would rather be happy with a saved mind. To hell with my saved silly soul. In the meantime, I find it so silly to believe that a God in hell can only be pleased with me for as long as he sees me as religious in being selfish, greedy, stupid, and insane on this earth especially for the glory of the devil in heaven. I cannot imagine myself enjoying peace and happiness in the so-called eternal life with God together with his Catholic saints, not to mention with all of my stupid La Salle teachers. No way Jose. Like I said, I'd rather kill myself. Poch Suzara

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So Sorry

We atheists have no suicidal instincts for the glory of God, neither have we fanaticism enough to fly a plane into buildings. Neither are we interested to hold responsible positions in faith-based government that declares war, death and destruction on other faith-based governments! Indeed, we atheists refuse to have anything to do with the will of God. Poch Suzara

With God, Nothing is Impossible! No Kidding?

Nothing is impossible with God? Oh yes, there is! It is impossible with God to live with us in the here and now, especially to work harmoniously together with us for the betterment of mankind. Especially with us Filipinos - the only Christians in all of Asia. God, obviously, does not exist; otherwise, popes, cardinals, bishops, priests and nuns, not to mention the silly idiotic bible thumpers like Rev. Eli Soriano need not be in big business selling holy lies and sacred deceptions like "Nothing is impossible with God." Wow God, what kind of a God would you be if it were possible for you to have corrected the silly errors you originally made while creating a silly world for Adam and Eve and the silly Talking Serpent responsible for their silly fall? Poch Suzara Twitter# Facebook# Google#

Word Made Flesh

"Worship Me or I Will Torture You Forever. Have a Nice Day. I love you!" God.

I Hate Religion

In general, I hate religion. I hate Christianity in particular. Christianity has done more harm than good in this world. Christianity has taught each and every one of us to love only God up there by hating one another down here. Especially here in the Philippines – the only Catholic country in Asia since the 16th century. In our country, historically as Catholics, we have more love for our pope, cardinals, bishops, priests and nuns for the sake of insanity the next world than we do have love for our country for the sake of sanity in this world. In the meantime, in this already 21st century, it is incredible to see how millions of college-educated Pinoys and Pinays still celebrate the New Year by carrying on with faith in a lot of old Catholic phooey! Poch Suzara

Death

Should we not go straight to the bible to understand the mystery of death? The bible tells us exactly what happens after death. It tells what happens to those who have done right and wrong and reveals the fate of the billions of people who have never known God and His mysterious way of life. The church teaches what the Bible says — but not what it reveals? You need to discover the answers yourself what the unrevealed truth has been all about. You'll be shocked when you find out what the Bible really teaches about what happens after death! As a matter of fact, the bible clearly states in Eccl. 9:5 “The dead know not anything, neither have they any more a reward for the memory of them is forgotten.” Poch Suzara

Deadly Killers

Deadly killers are of all sorts. The deadliest are those who are always killing the beauty of lively thought. Poch Suzara

Man of Pride

Pride is the greatest of sin? On the contrary, it is the greatest of virtue! Listen closely to the last paragraph of a famous song - MY WAY: “For, what is a man? What has he got? If not himself, then he has not; to say the things he truly feels, and not the words of one who kneels. Let the record show, I took the blows, and did it my way.” Such have been the pride of a Frank Sinatra who was a freethinker, not to mention a great singer. Poch Suzara