The Republic of Rizalia

Our Jose Rizal was arrested, jailed, and put to death by Christianity – his enemy. Indeed, in the Philippines, Rizal was considered a dangerous thinker. Rizal sensibly preached the exact opposite of what Christianity preached: “Our duty is to love our country and our conscience commands that we should do everything that this duty commands.” Rizal also wrote: “I would like the Filipino people to become worthy, noble, honorable, for a people who makes itself despicable for its cowardice or vices exposes itself to abuses and vexations.” As an Asian who has the greatest love, admiration, and affection for Jose Rizal and his ideals and principles and sanity, I submit that until the Republic of the Philippines has been renamed as the Republic of Rizalia – never, shall I ever, again, be proud to call myself a Filipino. I would rather that one day, before I leave this world, I shall refer to myself as a decent citizen of the Republic of Rizalia. Our legislators should begin the process of legislating the new name of our country. I hope they will not be waiting for the Will of God. Such a will has never existed neither has a God. The traditional advice to “become as little children” has never been constructive. In fact, as it goes with another Christian precept – “take no thought for the morrow,” - it has always been destructive. Indeed, we are all born innocent, not guilty. We are made guilty by a stupid system of education. In the meantime, it is a terrible thing to waste the human brain. We usually achieve what we, in life, can conceive with the power of our brains. In the new Republic of Rizalia, we should wish to see more creative joys in life rather than the drab tragedy of widespread poverty as inspired by religious insanity. As citizens of the republic of Rizalia, we need no longer trouble our own house to inherit the wind. Nor should we continue to be the fools as the servants of other fools. Indeed, we should no longer be the poor victims of Christianity - the greatest fraud ever foisted on humanity. We can begin to become a nation of intelligent readers; not childish prayers. We need the morality of initiative, not the morality of submission. The morality of hope, not fear, of things to be done rather than to be left undone. We must stop this business of loving only a God out there by hating one another down here. Our talents and abilities should be the real products of a Rizalian system of education - valuable right here for the development of our own country, and not just employable out there overseas – a drain for our own national development, not a gain. After all, foreign countries are already enjoying Jose Rizal’s high standard of thinking, working, and living based upon the power of science – the real Savior of our world. It is time to grow and mature as a decent people. It is time we develop ourselves as a decent nation. Freedom and democracy and the end of all forms of exploitative controls are good conditions for living the good life - one inspired by love and guided by knowledge. Let us make radical changes for our country. Let us embrace not the love of death, but precisely Jose Rizal’s love of life. Otherwise, for centuries to come, we shall only continue to struggle with our Christian so-called values and beliefs as the Sick Man of Asia. Poch Suzara