Disciples's Descendants

“And when he had called unto him his twelve disciples, he gave them power against unclean spirits, to cast them out, and to heal all manner of sickness.” Matt 10:1. I pity, indeed, those disciples gifted with power to heal all manner of diseases failed miserably to cure the sick maniacs who, over nothing, crucified Christ on the cross? But where on earth today are the descendants of those disciples? How come they all disappeared? Perhaps, they are the “faith-healers” in the Philippines today claiming to heal all manner of diseases?
Poch Suzara

The Peacemakers

“Blessed are the peacemakers.” Matt. 5:9. Again, “Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you. John 14:27. A graceful message, indeed, from a Savior who also gracefully admitted: “I came not to send peace, but a sword, and to set families against themselves.” Matt. 10:34-37. And who also peacefully announced: “But those mine enemies, which would not that I should reign over them, bring hither, and slay them before me.” Luke 19:27. And who also gracefully warned: “…he that hath no sword, let him sell his garments, and buy one.” Luke 22:36. Indeed, piss on you too! Poch Suzara

Every Child

Every child born in this world is an atheist, and, if he grows up with faith, his faith differs with the country in which he may happen to be born, or the people amongst whom he may happen to be indoctrinated. His faith therefore is the result of local teachings. Thus, throughout the world the religion of people is determined, by and large, by geographical accident of birth. In the Philippines, the Filipinos are Christians; in Japan, Shintoists; in China, Buddhists or Confucians; in Italy, Catholics; in India, Brahmans; in Indonesia, Muslims; in America, Baptists or Methodists or Lutherans, etc. What these people were taught during infancy they continue to believe up to senility; and they die in the faith in which they have lived. For my part, as I have learned to think for myself, I thank “the gods” I was born an atheist. I am not only free of religion; I am free from religion. Poch Suzara

Faith Versus Reason

To have faith in reason is a needless waste of energy. Reason can easily explain the nature of faith. Faith, however, can never explain the nature of reason. Meanwhile, Reason is not just one tool inside a Tool Box. Reason is the whole Tool Box itself. For my part, I am in love with reason. It has led me to atheism as religion is a malicious authority, and the God of the priesthood industry is a ferocious absurdity. Poch Suzara

Survivors

There are those who thank God for having survived a natural calamity. Those, however, who die from the flood and landslide have no one to thank except begin to enjoy immortality: – the condition of those already dead but who refuse to believe that they are already dead. Poch Suzara

See You in Heaven Hogwash

“My kingdom is not of this world.” John 18:36. Jesus could have been more honest. By simply revealing the exact whereabouts of his kingdom located in which galaxy. And by what mode of transportation to utilize to get there. There are billions of galaxies each comprising millions of planets and stars out there. In the meantime, more than a 100 billion people have already lived and died on this planet earth since God knows when. And yet, as frightened and dumbstruck religious morons, we all want to go to the kingdom of God in heaven, though none of us want to depart away from this kingdom of man on this earth. Poch Suzara

Dead Lazarus

Jesus raised the dead Lazarus back to life. Lazarus was so dumbstruck in that he bothered not any of the inspired authors of the bible to clearly relate to them his discovery of the reality of immortality. Indeed, what is it like to experience life after death; or, at least to convey if there were Americans in Heaven, Arabs in Hell, Jews in Limbo or Filipinos in Purgatory? Poch Suzara

Blessed are the Poor in Sprit

“Blessed are the poor in spirit for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.” Matt. 5:3. I ask: how exactly do we love our mothers and fathers, brothers and sisters, sons and daughters, and yes how do we even love our own life and love this world also if, indeed, we were not precisely rich in spirit? Poch Suzara

The Resourceful God

If God is the source of everything, where was God located to help those who survived after the Tsunami Disaster that killed hundreds of thousands of people and other living creatures, and destroyed billions of dollars worth of properties? Indeed, God is not a lively object, but a deadly subject: the ultimate mystery, not a lovable nor an embraceable entity. For my part, I have great admiration for the Fireman who saves a child inside a burning building considering the Fireman himself did not start the fire! Poch Suzara

The Perfect God

If a perfect God made man in His own image and likeness, how come man is not perfect? In fact, man is still unfinished, crude and incomplete, and still evolving, not to mention burdened with biblical lies and crippled with theological baggage? Poch Suzara

God's Existence

I am told that God has neither a beginning nor an end? Let's assume, for the sake of argument that God has been in existence for more than 750,000,000 (million) years? Now, if I live as long as 75 years on this earth, how much time, in ratio, do I have to end up as a saint of God; or, as the case may be, to end up as a sinner against God? Would you believe that, by a simple arithmetic, I have much much less than 7 and a half miliseconds long to carry out either of the silly infantile task! Poch Suzara

The American Way of Life

In the Protestant bible, it says: “Let no man seek his own, but every man another’s wealth.” 1 Cor. 10:24. In the Catholic bible, it says: “Let no man pursue his own interests, but the interest of the other.” 1 Cor. 10:24. In either case, the inspired author must have had in mind the American way of life when they wrote those sacred verses. Poch Suzara

Wasted Prayers

Civilized humanity in civilized countries have, this week, already sent more than 2 billion dollars worth of food, clothing, shelter and medicine to help the hundreds of thousands of poor victims who survived the Tsunami Disaster in South Asia last week. For love of humanity, more substantial and financial assistance are coming.

During biblical days, Jesus could feed thousands of people on 5 loaves of bread and 2 fishes. He could walk on water, calm the seas, cure the sick, even raise the dead back to life. Jesus promised also that: “In all things whatsoever ye shall ask in prayer, believing, ye shall receive.” Today, for love of divinity, the Vicar of Christ, the Pope is only offering mass and prayer for the dead victims of the Tsunami Disaster. No offer of even crumbs from the Vatican bread for the survivors. Is it any wonder that in shame even priests and nuns are walking out of the Catholic Church each and every day?

As a little Catholic boy myself then, I was always proud of the Pope often praying to the Almighty for peace on earth. Today, as an old man, I am duly ashamed of the so-called “power of prayer.” No peace on earth as yet. Only more disasters from nature as designed by the Almighty. I think it’s time that we better find a substantial meaning for the word “Almighty.”

Those of you who are the heads of governments, of churches, of corporations and associations, of colleges and universities, take heed of what Bertrand Russell admonished for the powerless individuals, “Those who live nobly, even if in their day they live obscurely, need not fear that they will have lived in vain. Something radiates from their lives, some light that shows the way to their friends, their neighbors – perhaps to long future ages. I find many men nowadays oppressed with the sense of impotence, with the feeling that in the vastness of modern societies, there is nothing of importance that the individual can do. This is a mistake. The individual, if he is filled with the love of mankind, with breadth of vision, with courage and with endurance, can do a great deal… Much wisdom remains to be learned, and if it is to be learned through adversity, we must endeavor to endure adversity with what fortitude we can command. But if we can acquire wisdom soon enough, adversity may not be necessary and the future of man may be happier that any parts of his past.” Poch Suzara

Divinity, US Marines, and Humanity

December 25, 2004

Dear Sir:

Mankind has suffered much and continues to suffer much from a disease called “divinity.” If we want a cure, we should only take the medicine called “humanity.”

Thanks for emailing me a photo of the U.S. Marines fervently praying to God in Iraq. Happily, the bible claims that: “The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.” James 5:6. Unhappily, however, the same bible also admits: “There is none righteous, no, not one.” Rom. 3:10.

Abraham was willing to kill his son out of obedience to God. Fighting armies too are willing to obey the word of command without question to their Commander in Chief. The soldier who kills, the bomber pilot that destroys thousands of lives and properties in a minute are indeed heroes due to, if not because of, the principle of unquestioning obedience.

In child sacrifice, the father kills the child for the sake of obedience. In war, however, parents on both sides have an arrangement to kill each other’s sons and daughters for the sake of obedience.

I ask: who benefits from such horrors? Obviously not humanity. Only the church or synagogue or mosque officials in search for more glory on the one hand; and, on the other hand, the homicidal maniacs as heads of government in search for more power. But let’s not exclude the corrupt businessmen in search for more freedom to make more profit. Whatever the case may be, what prevails is not love of humanity, but only more hate and violence and war to please divinity.

Now let’s take a good look at the fighting armies on both side fervently praying to God for victory. The army that is victorious thanks God for the victory. The army that is defeated, however, continues to pray to God for vengeance. Thus, as soon as war is over, we lay the foundation of another. Indeed, there has yet to be a war to end all wars - the war against poverty – especially poverty of the worst kind: - poverty of the human mind and the poverty of the human heart.

Here is Bertrand Russell and I urge you readers to deeply reflect on what this great man simply wrote: “Many a man will have the courage to die gallantly in battle, but will not have the courage to say, or even to think, that the cause for which he is asked to die is an unworthy one.” Meanwhile . . . “Few men seem to realize how many of the evils from which we suffer are wholly unnecessary, and that they could be abolished by a united effort within a few years. If the majority of every civilized country so desired, we could, within twenty years, abolish all abject poverty, quite half the illness in the world, the whole economic slavery which binds down nine tenths of our population; we could fill the world with beauty and joy, and secure the reign of universal peace. It is only because men are apathetic that this is not achieved, only because imagination is sluggish, and what always has been is regarded as what always must be. With good-will, generosity, intelligence, these things could be brought about.” Poch Suzara, Chairman, Bertrand Russell Society, Philippines

Jesus was an Ignorant Fellow

Jesus said: “Love not this world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the father is not with him.” John 2:15. Poor Jesus. He was such an ignorant fellow. He obviously knew nothing of his own father’s creation. Jesus never knew that this world is but a speck of dust in the galaxies. Our Milky Way galaxy is comprised of some 400,000.000,000 stars and planets and according to the science of astronomy – there are more than 100 billion of other galaxies out there. Astronomer Carl Sagan put it quite informatively. In his book COSMOS, he writes: “A handful of sand contains about 10,000 grains, more than the number of stars we can see with the naked eye on a clear night. But the number of stars we can SEE is only the tiniest fraction of the number of stars that ARE. What we see at night is the merest smattering of the nearest stars. Meanwhile, the Cosmos is rich beyond measure: the total number of stars in the universe is greater than all the grains of sand on all the beaches of the planet earth.” Poor Jesus, What a silly waste to preach to parasites living on this insignificant grain of sand somewhere in just one galaxy alone - to love not this grain of sand neither the things that are on this silly grain of sand. Poch Suzara

The Burning Bush In the Catholic Bible

Moses asked the Burning Bush about its identity. In the Catholic bible, the bush replies: I AM WHO AM. Ex.3:4. This is the same Burning Bush whose first commandment says: "I am the Lord thy God. Thou shalt not have other Gods before me." Poch Suzara

Silly Immortality

As an atheist I do not believe in immortality consisting of a “hereafter” because there is no evidence of a “herebefore.” Immortality must connect hereafter and herebefore together or else there is no such thing as immortality. Poch Suzara

Everybody is an Agnostic

The Catholics are agnostic to the Protestant creed. The Protestants are agnostic to the Catholic creed. Christianity is agnostic to Islam as the Muslims are agnostic to the Jewish creed. In the meantime, the enemy of religion the power of reason under the power of knowledge. For my part, I am not an agnostic but an atheist: I have no respect for any of great religions of the world as all, each and every one of them, have been based on sacred traditional lies. Poch Suzara

The Fear of the Lord

The fear of the Lord is not the life of wisdom; on the contrary, it is the death of wisdom. Wisdom comes from doubt as it produced the modern world of science and technology. The ancient world was the child of fear, faith, and primitive beliefs and values. Science is the Savior of mankind; and if mankind is still in trouble, what is needed is not less, but more science. Poch Suzara

Freedom FROM Religion

To enjoy to the fullest the freedom of religion one must first and foremost enjoy the freedom from religion. Poch Suzara

Creationism

Creationism is not science. It is a religion because of its direct dependence on things supernatural, not naturaL. Science, when it has no explanation for anything at the moment, is quite honest enough to admit its limitation. Poch Suzara

The Most Meaningful

The most meaningful of all conflicts is between the scientists and the theologians because it is a serious dispute over the proper method are arriving at the truth by reasoning and observation. The theologians claim that factual knowledge can be attained by what is revealed in the bible. They use the bible to arrive at a vast array of claims which are unverifiable by the scientists. Science is simply the search for purely naturalistic description and explainable of everything in the natural world. Science claims to know nothing of the supernatural world as it cannot be verified or even falsified. Poch Suzara

Paul Contradicts Jesus

“And Jesus said, Verily, I say unto you, except ye be converted and become as little children, ye shall not enter into the Kingdom of heaven. Whosoever therefore shall humble himself as this little child, the same is greatest in the kingdom of heaven.” Matthew 18:3 - 4. Now Paul says exactly the opposite: “When I was a child, I spake like a child, I understood like a child, I thought like a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.” 1 Cor. 13:11 Poch Suzara

Atheist Turning Back to God

There is no such thing as an atheist turning back to God. Which God? Of which religion? Indeed, we atheists respect ourselves always thinking while we are standing up to something. We have no sympathy for those always kneeling down while praying to nothing.
Poch Suzara

Be Like God

The bible tells us to be like God, then on page after page it describes God as Aristotle once put it: “A cold blooded perfection lost in self-admiration.” Isn’t it hard enough for man that God already made man in His own image and likeness?

Guilt Not Love

Christianity thrives not on love but on guilt. For all of its alleged concern for the “poor in spirit,” Christianity does its best to perpetuate spiritual poverty, social misery, and intellectual vacuity. Thus, “Blessed are the poor in spirit for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.” Poch Suzara

It is a Miracle

It is indeed a miracle that in every war, soldiers on both sides pray fervently for victory, but only one side wins. Yet those victorious believe their prayers have been answered, and those defeated do not cease to pray to kill the enemy in the future. God must be so proud of Himself. Poch Suzara

The Death of Christ

There are six descriptions of the death and burial of Jesus Christ and the discovery of his empty tomb and all six do not harmonize with either consistency or uniformity. See the 4 gospel writers; plus the speech of Paul in Acts 13:26-34; and Acts 5:30 where Jesus was not crucified on a cross, but hanged on a tree. Poch Suzara

The Price of Superstition

If you think education is expensive, consider not only the price of ignorance but more so the price of superstition always in friendly terms with ignorance. Poch Suzara

Bible Absurdities

“Every son that is born ye shall cast into the river, and every daughter ye shall save alive.” Ex. 1:22 "But if she bear a maid child, then she shall be unclean two weeks, as in her separation: and she shall continue in the blood of her purifying threescore and six days." (Leviticus 12:5) “And now Moses said unto them, Have ye saved all the women alive? . . . Now therefore kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman that hath known man by lying with him. But the women chlldren, that have not known a man by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves. Lev. 31: 15, 18,19. “Come, let us make our father drink wine, and we will lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father. . . And they made their drink wine that night also; and the daughter arose, and lay with him; and he perceived not when she lay down, nor when she arose. . . Thus were both the daughters of Lot with child by their father.” Genesis 19: 32-36. “For this Melchisedec, King of Salem, priest of the most high God, who met Abraham returning from the slaughter of the kings, and blessed him; . . . Without father, without mother, without descent, having neither beginning of days, nor end of life; but made like unto the Son of God; abideth a priest continually.” Heb. 7:1-3. Where in hell is Melchisedec? How come nobody has seen this fellow anywhere in the world? Obviously, he is still alive. Why Is he like God out there always hiding away from the problems and troubles of our world down here? “. . . Hath he not sent me to the men which sit on the wall, that they may eat their own dung, and drink their own piss with you?” ll Kings 18:27 Another author was equally inspired by God to write down exactly the same silly sacred words: “. . . Hath he not sent me to the mean which sit on the wall that they may eat their own dung, and drink their own piss with you?” Isaiah 36:12 Poch Suzara Twitter# Facebook# Google#

Jesus Was Not a Writer

Jesus never wrote a book or even an article or an essay or even a letter. He wrote, however, on the ground with his finger. See John 8:6. Imagine the Son of the Creator of the universe. He had neither paper nor pencil in the community where He lived. And this is the Savior of the world who could raise the dead back to life, but he could not write down the medical information to help raise the standard of the medical profession of his time and place. Poch Suzara

Free Will

If God gifted man with a free will it means that we have the free choice to choose which religion to embrace or to have faith in. In the meantime, in this world, hate and violence and war are rooted precisely due to, if not because of, none of us have the free will to choose which religion to accept to which to reject, or, for that matter to reject all of the great religions of the world. Poch Suzara

Logic

It seems clear enough that the logic of the theists is based upon the logic of Aristotle made obsolete with the power of Christian ethics. The logic of the atheists, however, is derived from the logic of Bertrand Russell made modern with
the power of mathematics. Poch Suzara

Designer of Nature

There are beauties and ugliness in nature. To believe that there exists a designer means that there is also a manufacturer of nature. Obviously, if there were a manufacturer, it is certainly bereft of taste or quality control. It just continues doing its job manufacturing recklessly, if not meaninglessly, not to mention aimlessly. I ask: where is nature heading? Neither its designer nor its manufacturer, if were there any, knows. Poch Suzara

At The Heart of Everything

At the heart of everything is not an answer, but a simple question leading to even more complex questions. That is how I try to look at everything. No, I am not a scientist or a philosopher or even a mathematician. I just enjoy playing, rightly or wrongly, with my mind – free as it is. Poch Suzara

Poor and Notorious

I have met Filipino women who dropped out of high school in order to support their parents, brothers and sisters. A few have even ended up to be rich and famous. For my part, I dropped out of high school because I wanted to learn and to embark on a lifetime adventure in learning. No, I did not become rich and famous. However, in the world of mediocrity supported by gullibility, I certainly got to be poor and notorious; specially,
as I got to be more studious. Poch Suzara

The idiot Box

Whenever I turn on the TV set I feel like I am really the Sick Man of Asia. After I turned it off watching the morons in action and saying nothing to each other, I feel like I am one of the healthiest man in Asia. Poch Suzara

American Evil

The love of money is the root of all evil. If evil were spreading worldwide, we can only blame the Americans. They love not only making money but also love investing in order to make more money. Indeed, since a century ago, America ceased to be a nation. It has developed to be one gigantic corporation. In fact, Americans, especially via the US government will create real enemies for themselves just for the sake of driving the gears of its economy by going to war against other nations as war is big business. There is money to be made in the business of killing people, if not each other. It used to be known a century ago as the evils of Fascism, then the evils of Nazism, then evils of communism, now it is known as the evils of terrorism. Hidden behind the historical scene, however - is the big business of the same and usual evil of American capitalism. Poch Suzara Twitter# Facebook# Google

Talking to God

We are told that U.S. President George W. Bush of the United States and the Pope of the Catholic Church talks directly to God everyday. We are not told, however, what exactly God says to either of these world famous crackpots. Indeed, when people talk to God, it is called prayer. When God talks to people, it is called "psycho-ceramics." Poch Suzara

Sin

Sin is what we must do first before we can take advantage of the sacrament of forgiveness. Meantime, as Christ died for our sins, let us make His martyrdom more meaningful by the welcome of temptations to commit more sins. Poch Suzara

The Poor Filipino

No doubt, the poor Filipino needs all the break it deserves from the Church and from the
government. But the poor Filipino must also be told to stop fecundating seriously. Do it for fun. Stop producing 1.8 million babies every year for the glory of God in this already very poor only Christian country in Asia. Poch Suzara

Hate and Violence and War

Hate and violence and war are rooted in religion, not in science because in science questioning knowledge is always encouraged and indeed, welcomed. In religion there is only unquestionable revelation as inspired by superstition. If, however, religion would really like to contribute to world peace and goodwill to all men, it must begin to reveal precisely the Revealed Truths. Poch Suzara

Worthless Wisdom

There is no such thing as a worthless wisdom. Anything that’s worthless, to begin with, cannot be wisdom. Unless of course things that are worthless can serve as a horrible example of what wisdom ought not to be. Poch Suzara

Poverty

The worst kind of poverty is the poverty of the mind. A mind is richer not in its simplicity, but in its multiplicity. The Cosmos did not evolved from thought. Thought evolved from the Cosmos. Poch Suzara

Philospher and Priest

The priest has always wallowed in superstition. And thanks to this horror, priests have even managed to drag nations, like the Philippines, down after them enjoying deadly illusion, if not destructive delusions. In the meantime, I love philosophers as I hate the priest. To make his point, a philospher has never killed any priest, whereas the priest, for the glory of God, has killed a great many philosophers. Poch Suzara

The Ultimate Question

The ultimate question, the one that lurks behind all other question is: “Why is there something rather than nothing? It is, indeed, a thrill to know that the main business of science is to deal with that something. It is, however, a threat to know that the main business of religion is to handle the nothing part of that something. Poch Suzara

Science

Science is the only discipline that has reduced the mysteries of religion into nothing but trivialities. In the meantime, if God’s wisdom were beyond human understanding, it follows that there is no one, not even scientists who can claim to know anything about God’s wisdom. Happily, scientists make no such silly claims. In fact, in the scientific community, there is so much lively disagreement as the latest change needed to refine the scientiic enterprise. Poch Suzara

Nothing Is Impossible

Nothing is impossible? Perhaps it is more accurate to admit that the impossible, as far as it goes, is as yet a nothing. Poch Suzara

As a Little Boy

As a little boy at home and in school I prayed often to God to please destroy the devil once and for all. In this way, I will stop praying to God to lead me no more into temptation so that I will commit no more sins. Sadly, God never answered my prayers. Can any one blame me for being a happy and a proud atheist today? Poch Suzara

Our powerful God

Thanks to the powerful prayer to our powerful God during these past centuries the results have been powerful too. We are today the most powerful loser as a people and the most powerful failure as a nation in this only Christian country in Asia today. Golly, in this 21st century, we continue to pray daily to God to give us this day our daily bread and to lead us not into temptation. Poch Suzara

A natiion of Prayers

I ask: how can we become a nation of readers if, on the whole, we lack the basic necessities of life - food, clothing, and especially shelter? Such is the situation in the Philippines. In this the only Christian country in Asia, however, we have no cause for alarm. After all, we would rather be a nation of prayers. Poch Suzara

Non-Reading Filipino

There are, indeed, millions of Filipinos who are holders of college degrees. It is easy to tell who they are. They all have something in common. They hate to read books. In fact, ask any Filipino employed in the government or is in business for himself in the private sector, they will proudly admit that praying daily to God is much more beneficial, more reliable than reading books. Poch Suzara

Having Your Own Mind

Among the wealthiest individuals I have met are those who are in possession of most priceless treasure on this earth: a mind of their own. In this country, prove to the authority of both State and Church that you are willing to be mindless for the rest of your life and you are awarded a college diploma. Poch Suzara

The Truth as Discovered

I hate the theologians. They invent the truth. I love instead the scientists. They discover the truth. Scientists are even honest enough to admit that there are more truths to be discovered. Of course there are exceptions. The scientists together with the college professors who sell their talents and abilities for money to the Military-Industrial-University Complex in the United States of America. I have no respect for such dangerous men who makes a mockery of science. Poch Suzara

Two Great Americans

As far as I am aware, there are only two great Americans that I admire these days: Michael Moore and Ramsey Clark. Both men, in their respective fields, have not ceased telling the world that the United States government at present is headed by a homicidal maniac. If Bertrand Russell were alive today, he would, in the name of humanity, embrace these two courageous Americans with love and respect, and friendship. And to think that in the United States today, there exists a Bertrand Russell Society. Nobody, however, anywhere in the world hears of them, or from them, or even about them. Bertrand Russell himself, in his own lifetime, was consistently outspoken in the global arena against homicidal maniacs as head of government that’s keeping the human race hungry for peace on earth and starving for goodwill to all men, women, and children. Poch Suzara

You Can Play

You can play all kinds of indoor or outdoor games: golf, basketball, football, tennis, poker, scrabble, and even play with yourself. But you must never ever play with your mind; especially if you ain't got any. Poch Suzara

The Power of the Press

The power of the press is derived from human igorance. Just exactly like the power of God. Poch suzara

Diseases

Prayers and creeds are diseases of the free will. Whatever the case may be, for centuries, not health, but diseases have always supported the life of the church. Look at its churches and cathedrals. They are monuments of another diseases called human stupidity. Poch suzara

The Religious People

Religious people tell me that as an atheist I am like a blind man going inside a dark room looking black cat that is not there. I am most happy to report that at least the religious people who are even more blind than I am, have. at least, found the cat. Poch Suzara

Anti-Christ Movementt in the Land where Jesus was Born

Jesus Christ was not born in Europe. He was born in Israel that today is not a Christian, but still is a Jewish State. The Anti-Christ movement in Europe seems utterly ridiculous as compared to the anti-Christ movement in Israel which has long been quite a success. The Jews are still Jewish. During these past 2,000 years, the Jews have never been converted into being Christians or Catholics like the Filipinos have been successfully converted since the 16th century. The term anti-Christ refers to those who deny the divinity of Jesus Christ. Who deny His Gospel as truth. Who deny Jesus and his teachings. Well, if that were so, it follows that there are many more anti-Christ people existing in Israel than anywhere else in the world. Israel, the land where Jesus was born during the 1st century, never got to be converted into a Christian or into a Catholic country. It is still a Jewish State. What could be more anti-Christ than that in this already 21st century? Listen, however, to this famous Filipino columnist - Chief Justice Antonio V. Panganiban. In the Daily Inquirer today, March 2, 2014, he writes: "As I contemplate my life and move toward the sunset, I know that God has woven my many pains and gains into a magnificent tapestry showing His mystical presence. Truly, there is one constancy in my life: the presence, care and providence of our Lord Jesus Christ. To Him, I dedicate all I was, all I am, and all I will ever be." In the meantime, I say to Chief Justice Antonio V. Panganiban, Sir: you sound exactly like the rotten and corrupt politicians always installed in our government - all of them college-educated. All of them MAKA-JESUS. Indeed, in this only Christian country in Asia, there is always Jesus, sweet Jesus, who is always out to forgive all of our stupid sins as a people, and to forgive all of our stupid crimes as a nation. Historian Teodoro A. Agoncillo, in his HISTORY OF THE FILIPINO PEOPLE, wrote: "Self-deception is the worst tragedy of the Filipinos as a people." I say it again: Self-deception comes only from a sick system of education that teach millions of us Filipinos to be faithful and proud to endlessly enjoy poverty in our country; specially, poverty of the worst kind - the poverty of the mind and heart... Poch Suzara Twitter# Facebook# Google#

Again

Again, another storm hit the Philippines. Again, more death and destruction this year than it was last year. Again, in order to remedy the situation only more prayers and so things are just getting worse. Again, we all have the courage to blame Mother Nature, but hardly have we also the courage to blame the original Creator of Mother Nature. Poch Suzara

Philippine Education

Schools, colleges and universities in the Philippines are doing its very best in the business of multiplying more educated losers and educated failures that's keeping the Filipino poor as a people and backward as a nation.Indeed, education in the Philippines has more to do with love for divinity rather than love of country for the sake of common humanity. With college degrees, we Filipinos are not only looking for a better job to come in a foreign country, but also a better life to come in the next world. Poch Suzara

Filipino Bible Scholars

Filipino bible scholars often tell me to stop reading the bible for myself. I should only attend bible study if I should wish to understand fully what's written in the bible. Are they admitting that the bible is not a public book written by inspired authors of God, but a private book written only by Jewish authors. Poch Suzara

If Only Christians

If only Christians would only take the bible seriously by reading it seriously for themselves, they might learn that raising the dead back to life was alrady a common practice in the Old Testament. Raising the dead back to life therefore was no unique miracle from Jesus in the New Testament. For my part, I could not care less about having lost my faith in Jesus. What thrilled me the most was having gained the courage of reason to begin my joyous search for the truth - the world's most noblest of profession. Poch Suzara

Faith in Jesus

Bertrand Russell wrote: "The whole idea of throwing away your life blindly as an imagined service to Christ is a form of glorifying masochism and self-abasement before power." For my part, If christ on the cross had only asked not God to forgive man, but asked instead Man to forgive God - I never would have abandoned my faith in Jesus. Moreover, I certainly still would have the highest respect and greatest admiration of Him as the Son of God. Poch Suzara

The Biggest Bigots

The most sanctimonious of biggots and lunatics in this only Christian country in Asia are the wealthy Filipino criminals - the Drug Lords, the Gambling Lords, the Jesus is Lord Movement, the evangelists, etc. They have not ceased proclaiming in public that God has been good enough to provide for them too. Poch Suzara

The Worst Kind of Poverty

We are repeatedly told that poverty in the Philippines has nothing to do with the population explosion. It has mostly to do with unequal distribution of wealth due to, if not the result of – corruption. As a matter of fact, in this country, we all suffer from poverty of the worst kind – the poverty of the mind and heart. Otherwise, if we were blessed with healthy minds, and healthy hearts - we would not find ourselves: Too poor to solve the problem of our overcrowded barrios, towns, and cities. Too poor to solve the problem of our overcrowded hospitals and health clinics and cemeteries. Too poor to solve the problem of our overcrowded schools, colleges, and universities. Too poor to solve the problem of our overcrowded buses, jeeps, trains, planes, and ships. Too poor to solve the problem of our overcrowded roads, streets, and highways. Too poor to solve the problem of our overcrowded slum and squatter areas. Yes, indeed, we are a corrupt people under a corrupt government blessed by an equally corrupt church. But what could be more corrupt than men and women irresponsible and insensible enough to bring forth unwanted children into our sick and corrupt society? Meanwhile, ask any of the nation’s children who or what or where their parents are – they do not know. Most of these children do know, however, that their parents are busy working in the baby factory. Indeed, millions upon millions of our men have far more job openings for unskilled work in the baby factory than job openings for skilled work in the business of nation building. The fact is, due to population explosion, the Philippine economic pie is getting smaller and smaller. What is getting bigger and bigger however is only the “Pie in the Sky, by and by.” Sadly, not the living, but only the dead, if at all, can partake of this non-existing pie. Is it such a complicated mathematical equation to figure out that It is more practical to feed, cloth, house, and educate children as they are planned products of planned copulation rather than babies to exist as reckless products of reckless fecundation? We are a people still mired in Third World mentality because millions of our mothers and fathers still believe that God will provide. As a matter of fact, even our high government officials have high hopes for the Philippines but not with or from science education, but only from divine intervention. In there hope for the Philippines? Yes there is if we can only learn to be more constructive intellectually, more creative culturally, and more productive scientifically - by being less destructive sexually. Poch Suzara

Atheists Love to Think

I am an atheist. This means I do not live a life of fear and even after I am dead, if at all possible, I hope to carry on my fight against the devils in heaven; or, as the case may be, my fight against the angels in hell. In the meantime, there is no such thing as an atheist turning back to God. Which God? of which religion? Indeed, we atheists have the highest respect for our thinking brains. We think the bended knees in prayers is unworthy of human dignity or self-respect. Poch Suzara

A Failure in Life

I consider myself a failure in life. After all, I am just a high-school dropout; though I am chairman of the Bertrand Russell Society in the Philippnes. However, when a college philosophy professor would ask me which book written by Bertrand Russell did my Russell quotations come from - I certainly feel like a great success; specially as I am also the chairman of the High School Dropout Association of the Philippines. Poch Suzara

In Bible Study

In Bible study, the faithful students believe only those things they cannot understand. They even call it divine wisdom. Others call it being "spiritual." For my part, I call it spiritual stupidity.In the meantime, Christians always brag about verses here and there written in the bible. Hardly, however, do they know the real nature of the whole thematic statements that run through the bible as a web of entangled absurdities, if not shocking
inconsistenceis. Poch suzara

Christ Died

Christ died on the cross on a friday but resurrected back to life on a sunday.He certainly proved, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that death can be a temporary joke by those gifted with supernatural power able to violate the laws of nature. Poch Suzara

Something to Think About

In their own time, our parents, grandparents, and great grandparents faithfully believed in the Second Coming of Christ. Should we as well inspire our children, grandchildren, and great grandchildren to faithfully believe also in the same old religious nonsense? What’s the purpose of a Second Coming if the First Coming were already a great success? Where is Jesus? How come it is taking him so long to make the trip? Perhaps, he is scared as he might be crucified all over again! Was it really important for God to inspire the authors of the bible? Isn’t it far more important to inspire the best part of any book – the readers? Was it really that important for God to have created the planet Earth so tiny that 1,000 of it can fit inside the planet Jupiter and Jupiter so tiny that 100,000 of it can fit inside the sun and the sun small as well in that 500 of our suns can fit inside a bigger sun called “star” out there? If the Christian theologians were under the inspiration of an all-knowing God, how come the theologians have not ceased explaining the unknowable in terms of the not worth knowing? Thou shall not covet thy neighbor’s wife. What about thy neighbor’s husband; especially if his wife is out of town. My La Salle teachers were more eager about the neighbor’s wife leaving town. There was a time when everybody loved, worshipped, and adored God and the church ruled. The historians refer to it as the Dark Ages. What’s so terrible about being an atheist? Like you and everyone else, I too was born an atheist. Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day; give him religion and he will starve to death while praying for a fish. Christ died for our sins. Go ahead – dare to make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing more sins. A man of faith is life a drunkard who clings to a lamppost for support; not illumination. Immortality is the condition of a dead man who does not know that he is dead. Why should we allow God to tell us how to raise our children, who had drowned his own? What kind of an all-knowing and all-powerful God is that who creates faulty humans, and then blames them for his careless mistakes? The believers who believes that the unbeliever of the faith will go to hell after death have the brain of a pig, the heart of a snake, and the conscience of a crocodile. I was expelled out of La Salle high school because since grade school, I consistently refused to believe in anything sacred especially in the teachings I could not fathom nor understand. Indeed, I was thrown out of school for believing precisely that the most priceless treasure anyone can possess in this world is not a stupid soul, but an open heart and an intelligent human mind.

Sex, the Bible, and Bertrand Russell

Motherhood is an offense against God, if the baby is a girl. Lev. 12: 1-5 Eunuchs and virgins are superior to father and mothers, according to the New Testament. Jesus: “There be eunuchs, which have made themselves eunuchs for the kingdom of heaven’s sake. Matt. 19:10-12 The doctrine of the Virgin Birth brands every natural mother as impure. Though Mary got pregnant by God while she was still married to Joseph. The so-called Word of God says ( Paul speaking, 1 Cor. 7:1 ): “It is good for a man not to touch a women.” So birth control or family planning is not a sin after all. 1 Cor. 7 is a course dissertation on marriage. Jesus and Paul preached asceticism – renunciation of the world and its pleasures for a problematical hereafter. They suffered from the failure of guts. The refused to face the realities of life. There are in heaven 144,000 virgin men whom woman has never “defiled.” Rev. 14:1-4 sex is insane. Probably written by an impotent saint. Jesus preached no divorce. Mark 10:2-12 and Luke 16:18. This anti-sociaL teaching has been repudiated by every American state, except the most backward of nations like the Philippines. All the men of the Old Testament were polygamists, and Christ and Paul, the central figures of the New Testament, were celibates, and condemned marriage by both precept and example. Modern prophylaxis and conception control information have revolutionized sex relations, robbing them of terror and fear. The tribal taboos embedded in the bible may be safely abandoned. Let’s be guided by reason rather than by faith or tradition. Genesis 2:16: “Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children.” When a Christian hears a women screaming with pain in childbirth, he reflects that God is getting even with Eve for eating an apple. For my part, I would take any day or night the sexual views of Bertrand Russell as more sane and healthy. Russell saw thru the cruel state of affairs as regards the sexual relationship between men and women: In his MARRIAGE AND MORALS, Russell wrote: “The doctrine that there is something sinful about sex is one which has done untold harm to individual character – a harm beginning in early childhood and continuing throughout life. By keeping sex love in a prison, conventional morality has done much to imprison all other forms of friendly feelings, and to make men less generous, less kindly, more assertive and more cruel. Whatever sexual ethics may come to be ultimately accepted must be free from superstition and must have recognizable and demonstrable grounds in its favor.” Poch Suzara

Sick Kind of Love From Jesus For Filipinos as the Sick Man of Asia

Here’s love, peace on earth, and goodwill to all men, women, and children from Jesus Christ – the Prince of Peace – the God of Love – the loving Savior of Mankind, specially of Filipinos as the Sick Man of Asia: Matt. 8:21-22 “And another of His disciple said unto Him, Lord, suffer me first to go and bury my father. But Jesus said unto him, Follow me; and let the dead bury the dead. Matt. 10:34-35 “Think not that I am come to send peace on earth. I came not to send peace, but a sword,” “For I am come to set a
Man at variance against his father, and daughter against her mother.” Matt. 19:29 “And everyone that hath forsaken houses, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my name’s sake, shall receive an hundredfold, and shall inherit everlasting life.” Mark 10:29-30 “There is no man that hath left house, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my sake, and the gospel’s. But he shall receive a hundredfold now in time… with persecutions; and in the world to come eternal life.” Mark 13:12 “Now the brother shall betray the brother to death, and the father the son; and children shall rise up against their parents, and shall cause them to be put to death.” Luke 12:51-53 :Suppose ye that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, Nay; but rather division. For from henceforth there shall be five to one house divided, three against two, and two against three. The father shall be divided against the son, and the son against the father, and the mother against the daughter, and the daughter against the mother…” Luke 14:26 “ If any man come to me and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, and yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple.” Luke 14:33 “So likewise, whosoever he be of you that forsaketh not that all that he hath, he cannot be my disciple.” Luke 19:27 “But those mine enemies, which would not that I should reign over them, bring hither, and slay them for me.” St John 12:25-25 “He that loveth his life shall lose it; he that hateth his life in this world shall keep it unto life eternal; . . . If any man serve me, him will my father honor.” No wonder Jesus got crucified on the cross by his own brothers and sisters created in His own image and likeness. But then again, who was crucified on the cross? If it was God, why would God cry out” “My God, My God, why hast thou forsaken me?” If it was a man on the cross, what right had he to cry out: “Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do.” Luke 22:34. Again, Jesus in the bible, prays to: “God, the Father.” Yet, Father and Son and the Holy Spirit are one and the same person according to the doctrine of the Holy Trinity. In fact, Jesus admitted that “I and my father are one.” John 10:30. If Jesus could pray to Himself, wasn’t it rather silly that as a God Himself, he could not answer his own prayer? This was 2,000 years ago. Today in the 21st century, I am told that an ANTI-CHRIST movement is on the rise in Europe. But Christ was not born in Europe, he was born in Israel that today is not a Christian, but a Jewish State. How come the Anti-Christ movement in Israel, the land where Christ was born, has been quite a success? Poch Suzara

The Kingdom of the Lord

If the Kingdom of the Lord down here on earth has been a history of hate, violence, and war, what nust be the Kingdom of the Lord up there in heaven? In the meantime, hate, violence, and war have always been the first and last refuge of nations whose motto is:
"In God We trust." Poch Suzara

The Miracles from Jesus

Jesus cured leprosy, made the blind see, the deft hear, the lame walk, and indeed he could even raise the dead back to life. If Jesus, however, had only the deeper sense to remedy the sick mess by making not diseases, but made instead health contagious - there would exist no atheist like me in the world today. Poch Suzara

Jesus and the Truth

If Jesus had only told the truth, whole truth, and nothing but the truth as to when exactly He will be coming back to earth, especially to the Philippines, He need not have admitted to the multitude such foolish claims like: "I am the way, the life, and the truth."

Oh well, what can we expect of the Jewish Savior who also said, especially to Filipinos, that we need not worry or even take thought of tomorrow because tomorrow will take care of itself. Besides, as the Sick Man of Asia in this already 21st century - God will always provide! Poch Suzara

I Hate crowd

As a little boy, I always hated to be in a crowd. I hated to be inside a classroom, a church, a movie theatre, auditorium, etc. I also hated to be with the crowd visiting dead relatives in the crowded cemetery. As more than 100 billion people have already lived and died on this planet, I wlll surely hate the crowd if I end up to be in heaven; or, as the case may be, in hell. It is not possible to enjoy the joys of thought if one were always stuck in a thoughtless, if not mindless - crowd. Poch Suzara

Knowledge

Any knowledge than can stand improvement is clearly not a form of knowledge that is complete, perfect and infalible. Such is not the case with the multiplication table. Bertrand Russell wrote: "The perfect model of truth is the multiplication table, which is precise and certain and free from all temporal dross." Poch Suzara

I Love Bertrand Russell

I love Bertrand Russell. He had the extra ordinary ability to formulate beliefs and assemble evidence for and against them. He also turned Ancient and Catholic philosophy into Modern philosophy. He did the same thing with logic. Now I am neither a mathematician nor a logician, but experts tell me that Russell turned logic inside out and turned mathematics upside down as he succeeded to mathematized logic and logicized mathematics. But I love Bertrand Russell for an even greater reason. He rescued me away from the road to self-destruction by helping me recapture the most priceless treasure stolen away from me when I was a little boy in school - my precious mind. Poch Suzara

The Search for happiness

For a great many painful years I searched desperately for happiness. I traveled in many countries in Southeast Asia and in the Far East. By the time I found happiness, much to my surprise, I found something even greater: - I found myself. The Greek thinker Socrates said it in brief: "The unexamined life is not worth living for man." Poch Suzara

Sick Sex maniac

Genesis 19:32 must have been written by a sick sex maniac as inspired by the devil: "Come, let us make our father drink wine, and we shall lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father." Poch Suzara

Avoid Temptation

To avoid being tempted by the forbidden fruit, stay away from the Devil's orchard. Now isn't this suggestion rather silly? Who created the forbidden fruit and the devil and the orchard to begin with? Poch Suzara

he Master Architect

If the universe had to be designed by a Master Architect, it follows that the Master Architect himself must have been an even more complex a design than his creation. Now who or what designed God? In the meantime, the concept of God did not come from God, it came from human ignorance. Now isn't it rather silly to have faith in human ignorance? Indeed, if the concept of God came from God so should have been also moral values and people everywhere would believe in the same things. There could never be any dispute as to what is right or wrong. There would be no need for laws, policemen, courts, army, navy, or air force. But the history of the world has the the history of conflicts between moral values! Poch Suzara

Roots of Terrorism

The basic roots of terrorism are mostly derived from religious beliefs. Be it the religious beliefs of the Christians, the Muslims, or the Jews. To begin with, religious beliefs never fail to inspire the hate of each other's religious beliefs, specially in God's name on earth and for His glory in heaven. Poch Suzara

As a Little Boy

As a little boy in a Catholic school, I was taught to believe that my existence is a defect and that the most I could do to please God was to seek not recontruction, but only obliteration. I ask: can honest men and decent women today blame me for walking out of the Catholic church? Poch Suzara

The Cellphone

The power of science, logic and mathematics produced the cellphone. Yet, millions of people use the cellphone to promote bible reading - a book that has nothing at all to say about the power of science, logic and mathematics. Poch Suzara

Reduced freedom

If you believe in something, and you autmatically exclude yourself from believing the exact opposite, a few degrees of your priceless freedom have been needlessly reduced. Poch Suzara

The Summit

The summit of all joys is the joy of courage - facing the fact that nature will strike me dead one day; but that I shall die standing up sober, and not kneeling down drunk with lies. Poch Suzara

The Power of Reason

Neither virtue nor values or principles can be derived from blind faith. Such beauties can only be the outcome of the power of reason. Poch Suzara

Lee Kwan Yew

Lee Kwan Yew - the Prime Minister of Singapore was not born-raised-educated as a Christian, He was never inspired by the Word of God as written in the holy bible. Yet with sheer guts, intelligence, and discipline, he was able to transform Singapore from a hell of a place into an Asian paradise. How come our own Philippine government officials, who are all born-raised-educated as Christians, all inspired by God, are all corrupt and if they are good, they are only good for nothing? Poch Suzara

The Priesthood Industry

The church hates reason. It only loves faith; especially blind faith. Indeed, the priesthood industry behind the church could not have survived these past centuries with support from the power of reason. The support came only from blind faith. Poch Suzara

Reason

Those who are afraid to reason are the bigots. Those who cannot reason are the fools. Those who dare not reason are popularly known as the Christians, the Muslims, and Jews who all unreasonably hate each other in God's name and for His glory in heaven. Poch Suzara

Theological Hogwash

The theologians tell me that God gifted me with a free will; yet, at the same time, they also tell me that my freethought is not a gift from the devil, but a curse from God. What kind of theological hogwash is this? Poch Suzara

Analysis versus paralysis

Those who depreciate the intelligence behind critical analysis are no better off than those who appreciate the stupidity behind mental paralysis. Poch Suzara

$ 3 TRILLION DOLLARS

During the last decades, just between the USA and USSR alone, THREE TRILLION DOLLARS have been spent in the arms race. Enough money that could have been used more wisely to alleviate world poverty, medical research in the cure of diseases, and indeed, monies for global education of all children in our world to learn that war is the last refuge of homicidal maniacs specially as they are heads of government. Poch Suzara

College Graduates

Most college graduates, specially in Catholic universities, believe that new knowledge can be discovered by watching CNN or BBC. Indeed, they believe that the truth can be found by just watching television in general. If this were only true, then all schools, colleges, and universities should be abolished. Poch Suzara

Morality of an Atheist

As an atheist my sense of morality has only to do with the health and wealth of the human family creative and productive as a society. Indeed, morality should have nothing to do with the silly deviltry of the Old Testament; or, with the silly divinity of the New Testament. It should have only to do with the spread of common human decency - globally. Poch Suzara

Karl Marx

As a writer, like an artist, I can only perform my work if I feel free as an individual directed by an inner creative impulse. I cannot write if I feel the pressure or dominated or fettered by some outside authority. In the meantime,I entirely agree with Karl Marx: "One needs money in order to write, but one should never write for money." I am proud that I do not write for money. I write to inspire my readers to think courageously for themselvs. Poch Suzara

Jesus

Instead of comng down and take over as president of the United States; or, take over as the Secretary General of the United nations; or, just come down to start cracking the whip to straighten the mess of this earth: is it possible that Jesus is stuck in heaven unable to return as He is still crying: "MY GOD, MY GOD, WHY HAST THOU FORSAKEN ME?" Poch Suzara