Success In Life

Success in life is not only a matter of having achieved the things you want; It is also the ability to reject the things you do not want. In this connection, no one is a total failure, neither is there any one who is a total success. For my part, I am happy and contented to be a successful failure. I don’t want millions. I just want answers to my questions. Poch Suzara

Philosophy and Theology

Theology is the discipline to believe in nothing for the sake of nothing as it is the study of the unknowable. Philosophy, on the other hand, is the discipline to believe in something for the sake of everything as it is the study of the worth knowing. Nevertheless, for my part, I love philosophy: it is comprehension without the necessity of belief. I have no taste, however, for Theology: it is belief without the necessity of comprehension. Poch Suzara

Christian Expectation

What can be expected of a Christian who is threatened by what is modern and logical, but feels even more frightened by what is ancient and biblical? But then again, why should a Christian be a reader of great books, if he does not even bother to read and to understand fully the bible – his own holy book? In the meantime, there is the difference between a person who refuses to read and a person who cannot read at all! Poch Suzara

The Bible Says

Everything that is impossible with men is possible with God. If this were true, how come it was possible for God to have created a happy heaven for his creatures called “angels”; but impossible for God to have created a happy earth for his creatures called “men, women, and children?” Poch Suzara

Fear

We were taught to fear God and to fear the devil. To fear life and to fear death. To fear the mysteries and to fear the complexities. As an atheist, I am saying let’s stop all this fear of nonsense. Fear is unworthy of self-respecting human beings. Bertrand Russell reminds us: “When a man allows one kind of fear to dominate him, he soon comes to be dominated by other kinds also.” Perhaps, there is an exception; for, I always felt it right to fear human stupidity, especially as it dares to compete even against infinity. Poch Suzara facebook@ Twitter@ Atheist@ google#

History of Science

If the history of science shows us anything, it is that during these past thousands of years, religion has never, not even for a day, played any vital role in any way whatsoever eliminating fear, hate, and ignorance as science continues to be on daily basis. Poch Suzara

The Believer

The believer who claims that he never doubted the Christian doctrines taught to him to believe and to have faith in and who seems not bothered mentally as he also claims to be enjoying his sanity – has got to be a believer with the heart of a snake, the conscience of a hyena, and the spirit of a crackpot. Poch Suzara

What I Shall I Do

A follower asked: “what shall I do to inherit eternal salvation?” Jesus replied: “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your strength, and with all your mind.” Jesus lied. Otherwise, if Jesus were truthful, He would referred the poor fellow to what was already a revealed truth in the Old Testament: “The dead know not anything, neither have they any more a reward.” Eccl. 9:5. Poch Suzara

The Philippines

The Philippines was once the most glorious place on earth. It had beautiful beaches, rivers, lakes, mountains and forests. The Filipino was once the most handsome, intelligent, humorous and hard working people. They travelled around the world and have been known to be the carriers of peace and goodwill to all men. For centuries, the Philippines was known as the “Pearl of Orient.” Today, however, it is famous as the “Payatas of the Orient.” Indeed, there is only that one same ugly problem that, in the modern world, continues to keep the Philippines poor and backward: the college educated men and women installed to be the leaders of the nation. Poch Suzara

Who Is God

Science has no answer to the question: who are we and why are we here? Well, neither has religion. Religion, however, has a wild guess. It claims that God created us and that is why we are here. However, if this were true, then we must ask: Who is God? Where did He come from? Why is He way out there? Why is He not down here? Poch Suzara

We Atheists

As atheists, we should address ourselves thoughtfully to the reduction of human suffering. No need to thoughtlessly negate the task of educating people to believe that this world is our world. It is the only world we know. There is no other world out there for us after we are dead. Robert G. Ingersoll wrote: The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. And the way to be happy is to make others also happy.” Poch Suzara

A Devout Christian

A faithful believer who never, not even for a moment, doubted the Christian doctrines taught to him to believe and who does not go insane has the heart of a snake, the conscience of a hyena, and the ambition of a crackpot. Poch Suzara

A Stupid Man

A stupid man, devoid of intellect, believes, naturally, everyone is just as stupid as he is. Sometimes,it is true, I envy the stupid man. He has no need to pursue new or fresh ideas to make sense of life. He sees nothing around him. He is more comfortable and happy holding on to his blind faith that got him to be stupid to begin with. Poch Suzara

A Reader Writes:

For you not to believe in God, you sure do talk about Him a lot. It seems you are obsessed with Him, only in a bad way. So you believe there's no God? I can only say this, when you depart from this world, you had better be right. I would rather believe there is a God in Heaven and be wrong, as to believe there were none, and be wrong.”

My response: to begin with, who told you that after death we can depart away from this world unto a next world? Where is that next world located? Do you have a map on how to get there? And how do you know it is a God, not a Goddess out there waiting for you? All I know is that this world is our world. The only world we know. But then again, if there were indeed life after death, then we must do our best to leave this world a better place than how we found it. At least as a legacy for our children’s children. Why concern yourselves with eternal salvation since there is first the works needed to improve human civilization? As to my obsession with a God that does not exist, I plead guilty. What other harmful idea is there that has done more harm to mankind than the silly idea that there is a God existing out there so full of love and mercy and justice for people on this earth? Thank you for writing. Poch Suzara

Another Reader Writes

“Isn’t religion meant to be flawed since the proponents are flawed themselves? Religion has indeed brought out the worst in people but we can’t refute that it has also brought out the best out of people. Nothing is absolute. There may only be balance in this crazy world we live in. Even though, the God concept maybe a lie, what a beautiful lie it is with an amazing placebo effect. I have come to believe that humans need to have something greater than themselves to aspire too... to follow. Is that so wrong?” My reply: Why ignore our family, our country, and all of mankind – that are greater realities than ourselves? Why negate such beauties? You admit that the God concept may be a lie, but what a beautiful lie it is with its placebo effect? Indeed, the placebo effect of such lies have tremendously helped the Vatican in this century to be worth more than THREE TRILLION DOLLARS in cash, properties and other assets? Are you saying that the Philippines – the only Catholic country in Asia – should remain poor and backward by maintaining for itself more of the religious lies in the centuries to come? Do you really believe that a lie has brought out the best among Filipinos as a people? In the meantime, listen to Bertrand Russell: “There is something feeble, a little contemptible, about a man who cannot face the perils of life without comfortable myths.” Poch Suzara

Christians in the Philippines

Christians in this God-forsaken Philippines cannot afford not to love and worship and indeed cannot live without God. This is only because there is no one else but God who can forgive daily sins as well as pardon daily crimes. Indeed, thanks to the Sacrament of Forgiveness we are all enjoying ourselves as a society of sinners, and also proud of ourselves as a nation govern by insane criminals? In the meantime, what growth and development can be expected of a nation where its people are educated to save, first and foremost, their silly souls by belittling the power of their minds and hearts? Poch Suzara

Faith in Divine Garbage

If God were the first cause of everything, how come as the Original Creator He was not the first cause of the Original Sin? Why blame Adam and Eve? As a matter of fact, for the Fall of Man, I should blame first the devil who, in the shape of a Talking Serpent, molested Eve to bring down Adam. But here’s a better question: who do you really blame when you meet people whose views have been twisted and distorted by their faith in divine garbage? Poch Suzara

Christ Guilty of What

Was Christ guilty of heinous crimes that He deserved to be crucified on the cross? Luke 23:5 says: “He stirred up the people, teaching throughout all Jewry, beginning from Galilee to this place.” According to John 18:1, however: “Then said Pilate unto them, take ye him, and judge him according to your law.” The Jews therefore said him: “ It is not lawful for any of us to put any man to death.” Why then should the Jews want Christ be put to death on the cross for teaching Jewry? Poch Suzara

Power for the Apostles

“Then he called his twelve disciples together, and gave them power and authority over all devils, and to cure diseases.” Luke 9:1. Indeed, with such power and authority, the disciples were able to resurrect the dead Jesus back to life. Sadly however, they could not apply the same miraculous power and authority to raise to life their own dead mental faculties. Otherwise, they could have also raised their own Jewish land and Jewish people into a Catholic country like they did the Philippines - the only Catholic country in Asia since the 16th century. Poch Suzara

The Lord Is Gracious

The Lord is gracious, and full of compassion: slow to anger, and of great mercy. The Lord is good to all: and his tender mercies are over all his works. Ps. 145: 8 – 9. If that were the case, why did the Lord together with his relatives in heaven create hell for the relatives of Adam and Eve on earth? But then again, what can one think of a Lord so gracious and full of compassion - who can create a universe, but unable as yet to create land for His Chosen people – the Jews on this earth? Poch Suzara

If Atheism were a Religion

If Atheism were a religion, how come we Atheists have no faith as Atheism has nothing to do with the diffusion of fear or the confusion of ignorance? On second thought, perhaps Atheism is a religion. After all, we atheist believe that the theists created God in their image and likeness. Poch Suzara

A Loving and Merciful God

God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie: that they might all be damned. 2 Thess 2:11-12. Indeed, a religion, even if it calls itself the religion of love and mercy, must be hateful and unmerciful to those who do not agree to belong to it. Poch Suzara

Buddha Before the Time of Jesus

Prove all things; hold fast to what is good. 1 Thess 5:21. How true, except for the historical fact that Buddha, the atheist that he was, already said the same thing thousands of years before the time of Christ. Poch Suzara

Jesus - Apathetic to World Peace

Although Jesus possessed the miraculous powers to put an end to killings between men via wars between nations, Jesus accepted the concept of war with these admissions: “And ye shall hear of wars and rumors of wars: see that ye be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet. For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. Matthew. 24: 6-7. See also see Mark 13: 7-8. Poch Suzara

A Real Saint

God has yet to canonize not a good for nothing, but a good for something saint: The saint who has ceased helping the poor because he has finally eliminated poverty out of the community permanently. The saint who, with the miraculous powers from divinity, has successfully abolished mental slavery as that is the root-cause of misery and poverty and indeed the foundation of a sick and sinful society. Poch Suzara

Who are the Freethinkers?

The freethinkers are just like the scientific thinkers. They do not have all the answers, but they are always open to all the questions. In fact, the freethinkers and the scientific thinkers are always more fascinated with the questions than they are with the answers. After all, the answers, in time, become obsolete, if not irrelevant. Indeed, without the freedom to think freely or to think scientifically, we could not formulate deeper questions for ourselves in the search of the truth. Poch Suzara

Science and Immortality

Science tells us that for immortality to be a reality, it must consist of both HEREAFTER and HEREBEFORE or else there is no immortality. Only the infinity of stupidity. Indeed, why should immortality begin only at birth? And to think that despite the promise of eternal salvation, the after-life of heavenly bliss, most people will do anything to postpone the inevitable triumph of biological death. Poch Suzara

100 Billion people

More than a 100 Billion people have already lived and died since Christ died on the cross. A great many of them have been killed in wars waged in God’s name and for His glory. And to think that God is still so desperate, if not so lonely. He seems to need, insatiably, more love, more worship, and more adoration from more people. Is God that cold-blooded perfection so lost in self-admiration? In the meantime, most religious people have beliefs that are quite childish. Specially as such beliefs are based not upon the reality of evidence, but upon the fantasy of evidence otherwise known as divine providence. Poch Suzara

My Wicked Dream

My religious friends and relatives believe me to be a wicked man as I related to them my dream: to establish a public library in every town in the Philippines. And the main part of those public libraries will also serve as the Center of Information for family planning and birth control for both college school boys and college girls and for married and un-married couples. Poch Suzara

The Greatest Curse

Religion has been the greatest curse to mankind. Its services and promises are nothing compared to the damage religion has done to the human brain for clear and honest thinking. Indeed, the human brain that’s needed for developing not only man’s high standard of living, but more especially for cultivating man’s higher standard of thinking. More to the point, however, Bertrand Russell aptly put it this way: “I think religion has done a great deal of harm, largely by sanctifying conservatism and adhesion to ancient habits by sanctifying intolerance and hatred.” Poch Suzara

Filipino problems

The Filipino problems we face today cannot be solved at the same level of thoughtlessness we were at yesterday when we created such problems. But then again, in this only Christian country in Asia, who cares for the power of ideas, especially those in the free market of ideas? I ask: how can we ever enjoy a healthy and a growing democracy when such form of government is utterly worthless unless based upon the power of human knowledge? Poch Suzara

What American Values

In America, under the leadership of George W. Bush, the Ten Commandments of God are far more valuable than the ten amendments of the Constitution. Indeed, for the sake of waging war against other countries such as Iraq, never mind the Bill of Rights. Just enjoy the rights and the insanity of paying your share of the war bills. No doubt, as president of the USA, and his warlike solutions to global problems, George W Bush is a grace to American race; unfortunately, however, to the human race – a disgrace. Poch Suzara

American College Graduates

Most American college graduates believe that Jesus is their personal Lord and Savior. No need therefore to wonder why the Christian Americans have no qualms about going to war to get rid of the Muslims for not believing in Jesus as the Son of God. It is really tragic. Jesus is mentioned by name 93 times in the 15 different chapters of the sacred scripture of Islam. Jesus in the Quran is called a prophet, a messenger, a Word from God, the Messiah, and one inspired or aided by the Spirit of God. Poch Suzara

No Travel Document

None of us had travel documents when we arrived on this planet. We carried neither a passport nor a visa. In this world, therefore, technically speaking, we are all illegal aliens. Fortunately, we are legal citizens of this or that country. Hopefully, one day, we will all be even more fortunate: We will become citizens of the world under one government. It would all really depend on the intellectual vision of those with aims and ambitions who are already in charge as heads of the United Nations in this 21st century. Poch Suzara

Insanity versus Jazz

My critics say that I may be an insane fellow as evident by my insane writings. I totally agree. The only time I feel the joys of sanity, however, is when I am with my sane, young, and beautiful sweetheart, the freethinker that as she is; or, when I am playing the drums. Indeed, I am a jazz drummer. My sweetheart is a jazz lover too. We both think that devoid of mainstream jazz - life in this world is not worth living. Ah jazz, it surpasses only love – a rhythm, harmony and a melody by itself. Poch Suzara

As A Devout Atheist

As a devout atheist I wish I had the time to hate the Christians, the Jews and the Muslims. However, as I painfully see the great religious believers of our world already pretty much inspired, if not embroiled in hate, especially hate of themselves, if not hate of one against the other, I thought I’d better devote my energy to studying and understanding evil otherwise also popularly known as the great religions of the world. Poch Suzara

Descendants From Apes

I envy the apes in the jungle. None of them are known to be religiously insane or politically stupid. None of them heard about the Word of God. Apes do not go to war to kill other apes in God’s name. Apes do not pray inside a church, or worship inside a Mosque, or adore inside a synagogue. In fact, if there were anything that’s immoral with the apes, it is that they evolved into becoming Christians, or Muslims, or Jews whose existence continue to keep our world wracked in hatred – always a threat to peace on earth and goodwill to all men. Poch Suzara

The Curious Cat

Curiosity killed the cat. At least, before she died, the cat with a bit of wisdom, was curious. And to think that curious cats never attended Catholic universities all established under the inspiration of divine wisdom in the Philippines. Poch Suzara

In This 21st Century Philippines

In this 21st century Philippines, we Filipinos are still calling on the Lord to ask him for the grace to make us worthy of His healing our land. When the wounds, however, do not get healed, we do not blame the Lord; instead, like silly children, we blame each other. I ask: what has any one individual born a Jew in Israel some 2,000 years ago, and who could not even heal the wounds of his own country, have anything to do with healing the wounds in the Philippines? Golly, to think that Israel is not a Christian country; it is a Jewish State. To think further that as far as the Jewish ancient history is concerned, Jesus, the Son of God, never existed. Specially the Jesus who walked on water or changed water into wine at a banquet where the invited guests were already inebriated. Poch Suzara

If Jesus

If Jesus had only the capacity to have shown men how to conquer fear and ignorance with the power of knowledge, at this time surely, his devout Christian followers should already be enjoying peace on earth and spreading goodwill to all men. Sadly, instead of inventing the microscope to help improve the science of medicine; or, inventing the telescope to help improve the science of astronomy; or, since he worked part time at it, inventing the tools to help improve the art of carpentry, Jesus instead invented faith – the faith of a childlike innocence and trust to misguide the human capacity away from the good life inspired by love and guided by knowledge. Poch Suzara

Free Will

How wonderful of God to have gifted me with a free will to choose whether I would like to go to heaven or to hell. How terrible, however, I can only choose eternal salvation in heaven or eternal damnation in hell only after I am dead, and not while I am still alive. But then again, if I truly have free will, should I not be able to totally reject choosing either destination as I would rather just be left alone? Poch Suzara

Heretics

Hypatia, for being a heretic, was killed by Bishop Cyril of the Catholic Church in the 5th century. Bruno, a Catholic monk, but for being a heretic, was burned to death by Cardinal Robert Bellarmine of the Catholic Church in the 15th century. The Catholic Church also committed the same crime against Jose Rizal in 1896 for a being a heretic. He was executed by musketry. The Church even lied to the Catholic community that Rizal retracted before he died. In this 21st century, as a devout and a faithful heretic myself, I sing to the Catholic Church: “What now my love, now that you have found me!” Poch Suzara

The Revealed Truth

Ironically, the truth behind the REVEALED TRUTH has yet to be REVEALED. Otherwise, why are there ten thousand different sects of Christianity misunderstanding and fighting each other over what is the true nature of the revealed truth? In the meantime, where is the Universal God who has yet to reveal, for the whole of mankind, one universal religion? Poch Suzara

Atheist Are Not Communists

There are indeed religious morons who believe that all atheists are communists. This is not true. Henry Ford, Andrew Carnegie, Clarence Darrow, Luther Burbank, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, Thomas Edison, Mark Twain, H. L. Mencken, Abraham Lincoln, Thomas Jefferson, Marlon Brando, Katharine Hepburn, Carl Sagan, Albert Einstein, and Bertrand Russell - just to name a few, were all atheists. You would be a religious moron if you believe that such great and famous atheists were also communists. Poch Suzara

The Jews

Israel is the Police Dog guarding the American oil deposits in the Middle East. One day, science will discover new sources of energy better and cheaper than oil. At that time, as soon as those new energy sources are in the open market, the Americans will have to find other kinds of employment for the Jews in the Middle East. Poch Suzara

Not Fighting God

I am not fighting God. More precisely, I am fighting the concept of God based upon ignorance that’s primarily responsible for the destruction of the Filipino mind and heart since the 15th century. It was at that time that the Spanish colonizers arrived to introduce the Christian God in the Philippines that has never ceased to make a mockery of this “Pearl of the Orient,” or better known these days, as the “Payatas of the Orient.” Poch Suzara

Who

Who, in the world of science and technology, have we tried to seek out to express our sense of gratitude especially to those atheistic scientists who invented the cellular phone and the Internet computer for us? The same scientific machines we all miraculously utilize everyday to spread the Word of God – the same Word of God that’s forever keeping the Filipino poor in science as a people and keeping the Philippines backward in technology as a nation? Poch Suzara

Science and Religion

Science improves with the never-ending pursuit of the honest truth. Religion, always at variance with mortality, improves only when put to rest in peace in a cemetery. Poch Suzara

In The End

Our entire world is only one grain of sand called earth circling around another grain of sand called the sun in a galaxy that contains 400 million other grains of sands called stars, and is itself only one of the billions of countless galaxies. Our own sun will eventually grow old and cold one day, and life on this earth will cease to exist. The cosmos, however, will continue to exist, utterly apathetic as to whether or not there exists for mankind a divine Savior. Poch Suzara

Silly Theologians

While the silly theologians have been arguing back and forth as to how best to serve the multitudes for Christ’s sake, specially in the modern world, - atheist Albert Schweitzer, more than a century ago, already disclosed: “There is no higher religion than public service. To work for the common good is the greatest creed.” Poch Suzara

Is Christianity A Failure

The failure of Christianity is symbolized in the statue of Christ crucified on the cross. Indeed, If his mission on earth to save man were a success, statues of the Risen Christ would be colorfully displayed everywhere in the Christian world. But then again, what was the purpose of dying on the cross when Christ possessed the miraculous power to resurrect Himself back to life? Moreover, after he resurrected, why did He surreptitiously appear only to His apostles, and not to the public at large among whom were those who had Him crucified – the unbelievers of the faith – the Jews! Poch Suzara

Possible With God

Is it possible for God to commit suicide? No, because suicide is a mortal sin and God killing Himself might end up in hell. But then again, God in hell is not such a big of a deal. His theologians have always claimed that God is everywhere anyway. Poch Suzara

Bertrand Russell and Fidel Castro

I love and respect Bertrand Russell of England. I also have the greatest admiration for Fidel Castro of Cuba. Both gentlemen have had the honor of frightening the United States government. Russell with the power of philosophy promoting pacficism. Castro with the power to go against the American economy for the sake of communism. Such great men are indeed a rarity in our world of global militarism protecting neither liberty nor democracy, but only crass commercialism. Poch Suzara

Religious People

Imagine the religious people of this world. They would rather hope after death to meet not their ancestors, but look forward only to meeting an invisible creator called “God.” The same God in the bible who defined Himself as “I am who I am.” For my part, if there is life after death, I look forward to be with my parents, grandparents and great-grandparents once again. Specifically, I would like to meet and be with my maternal great-grandmother Lola Titay. While I was a little boy, I remember her often taking me not to church to pray, but to places like the Santa Ana Race Tracks in Manila to play the horses. I also remember we would always stop to smell flowers along the way home. I never knew it then, but I think she was an atheist. If indeed, I will ever see her again in the next life – I will embrace her as one of my most loveliest and kindness of relatives. Poch Suzara

The Kindness of God

During ancient times, God had the kindness to send an angel to console and to assist a Jewish pregnant girl. In this modern times, however, he continues to ignore the millions of mothers and their children struggling to survive daily in the slums of the major cities in the Philippines – the only Christian country in Asia. Poch Suzara

What If

What if, after death and in heaven, we find, surprisingly, that God turned to be a Filipino? Shall we still be able to love, worship, and adore Him? No, of course not. Everybody knows God is a Jew. He is not even an Arab. How can God be a Filipino? As a matter of fact, according to the bible, God made not man, but made only the Jews – in His own image and likeness. Poch Suzara

Misery and Democracy

Christianity has survived during these past centuries because it insured for herself what precisely it feeds on – human misery. Indeed, Christianity has always had a vested interest in human misery. Of course, it is not called misery. It is more popularly known as “sacrifice.” Nevertheless, misery is best defined as a state of chronic suffering and unhappiness. Christianity has even made a mockery of our democracy by seeing to it that we Filipinos continue to be under a theocracy and therefore, in the here and now, to live in misery and indeed, in poverty both spiritually and morally. And the most effective way to maintain these horrors is to see to it that there is no such thing as government education sponsoring family planning and birth control measures practice in our democracy as blessed by Catholic theocracy. Poch Suzara

I Am Often Ask

I am often asked why am I angry with divinity. I continue to reply that: “I am not only angry at divinity, but also angry at human stupidity as inspired by traditional theology.” As a little boy in school, I was taught to believe that “anger” is one of the seven deadly sins. I vehemently disagreed. Specially as my teachers could get angry at me but I could not get angry at them for teaching me not how to think; only what to believe; especially to believe in a lot of holy garbage such as a foreigner, a Jewish fellow born in a foreign land some 2,000 years ago is the Savior of the Filipinos in the Philippines. Poch Suzara

Hitler's Christianity

Hitler's Christianity
To deny the influence of Christianity on Hitler and its role in World War II, means that you must ignore history and forever bar yourself from understanding the source of German anti-Semitism and how the WW2 atrocities occurred.
By using historical evidence of Hitler's and his henchmen's own words, this section aims to show how mixing religion with politics can cause conflicts, not only against religion but against government and its people.
Hitler wrote: "I believe that I am acting in accordance with the will of the Almighty Creator: by defending myself against the Jew, I am fighting for the work of the Lord.." As a boy, Hitler attended to the Catholic church and experienced the anti-Semitic attitude of his culture. In his book, Mein Kampf, Hitler reveals himself as a fanatical believer in God and country. Seig Heil! Praise the Lord!
From the Desk of: Poch Suzara

God Almighty Insecured

If ye walk contrary unto me, and will not harken unto me; I will bring seven times more plagues upon you according to your sins. I will send wild beasts among you, which shall rob you of your children, and destroy your cattle, and make you few in number; and your highways shall be desolate. Leviticus 26: 21-22

To Please God

Six million people do things everyday to please God as if His supernatural power were that worthless in that He could not, instead, please six billion people on this earth today. Poch Suzara

History

History of most countries is about the struggle between tradition and revolution. Revolution usually means change for the better. In the Philippines, however, history is about the play between religious stupidity and politically insanity in cahoots together. The changes have never been for the better. It's the same history of missed opportunities. In fact, the political clowns together with religious clowns end up to be in charge of the same old historical circus that is keeping the Filipino religiously poor as a people and keeping the Philippines politically backward as a nation. Poch Suzara

Bible Scholars

It is glaringly obvious, if not alarmingly translucent that not all of the bible scholars were inspired by the same Holy Spirit; for, if they were, they would all belong as members of the same church today. Throughout the world, there are more than 10,000 different sects of Christianity each hating the other due to, if not because of, the failure to uniformly understanding bible messages. Poch Suzara

SILLY OPINION

Opinion is the only thing known to science that can be created out of nothing. Compared to facts, however, an opinion is worthless unless it accords with the truth. We are often told that everybody has a right to his or to her own opinion. This is not true. One does not have the right to an opinion at all. You are not entitled to an opinion on anything unless you have thoroughly studied all aspects, indeed, every facet of the issue in question. In fact, as soon as you are thoroughly familiar with the issue in question, then you are entitled to your own honest opinion. Otherwise, if you were totally ignorant of the the nature of the issue in question, you have no right to have an opinion. In the meantime, millions upon millions of Filipinos have the opinion that the Revealed Truth has already been revealed in the bible. This is not true. Millions upon millions of Filipinos do not bother the read the the bible. It contains not the revealed truth, but the revealed lies and deceptions. Poch Suzara

Faith

We do not speak of faith that the world is round because we already know that it is not flat. Indeed, there is all the room in the world for faith if we do not know what exactly we are talking about and we only want to substitute hard thinking for no thinking at all. Poch Suzara

God

I take God seriously and that is why I do not believe in God. God is such a supernatural wimp, not to mention always sleeping on the job. God has yet to figure out not the beginning but the ending of his so-called “creation.” What a waste of power! Too bad I was not around when God created man on this earth. I would have given Him a few suggestions. I would have suggested that he create a decent mother first and at the same time create decent men around her. In this way, she could produce decent sons and decent daughters. That would have been the decent thing to do; and natural too. And never mind creating Talking Serpents corrupt from the tail down to the core of its own belly! Poch Suzara

What Makes me Happy

A great many things make me happy. Among the greatest is the thought that the Catholic Church is crumbling. I am so happy with the thought that there will be less Catholic schools established in the Philippines to victimize in the future more innocent children with the teachings of the Catholic religion. Imagine in this 21st century, Filipino children are still taught to love, worship, and adore Jesus Christ. This is the same Jesus Christ who was born not in the Philippines, but in Israel some 2,000 yeara ago. Israel has never been a Christian country. It is a Jewish State. Thus, in Israel a synagogue is a place of worship. A cathedral is a monument to historical mediocrity. In the Philippines, however, a catheral is a place of worship. A synagogue is a monument to historical insanity. Poch Suzara

Our College Graduates

Look at our college graduates as president and vice-president of the Republic; as congressmen and Senators; and as our governors and city mayors; not to mention as chief of police. These highly educated individuals, for the sake of the forgiveness of sin and crime will even run to the bishops, another group of men with college degrees whose religious duty it is to keep the Filipino spiritually poor as a people and to keep the Philippines morally bankrupt as a nation. Poch Suzara

The Voice of God

The Catholic Bishops often remind us that the voice of the people is the voice of God. I ask: where was then the voice of God to protect the first people - Adam and Eve – his first children, our first parents - from the evil voice of the serpent that turned out, according to the bible, to be the voice of the devil? Indeed, the same devil still alive and kicking today making sure that we believe the Catholic Bishops not only daily, weekly, monthly and yearly, but also eternally. Poch Suzara

Christianity

Christianity has always had a vested interest in human misery. Look at our misery as a people. Look how we continue to embrace sick values and sick beliefs mostly derive from our Christian education in our Christian schools, colleges, and universities. Look how we are told that this life is but a transition to a better life to come in the next world. Indeed, if this life were the product of a creator, then the next life, if any, must be more miserable than this life. To think that we humans live on a speck of dust comprising the infinity of galaxies. Poch Suzara

The Ability to Think

Man’s stupidity is mostly due to, if from his infinite capacity to believe the incredible, the gullible, and indeed, to believe the inspired authors of the infallible. On the other hand, the ability to think is basic to what it means to be human. It is also the case that to think freely is basic to a free life. It is sad, however, that so much of human thinking is controlled by religious, political, and other social forces based upon a charade of sacred lies, if not a parade of holy deceptions. Poch Suzara

A Stupid Man

A stupid man who never experienced the thought that he might be stupid will enjoy the security of his stupidity for the rest of eternity. There is no hope for him. But if it sometimes occurred to him that he might be stupid, then there is every opportunity to resurrect his sick mind to make it functional as any healthy mind should be operational. Indeed, a stupid man remains stupid for as long as he remains consistently afraid to entertain new and fresh ideas from the free market of ideas. Poch Suzara

Measured Against Time and Space

Human life on this earth is but a wink of an eye in time. We also live on a speck of dust in an infinity of worlds in space. And to think that an invisible God without a beginning and without an end created little visible parasites called man in his own image and likeness on this earth. Poch Suzara

9/11

9/11 was not caused by the sins of feminists, gays, and lesbians as Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson had both publicly declared. On the contrary, the total destruction of the World Trade Center was caused by the sins of the rotten politicians in cahoots with the crimes of rotten businessmen as blessed by those in charge of rotten organized religions keeping our world traditionally embroiled in hatred. Poch Suzara

Banana Republic

The Philippines is a “Banana Republic?” Please let us not insult the clean and green and beautiful banana. A banana is not only delicious to eat but also a healthy fruit to swallow. How can a republic of corrupt men and corrupt women be called a “banana republic?” You politicians in the government, please spare the innocent and decent banana away your dirty sins and rotten crimes. Poch Suzara

Intelligent Designer

If there were a kind and an intelligent designer of nature, such a designer should have designed the woman’s birth canal to be something not painful, but pleasurable when her baby is coming out. Just as pleasurable as when its father’s male organ was then going in. But then again, if a designer shamelessly designed the male and the female organ, for Christ’s sake, why be shameful of such creation displayed in public? Poch Suzara

Scientific

If you want to be scientific in your way of thinking: you must first learn to value observation, and your conclusion from that observation must be tentative as the conclusions itself must still be under further investigation by way of experimentation. Science is about lively analysis. The scientific way of thinking has nothing to do with deadly paralysis. Indeed, science is always tentative. It is never definite or dogmatic. Science is always ready and willing to admit its own errors as it is a self-correcting enterprise. Poch Suzara

What Truth

July 22, 2005

Manila Standard Today

Dear Editor:

The truth hurts. Is it any wonder political lies have been pleasant, and religious lies have been even more pleasant?

I ask: why is it that politics in cahoots with religion have nothing to do with the truth?

In the Philippines, however, in order to find the truth behind government lies and deception and corruption – a “Truth Commission” must first be established with the inspired proposal from the Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines.

In the meantime, if there were only one plain truth so glaringly obvious in our sick society, it is that as products of our schools, colleges, and universities we do not love our flowers and plants and trees. We do not love our creeks and rivers and lakes. We do not love our mountains and forests and islands. As a matter of fact, we do not love our country. We do not even love fellow-Filipinos. We only love God up there by hating one another down here.

For my part, as a Filipino born in the Philippines, I love the truth that I was expelled out of high school in De La Salle University. Indeed, I vehemently refused to continue to believe my silly teachers who were far more in love with what’s useless and divine up there than what is useful and human down here.

Sincerely,
Poch Suzara

Kudos for Walt Whitman

I think I could turn and live with animals, they’re so placid and self-contained, I stand and look at them long and long. They do not sweat and whine about their conditions. They do not lie awake in the dark and weep for their sins. They do not make me sick discussing their duty to God. Not one is dissatisfied, not one is demented with the mania of owning things. Not one kneels to another, nor to his kind that lived thousands of years ago. Not one is respectable or unhappy over the whole earth. Walt Whitman For my part, if I may add, I envy the animals. They have no need to go to school to learn how to pray to God to give us this day our daily bread, and to lead us not into temptation; and also how to pray several times daily to St. John Baptist De La Salle, pray for us and live Jesus in our hearts, forever. Not to mention to learn also how to pray to Mary, Mother of God, to pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of our death, amen! Poch Suzara

The Fear of Thought

More than the fear of the mysteries and the unknown; in fact, more than the fear of God in hell or the devil in heaven, we fear THOUGHT the most. Especially those thoughts that can, and should generate more power - into our thinking capacity. My dear reader, if you wish to discover why we live in a society that’s well-established in thoughtless ways and means, consider these fearless thoughts from: - Bertrand Russell:

“It will be said that the love of mental adventure must be rare, that there are few who can appreciate it, and that ordinary education can take no account of so aristocratic a good. I do not believe this. The joy of mental adventure is far commoner in the young than in grown men and women. Among children it is very common and grows naturally out of the period of make-believe and fancy. It is rare in later life because everything is done to kill it during education. Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth – more than ruin, more even than death. Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible; thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habits; thought is anarchic and lawless, indifferent to authority, careless of the well-tried wisdom of the ages. Thought looks into the pit of hell and is not afraid. It sees man, a feeble speck, surrounded by unfathomable depths of silence; yet it bears itself proudly, as unmoved as if it were the lord of the universe. Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world and the chief glory of man.

But if thought is to become the possession of the many, not the privilege of the few, we must have done with fear. It is fear that holds men back – fear lest their cherished beliefs should proved delusions, fear lest the institutions by which they live should prove harmful, fear lest they themselves should prove less worthy of respect than they have supposed themselves to be. “Should the working man think freely about property? Then what will become of us, the rich? Should young men and women think freely about sex? Then what will become of morality? Should soldiers think freely about war? Then what will become of military discipline? Away with thought! Back into the shades of prejudice, lest property, morals, and war should be endangered? Better men should be stupid, slothful, and oppressive than that their thoughts should be free. For if their thoughts were free they might not think as we do. And at all cost this disaster must be averted.” So the opponents of thought argue in the unconscious depths of their souls. And so they act in their churches, their schools, and their universities.”

Principles of Social Reconstruction by Bertrand Russell

The Voice of the People

Manila Standard Today

Dear Editor:

Columnist Bishop Theodoro Bacani, Jr. has not ceased claiming that the voice of the people is the voice of God. In fact he has recently wrote that: “God does not speak only through the bishops. Often He speaks through His people.” (July 12,2005)

I ask the good bishop: What about the voice of Adam and Eve as the against the voice of the serpent as that was the voice of the devil in the bible? Where was God’s voice then to protect his children – Adam and Eve - our first parents? Were they not expelled out of paradise? Perhaps, Adam and Eve were both guilty of sin. But our politicians in the government as elected by the voice of God are not only guilty of sin against God, but also guilty of crimes against the State.

For my part, I say, let us stop all this vocal nonsense. Our voice as a people need not be the voice of deviltry as inspired by the voice of divine insanity.

In the meantime, I ask: What have you bishops got to do with matters of the State since you are only suppose to be in charge with matters of the Church? Indeed, if the voice of the people is the voice of God, what need have we of bishops to speak for the people to begin with?

I dare say that you bishops should be among the first to resign to remedy the political and the religious mess that’s keeping this only Christian country in Asia perpetually poor and eternally backward.
Sincerely,
Poch Suzara
poch.suzara@lycos.com
July 13, 2005

Noah’s Flood

Only Noah together with members of his family survived the flood - the drowning of the human race by God as He regretted that He had man on this earth. And to think that Noah was never baptized a Catholic. Poch Suzara

Born Ignorant

We are all born ignorant, not thoughtless. We are made thoughtless by education. For my part, I was expelled out of high school for being such a nuisance always asking my teachers too many thoughtful questions. For example, I asked my teacher in religion to give us the devil’s side of his story since we only heard God’s side. Poch Suzara

Philippine Catholic Bishops

President Gloria M. Arroyo said that God often talks to her. In an interview published in TIME magazine, she openly admitted that it was the Lord who made her president of the Philippines. The Catholic bishops envied her as they admitted she is a very lucky lady since God never talks to them though they too talk to God everyday. Poch Suzara

I love America and the Philippines

I love America – a nation govern by criminals. I love the Philippines – a nation govern by criminals too. There is no escape. After all, life in general is the competition to love the criminals or be the victim of criminals. Poch Suzara

Only in the Philippines

We praise our dead saints to high heavens, but insult those saints we elect into high office to run our government even if all the presidents of the Philippines have always publicly declared that “the Lord put me here.” Indeed, in this country, the voice of the people is the voice of God. And yet Filipino college professors believe I am being thoughtless as I insist that our system of government has always been a theocracy, not a democracy. Poch Suzara

What Then

What if God turned out to be an atheist who never believed in the existence of your God, what then? Or, what if the God you have always loved, worshipped, and adored turned out to be a Goddess, what then? After you are dead, what if in heaven you believe you are in hell; or, what if in hell you believe you are in heaven? What then? Or, what if you were moronic enough not to be able to tell the difference? What then? Poch Suzara

King James Bible

The King James bible is a misnomer. It should be called The Queen James Bible. King James loved men more than he cared for women. Poch Suzara

From a Reader

Florita P. Andolong writes in the Manila Standard Today: “When God is brought into any public discussion, we, the readers, should be very careful. God, his power, and the extent of His wisdom are beyond the understanding of any human being – priests and pastors included. This is what my own faith tells me.” (6/28/2005). Indeed, God’s wisdom is beyond human understanding. And as long as we have faith in what we do not understand, it’s popularly known as “divine wisdom.” Poch Suzara

My Road Less Traveled

Mine is the road less traveled; but I am not lost. Most people have yet to reach their final destination on the road most traveled. In the meantime, to travel anywhere is utterly useless if one cannot change one's self; if one only continues to remain selfish, greedy, stupid, and insane. Poch Suzara

America

America is not only about freedom and democracy. It is also about the insanity behind plutocracy – making money. On top of the money-making schemes are, first, the defense industry – killing people is big business; next is the pharmaceutical industry – selling even needless drugs is big business; next is the food industry – selling food that makes Americans addictive to eating more food is big business; next, is the religion industry – selling Jesus Christ is big business. Golly, even the American government, since decades ago, has been stolen away from the American people by giant corporations. All for the sake of making nothing but money. Indeed, it is glaringly obvious, if not alarmingly translucent: America is about the military - industrial - university complex. Even American university professors are earning big salaries for catering to the needs of the military or any other industry that’s closely allied with the preparation for war to liberate countries not yet enjoying the beauty of American freedom and democracy. Poch Suzara

God's War

God and his angels have been at war against Satan and his devils since time immemorial. There seems to be no end in sight for God to finally defeat Satan and stop his evil works that’s keeping our world poor, backward, and destructive. And to think that U.S. President George W Bush prays daily to God to help the American angels win the war against the Muslim devils in Iraq fighting for their country as inspired by Allah. Poch Suzara

Fact and Opinion

Everyone is entitled to know the facts. Nobody has a right to expound his own opinion unless he has explored every facet of the question at issue and is therefore entitled to an opinion. Otherwise, like the great American thinker - Clint Eastwood - said: "Opinons are like assholes. Everybody has got one." Poch Suzara

The Birth of Corruption

Corruption begins in the mind and heart. When our children in school are taught to love not this world, neither the things that are in the world, because if they love the world, the love of God is not with them – it is easy to see the results making for our sick society. And to think all of our so-called sacred values and beliefs have their origin during the age of ancient superstition, the mother of stupidity and the father of timidity. Poch Suzara

Philippine Problems

The Philippines will never embark on a road towards progress and development if she continues to be under the same rule composed of religious morons in cahoots with the same corrupt politicians supporting the same old rotten businessmen. Only men of science and technology can change the rotten system to re-direct the Filipino towards maturity and responsibility as a people and scientific and technological development as a nation. Poch Suzara

Catholicism

It is a clear historical fact – the Catholic Church has successfully kept the Filipino poor and childish as a people and the Philippines immature and uncultivated as a nation. After we Filipinos are all dead and meet with God, I believe we should ask God to forgive us all for having been born in the only Catholic country in Asia. Poch Suzara

Sin

Sin is a ridiculous concept. The created cannot sin against the creator that obviously has more power than the created. To say that we can sin against the creator is to imply that we are just as powerful too. As a matter of fact, we are indeed more powerful: it is we who created our creator. It is we who created our God in our own stupid image and silly likeness. Poch Suzara

Silly Prayers

To teach a child to pray is to teach him how to look to fantasy solution to real problems. But then again, if God were all-knowing, why should he be fatigued with daily prayers? The encouragement of prayer promotes greed, selfishness, stupidity, and insanity. People pray for that for which they have not labored. Prayer also undermines the power of the mind. Prayer causes a weakening of self-reliance and a corresponding deterioration of character. In fact, daily prayers are among the most effective causes that have made us famous as the poor and the Sick Man of Asia. Poch Suzara

Slave Mentality

Filipinos as true Christians are indoctrinated to be slaves, and we know, and do not mind it. The fear of hell has destroyed our spirit of intellectual liberty to no longer work and work hard for social sanity, to no longer question or even entertain any kind of inquiry. Poch Suzara

Poor and Backward

How poor are we as a people and backward as a nation? In this 21st century, we continue to have faith in organized superstition, otherwise more popularly known as Christianity. We have yet to embrace science, logic, mathematics, and reason and our own sense of humanity as the only basis for our system of education. In the meantime, after 500 years of Christianity, even the Catholic Bishops of the Philippines continue to promise that they will carry on the fight for truth and justice in the Philippines as if Christian truth and Christian justice have not yet been established in this only Christian country in Asia Poch Suzara