We Ask What Else Can We do For God

"And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you—ask what you can do for your country." JF Kennedy, President of the United States In the Philippines, since the 16th century, we Filipinos have been indoctrinated by our colonizers to ask not what God can do for us, but to ask, instead, what we can do for God. In this already 21st century, however, via schools, colleges, universities, and seminaries owned by our former colonizers, we are still told that having faith in God is not enough. We must continue asking: what else can we do for God, specially for the Son of God Jesus - our Jewish Savior - who died on the cross for our sins and our crimes! In the meantime, millions upon millions of college-educated Pinoys and Pinays are so proud of the historical fact that we are the only Christian country in Asia today. And more proud that for the glory of God in heaven, we Filipinos have not as yet civilized ourselves as a decent people, nor have we, as yet, industrialized ourselves as a decent nation. Civilization is the triumph of humanity over Christianity. It means the standard of thinking works better than the standard of believing. It also means that the pursuit of life, liberty and happiness works better than the pursuit of a better world to come after death. Industrialization is the triumph of knowledge over ignorance; prosperity over poverty; and, indeed, the triumph of reason over blind faith in a lot of out-of-this world dogma, pigma, and hogma! In the Philippines, we have neither civilization nor have we industrialization. What we have is endless stagnation under perpetual frustration - for the sake of our eternal salvation! And these horrors have been and still are nothing but the product of our sick faith in a sick system of education. Consider the typical attitude of a corrupt official or employee of the Philippine government. Listen to them bragging: "I don't care of the criminal activities increasing in our sick society." "I don't care if Filipino lives are ruined by illegal drugs." "I don't care if more and more of our women are going into prostitution." "What matters is that I am rich. . . it is every man for himself. Indeed, sila sila, kame kame, tayo tayo, bahala ka na sa Dios mo puta ang ina mo." Foremost Filipino Historian Teodoro A. Agoncillo wrote: "Self-deception is the worst tragedy of the Filipino as a people." I regret to say that this is just one of the minor terrible effects of a much greater horrible cause that's keeping us Filipinos spiritually poor as a people and morally backward as a nation: CHRISTIANITY. Look at us millions of Filipinos in this already 21st? We are still sick as the Sick Man of Asia. We are still praying to God to "give us this day our daily; and to "lead us not into temptation." "and also still praying to Mary, Mother of God to: "pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of our death, amen." Oh God, my dear God, as you are already a God, and have been a God since the days of Adam and Eve, do you really need more prayers from the millions of poor Filipinos today already faithfully serving you daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly? I ask: What are you a God for? Why do you still need more glory and for what? Come on God, isn't it time for you to WAKE UP and start behaving like a real honest-to-goodness kind and loving God? Really God, what are you a God for? For Christ's sake you even need Catholic priests or Christian Brothers to be in charge of the SICK SYSTEM EDUCATION IN THE PHILIPPINES! Poch Suzara Twitter# Facebook# Atheist# Google#

Dear College-Educated Friends and Associates

Dear College-Educated Friends and Associates, As far as I am concerned, as a La Salle high school expelled student, the horror of the system of education in the Philippines has more to do with this silly historical fact: Millions upon millions of Filipino children are yearly educated to become CATHOLICS first and foremost for the glory of God in heaven; and hardly educated to become creative, productive, and well-informed CITIZENS of the Republic of the Philippines for the glory of its own decent growth and development as a decent nation. In the meantime, we were all taught to believe, during our formative years in Catholic schools, that we are all born corrupt; but that there is nothing wrong with being corrupt for as long as we believe and have faith in God who has the power to forgive the sin of corruption in our daily way of life in this only Catholic country in Asia! Philosopher Bertrand Russell was closer to the truth when he wrote: "We are all born ignorant, not stupid. We are made stupid by education." Cheers! Poch Suzara Facebook# Twitter# Atheist# Google#

The Greatest of Evils in the Philippines

July 27, 2013 My Dear Senator Rene Saguisag, The greatest of crimes that's keeping the Philippines famous as a nation of sinners and criminals is the crime of silence. Indeed, in this only Catholic country in Asia, nobody seems to have the courage to publicly declare that there are NO atheists in the corrupt government; NO atheists in the corrupt church; NO atheists in the corrupt media; NO atheists in the corrupt courts of law; NO atheists in the corrupt military; NO atheists in corrupt schools, colleges, and universities. Indeed, are all faithful theists - believers in God. They all need to believe and to have faith in God ONLY because God is the one and only Supreme Power who can forgive them of their sins, crimes, and corruption in retail; but also to forgive them and to absolve them of their endless sanctimonious piety in wholesale! Poch Suzara, atheist Google# Twitter# Facebook# Atheist#

Secretary of Education - Fr. Armin Luistro

Without science, a nation can neither extricate herself out of poverty nor out of stupidity. Science is what we know. Theology is what we do not know. In this already 21st century, it is fascinating to know how science has been transforming the world of ignorance into a world of knowledge; while theology only continues to keep the world still frightened under a lot of sacred mysteries in cahoots with holy baloney divinities. But here is something even more fascinating: at present, in our poor and backward country, the Secretary of Education is not a scientist. He is a well-trained theologian; in fact, a Catholic priest - Fr. Armin Luistro. Do any of you really believe that as the Secretary of Education, Fr. Armin Luistro is out there to educate millions of Filipinos to serve as productive and creative citizens the interests of the Republic of the Philippines? In fact, as a Catholic priest, his duty and responsibility is to indoctrinate millions of Filipinos to be loyal and faithful only as Catholics in order to maintain and support the continued existence of the wealth, power, and glory of the Catholic church in the Philippines. Foremost Philippine Historian Teodoro A. Agoncillo wrote: "Self-deception is the worst tragedy of the Filipino as a people." I say this is only half of the truth. The other half of the truth is that thanks to our Catholic system of education, the tragedy of the Philippines as a nation is its self-damnation. If you believe that there is a separation of Church and State in the Philippines, you might as well also believe in the existence of the separation between poverty and stupidity. As a matter of historical fact, the illicit affair between Church and State in the Philippines is just like a good Catholic marriage: what God has joined, let no man put asunder,- till death do us part. Both the Church and State protect and defend each other. The former with forgiveness of sins; and, the latter with tax exemption laws. The job of the State is to keep the people living in ignorance. The job of the Church is to keep the people living in fear. Combine the two horrors inextricably together and we have what is known as Christian values and beliefs. They are more known today as: MORE FUN AND SAFE IN THE PHILIPPINES as stimulated and indeed generated by the Sick Man of Asia! Poch Suzara Atheist# Facebook# Twitter# Google#

MGA ULOL - GISING NA

We are all born ignorant, not stupid. We are made stupid by education. Bertrand Russell Indeed, in the Philippines, we are made stupid as "college-educated" products of La Salle, Ateneo, San Beda, Letran, UST, AIM, UP, Assumption, etc. - Look at us Filipinos in government, in church, and in the media! We are the most corrupt and stupid of men and women all taking advantage from God and specially from his JEWISH Son Jesus - the forgiveness of our SINS and the pardon of our CRIMES. And then we all have the gall to tell each that we must all have FAITH in God and in his JEWISH son Jesus as the real Savior of the Philippines - the only Christian country in Asia daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly since the 16th century! Hijos de tootie-frootie y patooties, CONIO - mga ULOL! GISING NA! Poch Suzara Twitter# Facebook# Atheist# Google#

Our Overseas workers

Our workers are better paid and indeed highly respected for the hard work they do in foreign countries.In our own God-forsaken country, however, instead of giving our workers their due earnings and due respect, they only survive on more of the same hand-to-mouth standard of existence. But we never stop asking God to bless them. We never stop thanking God for the hard work that they do for the rich. In the meantime, in our sick society, the filthy poor are getting poorer. The filthy rich are getting richer. I asked it before, I ask it again: Have any of you ever met or heard of a Filipino who got to be FILTHY RICH for believing that God is BAD? So how come millions upon millions of Filipinos are FILTHY POOR for believing that God is GOOD? Hijos de tootie-frootie y patooties CONIO! Gising na tayo! Puede ba? Hindi ba nakakahiya na itong kababuyan at kalechehan nating taon taon sa bayan nating? Poch Suzara

Endless Hypocritical Piety as Blessed by God Perpetually

A great many Filipinos, specially in government, in church, in schools, colleges, and universities, and in the media will never, but never abandon their faith in God. Only because there is no one else to forgive them of their sins; to forgive them of their crimes; and, indeed, to forgive them of their daily corruption, specially for the glory of the Savior of the Philippines - Jesus on earth as he is, always, in heaven! Poch Suzara Twitter# Atheist# Facebook# Google#

In the End Dr. Jose Rizal was not a Jesus Follower

Here are words uttered by Jesus - words never emulated by Dr. Jose Rizal in any of his writings. A great many innocent Filipinos, however, frightened by blind faith, believe that Dr. Jose Rizal himself was inspired by the teachings of Jesus. Nothing could be farther away from the truth. Listen attentively to the messages of Jesus. Messages that Dr. Jose Rizal as a thinker totally rejected like any other decent Filipino thinker should totally reject: If anyone comes to Me, and does not hate his own father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, yes, and even his own life, he cannot be My disciple." Luke 14:26 Anyone who loves his father or mother more than me is not worthy of me; anyone who loves his son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me; and anyone who does not take his cross and follow me is not worthy of me. Matt. 10:37 But those enemies of mine who did not want me to be king over them--bring them here and kill them in front of me. Luke 19:27 Do not suppose that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I did not come to bring peace, but a sword. Matt. 10:34 If the world hates you, keep in mind that it hated me first. John 15:18 But Jesus told him, "Follow me, and let the dead bury their own dead. Matt. 8:22 Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.1 John 2:15 While he was still speaking, a bright cloud covered them, and a voice from the cloud said, "This is my Son, whom I love; with him I am well pleased. Listen to him!" Matt. 17:5 The Son of God Jesus, crucified on the cross, cried out loud: "MY GOD, MY GOD, WHY HAST THOU FORSAKEN ME?" Matt. 27:46 For my part, after years of serious study of the life and times of Jesus as He is depicted in the holy bible - the deeper I learned to appreciate the power, the beauty, the necessity, and the sanity of atheism. Poch Suzara

Thinking Is the Greatest of all Human Activities

Thinking is the greatest of all human abilities. To suppress the art of thinking, especially for the sake of silly believing, is to inspire nothing but to insure the endless existence of Christianity always active with the promise of delivering more nothing. Poch Suzara Facebook# Twitter@ Atheists# Google#

What If the Power of Prayer Works

If prayer works, how come we must only continue to pray on and on endlessly? Indeed, if prayer works, then we should see great and wonderful result with Filipinos no longer busy praying; specially as we are the only Christian people in all of Asia. Indeed, if prayer works, we should already see the results in the Philippines. We should have no more need to build more hospitals. Our country should be the most "blessed" country in all of Asia with health and wealth. Is this the Philippines we see? Never mind what your blind faith sees! It sees nothing! And so, I ask: how come by any standard of living and thinking, other NON-CHRISTIAN countries in Asia are ahead of the Philippines - economically, politically, scientifically, technologically, culturally, and, indeed, spiritually? Of course, let's not be too unfair. Let's be happy and proud of the Consuelo de Bobo: when it comes to corruption here, there, and everywhere; when it comes to sins against God; when it comes to crimes against our own country - we are quite successful and way ahead of everybody in Asia and in the world at large. I said it before, I say it again: Hijos de tootie-frootie-y patooties, Conio! Mga kababayan, GISING NA TAYO! Nakakahiya na itong kalechehan at kababuyan natin! Poch Suzara Facebook# Atheists# Twitter# Google#

British Scientists Power Mobile Phones Using Urine

British scientists on Tuesday reported they had harnessed the power of urine and were able to charge a mobile phone with enough electricity to send texts and surf the internet. Researchers from the University of Bristol and Bristol Robotics Laboratory in south west England said they had created a fuel cell that uses bacteria to break down urine to generate electricity, in a study published in the Royal Society of Chemistry journal Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. "No one has harnessed power from urine to do this so it's an exciting discovery," said engineer Ioannis Ieropoulos. "The beauty of this fuel source is that we are not relying on the erratic nature of the wind or the sun; we are actually reusing waste to create energy. "One product that we can be sure of an unending supply is our own urine," he added. The team grew bacteria on carbon fibre anodes and placed them inside ceramic cylinders. The bacteria broke down chemicals in urine passed through the cylinders, building up a small amount of electrical charge which was stored on a capacitor. Ieropoulos hoped that the cell, which is currently the size of a car battery, could be developed for many applications. "Our aim is to have something that can be carried around easily," he explained. "So far the microbial fuel power stack (MFC) that we have developed generates enough power to enable SMS messaging, web browsing and to make a brief phone call. "The concept has been tested and it works - it's now for usto develop and refine the process so that we can develop MFCs to fully charge a battery." They hope the technology will eventually be used to power domestic devices. Philippine Star, July 18, 2013 In the Philippines, we only have to thank our sick system of education. It is mostly based upon the power of prayer and theology; hardly based on the power of science and technology. It is, in this way, that we Filipinos know exactly what to do with our urine: we piss on each other on this earth down here; specially for the greater glory of Jesus in heaven up there. Poch Suzara

What We Filipinos can still do for God and for His Son Jesus

And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you—ask what you can do for your country. JF Kennedy In the Philippines, since the 16th century, we Filipinos have been indoctrinated by our colonizers to ask not what God can do for us, but to ask, instead, what can we do for God. In this already 21st century, however, via schools, colleges, and universities owned by our former colonizers, we are still told that having faith in God is not enough. We must continue to ask: what else can we do for God, specially for the Son of God Jesus who died on the cross for our sins! In the meantime, millions upon millions of college-educated Pinoys and Pinays are so proud of the historical fact that we are the only Christian country in Asia today. And more proud of the historical fact that for the glory of God in heaven, we Filipinos have not as yet civilized ourselves as a people, nor have we, as yet, industrialized ourselves as a nation on this earth! Civilization is the triumph of humanity over Christianity. It means the standard of thinking works better than the standard of believing. It also means that the pursuit of life, liberty and happiness works better than the pursuit of a better world to come after death. Industrialization is the triumph of knowledge over ignorance; prosperity over poverty; and, indeed, the triumph of reason over blind faith in a lot of out-of-this world dogma, pigma, and hogma! In the Philippines, we have neither civilization nor have we industrialization. What we have is endless stagnation under perpetual frustration - for the sake of our eternal salvation! And these horrors have been and still are nothing but the products of our sick faith in a sick system of education. Poch Suzara Facebook# Aheist# Twitter# Google#

Indoctrination Masquerading as Education in the Philippines

Since the 16th century, there were far more churches and cathedrals established throughout the Philippines than schools, colleges, and universities. Today in this already 21st century, there are still far more churches and cathedrals. They are, however, masquerading as the system of education in the Philippines!

Indeed, in this only Christian country in Asia, we Filipinos are damned with far more ecclesiastical indoctrination than we are "blessed" with real education. Especially for our scientific growth as a people, and for our civilized development as a nation.

In the meantime, let's seriously consider Jose Rizal's dream: "I would like the Filipino to be Brilliant, Enlightened, Intelligent, Progressive... Worthy, Noble and Honorable."

Indeed, Jose Rizal's - national ideal can only be about love of Fellow-Filipinos and love our country. It should have nothing to do with love of a divinity behind the mystery of theology in order to keep the Philippines poor and backward under the blessings of Christianity? I ask it before, I ask it again: when will the churches and cathedrals, now more established as schools, colleges, universities, not to mention the lawmakers of the Philippines - produce Filipinos decently dreamed of by our national hero - Jose Rizal?
                                                                                                       Poch Suzara

My Mother's Death July 10, 2013

My Dearest Guys and Gals, My sisters and I were all there with her when mother died last July 10 here at home at 10 a.m. She will not make it for her 100th birthday celebration in September 12, 2013. After all the religious ceremonies done, we had her remains cremated July 13. We thank you all and appreciate the condolences, flowers, and mass cards we received for her. My mother's ashes, now in an urn, is with me in my room shelved alongside my library of precious books. In time, we will transfer her urn to be together with my father's ashes in a columbarium at San Isidro church in Pasay city. Soon, I too will be dead. When it is our time to go, it is time to go. When it is not yet our time to go, not even our doctors can kill us. In the meantime, life should be about what happens to us after birth. Life should have nothing to do with what happens to us after death. The bible says: "By the sweat of your brow you will eat your food until you return to the ground, since from it you were taken; for dust you are and to dust you will return." Gen. 3:19. Well, if God created me from dust in his own image and likeness, I really have to need to wager to believe whether God is dust or not. Here, however, is a more sensible wager than Pascal's: If God asked you to wager before being born or not to be born on this earth - what would you choose? In the meantime, my values as an atheist is not so much to get us into heaven, or to keep us out of hell, but to put a little bit of heaven into this earth by taking the hell out of it. This is how we atheists try to live on this earth. We think it more gracious to spread intellectual grace for the human race by rejecting ecclesiastical disgrace from divine grace! The fear of death can only follow from the fear of life. A man who lives courageously should be prepared to die at any time instantaneously. As for me, I said it before, I say it again: If death is the cessation of all that is beautiful, thoughtful, and delightful in what makes life meaningful to live it, then I say: FUCK DEATH! With much love to all, Poch Suzara Facebook# Twitter# Atheist# Google#

NEVER MIND INDUSTRIALIZATION. WHAT IS IMPORTANT IS OUR ETERNAL SALVATION

We have, in the Philippines all, but all of the natural resources to produce steel, aluminum, bronze, ball bearings, electric motors, engines, compressors, bicycles, trains, motor vehicles, motorcycles, refrigerators, computers, cellphones, wrist watches, radios, televisions, movie cameras, space crafts, sound systems, etc. Unfortunately, we do not have, not by a long shot, the greatest of all natural resources that countries like Japan, Singapore, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, China, Australia, etc, have: the developed minds and cultivated hearts for growth as a people and development as a nation via industrialization. It should be one of the creative results of a creative system of education. Indeed, in our Catholic schools, colleges, and universities, we have been taught to believe and to have faith, especially during our formative years, that this life in our country, is nothing but a transition to a better life to come after death with God in heaven. Thus, the emphasis on the next better world to come has led us millions of Filipinos to disregard the exploitation of our own natural resources in our own country. We have been taught to believe and to have faith that the only things of true value are those found in the heavenly world of God. Our country, this country belonging to Filipinos is seen as low, depraved, and unworthy of love, respect, and affection. Therefore, the less attention placed on it and the more attention placed on God's kingdom, the better our chances to win eternal salvation. Never mind the works needed for civilization via industrialization! These evils are the works of the devil. In the meantime, among the richest individuals, among the richest investors in the stock market, among the richest owners of land, schools, colleges, universities and other commercial enterprises in the Philippines - are the Catholic Bishops and the Catholic Cardinals. They see to it that the Catholic Vatican bank remains as the richest and most powerful bank in the world. Poch Suzara Facebook# Atheist# Twitter# Google#

Corruption in the Church is far GREATER than Coruption in the Government

What is the difference between corruption in the Philippine government and corruption in the Catholic church: When corrupt government officials are caught, they go to church for the forgiveness of crime. They are usually referred to as "your honor." When corrupt church officials are caught, they also go to church for the forgiveness of sin. They are usually referred to as "your Eminence." In the meantime, the church has always been grateful for the existence of sin and crime; for, without such evils, the church would have crumbled centuries ago. The continued existence of the church therefore has always been about how to keep sin and crime alive and kicking; indeed, how to generate and to promote more sins and more crimes here, and there, and everywhere. Especially for the sake of big business of the church in order to acquire more wealth, power, and glory. The church has always been and still is a haven for the criminals and for the sinners in the Philippines. Thus, corruption in the church is far greater than corruption in the government! Poch Suzara facebook# Twitter# Atheist@ Google#

I Am Proud of My Intellectual Freedom

Mental slavery is mental death, and every man who has given up his intellectual freedom is the living coffin of his dead soul. --- Robert G. Ingersoll For my part, I love my intellectual freedom. I enjoy THINKING far more than I enjoy PRAYING. It is, in this way, that I also enjoy fighting to end the greatest evil that's keeping our country poor and backward: mental slavery more known as Christianity. During my formative years in school, I got expelled because I was not afraid to convey to my teachers in class that I love to QUESTION more than I cared for the answers. In the meantime, in La Salle grade school and high school, nothing was important to us students except to repeat and repeat this prayer to: "ST JOHN BAPTIST DE LA SALLE, PRAY FOR US. LIVE JESUS IN OUR HEARTS, FOREVER." Hell, I thought I better get the hell out of that insane mess. I did! Luckily! Happily! Proudly! Creatively! Poch Suzara Atheist# Facebook# Twitter# Google#

Religion as Organized Superstition in the Philippines

Religion is not provided to us by revelation, it doesn't come to us from the heavens, it does not come from the beyond, it does not come from the divine. It's man-made. And it shows. Religion is created, invented, imposed by a species half a chromosome away from the chimpanzee. - Christopher Hitchens Religion encourages stupidity and an insufficient sense of reality... The power of priests is more obviously connected with morals than any other form of power. In Christian countries, virtue consists in obedience to the Will of God, and it is the priests who know what the Will of God commands. - Bertrand Russell In the Philippines, however, religion promotes nothing but lies and deceptions, if not more of the same old historical social degradation, and indeed, political corruption. Millions of Filipino children are still taught in Catholic schools to believe and to have faith in Jesus, the Savior of our sick souls for the sake of saving the wealth and power of the Catholic church. Meanwhile, we remain spiritually impoverished as a sick people and morally bankrupt as a sick nation. I said it before, I say it again: It is nothing but faith in blind faith that makes us believe that the priesthood industry is only acting in their churches and cathedrals. Nay, they are acting more successfully in their schools, colleges, and universities; and, acting effectively in the media. Such horrors precisely make us famous as the Sick Children of Asia. - Poch Suzara

there Are No Atheists in Foxholes - NO KIDDING?

The statement "There are no atheists in foxholes" is a proverb used to argue that in times of extreme stress or fear, such as in war, all people will believe in, or hope for, a higher power to protect them - more referred to as "God."... Indeed, this is ticklish; but what is even more ticklish is that no one has ever found a dead Christian in a foxhole who did not first pray before he died!... Well, if there were no atheists in foxholes, it is because there were also no wisdom nor understanding either. There was only ignorance and fear that produced foxholes... For my part, I am an atheist. I did not lose my faith. I threw the holy garbage out the window! Of course, it is obvious that there are no atheists in foxholes. There is never any room left for the atheists to be down in foxholes. It is already filled with hate, a Standing Room Only situation filled up with Christians, Muslims, Jews hating and killing each other in God’s name on earth and for His glory in heaven... I say it is more truthful to declare that there are no atheist officials in the government and no atheist leaders in the church. Look how these two great institutions are the most corrupt and rotten in our poor and backward country. Both entities could only survive in cahoots with lies and deceptions especially to protect each other existence in cahoots together... In the meantime, the religious morons are never able to understand the atheists. To begin with - in the history of the world, how come there never was an army of atheists waging war against another army of atheists because they did not believe in the existence of God!... In the meantime, listen to this great scientist/astronomer/atheist: - “Every one of us is, in the cosmic perspective, precious. If a human disagrees with you, let him live. In a hundred billion galaxies, you will not find another.” - Carl Sagan . . . Poch Suzara Facebook# Google# Twitter# Atheist#

Kirk Douglas, Famous as a Hollywood Actor, but a Moron in religion

God always answers our prayers. But sometimes the answer is NO. Kirk Douglas. In the holy bible, it is clearly written: "If you believe, you will receive whatever you ask for in prayer.” Matt. 21:22 "Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. Matt. 7:7 Oh My Dear Kirk Douglas,If only you bother to read and study your silly bible, you need not be a religious moron uttering silly statement about silly prayers to a silly God. Poch Suzara Facebook# Atheist# Twitter# Google#

In Asia only Filipinos are qualified to go to Heaven

"Truly I say to you, unless you are converted and become like children, you will not enter the kingdom of heaven." Jesus in Matt 18:3 Again Jesus said, "Let the children come to me. Don't stop them! For the Kingdom of Heaven belongs to those who are like these children." Matt 19:14 I said it before I say it again: The most destructive evil force in the Philippines is not corruption; it is superstition: the irrational belief arising from ignorance or fear, on the one hand; and, on the other hand - illusion, delusion, and confusion as the basis of our faith in a Jewish Savior of the Philippines still stuck under a sick system of a christian education. We are the only people in Asia who have been and still are faithful to Jesus and His teachings. It is truly astonishing to realize how we Filipinos have utterly failed to grow as a people and to mature as nation of Asia. As a matter of historical superstition - for Christ's sake, we Filipinos are only getting more and more famous as the Sick Children of Asia! In the meantime, only in the Philippines: The horror of corruption comes from the horror of education. It is inspired by a bigger horror: our faith in the history of superstition: that in order to be saved, we need not think! We must only believe! In this way, we need not love our country down here. We must only love Jesus in heaven up there! One of the great horrors we poor Filipinos suffer from is in the hope that the evil forces keeping our country drowning in population growth can only be cured not by a system of scientific education, but only by legislation, at best; or, at worst, by praying as inspired by our faith to be less and less involved with the beauty and the power of more and deeper thinking! Poch Suzara Twitter # Facebook# Google #

Philippines - Still Stuck Under Religious Garbage

Yes, it is true. The responsible and sustainable mining of our immense mineral resources — described as one of the richest on earth — can pay off all the Philippines’ foreign debt and transform it into a prosperous, mine-rich nation like Australia or Canada! The Philippines has the world’s second biggest gold reserves next only to South Africa, among the top reserves in copper, plus others like nickel, chromite, cobalt, silver, and zinc. Indeed, except perhaps diamond, name it, we have it; estimated worth at more than ONE TRILLION DOLLARS or 45 TRILLION PESOS per annual production. Not to mention the recently discovered oil and coal deposits worth more than enough to make the Philippines - the wealthiest and the healthiest country in all of Asia. Japan has no natural resources except the greatest in any country. The educated minds and hearts of its citizens due to their powerful system of education. Thousands of educated Filipinos are there working as employees in Japanese industries as generated not by prayer and theology, but by science and technology. Singapore has no natural resources except the greatest in any country: the educated minds and hearts of its citizens due to their powerful system of education. Thousands of educated Filipinos are there working as "employees" in Singaporean industries as generated also by science and technology. There is not one cocoa tree grown in Switzerland. Yet the Swiss as products of a powerful system of education produces the best chocolate in the world. Thousands of educated Filipinos are there working as "employees" in Switzerland. We are rich in Agriculture: rice, coconut, sugar, corn, bananas, pineapple, aquaculture, mangoes, not to mention GUABANO - the miracle fruit that prevents certain types of cancer. Industry: textiles and garments, pharmaceuticals, chemicals, wood products, paper and paper products, tobacco products, beverage manufacturing, food processing, machinery and equipment, transport equipment, electronics and semiconductor materials, mineral products, hydrocarbon products, fishing, business process outsourcing services Now look also at the still untapped treasures around us Filipinos - the treasures in plants, flowers, and trees with medicinal and nutritional values; The treasures in our rivers, lakes, caves, and forest; the treasures in the beaches of more than 7,000 islands; the treasures in our shores, bays, and coves. They remain untapped only because as products of schools, colleges, and universities, we are still more into prayer and theology instead of utilizing the power behind science and technology. But most of all, the most powerful and greatest of natural resources - the Filipino mind and heart. Instead of being educated, cultivated and elevated - Filipino minds and hearts are only mutilated, distorted, twisted, and degraded with prayer and theology. Specially for the glory of Jesus on earth as he is in heaven. We are still being taught to LOVE NOT THIS WORLD, NEITHER THE THINGS THAT ARE IN THE WORLD. IF ANY FILIPINO LOVE THE WORLD, THE LOVE OF GOD IS NOT IN HIM." Also, we are still being taught to TAKE NO THOUGHT FOR TOMORROW BECAUSE JESUS WILL SOON BE RETURNING TO REMEDY THE ILLS OF OUR SICK SOCIETY. Also, to worry not about this life in this world. Indeed, to believe only that what is more important is NOT life on this earth, but death in the kingdom of God where our souls are saved; otherwise, if not, we will all end up punished forever in hell. I say it again: Unless the religious garbage is thrown out of our system of education, we Filipinos, in the centuries to come, will only continue wasting our time on this earth having faith in BLIND faith in our sick religious beliefs and values that only make us famous as the Sick People of Asia! The holy bible says: "He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that believeth not shall be damned." Mark 16:16 I ask it again: WE SHALL BE SAVED FROM WHAT? Isn't it time for us Filipinos do some serious constructive thinking? Isn't it time to put to a halt our destructive silly ways in stupid believing? Indeed, we are all born ignorant, not frightened. It is in our sick system of education that teach us to be frightened! We even faithfully believe that a God, in His infinite wisdom, created Filipinos in His own image and likeness! Poch Suzara Twitter# Facebook# Google# Atheist#

God Is an Atheist. So Was Jesus

Why Atheism Won’t Succeed in the Philippines by Hector Gamboa I used to embrace atheism and I used to be active in the Philippine atheist forum and community. However, during the past few years I find myself being drawn away from atheism. Did someone “save” my wretched soul and showed me the path to eternal life and salvation? No! I still believe that there is not enough evidence yet that I have witnessed and experienced that would offer sufficient proof (and arguments) for the existence of the theistic god. Given that my view on the existence of the theistic god hasn’t changed, why do I find myself being drawn away from atheism? If atheism is favored by science, evidence and reason, why is it such at a disadvantage against religious beliefs that often comes with credulity? The biggest word that comes to my mind when I think about this question is “Arrogance”. As long as arrogance lingers amongst the vocal proponents of atheism in the Philippines, I just do not see it prospering in the country despite the feeding programs, conventions, public debates and media mileage its organizations have.

Response

My dear Hector Gamboa, I invite you to carefully read God's first commandment: "THOU SHALT HAVE NO OTHER GODS BEFORE ME." This means God does not to believe in the existence of other GODS - and that makes God an ATHEIST. Well, obviously this logic puts the frightened believers in a complicated situation since you all believe, love, and worship a God who is an atheist! And you people cannot even see this simple truth due, apparently, to your faith in blind faith! But here is something clearer to see: Look at the Son of God Jesus. He was also an atheist. Crucified on the cross Jesus cried out loud: "MY GOD, MY GOD WHY HAST THOU FORSAKEN ME?" Obviously, Jesus was an atheist. He did not believe nor had He faith in God's divine plan. In the meantime, I ask: when we were born, coming out of mother's womb, did we have a religion? Did we believe in the existence of God? Isn't it a fact that no child has a religion? All babies are born atheists: free from religion. No baby is born a Catholic, a Muslim, a Jew, a Hindu or a Baptist? So I am proud to be an atheist. What is the problem? If God, Himself an atheist, created me in his own image and likeness, and therefore created me to be an atheist like God - why should that bother any of you frightened religious saps? Cheers! Poch Suzara, Father of Atheism in the Philippines.

Oh Plato, My Dear Plato

“We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.” ― Plato Oh Plato, my dear Plato, the real tragedy in the Philippines comes from Catholic schools, Catholic colleges, and Catholic universities: We were taught to be afraid of the dark,to be afraid of light, and also to be afraid of life itself, especially for the glory of Jesus on earth as he is in heaven and in hell. - Poch Suzara

Oh God, My Dear God

If there were a God, I think it very unlikely that he would have such an uneasy vanity as to be offended by those who doubt his existence. Bertrand Russell Oh God, dear God, if you are a God, what are you a God for? Especially for the here and now, and not for the by and by later in the sky? Poch Suzara

Oh My Dear Manuel L. Quezon

"I would rather have a country run like hell by Filipinos than a country run like heaven by the Americans, because however bad a Filipino government might be, it can always be improved.”... Manuel L. Quezon... Oh My Dear Manuel L. Question, it has turned out to be worst than hell. We have a government run by sick college-educated politicians who are selfish, greedy, stupid, and insane... Poch Suzara twitter# facebook# Google#

For Whom the Bell Tolls

"And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; It tolls for thee." John Donne Oh John, my dear John Donne, I ask: The bell was invented by whom, and in this world bells ring to accomplish what? Poch Suzara

The Holy Bible and its teachings in Australia

Oh My Dear Nathaniel, Jesus cried out with a loud voice, saying, "My God, My God, why hast Thou forsaken Me?" If Jesus is God, the Savior of the world, the Savior of the Filipinos, and the Savior of the Philippines - why would He be crying on the cross? Matt. 27:45-46 As a God Jesus was crucified by men that he created in His own image and likeness? What kind of an ecclesiastical merry-go-round is this holy baloney? Nathaniel, some 200 years ago, British convicts were freed to go live and work and they indeed colonized Australia. Most of them were atheist, freethinkers, and agnostics, men with the power of reason, not faith. Look at Australia today - decent, advanced, and civilized as a nation. Have you ever heard of Australian women producing 3 babies every minute in Australia for the glory of Jesus in Australia? The Philippines, on the other hand, some 400 years ago, was colonized by Spanish Catholic friars - disciples and followers of the Son of God Jesus. They had no faith in humanity, but faith only in divinity. The Philippines today is one of the poorest spiritually and backward morally and the most corrupt economically as the only Christian country in Asia today. Of course, I cannot deny, IT IS MORE FUN IN THE PHILIPPINES. Look at our prostitutes. They are among the most honest women in the Philippines today. They pay for the education and support their brothers and sisters in school. They make money for taxi drivers, sex traders and operators, owners of motels, and police protectors of corruption in our blessed by Jesus country. Well, despite their best to prevent the crime of rape, despite their contributions to the GNP, and despite their constants exposure to venereal diseases - these honest prostitutes are utterly despised by Christianity and abandoned by the government of which is managed by corrupt officials and all of them are MAKA-DIOS. None are atheists, or freethinkers, or agnostics. Cheers! Poch Suzara, 6/26/2013

Find Rest with the Lord

When you're weary in life's struggle, find your rest in the Lord. Philippine Star, 6/26/2013 On the contrary, when you're weary in life's struggle, it is time to ask: Oh Lord, dear Lord, what was your purpose in creating us humans in your own image and likeness? Poch Suzara, 6/26/2013

Oh Jesus, My Dear Jesus

Oh Jesus, My Dear Jesus, Millions of your Filipino followers are filthy poor; but your Filipino leaders - the bishops, evangelists and pastors are filthy rich. All rich and poor alike, however, are waiting for your return. What’s holding up the show? Where are you Jesus? It has been more than 2,000 years already. Why did you make a promise you could not deliver in due time? Time has elapsed! Oh Jesus, my dear sweet Jesus, do you know that millions of Filipinos who are college educated Catholics have to earn a living overseas. These are in foreign countries that do not believe you are the Son of God who performed wonderful miracles or that you are the Savior of the world! Oh Jesus, my dear sweet Jesus, while you lived on this earth, did you really have to squander your supernatural powers on frivolous nonsense? Instead of raising dead bodies, how come you never raised dead minds and hearts with intelligence to benefit the human community? Instead of bringing to mankind a cure for heart disease and cancer, you only used magic to curse a fig tree. Instead of ending birth defects and infant mortality, you only filled pigs with demons. Instead of ending world hunger and illiteracy, you changed water into wine. Instead of showing men and women how to walk with dignity and self-respect, you only showed them how to walk on water. Instead a punching to death a boy who had accidentally hit you, wouldn't it been better if you punched to death the devil responsible for the sins, crimes, and in your own community? Oh Jesus, my dear sweet Jesus, the worst kind of poverty is the poverty of the mind and heart. This is the kind of poverty that seems endless as a scandal in the Philippines. Thanks of course to your Catholic church - the owner of more than 1,000 schools, colleges, and universities teaching us Filipinos to believe that you will soon return and we therefore need not worry about tomorrow because, at any rate, your Father God will provide and will take care of our tomorrows. In the meantime, my dear sweet Jesus, your Catholic Vatican bank is the richest, most powerful bank in the world today. She is far richer and more powerful today than the United States Federal Reserve Bank. Cheers! Poch Suzara

I Love Jose Rizal as I have no need for a Jesus in my Life

“I would like the Filipinos to be brilliant, enlightened, intelligent, and progressive.” Jose Rizal "If anyone comes to me and does not hate father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters—yes, even their own life—such a person cannot be my disciple." Luke 14:26 "But as for these enemies of mine, who did not want me to reign over them, bring them here and slaughter them before me." Luke 19:27 Jesus Christ For my part, as it is obvious that the disciples and followers of Jesus Christ had our Jose Rizal slaughtered in public by firing squad, - I should wish it put on public record that as a Filipino I have far more love, more respect, and more admiration for Jose Rizal as I have no need for a Jesus Christ to reign over my life and thoughts. Poch Suzara

Our Troubles as a People and Problems as a Nation

Focusing on the character of God helps us take our eyes off our circumstances. Philippine Star, June 24, 2013 I said it before, I say it again: If we hope to see the real causes of our troubles as a people, and our problems as a nation - we need to seriously look at our sick system of education. Indeed, it is in schools, colleges, and universities where we learn to focus on the character of God by ignoring with blind faith the sick circumstances happening to us as the only Catholic country in Asia since the 16th century. Indeed, we have yet to listen to each other always declaring that Jesus will soon be returning to remedy the ills of our sick society. If that were not yet forthcoming, God, in the meantime, will provide for us Filipinos, sooner or later. Poch Suzara

The Corrupt and the Sick Man of Asia Not Yet Cured by the Holy Spirit

June 22, 2013 My Dearest Guys and Gals, I am told that AIDS, HIV, HIV patients and cancer, bone cancer, brain cancer, liver cancer, lung cancer, breast cancer, mouth cancer, skin cancer, stomach cancer, cervical cancer, leukemia, syphilis, flu, innumerable kinds of cancer patients all over the world were healed by the Holy Spirit Power and confirmed by medical doctors that AIDS, HIV virus died completely and they were healed. I asked it before, I ask it again: What about the CORRUPT AND THE SICK MAN OF ASIA - when will the holy spirit cure such diseases endlessly spreading in the Philippines - the only Catholic country in Asia since 400 years ago? Consider the millions upon millions of Filipinos have been taught to believe and to have faith in the claim that GOD WILL PROVIDE FOR US CORRUPT AND SICK FILIPINOS; and if that were not yet forthcoming, His Son Jesus will soon be arriving to remedy the ills of our SICK SOCIETY! Hijos de tootie-frootie y patooties CONIO! MGA ULOL! GISING NA TAYO! Cheers! Poch Suzara

Oh My Dear Aldous Huxley

“The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different.” ― Aldous Huxley Oh my dear Aldous Huxley, not so in the history of the Philippines. Nothing has changed; everything has remained the same: we are still ruled and dominated by the teachings of Jesus since the 16th century. That after death, we Filipinos will have a better life to come in the next world with God in heaven. Even corrupt teachers in school, and corrupt officials in our government believe and have faith in this corrupt holy baloney! --- Poch Suzara

Fucking is more Fun than Thinking in the Philippines

Where do most of our endless troubles as a people and endless problems as a nation come from? They come from too much FUCKING; hardly from THINKING. Indeed, in our country, there is hardly the birth of new and fresh ideas; only the birth of new babies. More than a million of them arrive every year, indeed yearly in the Philippines. Other men and women in other countries enjoy fucking too; but they fuck for fun; not for making unwanted, unloved, and uncared for needless babies. The evil monster that benefits from the horror is the Catholic church. More babies born every day insures the everlasting existence of the Catholic church and its big business in the Philippines. Especially as they are the owners of schools, colleges, and universities and other commercial enterprises established all over the Philippines. 80 per cent of the economy of the Philippines is owned and controlled by a few wealthy families and a few rich multinational corporations. On top and always ahead, with tax-free advantages, has been and still is the Catholic church - among the first to speak out loud against humanitarian plans for family planning and birth control measures. Not to mention health measures for women and children! Poch Suzara

Wow Jesus

We live most effectively for Christ when we keep our eyes on Him.--- Philippine Star, June 18, 2013. Wow Jesus, this has been going on daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly during these past 2,013 years. Are you really that cold-blooded in perfection, or just lost in self-admiration? Have you nothing more important to do with your life in heaven as a powerful son of a divinity except to be a silly clown for the rest of eternity? --- Poch Suzara

Public and Catholic Private Schools

Out of the public schools comes the greatness of the nation." -- Mark Twain. In the Philippines, out of Catholic private schools comes lies, deception, illusion, delusion, and corruption as a nation. -- Poch Suzara

Friedrich Nietzsche, Athiest/Philosopher

There is not enough love and kindness in the world to give any of it away to imaginary beings. Friedrich Nietzsche This is precisely what is sick about our sick system of education. We have been taught to believe that to love a divinity more known as the holy trinity up there is far more precious than to love our family, to love our country, and to love the whole of humanity down here. After all, that this life is nothing but a transition to the better life to come in the next world with God in heaven. What a lot of holy phooey marinated in ecclesiastical baloney inextricably mixed with sacred gooey insspiriring the ways of the tootie-frootie and patooties of this world. Thus poverty, squalor, filth, environmental degradation, misery, political mediocrity, social insanity, corruption, and biological perversity as among the main parts of our sick culture as a sick people struggling to survive in this poor and backward only Catholic country in Asia. In the meantime, I repeat: The Vatican Catholic bank is the richest, most powerful bank in the world today. The TENS OF BILLIONS of dollars remitted to the Philippines yearly by our OCWs is peanuts compared to the HUNDREDS OF BILLIONS of dollars remitted to the Vatican Catholic bank monthly by Catholic countries around the world. Poch Suzara

The Power of Prayer to Jesus

"Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you." Matthew 7:7 Was there ever one Filipino who got to be FILTHY RICH for not believing in the power of prayer to Jesus? So how come millions of Filipinos are FILTHY POOR for believing in the power of prayer to Jesus? Poch Suzara

Filipinos Employees for Foreign Employers here and Abroad

Our greatest glory in life is not in never falling but in rising up each time we fall. Confucius With us Filipinos in the Philippines, however, our greatest glory in life is to wait for the coming of our Savior Jesus as promised in the New Testament. While we get busy praying for a more efficient government to inspire more foreigners to come with their investment. In the meantime, the purpose of our schools, colleges, and universities as owned mostly by the Catholic church is to produce "employees" for these foreign employers here and in countries abroad. Poch Suzara

Our Free Will as inspired by God's Will

Man differs from the animals only by a little, and most men throw that little away. Confucius In the Philippines, thanks to our formative years in school, we Filipinos do not throw that little away. We hold on to it as faith in religious garbage and ecclesiastical trash. Such horrors are all around us more known as the result of our free will as inspired by God's Will. In the meantime, I said it before I say it again: Free Will prepares us for lies and deceptions under sick revelation. Free thought is better, it prepares us for the truth that generates human civilization. Poch Suzara

Capitalism - a Bastard Child of Catholicism

Advocates of capitalism are very apt to appeal to the sacred principles of liberty, which are embodied in one maxim: The fortunate must not be restrained in the exercise of tyranny over the unfortunate. Bertrand Russell Indeed, capitalism is one bastard child of Catholicism. Poch Suzara

Examples of the Godly life in the Holy Bible

The most valuable commentary on the bible is a godly life. Philippine Star, June 4, 2013 Indeed, here are great examples of what that godly life is all about specially as faithfully followed daily by millions of Filipinos - not as the healthy masters, but as the sick victims of Christianity. In the new testament, Jesus said: "If anyone comes to me and does not hate his brother mother, father, wife and children and his own life, he cannot be my disciple." Luke 14:26 Here's more from Jesus, the Savior of Filipinos in the Philippines: "Do not think that I came to bring peace on Earth; I did not come to bring peace, but a sword. For I came to set a man against his father, and a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law; and a man's enemies will be the members of his household. He who loves father or mother more than Me is not worthy of Me; and he who loves son or daughter more than Me is not worthy of Me. And he who does not take his cross and follow Me is not worthy of Me. He who has found his life will lose it, and he who has lost his life for My sake will find it." Matt. 10:34-37 Wow, listen to Jesus: "But those mine enemies, which would not that I should reign over them, bring hither, and slay them before me." Luke 19:27 I said it before, I say it again: you do not need the bible to justify love, but no other book has ever been published to justify hate, especially hate of this life, and hate of this world. Our world. As an atheist, I rest my case! Poch Suzara

Jesus - Despicable as a Son of God Character

In the times when Jesus is reported to have lived, slavery was part of the economy. The reports state that Jesus accepted slavery and even supported corporal punishment of slaves up to the point of death but, in his heavenly mercy said not to the point of death. 1 Timothy 6:1-2 Jesus/God should have realized that to buy and sell humans like cattle in a market and to separate children from their parents would be considered almost as bad as murder by future generations but no, Jesus/God accepted it as natural. Considering this one fact alone why would anyone use the bible as a guide to moral family values or any values of humanity? Well, here's another verse from Jesus which makes him a despicable as a Son of God character: "If any man come to me and hate not father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethern, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple." Luke 14:26 Poch Suzara

Education is Big Business inthe Philippines

Schools, Colleges and Universities in the Philippines are places where our corrupt men and corrupt women in the Executive, Legislative, and Judicial branches of government are products of - including Marcos and his gang of corrupt cronies, not to mention our corrupt doctors in hospitals, and corrupt lawyers and corrupt judges in Courts of Law) To begin with, schools, colleges, and universities in the Philippines are not educational institutions. They are more of commercial enterprises. Indeed, education is BIG BUSINESS in the Philippines. Just like organized crime is BIG BUSINESS anywhere in the world. Poch Suzara

Oh God, My Dear, Dear God

Sin may be hidden from others, but never from God. Philippine Star, June 1, 2013 Oh God, my dear God, how come you are never around? You are only always omni-absent; never omni-present! No one has seen you or has met with you. And yet, the most we can do is to offend you with sin? What kind of a sick joke is this? Your duty and responsibility as a God is to be a God to all of us? Is that hard to do? Really God, what kind of an all-powerful, all-knowing, all-loving, all-supernatural Sap are you? Poch Suzara

So God Exists, So What

Prove to me that God exist and I will prove to you that I will continue to be a devout, if not a faithful atheist. So God exists. So, so what? I am more inclined to believe that extra-terrestrial beings from other planets arrived on this earth thousands of years ago, and they came to introduce to our primitive human ancestors the power of knowledge. Otherwise, if such extra-terrestrial beings came down to earth as GODS to save our silly souls away from eternal damnation, I said it before, I say it again: to hell with that holy extra-terrestrial garbage! In the conflict between science and religion, I will always take the side of science even if, at times, science is wrong. I never take the side of religion because it is always wrong. After tens of thousands of years already ahead of science, religion has yet to make one simple discovery to benefit mankind as a revealed truth, and not as a truth yet to be revealed. Bertrand Russell summarized it neatly: "religion encourages stupidity and an insufficient sense of reality." As for us Filipinos - the Sick Man of Asia, listen to Teodoro A. Agoncillo, a rare and a courageous Filipino historian: "Self-deception is the worst tragedy of the Filipinos as a people." Poch Suzara

Human Intelligence Against Corruption

The surest way to corrupt children in school is to instruct them to hold in the highest respect and admiration those who believe alike; and to never mind than those who think differently. Human intelligence is a never-ending process in discovering the truth. The business of discovery can only be accomplished not by those who believe alike, but precisely by those who think differently. In the ultimate analysis, we are all born ignorant, not corrupt. We are all made corrupt by a corrupt system of education. It begins with WHAT to believe. Basic education should only be about learning HOW to think! Poch Suzara

Family Unity, Social and Political

It is preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents men from living freely and nobly. Bertrand Russell In the Philippines, it is preoccupation with faith in God's Will as a destiny, more than anything else, that prevents millions of Filipinos, specially those with college education, from living the good life - one that promotes family unity, social, religious and political sanity, - as inspired by love of common human decency in our country. Poch Suzara

Oh Dear, My Dear Dan Brown

May 25, 2013 Dan Brown, author, INFERNO Dear Dan Brown, Around 30 per cent or 26 million Filipinos still have no access to sanitary toilets in the Philippines, data from two United Nations agencies show. The UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and World Health Organization said 7.4 million of these Filipinos still poo and pee behind bushes, fields, plastic bags, ditches, canals, rivers, lakes, bridges, or along highway tracks. Indeed, it is more fun in the Philippines. Specially for its 6.3 million Senior citizens existing on an average of P6,000 pesos or $150 dollars monthly SSS pension. It's a hand to mouth struggle to go on living in this world. Sir, I am one of those Senior Citizens of the Philippines. Dan, I greatly enjoyed reading the way you described Metro Manila as the "Gates of Hell" in your latest book - INFERNO. With all due respect, may I remind you that there is only one bully character for souls to deal with in hell - the weird devil. So it is not really that dreadful compared to the many corrupt bullies we all have to deal with in our poor and backward and God-forsaken county. Indeed, in the Philippines, millions of us poor Filipinos have no recourse but to live with many corrupt characters comprising our sick society - in the church, in the government, in the media; and indeed, weird teachers and professors in schools, colleges, and universities owned and operated by the Catholic church. They still teach Filipino children not HOW to think, but only WHAT to believe - a disease more known as the Sick Man of Asia! Sir, aside from reading INFERNO to learn about the ills of our sick society - we have only to read what is reported and published daily in the Philippine Star, Philippine Daily Inquirer, Manila Bulletin, and in other major newspapers in our country. We believe, however, that such horrors are not really horrors, because, for the most part, they are due to, if not because of our Free Will - God's greatest gift to Filipinos - the Sick Man of Asia. The Philippines is, indeed, a country famous for its poverty, suffocating pollution, political corruption, economic perversion, traffic jams, garbage here, filth there, horrifying sex trade, ill-health and shameless sanitation together with the jobless, the homeless, and the hopeless; not to mention the shantytowns that sprawl across trash dumps and cemeteries. millions of us poor Filipinos have also to accept the wealth, the power, and glory of the real owners of the Philippines - the Catholic church and its greedy partners in the world of trade and commerce. Sex trade in the Philippines is minor evil. What, however, is the major evil is the way we are inspired to produce 3 babies every minute the day and night; or, 4,320 babies daily; or 129,600 babies monthly; or 1.5 million babies yearly. Most of these children are neither loved nor wanted. They struggle to survive in the streets of our major cities. Their parents have been told to believe that God will provide for them anyway. If not in this life, in the next. Just pray and never lose faith. After all, God said in the bible that we must always multiply and replenish the earth. Also, "Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof." Matt. 6:34 We Filipinos are not only religious. We are also superstitious. We carry false beliefs daily on our backs and we are crippled by its weigh. Sadly, instead of facing reconstruction with science and technology, what we seek is only self-deception, if not obliteration via more prayers under more of the same theology. As one high official in our government wrote to you saying: "Our faith in God binds us as a nation and we believe that Manila citizens are more than capable of exemplifying good character and compassion towards each other...Truly, our place is an entry to heaven." Let's now take a closer look at how exactly we Filipinos are loving and compassionate towards each other in our own country: God-fearing security guards are needed to assist God-fearing policemen to guard the entrance of hospitals, banks, schools, colleges, universities, shopping malls, residential buildings, hotels, motels, bars, night clubs, bookstores, drug stores, residential villages, movie theaters, restaurants, churches, cathedrals, public parks, museums, airports, harbors, MRT-LRT stations, bus stations, halls of justice, courts of law, barangay's office, mayor's office, governor's office; not to mention the entrance of the NBI building also guarded, defended, and protected by licensed security guards. I have asked it before, I ask it again: how blessed are we really by God for being the only Catholic country in Asia since 400 years ago? Sir, do you know that in blind faith we Filipinos continue to be the victims of the Holy Bible messages. It teaches us Filipinos to "love not this world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of God is not in Him." 1 John 2:15 It is, in this way, that we Filipinos believe the only holy thing of lasting value are those found in the heavenly world of God up there. Our country down here should be treated as something temporary, unworthy, low, if not depraved. After all, we are told, this life is merely a stopover on our journey to the next better life. Therefore the less love, less attention, and less affection placed on our country; and, at the same time, more love, more attention, and more affection are placed on God's kingdom - the better for all of us; especially as we are the only Catholic country in Asia since the 16th century. In the meantime, the Catholic Vatican bank is far richer, far more powerful than the Federal bank of the USA. Dan Brown, my dear sir, for being honest and truthful about the horrors of freedom and democracy in the Philippines, I salute you. Power is the ability to produce intended effects. I wish you more power! With all good wishes, Poch Suzara Makati city, Philippines May 13, 2013

Religion, Lies, and deceptions in the Philippines

Religion encourages stupidity and an insufficient sense of reality. Bertrand Russell In the Philippines, however, religion promotes lies and deceptions, if not more of the same old historical degradation. Millions of Filipino children are still taught in school to believe in Jesus - the Savior of our sick souls for the sake of the wealth and power of Christianity in our poor and backward country. I said it before, I say it again: It is foolish to believe that the priesthood industry is only acting in their churches and cathedrals. Nay, they are acting more effectively in schools, colleges, and universities. It is what the Sick Man of Asia is mostly about.Poch Suzara

Only In the Philippines 2013

3 babies are born every minute of the day and night or 1.5 million babies born yearly. It means not the spread of health and sanitation; nor the growth and maturity of civilization. It simply means that millions of our women are more than willing to produce not nutritious goodies to benefit the Filipino community, but to produce only more babies to benefit the priesthood industry, pharmaceutical industry, education industry, and the industry of religious insanity down here for the greater glory of a sick divinity up there. In this already 21st century, formative years in school is still about WHAT to believe; not about HOW to think. Thus, poverty in our country, traditionally, continue to be poverty of the worst kind: poverty of the mind and heart. If you wish to learn more about how sick we are as the Sick Man of Asia - you can read it published daily in the Philippine Star, Philippine Daily Inquirer, Manila Bulletin, and in other major newspapers in our country. Readers are made to laugh, not think! A convicted felon in jail can legally vote during election; but what is even more legal is that a convicted felon out of jail is allowed to run for congress. In the recent election, all of the 12 candidates who made it to the senate are all maka-dios. All faithful to the Lord. They therefore thanked the Lord first and then thanked second the people who voted for them. After all, only the Lord and the people can forgive them of their upcoming sins and crimes. Free Will does not mean the will to study, read, learn, explore, investigate, question, experiment, examine, analyze, or the freedom to think. It only means that we are free to believe anything we want to believe. And it does not matter whether they are or true or not. We Filipinos have nothing great going on for us except a Jewish Savior - the Son of Jewish Lord, born in a foreign land more than 2,000 years ago. This is the same Lord who preached: "Love not the world neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him." Parents love the Lord more than they love their children. And due to a sick system of education during formative years in school, children learn to love the Lord more than they love their parents. Indeed, self-destruction is the worst tragedy of the Filipino as a family. No doubt greed is insatiable. In the Philippines, however, among the corrupt politicians in the government, greed is not only insatiable, but also negotiable, transferable, pardonable, fashionable, and indeed, respectable. Unless managed by an efficient government, foreign investment in the Philippines will only amount to the same old recycled testament. Instead of growth as a people and maturity as a nation, there is only the same old history of poverty of the vast majority in our blessed by God country. If you were an atheist or a nonbeliever of the faith you are known to be a man devoid of intelligence. A man bereft of moral fiber. A loser, and a failure. An evil man who should be jailed or publicly ostracized. If, however, you were a devout believer of the faith, or a Born Again Christian, or a famous maka-dios personality - you are highly qualified to run for office in the government. Specially if you are good, even if good for nothing, The bible is, indeed, holy. It still teaches Filipinos to believe that the only holy thing of lasting value are those found in the heavenly world of God up there. Our country down here should be treated as something low, unworthy, and depraved. After all, this life is merely a stopover on our journey to the next life. Therefore the less love, less attention, and less affection placed on our country; and, at the same time, more love, more attention, and more affection are placed on God's kingdom - the better for all of us; especially as we are the only Catholic country in Asia since the 16th century. Millions of Filipinos are now living in foreign countries - we are there working as "employees." When those foreigners are living in our country, they are here as our "employers." It is the sick reflection of our sick system of education. God-fearing security guards are needed to assist our God-fearing policemen to guard the entrance of government buildings, hospitals, banks, schools, colleges, universities, shopping malls, residential buildings, hotels, motels, bars, night clubs, bookstores, drug stores, residential villages, movie theaters, restaurants, churches, cathedrals, public parks, museums, airports, harbors, MRT-LRT stations, bus stations, halls of justice, courts of law, barangay's office, mayor's office, governor's office, and the entrance of the NBI building also guarded by security guards. I ask: are we really that blessed by God being the only Catholic country in Asia since 400 years ago? Poch Suzara

Atheism as Only In The Philippines

Poch Suzara, an atheist, was once known as the "father of atheism," then the "grandfather of atheism," now near the end of his life he is known as the "great-grandfather of atheism of the Philippines." Poch Suzara

God Seldom Does Great Things in a Hurry!

God seldom does great things in a hurry. Philippine Star, May 15, 2013 In the Philippines, however, after 400 years of faith in God as the only Catholic country in Asia, God has yet to reciprocate by doing something real - like spiritual health or intellectual wealth - for us Filipinos - the Sick Man of Asia. Poch Suzara

I don't Enjoy Playimg Games with Rules

I do not enjoy playing games like chess or golf or playing games with women with rules to follow. I do not care to win in such silly games. I'd rather play with my creative thought and entertain the thought of provoking the thought of others. Happily, there is no logic in creative thinking. It makes its own rules. It explores rather than scores! In Creative thinking nobody is a loser; everybody is a winner! It is a thrill; never a threat! Poch Suzara

My Dear Senator Rene Saguisag

May 10, 2013 Oh dear, my dear Senator Rene Saguisag, If only our schools, colleges, and universities have more to do with the power of knowledge, the values of Filipino intelligence, and the endless pursuit of the truth and happiness and improvement in the here and for the now. Indeed, if only our system of education have been more about what it means to be intellectually rich in spirit rather than just be religiously poor in spirit - we Filipinos should already be ahead as a nation in all of Asia today. Unfortunately for us, we only continue to be famous as the "Sick Man of Asia." We have neither integrity and nor sagacity in our social, political, and cultural responsibility. We are only proud in having concocted for ourselves a Republic of mediocrity as inspired by the teachings of Christianity. Especially for the few rich to get richer, while the many poor get poorer! Jesus Christ in the holy bible neatly summarized it for all of us Filipinos in this only Catholic country in Asia: "I am a way, the life, and the truth." John 14:6 And to think that all of the corrupt officials in our government even before the Marcos dictatorial years - were all faithful and still are faithful followers of Jesus who declared: "If any man come to me and hate not his father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters—yes, even his own life—such a person cannot be my disciple." Luke 14:26 Of course, let us not forget Jaime Cardinal Sin - the Archbishop then of Manila - always present during the birthday celebration of the Marcos children at the palace. Blowing up party trumpets and passing out colorful balloons! Indeed, the same Jaime Cardinal Sin who, after the criminals in Washington rescued Marcos and his vast wealth out of the Philippines - immediately blessed Cory Aquino as the new President of the Philippines. With Cardinal Sin as her adviser, she started a series of reforms. That is, to organize more effective "prayer rallies" - to end the never-ending troubles historical in our country: those more fortunate in our sick society continue to exploit legally those who are less fortunate. I said it before, I say it again: We are all born ignorant; not corrupt. We are made corrupt by a system of education. La Salle, Ateneo, San Beda, UST, Assumption college, AIM and, indeed, University of the Philippines, etc. They are places where we Filipinos learn how to be indifferent to fellow-Filipinos; how not to stand up for ourselves as a free and independent people; how to ignore love of country in order to defend and protect nothing except the wealth, power, and glory of Christianity in the Philippines. Oh yes, corruption is endemic here, pandemic there, and is satanic everywhere in the Philippines. The only kind of freedom we Filipinos know how to enjoy is the freedom to enjoy corruption. Corruption is reflected daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly in the Filipino way of life! We even call it: free will. But who cares? After all, there is always Jesus up there ready and willing to forgive our thoughtless sins and mindless crimes at any time down here. We have only to repent. In the ultimate analysis, thanks to our corrupt system of education, life in general in our country can only be characterized as the corrupt competition to be the criminal or be the victim of the criminals. Again, such horrors are often referred to as the Sick Man of Asia gifted with a free will down here as inspired by a kind and loving God from up there. Cheers! Poch Suzara, La Salle high school expelled student

It Takes a Nation to Build a Nation

We are told that we need to vote in this election because it takes a nation to build a nation. On the contrary, it takes education to build a nation; especially the kind that have nothing to do with lies and deceptions; or anything to do with divine revelation in order to win eternal salvation via social degradation, economic prostitution, priestly intimidation, and political corruption. What we need is a nation with schools, colleges, and universities that produces year in and year out not frightened religious followers, but intellectually courageous leaders. All at home, first and foremost, with health and sanitation as the decent foundation of a decent nation. But then again, who cares? Schools, colleges, and universities in the Philippines are big commercial enterprises; hardly are they educational institutions. Poch Suzara

I am an Arrogant Atheist

I am an arrogant atheist. Arrogantly, I refuse to believe that an Almighty God created the universe for the growth and maturity of the Catholics in the Philippines - the only Catholic country in Asia, still historically poor and backward, since the 16th century. Poch Suzara

Why Oh Why We Remain Famous as the Sick Man of Asia

My dear Fellow-Filipinos, Our barangay captains, mayors, governors, congressmen, senators, and indeed, President and Vice-president of our Republic are, no doubt, the leaders of our country. Unfortunately, also leaders of the Sick Man of Asia. And to think that our Filipino leaders all share something wonderful in common together: they are all Maka-Dios as faithful Catholics in the Philippines. What evidences have I to make such a fantastic claim? I have tons of them. Please read daily our major newspapers, such as Philippine Daily Inquirer, Philippine Star, Manila Bulletin, etc. There, reported and published daily, are the evidences in this already 21st century - just how sick and aimless we are as a people; and, just how sick and rudderless we are as a nation. Especially for the glory of a non-Catholic Jewish Son of God Jesus in heaven as he is in the Philippines! Hijos de Tootie-Frootie y Patooties! Mga kababayan GISING NA TAYO! TAMA NA! SOBRA NA YAN KABABUYAN AT KALECHEHAN NATIN! Poch Suzara

Our Short, Brief, Fleeting Life on this earth

Life on this earth offers a variety of choices; eternity, however, offers only two: a silly God in a silly hell or a silly devil in a silly heaven. For part, I'd rather make the most of my life on this earth - short, brief, and fleeting as life is on this earth. It is the only life we have. It is the only life we know. Life elsewhere after death is a childish, if not a ridiculous - situation. There is no such thing as life after death. After all, when we die, we die entirely, not partially. Nothing is more evident to him who is not delirious. The human body, after death, is but a mass of meat incapable of producing any movements the union of which constitutes life. We no longer see circulation, respiration, digestion,speech, or reflection. Nothing is more natural and more simple than to believe that the dead man lives no more. Nothing is more absurd than to believe that the dead man is still living. Indeed, immortality is the condition of a dead man who does not believe that he is already dead. In the meantime, on this earth, I would rather be an enlightened thinker than be a frightened believer. A thinker is an atheist who cares! If I must leave this world one day, I should, however, like to leave it a better place than how I found it. Not necessarily in the material, but in the humanitarian sense. Poch Suzara

The Greatest of Joys in Life

The greatest of all joys is not the joy of sexual satisfaction; but the joy of intellectual stimulation. For my part, now a senior atheist, I'd rather continue understanding something instead of more of the same fucking a piece of nothing! In the meantime, I say it again: in this life nothing can compare intellectually penetrating a woman's medulla oblongata than just penetrating sexually her vagina! Ah, life on this earth. Life, in the ultimately analysis, is a sexually transmitted disease with a mortality rate of 100 per cent! Poch Suzara Twitter# Facebook# Google#

Filthy Rich Filipinos and Filthy Poor Filipinos

Oh Elsa, my Dear Elsa, The worst kind of poverty is the poverty of the mind and heart. On the other hand, the greatest of wealth is mental health. I am sad for you. You seem to believe, at your age today, that for as long as we have faith in God, it does not matter whether we are ruled by lies as a people, and dominated by deceptions as a nation. My dear, I asked it before, I ask it again: Have you ever met a Filipino who got to be FILTHY RICH for believing that God is BAD? So how come millions upon millions of Filipinos are FILTHY POOR and yet they all believe that God is GOOD? Cheers! and Take care! Poch Suzara

Jesus on Earth as he is in Heaven

My dear Elsa "About that time the disciples came to Jesus and asked, “Who is greatest in the Kingdom of Heaven?” Jesus called a little child to him and put the child among them. Then he said,“I tell you the truth, unless you turn from your sins and become like little children, you will never get into the Kingdom of Heaven." Matt 18:1-3 Notice in the bible Jesus does not bother to explain where or on which galaxy is the Kingdom of God located. A galaxy contains an average of 400 billion stars and planets. And there are billions of such galaxies existing out there. More to the point, after death, like misguided children, by what mode of transportation do we embark on in order to travel to heaven? Again, Jesus never told any one how to do so! For my part, after I am dead, and somehow I will find myself in a place known as the"kingdom of God" this is the very first thing I will do - look for my father, brother, uncles, aunts, my maternal and paternal grandparents, cousins. Then I will look for my friends and associates, and classmates in school. But most of all, I would love to meet with Bertrand Russell, Jose Rizal, Will Durant, Madlyn O'Hair, Voltaire, Robert Ingersoll, Thomas Paine, Karl Marx, Buddha, Thomas Jefferson, Socrates, indeed, Carl Sagan, and all of the great men and women who brought enlightenment into the human mind on this earth. Otherwise, if these relatives, friends, associates, mentors and teachers of mine are not in the kingdom of God - I say: to hell with this worthless kingdom! I'd rather be in hell! Indeed, I have enough of Jesus up to my neck on this earth; for me to be with Jesus once again and this time in heaven, I say: - NO WAY JOSE - OVER MY DEAD BODY! Cheers! Poch Suzara

God created our Congressmen and Senators in the Philippines

My dear Bodjie, God as the designer of man raises more problems than it solves: who designed the Designer? In the meantime, the bible says: “In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground: for out of it was thou taken: for dust art thou and unto dust shalt thou return.” Genesis 3:19 Well, if God designed man in his own image and likeness, and man is made of dust, then God must be made of Supernatural Dust himself. For my part, I refuse to believe, love, worship, and adore such a weird Dust be it someone unknown even if more referred to as supernatural, celestial, universal, extra-terrestrial or Jesuitical. Really Bodjie, can you truly believe in the existence of a creator who created the congressmen and senators of the legislative branch of the Philippine government? c.c. Senator Rene Saguisag - Poch Suzara

Is there Power in Prayer

My Dear Blanca, Thanks for writing. Yes, I have no right to pray to God since I do not believe in his existence... But the issue is: what about those millions upon millions of Pinoys and Pinays who believe in God and have not STOPPED praying to God because their prayers have not, as yet, been answered?Indeed, the majority of us Filipinos continue to live as the VICTIMS, as the employees; and not as the MASTERS, as the employers in our own country - the only Catholic country in Asia since the 16th century... Blanca, I asked it before, I ask it again: - Have you ever heard of a Filipino who got to be FILTHY RICH for believing that God is BAD? Well, how come millions of Filipinos are FILTHY POOR for believing that God is GOOD? Poch Suzara

The Easiest and the Hardest thing to Learn

"The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." ― Bertrand Russell The easiest thing to learn in life is to believe in God. It does not require any level of intelligence. No effort is needed. All that is necessary to believe in God is to live a life of fear and hate of this world. - Poch Suzara

Matter In Existence Composed of NOTHING

"Atoms are mainly empty space. Matter is composed chiefly - of nothing ... Atoms are composed of only three kinds of elementary particles - protons, neutrons and electrons... means modern physics and chemistry have reduced the complexity of the sensible world to astonishing simplicity: three units put together in different patterns make essentially - everything!" Carl Sagan "The more we learn, the less we know; every advance reveals new mysteries and new uncertainties; the molecules disclosed the atom, the atom discloses the electron, the electron discloses the quantum, and the quantum defies and overleaps all our categories and all our laws. Education is a moulting of dogmas, a progress in the art of doubt. Our instruments, we perceive, are bound up with matter, and our senses are bound up with mind; it is through these mists that we "flakes on the water," would understand the ocean." Will Durant "We found that matter, in modern science, has lost its solidity and substantiality; it has become a mere ghost haunting the scenes of its former splendor. In pursuit of something that could be treated as substantial, physicists analyzed ordinary matter into molecules, molecules into atoms, atoms into electrons and protons. There, for a few years, analysis found a resting place. But now electrons and protons themselves are dissolved into a system of radiations by Heisenberg, and into a system of waves by Schrodinger - the two theories amount mathematically to much of the same thing. And these are not wild metaphysical speculations; they are sober mathematical calculations, accepted by a great majority of experts." Bertrand Russell Education is a lifetime adventure; and if there is, after death, a next life in a next world, it would only make sense if it means for us more learning via endless studying! To be with God and his son Jesus in heaven already full of angels after death for the rest of eternity is boring, monotonous, silly, childish, stupid, and insane! If there were existing a big library of books in heaven, I'd be happy to end up in heaven; even if there were no Gods up there! Poch Suzara Twitter# Facebook# Google#

The Weird Holy Bible

Anything existing in this world begins as something NEW then it becomes OLD. The existence of the holy bible is such a weird book: it begins with the OLD testament; then it becomes the NEW testament. If I were one of God's inspired authors of the holy bible, I will not write: IN THE BEGINNING to begin the OLD testament; instead, I will write IN THE BEGINNING precisely to begin the NEW testament! Now here's something more ticklish about the holy bible: According to the bible God has no beginning and no end. God is from "everlasting to everlasting." (Psa 90:2). So when John wrote: "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God." John 1:1 - John was revealing exactly WHAT in the beginning of WHAT, in WHAT, and for WHAT? Hijos de tootie-frootie y patooties. Please wake up and read your bible! Poch Suzara

From Erection to Resurrection

"Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it." Proverbs 22:6 "Give us your children for the first 7 years of its life and we will give you Filipinos." Jesuit motto. During our formative years in school - we were never taught HOW to think; only WHAT to believe. Thus, instead of education to be a healthy nation populated by readers, thinkers, and leaders; we are only a people of sick prayers, sick believers, sick followers, boxers, singers and dancers; not to mention sick lawyers as sick lawmakers. In the meantime, millions of Filipinos now living and working in some 198 countries around the world. They are more known as "employees." When, however, foreigners are living and working in the Philippines, they are more known as our "employers." Poch Suzara

Sick Religion Behind the Sick Man of Asia

Indeed, if our system of education made sense at all, we Filipinos should be ahead of everyone else in Asia today. Enjoying neither damnation nor salvation, but enjoying scientific growth and technological development of Filipino civilization. Unfortunately, due to our sick system of education, in this already 21st century, we Filipinos are still busy arguing back and forth whether Jesus, some 2,000 years ago, died on the cross to remedy the past sins of the Jews; or, resurrected back to life to remedy the future sins of the Filipinos in the Philippines - the only Jesus-freak country in the whole of Asia since the 16th century! I asked it before, I ask it again: after 400 years of Catholicism in order to straighten the mess out of the Filipino minds and hearts in this only Catholic country in Asia, how come even the Philippines, already a Republic, is only proud of itself as a nation of Catholics. As with me, for the sake of dignity and self-respect, I decided to walk out of the Catholic church. I no longer have need to love a great divinity. I have, instead, learned to love something bigger, taller, and greater: - the existence of my family, my country, and the whole of humanity on this earth globally. Poch Suzara Twitter# Facebook# Google#

On Death and How to Stay Dead

No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely be the single best invention of Life. It is Life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.- Steve Jobs “I believe that when I die I shall rot, and nothing of my ego will survive. I am not young and I love life. But I should scorn to shiver with terror at the thought of annihilation. Happiness is nonetheless true happiness because it must come to an end, nor do thought and love lose their value because they are not everlasting. Many a man has borne himself proudly on the scaffold; surely the same pride should teach us to think truly about man's place in the world. Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cosy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own.” - Bertrand Russell What if it is for life's sake that we must die? In truth we are not individuals; and it is because we think ourselves such that death seems unforgivable. We are temporary organs of the race, cells in the body of life; we die and drop away that life may remain young and strong. If we were to live forever, growth would be stifled, and youth would find no room on earth. Death, like style, is the removal of rubbish, the excision of the superfluous. In the midst of death life renews itself immortally. - Will Durant “I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.” - Mark Twain This is, perhaps, the essence of atheistic grief and also the essence of atheistic hope. To understand that death is the end of existence and that it is inevitable, but to live as if it is not. To refuse to be resigned to death even as we refuse to deny its permanence - we must nevertheless care for all that is not yet dead on our planet. At any rate, after my own death, if I shall have to be with God in hell, or to be with the Devil in heaven, or to be with Jesus and his disciples like my grade school and high school teachers in La Salle, like Bro. Eduardo Manalo of Iglesia Ni Cristo, Bro. Mike Velarde of El Shaddai, Bro. Eddie Villanueva of Jesus is Lord Church, or Pastor Apollo Quiboloy of the Restorationist Christian Church, etc in Purgatoy, I say - no way, Jose. Over my dead body. I'd rather stay buried in the cemetery with my precious books forever and ever till the end of time and space.- Poch Suzara

Lead us Not into Temptation Baloney

Every day millions of Catholics pray to a Catholic God to "lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil." As the losers in the fight against temptation and evil, however, Catholics have no other recourse but to pray also to Mary, the Catholic Mother of God, to pray for us Catholic sinners, now and at the hour of our Catholic death, amen." For my part, I am most proud to have walked out of the Catholic church ever since my La Salle teachers in high school also told me to GET out of their Catholic FREE WILL classrooms. My intellectual evolution was far more precious than the free temptation of playing the FREE WILL games with a silly Catholic Divinity. Poch Suzara

The Pleasures on Earth as it is in Heaven

"The pleasures of earth cannot be compared to the joys of heaven." Philippine Star, Apr. 10, 2013 Heaven must be a place for those who are faithfully insane. Especially when they look back at their dead bodies buried on earth rotting and being eaten away by worms and maggots that in turn are also being eaten away by bacteria, germs, and viruses. In the meantime, I ask: if the greatest pleasure on earth is the joy of intellectual understanding - how is it possible that the greatest pleasure in heaven is the joy of spiritual flicky-flating. Poch Suzara

The 7 Last Words of Jesus dying on the Cross

Christ Jesus died on the Cross to redeem mankind, to save us from our sins because of his love for men, women, and children. As recorded in the Gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John in the Holy Bible, Jesus Christ was mocked, scorned, and tortured in the praetorium. He carried his cross up the Via Dolorosa in Jerusalem to Calvary, was nailed to the Cross and hung between two common criminals, and suffered an indescribable end, recalled by the Church on Good Friday of Holy Week. Here are his Seven Words, the last seven expressions of Jesus Christ on the Cross recorded in Scripture. THE FIRST WORD "Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they do." Gospel of Luke 23:34 THE SECOND WORD "Truly, I say to you, today you will be with me in Paradise." Gospel of Luke 23:43 THE THIRD WORD "Jesus said to his mother: "Woman, this is your son." Then he said to the disciple: "This is your mother." Gospel of John 19:26-27 THE FOURTH WORD "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?" Matthew 27:46 and Mark 15:34 THE FIFTH WORD "I thirst." Gospel of John 19:28 THE SIXTH WORD When Jesus had received the wine, he said,"It is finished;" and he bowed his head and handed over the spirit. Gospel of John 19:30 THE SEVENTH WORD Jesus cried out in a loud voice, "Father, into your hands I commend my spirit." Gospel of Luke 23:46 After hearing these last seven words from his dying Son Jesus crucified half-naked on the cross, God said: "Oh my dear son Jesus, for Christ's sake, grow up! You are such a cry-baby! What's the drama all about your dying on the cross since you never stayed dead to begin with? On the 3rd day, you will resurrect back to life from death? So what are you being so melodramatic about?" As a matter of fact, what exactly have you finished, as you said: "IT IS FINISHED!" Didn't you, a while back, promised to return? Poch Suzara

Evil Triumphant in the Philippines

“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men should do nothing.” Edmund Burke In the Philippines, there is no such thing as good men; and if there were, they are only busy believing that they are good by committing the greatest of crimes - the crime of silence. Poch Suzara Twitter# Facebook# Google#

The Results of our Daily Prayers

Prayers never bring anything . . . They may bring solace to the sap, the bigot, the ignorant, the aboriginal, and the lazy - but it is the same as asking Santa Claus to bring you something for Xmas. - - - W. C. Fields Praying is like rocking chair - it will give you something to do, but it won't get you anywhere. - - - Gypsy Rose Lee Prayer is like a pump in an empty well, it makes a lot of noise, but brings no water. - - - Lemuel K. Washburn When you talk to God, it is called "praying." When God talks to you, it is called "hallucinating." Our culture of corruption comes mostly from God leading us always into temptation despite our daily prayer to God to "lead us not into temptation." The Son of God Jesus, crucified on the cross, prayed out loud: "MY GOD, MY GOD WHY HAS THOU FORSAKEN ME?" I can hear God replying: Oh Jesus, for Christ's sake - grow up! You are such a cry-baby! In the meantime, after all of our prayers to God daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly since the 16th century - these are the results in this already 21st century Philippines: homelessness, joblessness, mindlessness, poverty, misery, economic perversity, social insanity, political stupidity, corruption, lies, and deceptions - all for the greater glory of Jesus on earth as he is in heaven. Not to mention more than 1,200 schools, colleges, and universities blessed, own and operated by the Catholic church tax-free that continue to teach us to love that God is love but he needs money!t.- - - Poch Suzara

Mediocrity Behind Divinity

In the Philippines, in order to succeed in the world of trade and commerce one must be greedy, selfish, stupid, corrupt, and insane. Not to mention one must always be inspired by a silly divinity. In the meantime, some men are born mediocre. Some men achieve a reputation for mediocrity, specially as the hope to be successful as a corrupt politician one day. A lot of men, however, have been frightened into mediocrity. Specially as they are products of education during the formative years in Catholic schools. Poch Suzara

Oh God, My dear God, please Wake Up!

"Each person has his place in God's service, and only God deserves the glory." Philippine Star, April 6, 2013 Oh God, my dear God, as you are already a God, and have been a God since the days of Adam and Eve, do you really need more service from the millions of poor Filipinos today already faithfully serving you daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly? I ask: What are you a God for? Why do you still need glory and for what? Come on God, isn't it time for you to WAKE UP and start behaving like a real honest-to-goodness kind and loving God? Poch Suzara

Social Ills in the Philippines

May 9,2014 Phil Daily Inquirer Letter to the Editors Dear Sirs: When one person has faith in a grand delusion, it is called insanity. When millions of people have faith in a grand delusion, like in the Philippines, it is called Christianity. There was a time when every man, woman, and child in this world believed in the existence of God - loved, adored, obeyed, and had faith in God. Historians refer to it as the Dark Ages. It lasted for a thousand years - from the 5th to the 15th century. During this time, however, no one dared to think; no one dared to bring enlightenment to the human mind. Everybody loved only God in heaven up there; especially by hating one another on this earth down here. Today, 99 million Filipinos out of 100 million believe in the existence of God, love God, obey God, worship God, and adore God. We still live in the Dark Ages; though it is referred to as "social ills." But according to the Catholic Bishops - God and only God can remedy the ills of our sick society. We must only pray. If nothing happens, we must pray harder. If nothing still happens, it is because we do not know how to pray! At any rate, no matter what happens, we must never question God's divine plan for the Philippines - a country for poor Filipinos, but more so for the rich foreigners - our employers. Our investors. Indeed, our Saviors! No doubt, social ills are a historical reality in our country. Archbishop Luis Antonio Cardinal Tagle described such horrors as: "The tombs of hunger, unemployment, homelessness, violence, discrimination, injustice and corruption." If I may add, the tombs also more known as schools, colleges, and universities: The breeding grounds for having faith in social insanity and political stupidity. Otherwise less referred to as "corruption by education" in our poor and backward only Christian country in Asia since the 16th century. In the meantime, the new Vicar of Christ - "Pope Francis used his first Easter Sunday address to call for peace in the world." It is incredible, how Pope Francis, the sole representative of the Son of God Jesus, ignores the clear message from Jesus as written by inspired authors of God in the holy bible: “Do not suppose that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I did not come to bring peace, but a sword. For I have come to turn a man against his father, a daughter against her mother, a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law— a man’s enemies will be the members of his own household. Anyone who loves their father or mother more than me is not worthy of me; anyone who loves their son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me." Matt. 10:34-37 I said it before, I say it again: The troubles in our world begin with the troubles in the human family. Now listen carefully to Jesus, preaching as the savior of our troubled world. “If anyone comes to me and does not hate father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters—yes, even their own life—such a person cannot be my disciple. And whosoever does not carry his cross, and come after me, cannot be my disciple." Luke 14:26-27 For my part, I am a humanist. This means that I am an atheist who cares. I rest my case. Cheers! Poch Suzara Pasay City pocholosuzara@gmail.com