What Revealed Truth

“Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you... Matt. 7:7... We are told that the truth has already been revealed in the bible. If this were so, why impose the truth on anybody? If this, however, were not the case, why bother to ask for the truth, to seek for the truth, and to knock for the truth? Poch Suzara Facebook# Twitter# Google#

Only in the Philippines

Via schools, colleges, and universities - we Filipinos are the only people in the whole of Asia who have been taught to believe and to have faith in a God who will forgive us of our crimes; and to believe and to have faith also in the Son of God Jesus who will forgive us of our sins. Thus, committing sins as a people, and committing crimes as a nation pretty much describe life in general in the Philippines - the only Maka-dios (God-inspired and the only maka-Jesus (Jesus-inspired) country in the whole of Asia since the 16th century. Poch Suzara Twitter# Facebook# Google#

There is NO Life After Death According to the Bible

"As the cloud is consumed and vanisheth away: so he that goeth down to the grave shall come up no more." - Job 7:9 - "The dead know not anything, neither have they any more a reward for the memory of then is forgotten." Eccl. 9:5 - These verses are simply admitting that all of our loved-ones - our dead spouses, dead children, dead parents, dead grandparents, dead friends and associates, dead teachers, dead professors, and dead mentors have all been consumed and vanished away buried and gone. The same fate awaits each and everyone of us. We atheists are realistic. We now know that when we die, we die sober, and not drunk with lies! Poch Suzara

Is God really Existing Here, there. and Everywhere

"Draw close to God, and he will draw close to you." James 4:8... I ask: isn't this the highest level of ridiculosity; if not the lowest form of ludicrosity? What's the purpose of getting close to God since God is already existing here, existing there, and existing everywhere already close to you? Poch Suzara Twitter# Facebook# Google#

Life in General in the Philippines

The Philippines is neither a land of decency nor prosperity. She is only a nation of poverty, social insanity, and political stupidity. All due to, if not because of, - the history behind the wealth, power, glory, and authority more known as Christianity. Indeed, the Philippines is the only Christian country in Asia since the 16th century. It is, in this way, that daily life in the Philippines can be characterized as the daily struggle to be the maka-dios (God-inspired) criminal or be the victim of the maka-dios (God-inspired) criminals. Poch Suzara

Noah's Catholic Ark

There are two conflicting versions of Noah's Ark story. In Genesis, chapter 7 verse 2, it says save ( seven animals) of every kind. In chapter 6 verse19, it says save ( two animals ) of every sort. In each, duration of the flood is also different. Chapter 7 says 150 days - five months; chapter 8 says ten months before the mountain tops were seen. There is no explanation as to where the water proceeded after the flood inundated the whole earth. How did Noah and his wife and three sons and their wives ( only 8 people ) managed to build the Ark? There were yet no carpentry tools invented: hammer, nail, circular saw, ruler, etc. According to biblical scholars, the Ark measured 450 feet by 78 feet by 43 feet. The size of a US aircraft carrier as such constructed by 1,000 engineers and workers with materials and navigational instruments purchased from some 100 different US manufacturers. Where did Noah catch and how did he transport to load on board two or seven kinds of every living creature? Did he go to Australia for kangaroos? To Borneo for orangutans? To Indonesia for komodo dragons? To China for pandas? To Africa for rhinoceros? To the Amazon River for anaconda giant snakes? To antartica for penguin? To the arctic for polar bears? How did Noah catch the ancestors of our politicians in government today - the crocodiles? And as the creationists believe that men and dinosaurs walked the earth at the same time, how many species of dinosaurs were dragged on board the Ark: Brontosaurus, tyrannosaurus rex, apatosaurus, allosaurus, parasaurolophus, protoceratops, triceratops, velociraptors, and hundreds more? Those giant carnivorous and/or herbivorous creatures weighed as much as 20 to 40 tons each and stood 50 to 100 feet tall. According to scientific estimates, to save the living creatures Noah had to capture and bring on board at least 25,000 species of birds, 15, 000 species of mammals, 6,000 species of reptiles, 2,500 species of amphibians, and more than a million species of insects. The other problem too was how to feed and water them, and more problematical - how to accommodate animals that can survive living only in the desert heat, or can survive living only in freezing temperature, or can live only in the rain forest. Too bad too that Noah never knew about the deadly mosquito – the carriers of deadly diseases not worth saving in the Ark. Though he bothered saving the crocodiles and the turtles that were already amphibious anyway. And also, since nothing is impossible with God there was no Need for Noah to save the living creatures of the sea, rivers, and lakes. God drowned them all to death! Except of course the crocodiles. They survived and evolved to be the corrupt congressmen and senators of the Philippine government. There was also the manure factor - how to clean out their stalls and of course the biggest headache of all - how to keep the hungry carnivores from killing and eating each other. Something that should tell us that the Noah flood story is a lot of biblical hokum, if not mythological bankum. In the New Testament, God's command to people was: "Love thy neighbor." In the Old Testament, however, God's command to Noah was: "To hell with thy neighbors. Save instead the animals." Among them was the devil in the shape of a talking serpent -"the more subtile than any beast of the field that the Lord had made." Poch Suzara

Jesus is the Light of Which World

I am the light of the world. If you follow me, you will never walk in darkness but will have the light of life. John 8:12... "My kingdom is not of this world. If it were, my servants would fight to prevent my arrest by the Jewish leaders... But now my kingdom is from another place." John 18:36... Oh Jesus, my dear Jesus, you are the Savior of which world? You are the light of what world? And what happened to your servants in the other world to prevent your arrest by the Jewish leaders in this world? And crucified on the cross, why would you cry out loud: MY GOD, MY GOD, WHY HAST FORSAKEN ME?" Matt. 27:46... You were forsaken by God which or what God? Poch Suzara Facebook# Twitter# Google#

God is Big Enough to care for the Smallest Needs

Poverty in the Philippines is not only due to our sick government with its sick system of corruption; but mostly due to a sick system of education. Indeed, we are all born ignorant, not corrupt. We are made corrupt by education. Schools, colleges, and universities in the Philippines are places where we learn to love not our country, to love not our family, to love not humanity down here; but only to love a silly divinity up there! Listen to Senate Majority Leader Alan Peter Cayetano, hoping to run for president, in the 2016 general elections: "I want to be president of this country some day. I think I can do something great for God and our people." All of our past presidents were MAKA-DIOS and MAKA-JESUS. They already did something great for God and for our people. Look at the results: We have not a government of the people, by the people, and for the people; but only a government of the corrupt, by the corrupt, and for the corrupt all enjoying the forgiveness of sins from Jesus on earth as He is in heaven; and, enjoying the pardon of crimes from God Almighty. I said it before, I say it again: it is time to reverse our destructive values. Instead of asking what we can do for God, we should start asking: what can God do for us? For my part, as I am an atheist, in all of my 77 years on life in this world, I have yet to meet a religious moron who has done something great for God! After all, God has the power, the kingdom, and the glory. We Filipinos have nothing! In the meantime, here are silly words published in the Philippine Star today, May 15, 2014: "God is big enough to care for the smallest needs." Couldn't we be more honest as a people and more truthful as a nation? We are still the only Catholic country in Asia since the 16th century. So how come: Life in general in the Philippines, due mainly to religious insanity always in cahoots with political insanity as generated by poverty - can only be characterized as the daily competition to be the sick criminal; or, be the victim of the sick criminals. Poch Suzara Facebook# Twitter# Google#.

The Hatred of the World

"If the world hates you, you know that it has hated Me before it hated you." "If you were of the world, the world would love its own; but because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, because of this the world hates you. "Remember the word that I said to you, 'A slave is not greater than his master.' If they persecuted Me, they will also persecute you; if they kept My word, they will keep yours also"... John 15:19... Oh God, my dear God, I asked you before, I ask you again: what the fuck are a really an all-knowing and all-mighty and all-loving God for? God, are you really that sick as you are obviously a sick God? Poch Suzara Facebook# Twitter# Google#

Far Greater than Happiness is the Joy of Understanding

Far greater than the pursuit of happiness is the discovery of joy; especially the greatest of all joys - the joy of understanding the beauty and the power of human knowledge that has brought us out of ancient superstitious primitivism into the world of science and technology more referred to today as modernism... Poch Suzara Twitter# Facebook# Google#

MY KIND OF WOMAN

My kind of woman has long ago ceased wasting time searching for her identity; she has been, instead, utilizing her energies by cultivating for herself and for others – human dignity. She has examined her own life and found it worth living. She has done away with fears and superstitions by developing for herself the capacity for critical thinking. My kind of woman is in love, always in love with the power of thought. My kind of woman has already accomplished great wealth; she has found it in mental health. She is no longer pre-occupied with material possessions by amassing more riches on a daily basis. She would rather be creative for her own family and her own life with human consciousness. She embraces the values of her own thoughts and those of others who enjoy the power to think. She is not afraid of change; neither does she fear making mistakes. She knows that we are all entitled to make mistakes anyway. But as she is always on the side of flexibility, which encourages the growth of her own personality, she values ends, not means. She knows where she came from; she knows where she is at present; and more important, she knows where she is going. In the meantime, she does not care to believe. She wants to know. Aside from being transformed, my kind of woman would rather be more informed. She is not a woman of childish and silly prayer; on the contrary, she is an intelligent and an avid reader. My kind of woman is, indeed, a rarity. She thinks it quite dreary to meet bright young men and women wasting away their precious talents and abilities struggling only to achieve financial stability at the expense of intellectual maturity. She has duly recognized the fact that, in the end, no matter how much money one has amassed, no amount of money can buy intelligence for the fool, or buy admiration for the coward, or even buy love for the loveless. Indeed, my kind of woman considers it quite pathetic for moneyed individuals not to be involved in the business of scientific knowledge and its diffusion. She appreciates deeply that the good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge. My kind of woman thinks it impossible to love or be loved while one is living in fear. In the contrary, love has a basis in courage as love promotes the growth and stability of one’s identity. Love has nothing to do with childish dependency, nor has it anything to do with abandoning self-reliance. Indeed, my kind of woman thinks that there is nothing admirable about being poor in spirit. On the contrary, she says, we should all strive to become rich in spirit. Those who are rich in spirit are always eager to learn, to explore, and to discover the power of knowledge. Those who are rich spirit need not be blessed; for theirs is the kingdom of love, beauty, knowledge, and the joys of life. My kind of woman therefore has set aside the prospect of gaining eternal happiness after death. She would rather share constructive ideas and hard work needed to improve the human conditions right here and now on this earth. The only miracle she recognizes as worthy of believing is the miracle that comes from the power of the human mind and human heart. My kind of woman is strong in character and quite independent in her ways of thinking. She is sensible because she has learned to embrace within the orbit of her concerns the interest of her own society in particular and those of mankind in general. Human poverty moves here, human suffering affects her, and human squalor bothers her – deeply. Indeed, my kind of woman is no longer a superstitious primitive; she embraces as she cares for the happiness of the human race! In the meantime, she recognizes the fact that there is no such thing as security in this life. To believe otherwise is nothing but superstition. My kind of woman is a humanist. She cherishes the cultural and intellectual viewpoint that affirms, not denies, the power of the human spirit to determine, to express, and to attain what is truly great of human beings: to be creative, joyous, and free. To have confidence in fellow-human beings which is the foundation of civilization. My kind of woman believes that the greatest tragedy in life is not the truth that we are poor; on the contrary, we are poor because we are not searching for the truth. Indeed, she says, the greatest failures in life are those who have been living with the wrong answers to questions that they themselves have not even asked. The worst kind of poverty is the poverty of the mind. And heart. And so, my kind of woman enjoy the best of wealth, the wealth that comes from mental health for in them contains treasures far beyond the human imagination. I love and respect my kind of woman. She has freed herself from the tyranny of prejudice and distortions due to a narrow view. She is a lovely woman. She shines with femininity as she radiates with rationality as she is always at home with veracity. My kind of woman is happy because she cares about this world. Our world. She is a great woman – one who has the courage to create human beauty in this world where nature has only put divine stupidity. Poch Suzara Facebook# Twitter# Google#

comment:

Poch,

When did you write this wonderful piece? How long ago, and what are the feedbacks? You've a great analytic mind.

Best regards always,

Julia Carreon
March 16, 2017

The Creative Brain of Man

"I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the inventor as he sees some creation of the brain unfolding to success... such emotions make a man forget food, sleep, friends, love, everything"... Nikola Tesla... Oh my dear Tesla, you are right on target: within my thoughts to provoke your thoughts of others, I too forget food, sleep, friends, love, everything, not to mention also I forget sex ... Poch Suzara Twitter# Facebook# Google#

Ordinary, Average, and Great Minds

Ordinary minds and average minds believe a lot. Great minds think a lot and they do not even think alike. Poch Suzara Twitter# Facebook# Google#

Smile, God Loves You

"All-powerful, merciful, wise, and just is God in whom we trust." Philippine Star, March 3, 2014... Sign in big bold letters posted everywhere in our sick society: "Smile, God loves you."... At the same time, however, found also everywhere in our sick schools, sick colleges, and sick universities - places where via a sick system of education we are taught to believe that for as long as we are MAKA-DIOS or MAKA-JESUS there is nothing sick about us as a people and that there is nothing sick about us as a nation. Poch Suzara Twitter# Facebook# Google#

THERE IS NO HELL, NO ADAM and EVE, says Pope Francis

There Is No Hell Fire; Adam & Eve Not Real – Pope Francis Exposes One man who is out to open many old “secrets” in the Catholic church is Pope Francis. Some of the beliefs that are held in the church but contrary to the loving nature of God are now being set aside by the Pope who was recently named The Man of The Year by TIME Magazine. Pope Francis 1 There Is No Hell Fire; Adam & Eve Not Real – Pope Francis Exposes In his latest revelations, Pope Francis said: “Through humility, soul searching, and prayerful contemplation we have gained a new understanding of certain dogmas. The church no longer believes in a literal hell where people suffer. This doctrine is incompatible with the infinite love of God. God is not a judge but a friend and a lover of humanity. God seeks not to condemn but only to embrace. Like the fable of Adam and Eve, we see hell as a literary device. Hell is merely a metaphor for the isolated soul, which like all souls ultimately will be united in love with God.” In a shocking speech that is reverberating across the world, Pope Francis declared that: “All religions are true, because they are true in the hearts of all those who believe in them. What other kind of truth is there? In the past, the church has been harsh on those it deemed morally wrong or sinful. Today, we no longer judge. Like a loving father, we never condemn our children. Our church is big enough for heterosexuals and homosexuals, for the pro-life and the pro-choice! For conservatives and liberals, even communists are welcome and have joined us. We all love and worship the same God.” In the last six months, Catholic cardinals, bishops and theologians have been deliberating in the Vatican City, in discussing the future of the church and redefining long-held Catholic doctrines and dogmas. The Third Vatican Council, is the largest and most important since the Second Vatican Council was concluded in 1962. Pope Francis convened the new council to “finally finish the work of the Second Vatican Council.” The Third Vatican Council concluded with Pope Francis announcing that… Catholicism is now a “modern and reasonable religion, which has undergone evolutionary changes. The time has come to abandon all intolerance. We must recognize that religious truth evolves and changes. Truth is not absolute or set in stone. Even atheists acknowledge the divine. Through acts of love and charity the atheist acknowledges God as well, and redeems his own soul, becoming an active participant in the redemption of humanity.” One statement in the Pope’s speech has sent traditionalists into a fit of confusion and hysteria… “God is changing and evolving as we are, For God lives in us and in our hearts. When we spread love and kindness in the world, we touch our own divinity and recognize it. The Bible is a beautiful holy book, but like all great and ancient works, some passages are outdated. Some even call for intolerance or judgement. The time has come to see these verses as later interpolations, contrary to the message of love and truth, which otherwise radiates through scripture. In accordance with our new understanding, we will begin to ordain women as cardinals, bishops and priests. In the future, it is my hope that we will have a woman pope one day. Let no door be closed to women that is open to men!” A few cardinals in the Catholic church are against Pope Francis’ latest declarations. Watch out for the report. Poch Suzara Twitter# Facebook# Google#

Freedom and Democracy

Freedom and democracy is not protected nor defended by the media in the Philippines. What is protected and defended by the media is social insanity; and indeed, political stupidity; especially as inspired by the beliefs and values of Christianity. Of course freedom of the press exists in the Philippines. If you happen to own one... In the meantime, under our freedom and democracy, it is widely believed that a stupid politician is more likely to be less corrupt, and that an intelligent politician is likely to be more corrupt. And so our politicians take advantage of the insane mess by appearing to be more stupid than he is already elected in government office... Poch Suzara Facebook# Twitter# Google#

Man and Woman

Man is woman and woman is man with the slight difference that does not matter except when one is in heat for the either. Poch Suzara Twitter# Facebook# Google#

The Perfect Model of Truth

Filled with contradictions, inconsistencies, absurdities, vulgarities, impurities, obscenities, and atrocities - the holy bible is not the perfect model of truth. The perfect model of truth is the multiplication table, which is precise and certain and free from terror, illusions, delusions, lies, and deceptions. So how come there is not one verse mentioned in the holy bible on the Multiplication Table as the perfect model of truth? Poch Suzara Facebook# Twitter# Google#

Leaders and More Leaders

" A good leader is one who knows the way, shows the way, and goes the way." Philippine Star, Feb. 28, 2014... On the contrary, a good leader is one who knows how to have not more followers, but knows how to create more leaders... In the atheist worldwide movement today, what is being created are not mindless followers, but courageous unbelievers as leaders of their own destiny... Poch Suzara Twitter# Facebook# Google#

The Silly Ways of God

Satan, the fallen angel, for questioning the silly ways of God, was expelled out of heaven. Adam and eve, the fallen human beings, for questioning the silly ways of God, was expelled out of the Garden of Eden. Poch Suzara, the fallen student, for questioning the silly ways of God in school, was expelled out of La salle high school. I said it before, I say it again: THE WAYS OF GOD IS A LOT OF DOGMA, PIGMA, AND HOGMA INEXTRICABLY MIXED TOGETHER WITH A LOT OF SICK PSYCHODRAMA . Poch Suzara Twitter# Facebook# Google#

Oh Jesus, My Dear Jesus,

Oh Jesus, my dear Jesus, you were only crucified once and only for a few hours. Think of the millions of poverty-stricken Filipinos daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly crucified by the college-educated maka-dios senators and college-educated maka-dios congressmen in the government of the Philippines - the only Jesus country in Asia since the 16th century! Poch Suzara Twitter# Facebook# Google#

The Evils of Religion

Teach children in school that they have souls and then frighten them as to the nature of eternal damnation in hell-fire after death and you have captured mental slaves. Indeed, mental slaves more referred to in the Philippines as the Sick Man of Asia. I said it before, I say it again: As decent men and decent women we should always wage a decent war against the evils of religion as it teaches us to believe that this world, our world, is nothing but a world of sinners and criminals. Poch Suzara Facebook# Twitter# Google#

No Kidding

There is neither Jew nor Gentile, neither slave nor free, nor is there male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus. Galatians 3:28 No kidding? What about Jesus Christ also declaring: - “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." Matthew 10:34-37 In the meantime, in the Philippines, the only Christian country in Asia since the 16th century, Jesus Christ has always been and still is considered as the greatest leader of the Filipinos. If this were valid, however, how come in this already 21st century, millions of Filipinos are still poor spiritually, still bankrupt morally, still stupid politically, still sick economically, and still insane religiously? Indeed, daily life in the Philippines, as blessed by our Savior Jesus, can be characterized as the daily competition to be the criminal or be the victim of the criminals; specially those college-educated criminals in the government more referred to as our maka-dios congressmen and maka-dios senators! Poch Suzara Facebook# Twitter# Google#

The 1986 EDSA so-called People Power

"Edsa is not finished. It is still work in progress. Many of our countrymen remain mired in poverty, hunger, and inequality." Jejomar Binay, Vice President. The 1986 People Power situation was not a revolution. It was not even an evolution. It turned out simply as another church-inspired confusion more referred to as a MIRACLE FROM GOD for social justice. Nothing changed except the Marcos Dictatorship was removed from power by the US government. After which, new faces in the same old chorus was installed to take over the government. Especially, by politicians as products of the same old corrupt system of education to sing the same old corrupt song for and in the Philippines. In the meantime, we are the only Christian country in Asia since the 16th century. The millions of us poor Filipinos continue, however, to believe NOT in any kind of revolution in the basic system of education, but only to have more faith in the same old delusion more known as divine revelation. It is, in the way, that the history of the Philippines may be summarized as the history of missed opportunities; especially in the development of the Filipino mind and heart. The EDSA so-called People Power was peaceful, but due to lack of vision for love of country, it turned out to be neither economically fruitful nor politically truthful; only nationally dreadful. We Filipinos today continue to exist and to multiply under the same spell of religious insanity in cahoots with political stupidity all inspired by the same sick system of education that produced Marcos and his endless gang of college-educated criminals. Poch Suzara Twitter@ Facebook# Google#

Family Planning and Birth Control Measures

The one and only reason why I love, respect, and admire God together with His Virgin Mary is that they both mutually and seriously practiced family planning and birth control measures. They only had one son, didn't they? Poch Suzara Twitter# Facebook# Google# Atheist#

The Woman's Medulla Oblongata

No doubt, the most beautiful thing that exist in this world is woman's face; unfortunately, the ugliest thing that also exist in this world is a woman's ugly looking vagina. For my part, as a thinking man, and all thinking men are atheists, I'd rather go for something far more precious than a woman's face or a woman's vagina - I'd rather go for the beauty and the power coming intelligently from a woman's potential growth and development of her medulla oblongata. Poch Suzara

The Sick Politicians in our sick Government

Aside from being selfish, greedy, corrupt, stupid, sick, and insane the politicians in our government all share something impressive together: They all have acquired college education; and, they are all MAKA-dios (godly). It also explains why we Filipinos are known the world over why precisely we are the Sick Man of Asia - products as we all are of the same sick system of education. Poch Suzara Twitter# Facebook# Google#

Schools, Colleges, and Universities in the Philippines

Schools, colleges, and universities are places where we, millions of us Filipinos, learn how to have: 1) No sense of more and deeper learning; sense only for more mindless praying. 2) No sense of love of country; sense only for love of a silly divinity; specially in the shape of a Holy Trinity. 3) No sense of hygiene and sanitation; sense only to spread pollution for the sake of gaining heavenly salvation. 4) No sense of ethics, logic, and mathematics; sense only for what is sick in politics in cahoots with anything ecclesiastic. 5) No sense of creative skepticism; sense only for destructive dogmatism, pigmatism, and hogmatism. 6) No sense of the reality that our politicians always in cahoots with the theologians together are filthy-rich magicians. 7) No sense of the truth that we are not the masters of religion; sense only to believe that we are blessed as the victims of Christianity. 8) No sense of the power behind hard working; sense only for hard believing in the Lord doing a lot of saving.. 9) No sense of the beauty of being ungodly; sense only to be godly, (maka-dios). After all, who will forgive our sick crimes and sick sins. 10) No sense of national daily mission; sense only for nocturnal emission. 11) No sense of information, transformation, and reformation; sense only for what is thoughtless for legislation. 12) No sense of intellectual protoplasm; sense only to achieve sexual orgasm. 13) No sense of love and respect for the medulla oblongata; sense only to love, worship, and adore the woman's vagina. 14) No sense of the veracity; sense only to have faith in mendacity. 15) No sense of patriotism; sense only for what is parochialism as blessed by pastoralism. 16) No sense of the resources that are natural; sense only for the existence of the supernatural. 17) No sense of the realities behind the microscope and the telescope; sense only for the lies and deceptions as revealed by horoscope. 18) No sense of lively analysis; sense only for deadly paralysis. 19) No sense of mastery of history; sense only to be the historical victims of Christianity. 20) No sense of citizenship of our Republic; sense only as faithful membership as a Catholic. 21) No sense of efficiency in government; sense only to be frightened in what is written in the Old and in the New testament. 22) No sense of common sense; sense only to have faith in a lot of useless, mindless, thoughtless - nonsense. Poch Suzara Twitter# Facebook# Google#

War is all about Evil versus Evil

“There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people.” ― Howard Zinn ... For my part, I say, there is no flag large enough to cover the shame of soldiers bravely killing each other while believing that they should have no courage to question what it is that they will eventually solve the problems of thoughtless animals... Indeed, war is all about evil versus evil and at the end of each war only evil has prevailed...Poch Suzara Twitter# Facebook# Google#

The Catholic Church should also Apologize for the Public Execution of Dr. Jose Rizal

1992: Catholic Church apologizes to Galileo, who died in 1642 In 1610, Century Italian astronomer/mathematician/inventor Galileo Galilei used a a telescope he built to observe the solar system, and deduced that the planets orbit the sun, not the earth. This contradicted Church teachings, and some of the clergy accused Galileo of heresy. One friar went to the Inquisition, the Church court that investigated charges of heresy, and formally accused Galileo. (In 1600, a man named Giordano Bruno was convicted of being a heretic for believing that the earth moved around the Sun, and that there were many planets throughout the universe where life existed. Bruno was burnt to death.) Galileo moved on to other projects. He started writing about ocean tides, but instead of writing a scientific paper, he found it much more interesting to have an imaginary conversation among three fictional characters. One character, who would support Galileo's side of the argument, was brilliant. Another character would be open to either side of the argument. The final character, named Simplicio, was dogmatic and foolish, representing all of Galileo's enemies who ignored any evidence that Galileo was right. Soon, Galileo wrote up a similar dialogue called "Dialogue on the Two Great Systems of the World." This book talked about the Copernican system. "Dialogue" was an immediate hit with the public, but not, of course, with the Church. The pope suspected that he was the model for Simplicio. He ordered the book banned, and also ordered Galileo to appear before the Inquisition in Rome for the crime of teaching the Copernican theory after being ordered not to do so. Galileo was 68 years old and sick. Threatened with torture, he publicly confessed that he had been wrong to have said that the Earth moves around the Sun. Legend then has it that after his confession, Galileo quietly whispered "And yet, it moves." Unlike many less famous prisoners, Galileo was allowed to live under house arrest. Until his death in 1642, he continued to investigate science, and even published a book on force and motion after he had become blind. The Church eventually lifted the ban on Galileo's Dialogue in 1822, when it was common knowledge that the Earth was not the center of the Universe. Still later, there were statements by the Vatican Council in the early 1960's and in 1979 that implied that Galileo was pardoned, and that he had suffered at the hands of the Church. Finally, in 1992, three years after Galileo Galilei's namesake spacecraft had been launched on its way to Jupiter, the Vatican formally and publicly cleared Galileo of any wrongdoing... Poch Suzara Twitter# Facebook# Google#

Filipinos as God Created them

If I were granted omnipotence, and millions of years to experiment in, I should not think Man much to boast of as the final result of all my efforts... Bertrand Russell... For my part, I ask: Oh God, my dear God, aside from creating Man, specially in the Philippines, as the final result of your creative and almighty power in Asia - what else have you accomplished as a God for the Filipinos in the Philippines? ... Poch Suzara Twitter# Facebook# Google#

Eat Your Own Shit in the Holy Bible

"Hath he not sent me to the men that sit upon the wall, that they may eat their own dung, and drink their own piss with you?" — Isaiah 36:12 I said it before, I say it again: ... all you have to do is to love, worship, and adore Jesus into your heart, and you get a free meal at the all-you-can-eat Shit and Piss Buffet. Sounds like a blessed deal... Poch Suzara... Twitter# Facebook# Google#

Why Should God Care for Filpinos in the Philippines

Because God cares about us, we can leave our cares with Him... Philippine Star, Feb. 13, 2014... I asked: If God could not care for His own Jewish Son Jesus, who, crucified on the cross, in a Jewish Land, cried out loud: "MY GOD, MY GOD, WHY HAST THOU FORSAKEN ME?" Matt. 27:46 - Why should God give to a hoot to the millions of economically poor and spiritually downtrodden Filipinos in the Philippines? Poch Suzara --- Twitter# Facebook# Google#

God in Heaven

Our Father, Who is in heaven, Holy is Your Name; Your kingdom come,Your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread, and forgive us our sins, as we forgive those who sin against us; and lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. Amen... Matt.6:9-13, Luke 11:2-4 I asked it before, I ask it again: If God is existing here, existing there, and existing everywhere, what is the purpose of praying to God who is in heaven? Where exactly is heaven located in the here or there or anywhere? Poch Suzara Twitter# Facebook# Google#

A Stupid Man of Silly Faith

Faith is the ready-made excuse to evade the need to assume nothing, to question everything, and to start thinking - the greatest of man's capacity to enjoy the greatest of all joys - the joy of understanding via thinking... Thus, horribly. Deplorably. Despicably. Sadly - a stupid man of silly faith is like a stupid drunkard who clings to a lamppost for silly support; not illumination... Poch Suzara Facebbok# Twitter# Google#

Mindless Prayer

"Prayer is the most important conversation of your day. Take it to God before you take it to anyone else." NO KIDDING? Why bother to take your prayer to God when God is already existing here, existing there, and already existing everywhere? In the meantime, when you talk to God your are known to be "praying." When, however, God talks to you, you are known to be "hallucinating." Poch Suzara Twitter# Facebook# Google#

Theologians Versus Other Theologians

if the theologians themselves were incomprehensible to other theologians, how can I begin to comprehend theology for myself as theology is the study of the incomprehensible nothing – the ignorance of natural causes reduced to an incomprehensible system masquerading as a silly mystery? Poch Suzara Twitter# Facebook# Google#

God only in Heaven, not on this Earth

“As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts. Isaiah 55:9 . . . Oh God, my dear God, SO WHAT? Aren't you suppose to be existing here, there, and everywhere on this earth? Existing with the living on this piece of dust? Why are you stuck with those already dead in heaven? Poch Suzara Twitter# Facebook# Google#

Love and Happiness

Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get - only what you are expecting to give - which is everything... Katherine Hepburn . . . Oh My Dear Katherine Hepburn, it is the same situation with happiness. In order for us to enjoy happiness, we must insure the happiness of others... In the meantime, let's listen to what Bertrand Russell said about the issue: "Happiness is nonetheless true happiness because it must to an end, nor do thought and love lose their value because they are not everlasting." . . . Poch Suzara Twitter# Facebook# Google#

God has revealed WHAT to me ?

If God have spoken to people existing everywhere, how come even the Filipinos in the Philippines haven't the foggiest notion as to what exactly God said? And said to whom? According to whom? In the meantime, Revelation is a fresh communication from God direct to me. Any other information from God to me via a second or a third party is not Revelation, but a useless piece of second-hand information worthless as it is a reckless expression. Poch Suzara Twitter# facebook# Google#

Holy Bible Insanity

Millions of readers do not agree with each other as to what’s written in the bible. How could they? The inspired by God bible authors themselves do not agree with each other. In fact, they contradict each other. I say, it is time to throw your bible out the window. No doubt, it is true, there is just about something in the bible for everybody; except the Revealed Truth. It has not yet been revealed to anybody. In the meantime, it is sick to believe that a creator of the billions of galaxies comprising trillions of stars should inspire sick authors to write the sick bible for creatures called man living in this sick speck of dust called earth! Specially for Filipinos - the Sick Man of Asia made sick by sick Christian values and sick Christian beliefs. It cannot be emphasized too strongly that Christianity has a sick interest in human misery. Indeed, much of Christianity's 2,014 years of success can be accounted for in another way: Christianity's success capitalized on human suffering. She has insured her own existence through the perpetuation of human suffering. Especially, in the poor and backward Philippines - the on Christian country in Asia since the 16th century. Of course, Christianity has never advocated human misery. She would rather speak of "sacrifices" in this life so as to collect "interest" in the next life. Happily for Christianity, the dead cannot resurrect back to life to demand for a refund... Poch Suzara Twitter# Facebook# Google#

Death and Atheism

Each and every one of us will, sooner or later, die and die not partially, but totally. Entirely. This is so obvious unless of course we can enjoy partial insanity. The human body, after death, is a mass, incapable of producing any movements the union of which constitutes life. We longer see circulation, respiration, digestion, or reflection. Even the greatest joy – the joy of understanding is no longer possible after the brain disintegrates after death. Sex, the next greatest joy is also no longer possible. As a matter of fact, there is no such thing as immortality unless immortality will be the condition of a dead moron who can believe that he is not yet dead, buried, and gone! Now we told that after death, the soul separates itself from the body. Indeed, the theologians insist on this truth despite the subject of theology is the study of nothing reduced to a system. But to admit that the soul, which is unknown, is the principle of life, is admitting nothing, unless of course that an unknown force is the invisible principle of imperceptible movements. However, nothing is more natural and simpler than to believe that after death, we live no longer; and nothing more absurd than to believe that after we are dead but we are still living somehow and somewhere in a realm beyond. We think it silly for some nations whose fashion it is to bury provisions with the dead – food to eat as might be nutritious for them in the next life. But it is ridiculous to believe that we can still eat after death or that we can still think; that we can hold agreeable or disagreeable ideas; that we shall still have the capacity to enjoy, to suffer, or still be in possession of our knees to kneel down in prayers when our bodies are turned into dust. To claim that the souls of men will be happy or unhappy after dearth of the body is to pretend that we will still be able to see without eyes, to hear with ears, to taste without our palate, to smell without our nose, to feel without our hands and without our skin. Nations, such as the Philippines, believe herself very rational, have adopted as true such infantile nonsense. Life after death? Why not attend to the more important part of life - life after birth. Indeed, if there be a purpose to life, that purpose must be to leave this world a little better than we found it, or there is little reason for our having lived. Poch Suzara Twitter# Facebook# Google#

CORRUPTION IS ROOTED AT OUR SICK SYSTEM OF EDUCATION

Philippine Daily Inquirer Letter to the Editors January 6, 2015 Dear Editors, CORRUPTION HERE, there and everywhere in our corrupt society? We should seriously look at our corrupt system of education. It is where our corrupt way of life is rooted at. Indeed, we are all born innocent, not corrupt. We are made corrupt by the power of education. Let's take a closer look at De La Salle University, Ateneo, San Beda, UST, UP, Assumption College, Philippine Military Academy, Adamson, Mapua, PWU, Miriam, Letran, Lyceum, AIM, Don Bosco, FEU, UE, etc, etc. To begin with, they are commercial enterprises, hardly educational. Such educational commercialism produces corrupt government officials; corrupt military generals; corrupt doctors, lawyers and judges; corrupt teachers and professors; corrupt economist, corrupt taxpayers, corrupt tax collectors, corrupt bookkeepers; corrupt policemen, corrupt fire inspectors; corrupt city engineers; corrupt investigators; not to mention those daily blessed by God -the corrupt priests who are still selling a worthless product known as that better life to come after death. They do so by teaching us how to be morally bankrupt with this life after birth. Indeed, we are still faithfully buying what they are faithfully selling. However, at a very dear price to pay: the mindless surrender of the self via the mutilation of the intellect. Look how in this only Christian country in Asia we are all educated to love not our country; but to love only a divinity up there; especially by being corrupt against each other down here! Look how all of our sins against God and our crimes against our society are easily forgivable, if not profitably pardonable by those corrupt who have the power to corrupt. Ah, yes, blessed are those who are corrupt for they shall inherit wealth, power and glory. Thus, instead of growth and maturity on the one hand, and social sanity and human decency on the other, there is only more of the same, historical mockery. This, in order to support and maintain our eternal love for the unknown, the concealed, the fabulous, the incredible, the mysterious to that which is clear, simple, decent and true. In the meantime, life in general in the Philippines can be characterized as the daily, weekly, monthly and yearly competition to be corrupt or be the sick victim of those who are already even more corrupt. Again, take a serious look at the only book that is holy in our corrupt way of life - the Holy Bible. The Bible teaches us to love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man loves the world, the love of the Father is not with him.? (1 John 2:15) For my part, I thank God I no longer belong to a religious group. I am no longer ecclesiastic. I'd rather be a Filipino proud of being more at home by being atheistic. POCH SUZARA, Twitter# Facebook# Google#

I am a Lucky Atheist in the Philippines

I am told that I am a lucky atheist because I live in the Philippines and not in a Muslim country... As an openly-avowed and publicly declared atheist my head would have already been chopped off if I live in a Muslim country... No kidding? What about Dr. Jose Rizal who lived in the Philippines? How come the Catholic church with its power, wealth, glory, and authority had him arrested, incarcerated, and publicly executed not for being an atheist, but for exposing via writing the lies and deceptions of the Catholic priesthood industry in the Philippines? Poch Suzara Twitter# Facebook# Google#

God only Always Omni-Absent

Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." John 14:6 Oh Jesus, my dear Jesus, we have no need to go through you. We can go straight to God. After all, God, the Father, is existing here, existing there, and existing everywhere! However, for my part, ever since my grade school years in La Salle some 65 years ago, I never felt God to be omni-present. To me, God has always been only omni-absent! Today, in my senior years, God is still busy playing the HIDE and SEEK games. He is, as yet, no where to be found! Despite what I am always being told:, God exists there. God exists everywhere. But God has yet to exist where it matters; where is counts: right here in the here and now. But God, Oh God, where are you? In the Meantime, a belief cannot be true here but false there. If a belief were false anywhere, it is false everywhere. Contradict yourself and you are sure to be wrong. Not giving importance for deadly contradiction is the same thing as not giving importance for serious communication that delivers lively confirmation. We unbelievers of the faith know what we are talking about. The believers of the faith, however, do not even know what “knowing” means. We unbelievers do enjoy the flexibility of intellectuality. The believers are only always stuck in the fixity of a falsity especially as they believe that human stupidity has some connection with infinity as inspired by the mystery of a silly divinity. Poch Suzara Twitter# Facebook# Google#

A Cynic

A cynic is just a man who found out when he was ten that there wasn't any Santa claus, and he is still upset... J.G. Cozzens ... Oh My dear J.G. Cozzens, this is not as horrible as when children learn in Catholic schools that there is a Santa Claus and it continues to inspire them to live for the rest of their lives as faithful Catholic because eventually Santa Claus will soon be coming to town... Poch Suzara Twitter# Facebook# Google#

Filthy Rich

For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? - Mark 8:36 . . . For my part, I asked it before, I ask it again: For what shall it profit a man, if, indeed, he has become so filthy rich; but his wife and sons and daughters have all turned out to be so filthy stupid not only with money, not only with alcohol, not only with drugs, not only with their purchased cheap spouses, but also so filthy stupid when it comes to a sense of decency for humanity, but faith only in a stupid divinity? I should know. One of my relatives married one such sick criminal who got to be filthy rich together with his sick friends - the equally filthy rich politicians as high officials of the Philippine government! ... Poch Suzara Twitter# Facebook# Google#

The Art of Fucking Against the Art of Thinking

Schools, Colleges, and universities are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed... Robert G. Ingersoll ... In the Philippines, schools, colleges, and universities are places where we learn how to earn a living. In this way, we may enjoy, in life, the art of FUCKING. Hardly, however, are such places, educational enough, where they teach the art of THINKING; so that in life, we may enjoy even more the necessity of solving problems with even more THINKING... Poch Suzara... Twitter# Facebook# Google#

The Power of Thought

All that a man achieves and all that he fails to achieve is the direct result of his own thoughts... James Allen... Oh, my dear James Allen, sadly and painfully, in Catholic schools, colleges, and universities in the Philippines - the first order of the day is not to enliven, but to deaden our thoughts with prayers. Specially for the glory NOT of our country down here, but only for the glory of sick divinity  up there! . . . Poch Suzara Twitter# Facebook# Google#

Defrock the Priesthood Industry in the Philippines

On Wednesday, 5 February 2014, 20:31, "MarPatalinjug@aol.com" wrote: Click here: Rock the boat | Inquirer Opinion NY, 05 February 2014 Here is Conrado de Quiroz's column, "Rock the boat," in The Inquirer today. Mr. de Quiroz, let me just point out, is not a "Communist." But he can distinguish a good Christian like Pope Francis and Cardinal Tagle and a bad one like CBCP head SOCRATES VILLEGAS. Bishop Socrates Villegas, the "Neanderthal" head of the "Neanderthal" organization like the Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines, is seething with anger over a Rolling Stone magazine article supposedly praising Pope Francis, "at the expense of Pope Benedict." It is Catholic priests like Socrates Villegas who has given Christianity a very bad or smelly name! He is as conservative as it gets--Catholic dogma-ridden if you will--and is clearly one of those whom Pope Francis castigates as OBSESSING ON ABORTION, CONTRACEPTION AND GAY MARRIAGE. And he is probably one of those six Catholic bishops who had no problem contributing to CORRUPTION in the Philippines by asking the corrupt PRESIDENT GLORIA MACAPAGAL-ARROYO for the SUV "Pajero," each costing several million pesos. One can only hope that when Pope Francis visits the Philippines, he will know how corrupt many Catholic priests and bishops are--and does the right thing by DEFROCKING ALL OF THEM WITHOUT MUCH ADO OR CEREMONY. Mariano Patalinjug MarPatalinjug@aol.com Dear Mar Patalinjug, If Pope francis eliminates by defrocking all the Catholic priests, nuns, bishops, cardinals out of business in the Philippines - I will reconsider being a member of the Catholic church once again. I MEAN IT! Poch Suzara, Atheist, ex-Catholic . . . Twitter# Facebook# Google#

The Faults Found in Religion

Remember that you aren't the only person who has found fault with their religion... People throughout history have looked critically at their religious beliefs and found fault... If you have issues and problems, then look at them honestly, with the notion that you will not be punished for trying to find what you truly believe... If your beliefs are valid, then they will stand up to scrutiny... Most of the religions that have ever been, have gone extinct... You would be hard pressed to find people worshiping Thor or Quetzalcoatl... Take a hard look at why you don't believe in Thor, or Rah, or Zeus... Would you be Islamic, Christian, or Jewish if you where raised in Iran, Mississippi, or Israel?... As with me, among other many great issues I have against the Christian religion, this is the greatest I have looked into with honesty, guts, and gumption: The trouble with God is that HE is only always existing THERE and always existing EVERYWHERE; but never, has God ever existed in the HERE and NOW... In brief, I find it utterly ridiculous, if not sadly ludicrous, that God is never OMNI-PRESENT; only always OMNI-ABSENT. . . Poch Suzara Twitter# Facebook# Google#

As an Atheist, I Have No Need to Serve Two Masters on this Earth

"No one can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and wealth." . . . Jesus in Matthew 6:24 ... Oh Jesus, my dear Jesus, as a Filipino, I do not hate; on the contrary, I love wealth - the greatest of which is the wealth of a free mind and a free heart! As an atheist, I am the master of my own destiny in life... Why should I still bother to serve you by playing silly games with your silly greedy church earning nothing but the wealth in money and more money on this earth; especially as the owner of the millions of Filipino minds and hearts and as the owner of the Catholic Republic of the Philippines? ... Not to mention the owner of more than a thousand Catholic schools, colleges, and universities operating tax-free basis in the Philippines... Poch Suzara Twitter# Facebook# Google#

We Filipinos Are Not allowed to be Christians According to the Holy Bible

“Now when they had gone throughout Phrygia and the region of Galatia, and were forbidden of the Holy Ghost to preach the word in Asia," ... Acts 16:6... Hey you religious faithfools, how come you people do not even know that according to the Holy Ghost in the holy bible we Filipinos are not allowed to be Christians in Asia? . . . Come on you frightened faithfools, when will you people begin to seriously read the HOLY BIBLE and begin to understand that the Holy Ghost in the holy bible never gave 3 hoots for us Asians be converted from a healthy sanity into sick Christianity.. . . I don't know about you weirdos. I will 77 in April, 2014, and for me to still believe in the existence of a HOLY GHOST now more referred to as the HOLY SPIRIT in this day and age is rather childish, ticklish, and foolish, if not utterly silly and freakish.. . . Poch Suzara Twitter# Facebook# Google#

The Philippines Should Learn From China

In China, for the sake of growth as a people, and development as a nation, the journey of a thousand miles begin with the first step. Together in unity under atheism... In the Philippines, for the sake of being losers as a people, and  for being failures as a nation, the journey of one mile begins with a thousand steps. On each other. Especially as inspired by a divinity for the sake of our silly values and silly beliefs under silly Christianity... Poch Suzara ... Twitter# Facebook# Google#

Utterly Childish, Totally Useless Prayers

Many college educated Filipinos with doctorates and master's degree still pray. From infancy to senility they continue to believe in the power of prayer. Unfortunately, God - the Father, could not answer the prayer of the son of God Jesus - Indeed, the same Jesus who, crucified on the cross, prayed out loud: My God, My God, why hast thou forsaken me? Well, as a self-expelled La Salle high school student, I asked: why couldn’t Jesus as a God himself, answer His own prayer? Jesus was obviously just bragging to high heavens when He declared: “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.” Poor Jesus, the Son of God, a gang of no read, no write, superstitious primitives ( created in the image and likeness of His Father God ) managed to get Jesus crucified on a piece of wood? John 14:6. I said it before, I say it again: The existence of hospitals prove that prayers are utterly useless. As a matter of fact, if prayers work, we must pray harder for more hospitals, especially mental asylums, to be established throughout the Philippines. We need such facilities to hospitalize and help cure the Sick Man of Asia such as our sick men and sick women in congress and in the Senate who has never cease to brag that they are all Maka-dios and Maka-Jesus. Imagine these people in this already 21st century. They still believe that the health and wealth and the general promotions of Filipino decency throughout the Philippines as a nation can only be a reality as soon as the Son of God Jesus from heaven will return back to earth! Hijos de tootie-frootie y patooties Conio! Gising na! Maga ULOL! Poch Suzara

Hate Your Family. Hate Humanity. Hate Your Country. Just Love Jesus

"Do not suppose that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I did not come to bring peace, but a sword." ... Jesus in Matthew 10:34... “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. ... Jesus in Luke 14:26... So sorry my dear Jesus, as an atheist, I refuse to hate my father and mother and hate sisters and hate my wife and children and hate my own life also in order to be your disciple. No way Jesus! Over my dead body! Despite defects and imperfections, I love my family, my country and the whole of humanity. Call it the real "holy spirit" in me! ... Poch Suzara in Feb. 2, 2014 Twitter# Facebook# Google#

21 reasons Why I Abandoned Christianity

21 Reasons why I abandoned Christianity... Christianity is based on fear... Christianity preys on the innocent... Christianity is based on dishonesty... Christianity is extremely egocentric... Christianity breeds arrogance, a chosen-people mentality... Christianity breeds authoritarianism... Christianity is cruel... Christianity is anti-intellectual, anti-scientific... Christianity has a morbid, unhealthy preoccupation with sex... Christianity produces sexual misery... Christianity has an exceedingly narrow, legalistic view of morality... Christianity encourages acceptance of real evils while focusing on imaginary evils... Christianity depreciates the natural world... Christianity models hierarchical, authoritarian organization... Christianity sanctions slavery... Christianity is misogynistic... Christianity is homophobic... Christianity and its Bible is not a reliable guide to Christ's teachings... Christianity and its Bible is riddled with contradictions and absurdities... Christianity borrowed its central myths and ceremonies from other ancient religions... Christianity arrested, incarcerated, and public executed one of my Intellectual fathers - Jose Rizal... If any of you wish to know the details of any one of the above reasons, let me know... I'd be happy to supply you the horror for your attention... Poch Suzara, Twitter# Facebook# Google#

My Dear Senator Rene Saguisag,

My Dear Senator Rene Saguisag,“ It is the duty and responsibility of every thinking man to always be on the side of the living, not of the dying. Indeed, to always courageously be on the side of humanity, and not frightened of a silly divinity. We atheists have no problem with death. We simply die sober, and not drunk with lies or deceptions or with consuelitos para los bobos! Cheers! Poch Suzara

If There is a God

Those who feel nobly, even if in their day they live obscurely, need not fear that they will have lived in vain... Something radiates from their lives, some light that shows the way to their friends, their neighbors, perhaps to long future ages... I find many men nowadays oppressed with a feeling that in the vastness of modern societies there is nothing of importance that the individual can do... This is a mistake. The individual, if he is filled with love of mankind, with breadth of vision, with courage and with endurance, can do a great deal... Bertrand Russell.. For my part, I said it before, I say it again: if there is a God, his name should be spelled BERTRAND RUSSELL... Poch Suzara Twitter# Facebook# Google#

A Library is not just a Library

“Congratulations on the new library, because it isn’t just a library... It is a space ship that will take you to the farthest reaches of the Universe, a time machine that will take you to the far past and the far future, a teacher that knows more than any human being, a friend that will amuse you and console you—and most of all, a gateway, to a better and happier and more useful life.” ... Isaac Asimov. . . Oh, my dear Isaac Asimov, had you been one of my teachers in La Salle grade school, never would I have ever planned to eventually get myself expelled out of that sick rotten mess more referred to as a school- a place of learning. . . . Poch Suzara Facebook# Twitter# Google#

A thorough Knowledge of the Bible

A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education... Theodore Roosevelt. . . Oh my dear Theodore Roosevelt, you are, 100 per cent, right on target... As an expelled high school student of some 65 years ago, I began to read books, especially those banned books we were not allowed to read such as the holy bible... As an avid reader, however, gradually, creatively and joyfully, I ended up to be an atheist as Isaac Asimov truthfully said it: “Properly read, the Bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived.” . . . Poch Suzara Twitter# Facebook# Google#

Oh Yes, I am an Atheist

When I told the people of Northern Ireland that I was an atheist, a woman in the audience stood up and said, 'Yes, but is it the God of the Catholics or the God of the Protestants in whom you don't believe? ... Quentin Crisp ... My dear Quentin Crisp, when I tell the religiously frightened saps and college-educated jerks here in our sick society that I am atheist, they say that I am not... That I am only pretending to be a an atheist... As a matter of fact, I refuse to believe that there is a God existing behind any of the great religions of the world... Especially the God existing behind Catholicism in the Philippines. No way! Over my dead body will I believe in such superstitious nonsense... I said it before, I say it again and again: I have no need to believe in your lesser God because I already believe in something greater - my family, my country, and the whole of humanity. Poch Suzara Twitter# Facebook# Google#

Poverty of the Worst Kind in the Philippines

Dear Mar Patalinjug, You are 100 per cent right on target... Out of the 100 million population of the Philippines, 30 million Filipinos are caught in the sticky quagmire of poverty, living lives of extreme degradation and dehumanization... Mar, may I, however, point out that the rest of the population in our country suffer from poverty of even the worst kind - the poverty of the mind and heart... Such horrors have always kept us Filipinos poor spiritually as a people and mentally retarded historically as a nation!!! I have asked it before, I ask it again: Have we ever 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 and yet they all believe that God is GOOD! I can only repeat - the worst kind of poverty is the poverty of the mind and heart... Such horrors have been what our sick system of education has been and still is mostly about! With all best wishes, Poch Suzara Twitter# Google# Facebook#

The Chinese in China Compared to the Filipinos in the Philippines

98 per cent of all Chinese daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly activities in China have only to do with nothing but work, work, and more work for the benefit of the human race down here... In the Philippines, 98 per cent of all Filipino daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly activities have only to do with pray, pray, and more praying for the benefit from divine grace up there... Chinese have been irreligious as a people since the 11th century. We Filipinos have been nothing but religious as a people since the 16th century... For my part, as a Filipino atheist, I hate religion as I hate anything based on fear... Fear never promotes mental growth. Fear is a reflection of intellectual immaturity. I hate religion because it enhances deadly believing, not lively thinking. Nothing evolved in religion... The religious lies and deceptions told to our ancestors during the first century are still same old lies and deceptions told to our children in school in this 21st century... If only religion had been more about the courage to live, and not about the fear of death; indeed, if only religion were about the search of the truth, and not that this or that is the truth – I would have learned to love passionately, and not hate religion justifiably... Moreover, never, would I have ever self-expelled myself out of De la Salle University high school. Religion has been more about being a part of the security system organized by the church... It is a great business to gain wealth, power, glory, and authority... Sadly, however, there is no such thing as a security system anywhere in this world... Not as long as there is birth, growth, death, and decay... In the ultimate analysis, however, if only religion had never taught us that to be human means to be evil, fallen, and in need of rescue - religion need not have proceeded to be the greatest evils that keep the human race still pretty much bogged down in endless disgrace... As a Filipino atheist, I have every respect and admiration for the Chinese people in China... In their schools, colleges, and universities - they are taught to believe that this world can be made better in the here and now. They do not believe in the silly promises of the priesthood industry that there is a better world to come but only after we are all DEAD, GONE, and BURIED! Poch Suzara Facebook# Google# Twitter#

PRAY FOR THE CONVERSION OF RUSSIA - NO KIDDING?

When we were boys and girls in school and at home some 60 years ago, we were told by our parents and teachers to PRAY FOR THE CONVERSION OF RUSSIA... Never, however, were we also told to PRAY FOR THE CONVERSION OF ISRAEL - the land where Jesus was born that never got to be converted into a Catholic country... Israel is still a Jewish State... The Jews there are still Jewish. Not Catholics!!! It shows the stupidity behind the insanity of our silly prayers... Russia never got to be converted... She is still atheistic as a country as ever... The Russians never got to be converted to be Catholics. Israel is still a Jewish State... She never got to be a Catholic country like the Philippines... In the meantime, we have college-educated saps in our forum always blessed with a school-boy mentality still insisting that we must always continue to pray and to have FAITH IN THE SON OF GOD JESUS - the SAVIOR OF THE WORLD, ESPECIALLY THE PHILIPPINES!!! I asked it before, I ask it again: Is our faith in divinity due to our stupidity because of our traditional insanity; or, due to our insanity because of our traditional stupidity??? Or who knows? Maybe such horrors are just due to, if not because of, the insanity and stupidity in what's really going inside our Catholic schools, colleges, and universities??? Poch Suzara Facebook# Google# Twitter#

Dr. Jose Rizal's greatest ENEMY in the Philippines

Millions of us frightened Filipinos as educated products of Catholic schools, colleges, and universities are taught to believe that Jose Rizal RETRACTED before he was publicly executed by the power and authority of the Catholic church in the Philippines. . . At the same time, however, we also continue to reject to acknowledge JOSE RIZAL's greatest of enemy then and still is the enemy of the millions of Filipinos in the Philippines today - the TEACHINGS OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH. . . Indeed, I said it before, I say it again: as soon as the Catholic church and its power and authority are thrown out of our country, we Filipinos, millions of us, the Sick Man of Asia, can begin to learn how to be the HEALTHIEST MAN OF ASIA! ... Poch Suzara Twitter# Google# Facebook#

Dear Poch

NEW YORK, 25 January 2014 Dear Poch: Seriously, I think it would be worth your while to consider compiling all that you have written on Religion, Christianity, the Vatican, etc., etc. in Cyberspace systematically into a BOOK, divided into, say, at least 30 chapters. Knowing that you are still vigorous now that you are at 70, you can do it, and do a good job of it. Then get a reputable publisher to publish it. With an initial printing of, say, 20,000 copies, to be distributed to all public libraries all over the country, to all of the country's Barangays, to other institutions or parties that may profit from a revelation of the TRUTH. Once you sense a demand for the book exists, then order a second printing of X copies, enough to meet the increased demand for it. I know that you have the financial means to consider this proposed Project seriously. This will be the legacy of POCHOLO SUZARA. And many people will remember you for such a Book. Enlightened people all over the world remember BERTRAND RUSSEL for his enlightened views on Religion, Christianity, and Life. My sense is that you, too, will be remembered for generations of Filipinos for showing them the way to the TRUTH. MarPatalinjug Dear Mar, many thanks for writing and for your suggestion. In fact, in my thoughtstoprovokeyourthoughts Blogspot, I already published more than 4,000 aphorisms on religion, education, corruption, Christianity, stupidity, and social and political insanity, not to mention the lies and deceptions considered as our sacred beliefs as a people and holy values as a nation. I also have ready for publication two manuscripts - THE FAILURE OF EDUCATION UNDER THE SUCCESS OF CHRISTIANITY IN THE PHILIPPINES, and my favorite which I ardently hope will be published before I leave this world - THE BIRTH AND DEATH OF AN ATHEIST IN THE PHILIPPINES. Anyway Mar, I have every hope that others in the future will carry on what I can no longer do - trying to bring enlightenment to the Filipino minds and hearts in our country in great need of salvation via civilization, and not via traditional silly biblical revelation. With all best wishes always, Poch Suzara

False Knowledge

Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance. . . . George Bernard Shaw. . . Oh my dear George Bernard Shaw, there is something far more dangerous than ignorance in our Catholic schools, colleges, and universities - that is - they continue to teach us WHAT TO BELIEVE instead of HOW TO THINK. Thus, we must only always have faith in false knowledge; especially by referring to it as having faith in God or having faith in the Son of God Jesus. . . Poch Suzara

Most Men Believe and Have faith in God

Most men believe and have faith in God because they need a good excuse to continue living like frightened educated saps - always selfish, greedy, stupid, childish, fearful, worthless, mindless, and utterly senseless,specially for the greater glory of our country in the here and in the now! Poch Suzara ... Twitter@ Facebook@

Most Men for Being Stupid and Insane Always Pray to God

Most men always pray and thank God because they are stupid and insane. I think they should only thank God for being stupid because they really have no more time to also be insane. Poch Suzara Twitter# Facebook#

Education Has Little to do with school or college

“Education is a private matter between the person and the world of knowledge and experience, and has little to do with school or college.”--- Lillian Smith --- Oh my dear Lillian Smith, after I got expelled out of La Salle high school, most of my classmates and schoolmates who got to acquire college education, have not ceased telling me that I should go back to school in order to get myself an education. It is the only in this way, they say, for me to feel blessed by God and feel saved by the Son of God Jesus... Poch Suzara Twitter# Facebook#

School Days

“School days, I believe, are the unhappiest in the whole span of human existence.” --- H.L. Mencken --- Oh my dear H.L. Mencken, under the Philippine system of education, you are 100 per cent right on target, specially if you were an intelligent student. However, if you were a stupid and can easily be frightened as a student, it is the happiest days in the whole span of human existence. . . Poch Suzara Twitter# Facebook#

Living and Learning are one and the same thing

"There is NO difference between living and learning... it is impossible and misleading and harmful to think of them as being separate.” ~-- John Holt --- My Dear John Holt, not, however in the Philippines. Millions of Filipinos as the Sick Man of Asia educated products of schools, colleges, and universities own and operated by the Catholic church have been told to believe and to have faith that learning, more and deeper learning, is s SIN against God. . . Poch Suzara Twitter# Facebook#

Mindless, Worthless Faith

“If someone invites you to his religion, do not look down on him, on the contrary, you should thank him; he shares with you the most valuable what he has - his faith.” ― Ilkin Santak - Oh my dear Santak, you poor miserable mindless sap, a man of faith is like a stupid drunkard who clings to a lamppost for support, not illumination. . . Poch Suzara Twitter@ Facebook@ Google#

Whay we can do for Others and for our Country

“Time and money spent in helping men to do more for themselves is far better than mere giving.”. . . Henry Ford . . . Oh my dear Henry Ford, a thought to provoke the thought of others for the purpose of exposing lies and deceptions is the best thing we can do for others and for our country; especially to protect our country from the corrupt government politicians always in cahoots with the corrupt church theologians... Poch Suzara . . . Twitter# Facebook# Google#

Anak Ng Dios Kadugo Ni Cristo

I am a member of the Church known as "Anak ng Diyos Kadugo Ni Kristo" or the Children of God Blood Kin of the Christ. It is a Filipino-originated Church. . . Atty. Batas Mauricio "But those mine enemies, which would not that I should reign over them, bring hither, and slay them for me." Luke 19:27. . . Jesus Christ My dear Atty Mauricio, don't you people ever wonder why Jesus was NOT a Filipino born in the Philippines? He was a Jew born of Jewish parents in Israel some 2000 years ago that today is NOT even a Christian country, but a Jewish State? Do you know that the anti-Christ Movement in Israel has always been a great success! And to think that the Jews believe of themselves as the CHOSEN PEOPLE OF GOD. It is all, indeed all - so sickening! . . . Poch Suzara

Healthy Intelligent Knowing Versus Sick Believing

“People would rather believe than know.”. . . Edward O. Wilson . . . "Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so." . . .Bertrand Russell. . . Can we blame people, specially as people are the products of a sick system of education that teaches them not HOW TO THINK, but only WHAT TO BELIEVE? . . . And to think that "BELIEF" is the best way to retard the growth of consciousness; indeed, the best way to destroy the curious mind of children in school. . . As for me, I believe in nothing. I question everything. In my search of the truth, I reject the religion of deadly paralysis; I accept the science of lively analysis! . . . Socrates, the Greek thinker, three thousand years ago, said it: "The unexamined life is not worth living for man." . . . Poch Suzara Twitter# Facebook# Google#

We Atheists Celebrate Something Greater than the Birth of Jesus

“For those who believe, no proof is necessary. For those who don't believe, no proof is possible.”. . . Stuart Chase. . . We atheists are a happy people. We have less burden to carry in life. We have no need to carry silly beliefs on our backs. We have no need to be emotionally distorted, mentally twisted, or even be psychologically crippled by its weight. . . During Christmas, for example, we atheists do not celebrate the birth of Jesus. Instead, we celebrate the birth of human decency. We celebrate man's thinking capacity for ethical and moral growth and development to help spread social justice in the here and now more known as peace on earth, the beauty of love, the power of knowledge, and the joys in life in this world. Our world! . . . Poch Suzara Twitter# Facebook# Google#

Trust No One, not even God

Be careful who you trust, the devil was once an angel. . . Nick Fatool . . . For my part, I trust neither the angel nor do I trust the devil. I do not even trust the creator who created the original mess to begin with.. . . In the meantime, again, I share with you the lovable words of my mentor - Bertrand Russell: . . . "The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge." . . . "What the world needs now is not only love, but also greater knowledge about the nature of love, in all of its complexity." Poch Suzara Twitter# Facebook# Google#

HAPPY NEW YEAR

December 31, 2014 - - - Dear Friends: - - - At the end of each year, we all greet each other: - - - HAPPY NEW YEAR! Never, however, do we ever, greet each other with:- - - HAPPY NEW IDEAS or HAPPY NEW THOUGHTS or HAPPY NEW WAY OF LIFE VIA NEW VALUES and NEW BELIEFS! . . . Thus, every new year, it is the same old garbage around us everywhere. . . The same old garbage in government, and in churches, in other institutions, and indeed the same old garbage more referred to as education in our schools, colleges, and universities. Yearly producing the same old college-educated men and women proud of garbage as a way of life in the Philippines. . . To each of you, for the year 2015, I greet you: HAPPY NEW IMPROVEMENTS FOR OUR COUNTRY! Only with more truths and good will; no more lies and free will keeping us NONPRODUCTIVE as a people and NONCREATIVE as a nation.... Poch Suzara Twitter# Facebook# Google#

Oh God, don't you ever read your own Bible

Jesus said, For everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks it will be opened. . . Matthew 7:8 . . ."Strive to enter through the narrow door; for many, I tell you, will seek to enter and will not be able.”. . . Luke 13:24 . . . "God's undying desire for you will never cease." Philippine Star, Dec. 23, 2013. . . Oh God my dear God, Don't you ever seriously read your own Holy Bible, and seriously read also the Philippine Star? huh? . . . Poch Suzara Twitter# Facebook# Google#

Jesus was a NO read and NO Wrote Jew

Take a good look at our sick society... Look how as sick saints or sick sinners we all love Jesus up there while we are sick of one another down here... And to think that Jesus never went to college... He never attended high school... Golly, Jesus never even attended grade school... He was a NO read, NO write Jew... Yet, we have all been frightened to all love, worship, respect, and adore Jesus who was not even a Filipino... He was a Jew born in Israel that never even got to be converted into a Christian country with Christian values and Christian beliefs like the Philippines - the only Christian country in Asia since the 16th century... Poch Suzara Twitter# facebook#

Corrupt Hope for our Corrupt Future

"The youth is the hope of our future."... Jose Rizal. . . According to our politicians, however, is it not the youth, but corruption via education is the hope of our future... In this way, we Filipinos shall continue to keep our corrupt politicians in power to take care of our future, especially through Christ, our Lord, amen!. . . . In the meantime, other Asian Atheistic countries with better hopes for a better future have Floating Hospital, Floating Library, and floating University... In the Philippines, the only Catholic country in Asia, we have Floating Casinos... Poch Suzara Twitter# Facebook#

I Quit

An atheist has the guts to tell God: Oh God, my dear God, it is silly of you to FIRE ME. Since with my free will, I already QUIT! So what now? What else have you got anything to do with me? Indeed God, instead of saving me, why don't you instead save the silly teachers who taught me to believe in a lot of spiritual garbage about you? Really God, to begin with, as you exists here, there and everywhere, and since you never, but never bothered to introduce yourself to me, why should I bother to believe and to have faith in your existence . . . Poch Suzara Twitter# Facebook# Google#

Why Not Heaven on Earth

Jesus came to earth for us so we could go to heaven with Him... Philippine Start, Dec. 18, 2013 . . . Oh Jesus, my dear Jesus, why the drama? Did it ever occur to you that you could have been a real Savior had you, instead, transformed the earth into a heaven? Why should that be a difficult miracle for you since on earth you could walk on water, feed the multitude with a few loaves of bread, change water into wine, cured diseases, fly with the devil on top of a mountain, raise the dead back to life, and even washed the feet of your good for nothing apostles! They all went into hiding while you were getting crucified ignoring the truth that you possessed the power to perform miracles by un-nailing yourself out of that piece of wood more known as the cross! . . . Poch Suzara Twitter# Facebook# Google#

People Laugh at Me

“No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power.” ― Kurt Cobain For my part, people laugh at me because I am different and courageous. I laugh at people because they continue to be the same old - selfish, greedy, ignorant, fearful, stupid, and insane saps. Specially as they are the educated products of schools, colleges, and universities own and operated by the Catholic church in the Philippines. - Poch Suzara Twitter# Facebook# Google#

Richard Burton - the Atheist

According to the Denver Post, Richard Burton wrote this in his diary in 1969: "The more I read about man and his maniacal ruthlessness and his murderous envious scatological soul, the more I realize that he will never change. Our stupidity is immortal, nothing will change it. The same mistakes, the same prejudices, the same injustice, the same lusts wheel endlessly around the parade ground of the centuries. Immutable and ineluctable. I wish I could believe in a god of some kind but I simply cannot." . . . Richard Burton, Welsh actor (1925-1984 Oh, my dear Richard Burton, you are right on target: the history of our world has never been about the struggle between GOOD against EVIL; NO, on the contrary, it has always been and still is about the history of EVIL versus EVIL and EVIL always wins! Thus, stupidity and eternity are one and the same old evil as inspired by a silly divinity always in cahoots with a silly deviltry. As soon as Atheism brings about the death of religion in all of its evil forms and evil shapes out of this world, then we should all begin to enjoy peace and harmony and tranquility, and indeed global beauty as generated by global sanity. The history of Mankind will not any more be about silly evil struggling against evil; but only about the good struggling to make better this world. Our world. The world of the here and the now. Poch Suzara Twitter# Facebook# Google#

The Sources of Our Childish Beliefs and Values

“Imagine the people who believe such things and who are not ashamed to ignore, totally, all the patient findings of thinking minds through all the centuries since the Bible was written. And it is these ignorant people, the most uneducated, the most unimaginative, the most unthinking among us, who would make themselves the guides and leaders of us all; who would force their feeble and childish beliefs on us; who would invade our schools and libraries and homes. I personally resent it bitterly.” ― Isaac Asimov Oh dear Isaac, my dear Isaac Asimov, I also personally resent it bitterly. What is even more resentful, however, is the painful fact that what keeps us Filipinos mentally impoverished as a people; and, morally malnourished as a nation is due to our so-called leaders. They are the college-educated products of Catholic schools, Catholic colleges, and Catholic universities own and operated by the Catholic church in the Philippines... Poch Suzara Twitter@ Facebook# Google#

The Revealed LIES in the Holy Bible

2 plus 2 equals 4 is a revealed truth in the Multiplication Table. Indeed,the Multiplication Table is the perfect model of truth. It is free from dogma, hogma, and pigma. No nation has ever gone to war against another nation for not believing that 2 plus 2 equals for. I asked it before, I ask it again: - how come the theologians of this world have utterly failed to reveal the "truth" in the holy bible - a book filled with lies, deceptions, illusions, confusions, delusions, contradictions, inconsistencies, absurdities, obscenities, vulgarities, and atrocities! The multiplication table can never be successfully tampered with, the same can never be said of the Bible. The multiplication table can be universally & unequivocally comprehended: the opposite must be said about the Bible. I would like to know, why does the Holy Bible need to be interpreted by only certain "holy men" while any child can interpret, fully understand, and master the multiplication table? Indeed, Isaac Asimov settled the complicated mess with a simple truth: "Properly read the bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived." Poch Suzara Twitter# Facebook# Google#

We are proud of our Ignorance

“We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.” ― Benjamin Franklin... In the Philippines, for as long as we believe and have faith that Jesus is our Savior and that the God of understanding has and will always continue to provide for us poor Filipinos existing on garbage in the Philippines - we need not work hard to remain ignorant. . . Poch Suzara

Tragedy of Human Life in the Philippines

“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 - In the Philippines, however, it is even more tragic: men and women with college education are so proud of their ignorance. They are selfish, greedy, mindless, and insane; but they all love Jesus and have faith in Jesus as Jesus is their Savior. . . And to think that this is the same Jesus, like a frightened child, crucified on a cross to save the world, cried out loud: MY GOD, MY GOD, WHY HAS THOU FORSAKEN ME?" Matt. 27:46 . . . Poch Suzara Facebook# Twitter# Google#

The Horrors of Christianity

"Religion is fundamentally opposed to everything I hold in veneration - courage, clear thinking, honesty, fairness, and, above all, love of the truth.". . . Henry Mencken . . . For my part, I am well aware that the main reason why we Filipinos are spiritually poor as a people, and why the Philippines is morally backward and messy as a nation, it is simply due to the horrors of religion hardly known as the horrors of Christianity. . . Poch Suzara

Spiritual Hunger Hogwash

"Only Christ the Living bread can satisfy our spiritual hunger." .. Philippine Star, Dec. 12, 2013. . . Oh Jesus, my dear Jesus Christ, forget our spiritual hunger. In this already 21st century, millions of your faithful Filipino followers have been and are still in desperate need for food, clothing, medicine, and shelter. The religious horror has been going on since your Apostles conquered and transformed the Philippines into the only Christian country in Asia since the 16th century... Nakakahiya ka Lord! ... You are suppose to be the Savior of the Filipinos and the Savior of the Philippines... Poch Suzara Twitter# Facebook# Google#

Winter Solstice

WINTER SOLSTICE GREETINGS IN REALITY . . . CHRISTMAS GREETINGS IN FANTASY The earth has spent more time orbiting the sun than all the religions, all superstitions, all of humanity, and even of all life itself. The Winter Solstice represents an actual astronomical event unlike superstition driven celebrations that occur only in religious imagination. The exact day of the winter solstice marks the end of autumn, just one point along the orbital path of earth. The energy of the sun and the fertile earth, along with the over 4.5 billion winter solstices that have occurred, allowed enough time for all of earth's evolution to happen (and to continue to happen). This puts the Winter Solstice in a far more humbling position than anything invented by humans. Considering that the earth also comes closest* to the sun during the winter, what better time to honor the sun than during the Winter Solstice. The festivals of the Winter Solstice celebrate the start of the new solar year and the beginning of winter. The fantasies of superstition have also used this astronomical event to celebrate Saturnalia, Yule, Christmas, and many other superstitious events. The unknown builders of Stonehenge in southern England constructed the megaliths at around 2000 B.C.E. which makes it at least twice as old as Christianity. It accurately predicts both the summer and winter solstices. In astronomy, a solstice occurs two times a year. During the Winter Solstice the sun appears at its greatest distance from the celestial equator, the great circle on the celestial sphere that occurs on the same plane as the earth's equator. In the northern hemisphere, the winter solstice occurs either December 21 or 22, when the sun shines directly over the tropic of Capricorn. The winter solstice marks the shortest day and the longest night of the year. The sun appears at its lowest point in the sky, and its noontime elevation appears the same for several days before and after the solstice. The summer solstice occurs either June 21 or 22, when the sun shines directly over the tropic of Cancer. In the southern hemisphere, the winter and summer solstices appear reversed. It may seem contradictory that the earth comes closest to the sun during the winter and the farthest during the summer, but the seasons occur mostly because of the tilt away or toward the sun, rather than the distance from the sun. As atheists we do not celebrate the birth of Christ called Christmas. Instead, we celebrate the Winter Solstice. We do not care to celebrate man's capacity to believe; rather, we celebrate, all year round - man's great ability to think! After all, there is nothing quite like it in all of nature! . . . Poch Suzara

Where is God in the Here and Now

We were told by our teachers in grade school that we must believe in the existence of God, our creator, and because God is existing here, existing there, and existing everywhere... Ever since then I had my doubts as I began to question God's existence... And so, even as a little boy in school I was already somewhat atheistic; though I was not that articulate enough to express my real religious sentiments. I thought then as I still do think today in my old age, I'd be happy to believe in the existence of God if only He could exist not there, exist not everywhere, just exist only here and now where we could all be with Him as a God to each and every one of us with all of His power and glory as a Supreme Being... Poch Suzara Twitter# Facebook# Google#

Useless Believers versus Useful Thinkers

Believing is the death of thinking. . . We all live in such a poor and backward country because Catholic schools, Catholic colleges, and Catholic universities are mostly about teaching the nation's children how to become useless believers; but not learning how to become useful thinkers. . . Thus, in this only Catholic country in Asia since the 16th century, we Filipinos are only getting more famous as the employees, not employers; the consumers, not producers; the followers, not leaders, - indeed, we Filipinos are getting more famous throughout the world as the frightened Man, not the enlightened Man of Asia. Poch Suzara Twitter# Facebook# Google#

Einstein, Russell, Mandela, Jose Rizal

Albert Einstein in Defense of Bertrand Russell: Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. The mediocre mind is incapable of understanding the man who refuses to bow blindly to conventional prejudices and chooses instead to express his opinions courageously and honestly. . . Albert Einstein Bertrand Russell in defense of men like Nelson Mandela: "No, the greatest men have not been “serene. They have had, it is true, an ultimate courage, a power of creating beauty where nature has put only horror, which may, to a petty mind, appear like serenity... But their courage has had to surpass that of common men, because they have seen deeper into the indifference of nature and the cruelty of man... To cover up these things with comfortable lies is the business of cowards; the business of great men is to see them with inflexible clarity, and yet to think and feel nobly... And in the degree in which we can all be great, this is the business of each one of us."... Bertrand Russell Nelson Mandela in Defense of great men like our Jose Rizal: "For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others."... Nelson Mandela Jose Rizal in defense of his people, the Filipino people still in search of freedom; especially, the freedom of thought: "I would like the Filipino people to become worthy, noble, and honorable. . . make study a thing of love and joy . . . the schoolroom should not be a place of sorrows but a scene of intellectual refreshment." As with me, an atheist, here's my message to all of you religious saps: Atheism is a worldwide movement today without frightened followers. We atheists are all enlightened leaders who are out to produce more leaders. . . Poch Suzara Twitter# Facebook# Google#

Supernatural Jerk or Divine Sap

What if, after death, in heaven, it will be the same old story as its has been temporarily on earth - except that this time, for all eternity, you will still be worshipping the same divine Sap, the same supernatural Jerk? For my part, as an atheist, I would rather be in hell with the devil worshipping nothing. I love and have every respect for the devil. Not once have I ever been told that I must worship the devil because the devil loves me! Poch Suzara Twitter# Facebook# Google#

Faith

Faith is the surrender of the mind; it's the surrender of reason, it's the surrender of the only thing that makes us different from other mammals. It's our need to believe, and to surrender our skepticism and our reason, our yearning to discard that and put all our trust or faith in someone or something, that is the sinister thing to me. Of all the supposed virtues, faith must be the most overrated. . . . Christopher Hitchens . . . Indeed, a man of faith is like Angel on these pages - a college-educated drunkard who clings to a lamppost for support, not illumination . . . Poch Suzara

Bertrand Russell on the Lives of Great Men

Here's Bertrand Russell writing about lives of great men, like our own Jose Rizal of the Philippines - - - "No, the greatest men have not been “serene.” They have had, it is true, an ultimate courage, a power of creating beauty where nature has put only horror, which may, to a petty mind, appear like serenity. But their courage has had to surpass that of common men, because they have seen deeper into the indifference of nature and the cruelty of man. To cover up these things with comfortable lies is the business of cowards; the business of great men is to see them with inflexible clarity, and yet to think and feel nobly. And in the degree in which we can all be great, this is the business of each one of us." Poch Suzara