"I would like the Filipino to be Brilliant, Enlightened, Intelligent, and Progressive." - - - Jose Rizal, a heretic publicly executed at Luneta Dec. 30, 1896
"The death sentence is a necessary and efficacious means for the church to attain its ends when obstinate heretics disturb the ecclesiastical order." - - - Pope Leo X111
"It cannot be emphasized too strongly that Christianity has a vested interest in human misery. Christianity, perhaps more than any religion before or since, capitalized on human suffering; and it was enormously successful in insuring its own existence through the perpetuation of human suffering."
Indeed, "Just as Christianity must destroy reason before it can introduce faith, so it must destroy happiness before it can introduce salvation." - - - George H. Smith
You find as you look around the world that every single bit of progress in humane feeling, every improvement in the criminal law, every step toward the diminution of war, every step toward better treatment of the colored races,
or every mitigation of slavery, every moral progress that there has been in the world, has been consistently opposed by the organized churches of the world. I say quite deliberately
that the Christian religion, as organized in its churches, has been and still is the principal enemy of moral progress in the world. - - -Bertrand Russell
"If a man would follow, today, the teachings of the Old Testament, he would be a criminal. If he would follow strictly the teachings of the New, he would be insane." - - - Robert Ingersoll
For my part, I said it before, I say it again: in this already 21st century, it is time for us Filipinos in the Philippines as the only Christian country in Asia since the 16th century to take a very serious look at our sick country dominated
that the Christian religion, as organized in its churches, has been and still is the principal enemy of moral progress in the world. - - -Bertrand Russell
"If a man would follow, today, the teachings of the Old Testament, he would be a criminal. If he would follow strictly the teachings of the New, he would be insane." - - - Robert Ingersoll
For my part, I said it before, I say it again: in this already 21st century, it is time for us Filipinos in the Philippines as the only Christian country in Asia since the 16th century to take a very serious look at our sick country dominated
not with love for one another down here, but only ruled with hate of each other for the sake of a divinity up there! - - - Poch Suzara