Large print giveth, but small print taketh away. "GOD MADE MAN IN HIS OWN IMAGE AND LIKENESS." "Dust thou art and to dust thou shalt return." Poch Suzara

Christian Faith in the Mafia

Christian faith is to free inquiry what the Mafia is to free enterprise. For challenging Church authority the Inquisition was established in the 5th century. It lasted up to the 15th century. It exiled Copernicus, silenced Galileo, burned Bruno at the stake. Christian faith stood in the way of advancement of knowledge and the emancipation of the human mind under free thought and humanitarian ideals. For a thousand years every man, woman, and child all believed in the existence of God. Historians refer to it as the DARK AGES. Poch Suzara

What will happen to life's meaning if it turns out that God does not exist? A more profound question to ask: If religion were necessary to all men, how come religion makes men cut each other's throat because they cannot agree as to what will happen to them after their throats have been cut in God's name? Poch Suzara

Live for God in Heaven

The assertion that we must only live for God in heaven is contrary to human dignity. I entirely agree with Santayana's: 'WHAT A DESPICABLE CREATURE MUST A MAN BE, AND HOW SUNK BELOW THE LEVEL OF THE MOST BARBARIC VIRTUE, IF HE CANNOT BEAR TO LIVE FOR HIS CHILDREN, FOR HIS ART, OR FOR HIS COUNTRY." Poch Suzara

A universal belief lasting for two thousand years proves nothing. For two thousand years Catholics believed in Catholicism. For two hundred thousand years people believed the world as flat, or that the sun moved round the earth. Poch Suzara

The Sun as God

If we must have a religion, let's love, worship, and adore what the pagans looked up to for tens of thousands of years - the Sun - it is still today and for centuries to come the source of all life on this world. Poch suzara

Stupid Believing

Somethings are impossible. For example, it is utterly impossible for children to learn the lively art of critical thinking and evidential reasoning if they were first taught to have faith in the deadly art of stupid believing. Poch Suzara

We are ready to die physically as soon as we are ready to live spiritually. Meanwhile, those who are afraid to die are afraid to live. What a life! What a world! And if there were a God involved in all this nonsense, it's silly to love and respect such a God. Poch Suzara

Result of Prayer

I was once a devout Catholic. I often prayed to God to convert my Muslim best friend into becoming a Catholic. My Muslim friend heard me and he too began to pray to allah to convert me into becoming a Muslim. I am most happy and proud of the results of both our prayers: He and I have mutually ended up to become devout atheists. Poch Suzara

Progress is taking one step forward; not, however, when you are standing at the edge of a cliff. Poch suzara

Silly Souls existing nowhere

Science is organized knowledge derived from observation. Theology is the study of nothing as there is nothing to observe or study or experiment in theology. No one has seen silly souls in heaven or silly souls in hell or silly souls existing anywhere on this earth. Poch Suzara

Task of Theology

The task of theology is to twist, distort, stunt, and damage the human brain. When the mission is accomplished by the theologians, the faithfool believers believe everything and has no mental capacity, naturally, to examine anything. Poch Suzara

the Truth of a Great Mind

Here's a truth that no one can deny: Only a great mind can recognize and acknowledge the brilliance of another great mind.

In the meantime, a small mind can only talk about people. An average mind can only talk about events. A great mind would rather talk, at any time, about ideas. Poch Suzara

According to St. Augustine

According to St. Augustine: "Faith is the point of departure of knowledge." Now isn't that the same with human stupidity? Can faith and reason be mutually re-inforcing? Hardly. How can we have faith in the knowledge that man has one less rib in him because reason tells us that God created Eve by taking ONE rib off Adam's body? Poch Suzara

After I am dead and it turned out that there is a God, I will immediately ask for his forgiveness for having wasted for some 18 precious years of my life as a devout Catholic. Poch Suzara

Scientific Inquiry

What Filipinos need is not faith but an attitude of scientific inquiry combined with the belief that poverty in the Philippines is undesirable weather inspired by stupid politicians in cahoots with the theologians, or inspired by stupid theologians in cahoots with the politicians. Poch suzara

Men differ from animals only by a little. But thanks to the sacrament of forgiveness of sin and crime from God, most men throw that little away. Poch Suzara

A Jewish God for Filipinos

If we could learn to reason logically on religious issues, it is clear that we all ought to become Jews because Jesus, our Savior, was born a Jew, lived a Jew, preached in a Jewish community, and died a Jew. Jesus even admitted that he was fulfilling the Jewish religion. But then again, how come the place where Jesus was born is not even a Christian country? It is today a Jewish State. Poch Suzara

Birth as the Beginning of Death

What is born, dies; in fact, anything that is born eventually dies. It is a law of nature. It is what the law of evolution is all about: Every birth is the beginning
of death. And death is the beginning of what was once existing - a nothing. Poch Suzara

The Burning Bush in the White House

According to the bible, God is a "Burning Bush." I travelled to many countries in search of God in the form of a burning bush. The closes I got was the Bush who lives in the American White House inspired by christian values and beliefs to reduce the Muslim world into a burning bush. Poch Suzara