In The Afterlife

If the afterlife, if any, I do not care to be with God in heaven or to be with Satan in hell. I would rather spend eternity with the likes of Bertrand Russell, Will Durant, Carl Sagan, Richard Dawkins, Robert G.Ingersoll, Tom Paine, Jose Rizal, and with my sweetheart, my lover, my sexual partner: - a dear and a trustworthy friend, my editor, my associate, a fellow-atheist, a rarity indeed, as she is that kind of woman to me that I thought existed only in dreams. Poch Suzara

Beliefs Cannot Promote

Beliefs cannot promote themselves. Beliefs need schools, colleges, and universities at best; at worst, however, it needs the army, navy, and the air force to promote such nonsense. As for the values of unbeliefs by way of doubt that promotes a rational way of living, all that is required are three simple skills: - critical thinking, evidential reasoning, and questioning authority. Poch Suzara

Three Certain Things

Aside from death and taxes that are certain, there is one more thing that's certain: you are your mother's child. Fathers are sometimes hard to determine even by mothers. Poch Suzara

The Priesthood Industry

The number one enemy of liberty has always been the priesthood industry. The priests have never accepted the power of free thought. Their teachings are still based on faith without which there is no such thing as the priesthood industry. Poch Suzara

It Does Not Matter

It does not matter to me if God does not believe in me. What's more important to me is that I do not care to believe in God. It is a heavy burden to believe in non-human beings that do not exist. Besides, if there is a God, why is he always out there instead of being down here with us everywhere? Poch Suzara

The Most Belittled Character

The most belittled character mentioned in the holy bible is Joseph. He was told by an angel of God that his wife Mary is still a virgin. Can you blame Joseph was being so dumbstruck? The day he found out about his wife's virginal condition, he refused to talk to any one. Not even to the bible inspired authors. Poch Suzara

Democracy versus Theocracy

Everything is a lesser evil in the Philippines; especially its democracy. It has as yet to put up with a greater evil: theocracy. Poch Suzara

Philippine Population

The population of the Philippines is composed of demons in the minority; fallen angels in the majority; and the rest are the misbegotten children of God. We got to be proud of something. After all, we were once the only and now the biggest Christian country in Asia. Poch Suzara

God is Good

God is good; sadly, however, not that good. God was good when He inspired the authors to write the holy bible; unfortunately, He was not that good when He forgot to inspire as well the best part of any book: - the readers. Poch Suzara

Kill The Evil Called Religion

Yes, we can kill the evil called religion with the power of thought. Unfortunately, religion has already made sure, with the crippling weapon of the threats of eternal punishment, that our power to think stays crippled for the rest of our lives. Poch Suzara

For God So Loved the World

"For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have life everlasting." God may have loved the world; but at the rate God allowed the world to beat up, scourge, spit, shove, push, hurt and nail his son Jesus crying and bleeding and dying on the cross, God obviously never loved the poor fellow. In the meantime, top management then in heaven were all like a bunch of silly theologians here on this earth. They thought it was such a great idea to crucify not the devil, or crucify the Talking Serpent, but put instead the son of God Jesus crucified on the cross to die for the sins of the world.

I said it before, I say it again: to hell with this biblical baloney. Poch Suzara

I Was Once A Devout Catholic

Indeed, I was once a devout Catholic. If there were a God, however, that I will meet after I am dead, the first thing I will do is to ask God to forgive me for having wasted some 18 precious years of my life as a heartless Christian in general and a mindless Catholic in particular. Poch Suzara

There is No God

Only a fool says there is no God. For my part, I would rather be a fool than believe that we can pray daily to God to "give us this day our daily bread" and then see men, women and children starving to death even as they love, worship, and adore such a God. Poch Suzara

The Power of Prayer

i am told that prayer works. Look at Mary, the Mother of God, who asked the world to pray for the conversion of Russia. It worked. Communism has collapsed in Russia. Well, how come the prayers of Catholic Russians themselves did not work when they prayed for the prevention of communism to spread throughout Russia to begin with? Poch Suzara

If Prayer Works

If prayer works, how come we still need hospitals? How come we still need the medical profession? How come we still need to improve the existence of medical science and technology? Indeed, if prayer works, how come health has not yet been made contagious by the power of God as the result of the power of prayer? Poch Suzara

If Stupidity Causes Trouble

If intelligence causes trouble, what is needed is not less, but more intelligence. It is same thing with freedom: If freedom causes trouble, what is needed is not less, but more freedom. It is not the case, however, with stupidity for, if stupidity causes trouble, what is needed is not more, but precisely no more stupidity. Poch Suzara

Vision

When there is no vision, people perish. When there is vision, people flourish. As the only Christian country in Asia since the 15th century, where is the vision for the here to love our fellow-citizens, and where is the vision for the now to love our country? Poch Suzara

If There is No God

If there is no God everything is permissible? In fact, since there is always available from God at any time the forgiveness of sins and crimes everything is permissible that makes for our sick and insane society. Poch Suzara

We Arrive At The Truth

We arrive at the truth not by easy praying but by hard thinking. Most people, however, do not like to think. They already know and enjoy the truth. It's called the Revealed Truth. The problem, however, with the Revealed Truth is that it has not yet been revealed to the Filipinos; it has only been revealed by God to His chosen people - the Jews. Poch Suzara

Education in the Philippines

What is education all about in the Philippines - the only Christian country in Asia? Six years in grade school. Four years in high school. Another four to six years in college. It is all about learning how to pray, and how love, worship, and adore a Jewish God who will provide as He provided us with a son Jesus born in a manger and died on a stick in Israel some two thousand years ago. And to think that Israel today is not a Christian country. It continues to be a Jewish State. Poch Suzara