Having Your Own Mind

Among the wealthiest individuals I have met are those who are in possession of most priceless treasure on this earth: a mind of their own. In this country, prove to the authority of both State and Church that you are willing to be mindless for the rest of your life and you are awarded a college diploma. Poch Suzara

The Truth as Discovered

I hate the theologians. They invent the truth. I love instead the scientists. They discover the truth. Scientists are even honest enough to admit that there are more truths to be discovered. Of course there are exceptions. The scientists together with the college professors who sell their talents and abilities for money to the Military-Industrial-University Complex in the United States of America. I have no respect for such dangerous men who makes a mockery of science. Poch Suzara

Two Great Americans

As far as I am aware, there are only two great Americans that I admire these days: Michael Moore and Ramsey Clark. Both men, in their respective fields, have not ceased telling the world that the United States government at present is headed by a homicidal maniac. If Bertrand Russell were alive today, he would, in the name of humanity, embrace these two courageous Americans with love and respect, and friendship. And to think that in the United States today, there exists a Bertrand Russell Society. Nobody, however, anywhere in the world hears of them, or from them, or even about them. Bertrand Russell himself, in his own lifetime, was consistently outspoken in the global arena against homicidal maniacs as head of government that’s keeping the human race hungry for peace on earth and starving for goodwill to all men, women, and children. Poch Suzara

You Can Play

You can play all kinds of indoor or outdoor games: golf, basketball, football, tennis, poker, scrabble, and even play with yourself. But you must never ever play with your mind; especially if you ain't got any. Poch Suzara

The Power of the Press

The power of the press is derived from human igorance. Just exactly like the power of God. Poch suzara

Diseases

Prayers and creeds are diseases of the free will. Whatever the case may be, for centuries, not health, but diseases have always supported the life of the church. Look at its churches and cathedrals. They are monuments of another diseases called human stupidity. Poch suzara

The Religious People

Religious people tell me that as an atheist I am like a blind man going inside a dark room looking black cat that is not there. I am most happy to report that at least the religious people who are even more blind than I am, have. at least, found the cat. Poch Suzara

Anti-Christ Movementt in the Land where Jesus was Born

Jesus Christ was not born in Europe. He was born in Israel that today is not a Christian, but still is a Jewish State. The Anti-Christ movement in Europe seems utterly ridiculous as compared to the anti-Christ movement in Israel which has long been quite a success. The Jews are still Jewish. During these past 2,000 years, the Jews have never been converted into being Christians or Catholics like the Filipinos have been successfully converted since the 16th century. The term anti-Christ refers to those who deny the divinity of Jesus Christ. Who deny His Gospel as truth. Who deny Jesus and his teachings. Well, if that were so, it follows that there are many more anti-Christ people existing in Israel than anywhere else in the world. Israel, the land where Jesus was born during the 1st century, never got to be converted into a Christian or into a Catholic country. It is still a Jewish State. What could be more anti-Christ than that in this already 21st century? Listen, however, to this famous Filipino columnist - Chief Justice Antonio V. Panganiban. In the Daily Inquirer today, March 2, 2014, he writes: "As I contemplate my life and move toward the sunset, I know that God has woven my many pains and gains into a magnificent tapestry showing His mystical presence. Truly, there is one constancy in my life: the presence, care and providence of our Lord Jesus Christ. To Him, I dedicate all I was, all I am, and all I will ever be." In the meantime, I say to Chief Justice Antonio V. Panganiban, Sir: you sound exactly like the rotten and corrupt politicians always installed in our government - all of them college-educated. All of them MAKA-JESUS. Indeed, in this only Christian country in Asia, there is always Jesus, sweet Jesus, who is always out to forgive all of our stupid sins as a people, and to forgive all of our stupid crimes as a nation. Historian Teodoro A. Agoncillo, in his HISTORY OF THE FILIPINO PEOPLE, wrote: "Self-deception is the worst tragedy of the Filipinos as a people." I say it again: Self-deception comes only from a sick system of education that teach millions of us Filipinos to be faithful and proud to endlessly enjoy poverty in our country; specially, poverty of the worst kind - the poverty of the mind and heart... Poch Suzara Twitter# Facebook# Google#

Again

Again, another storm hit the Philippines. Again, more death and destruction this year than it was last year. Again, in order to remedy the situation only more prayers and so things are just getting worse. Again, we all have the courage to blame Mother Nature, but hardly have we also the courage to blame the original Creator of Mother Nature. Poch Suzara

Philippine Education

Schools, colleges and universities in the Philippines are doing its very best in the business of multiplying more educated losers and educated failures that's keeping the Filipino poor as a people and backward as a nation.Indeed, education in the Philippines has more to do with love for divinity rather than love of country for the sake of common humanity. With college degrees, we Filipinos are not only looking for a better job to come in a foreign country, but also a better life to come in the next world. Poch Suzara

Filipino Bible Scholars

Filipino bible scholars often tell me to stop reading the bible for myself. I should only attend bible study if I should wish to understand fully what's written in the bible. Are they admitting that the bible is not a public book written by inspired authors of God, but a private book written only by Jewish authors. Poch Suzara

If Only Christians

If only Christians would only take the bible seriously by reading it seriously for themselves, they might learn that raising the dead back to life was alrady a common practice in the Old Testament. Raising the dead back to life therefore was no unique miracle from Jesus in the New Testament. For my part, I could not care less about having lost my faith in Jesus. What thrilled me the most was having gained the courage of reason to begin my joyous search for the truth - the world's most noblest of profession. Poch Suzara

Faith in Jesus

Bertrand Russell wrote: "The whole idea of throwing away your life blindly as an imagined service to Christ is a form of glorifying masochism and self-abasement before power." For my part, If christ on the cross had only asked not God to forgive man, but asked instead Man to forgive God - I never would have abandoned my faith in Jesus. Moreover, I certainly still would have the highest respect and greatest admiration of Him as the Son of God. Poch Suzara

The Biggest Bigots

The most sanctimonious of biggots and lunatics in this only Christian country in Asia are the wealthy Filipino criminals - the Drug Lords, the Gambling Lords, the Jesus is Lord Movement, the evangelists, etc. They have not ceased proclaiming in public that God has been good enough to provide for them too. Poch Suzara

The Worst Kind of Poverty

We are repeatedly told that poverty in the Philippines has nothing to do with the population explosion. It has mostly to do with unequal distribution of wealth due to, if not the result of – corruption. As a matter of fact, in this country, we all suffer from poverty of the worst kind – the poverty of the mind and heart. Otherwise, if we were blessed with healthy minds, and healthy hearts - we would not find ourselves: Too poor to solve the problem of our overcrowded barrios, towns, and cities. Too poor to solve the problem of our overcrowded hospitals and health clinics and cemeteries. Too poor to solve the problem of our overcrowded schools, colleges, and universities. Too poor to solve the problem of our overcrowded buses, jeeps, trains, planes, and ships. Too poor to solve the problem of our overcrowded roads, streets, and highways. Too poor to solve the problem of our overcrowded slum and squatter areas. Yes, indeed, we are a corrupt people under a corrupt government blessed by an equally corrupt church. But what could be more corrupt than men and women irresponsible and insensible enough to bring forth unwanted children into our sick and corrupt society? Meanwhile, ask any of the nation’s children who or what or where their parents are – they do not know. Most of these children do know, however, that their parents are busy working in the baby factory. Indeed, millions upon millions of our men have far more job openings for unskilled work in the baby factory than job openings for skilled work in the business of nation building. The fact is, due to population explosion, the Philippine economic pie is getting smaller and smaller. What is getting bigger and bigger however is only the “Pie in the Sky, by and by.” Sadly, not the living, but only the dead, if at all, can partake of this non-existing pie. Is it such a complicated mathematical equation to figure out that It is more practical to feed, cloth, house, and educate children as they are planned products of planned copulation rather than babies to exist as reckless products of reckless fecundation? We are a people still mired in Third World mentality because millions of our mothers and fathers still believe that God will provide. As a matter of fact, even our high government officials have high hopes for the Philippines but not with or from science education, but only from divine intervention. In there hope for the Philippines? Yes there is if we can only learn to be more constructive intellectually, more creative culturally, and more productive scientifically - by being less destructive sexually. Poch Suzara

Atheists Love to Think

I am an atheist. This means I do not live a life of fear and even after I am dead, if at all possible, I hope to carry on my fight against the devils in heaven; or, as the case may be, my fight against the angels in hell. In the meantime, there is no such thing as an atheist turning back to God. Which God? of which religion? Indeed, we atheists have the highest respect for our thinking brains. We think the bended knees in prayers is unworthy of human dignity or self-respect. Poch Suzara

A Failure in Life

I consider myself a failure in life. After all, I am just a high-school dropout; though I am chairman of the Bertrand Russell Society in the Philippnes. However, when a college philosophy professor would ask me which book written by Bertrand Russell did my Russell quotations come from - I certainly feel like a great success; specially as I am also the chairman of the High School Dropout Association of the Philippines. Poch Suzara

In Bible Study

In Bible study, the faithful students believe only those things they cannot understand. They even call it divine wisdom. Others call it being "spiritual." For my part, I call it spiritual stupidity.In the meantime, Christians always brag about verses here and there written in the bible. Hardly, however, do they know the real nature of the whole thematic statements that run through the bible as a web of entangled absurdities, if not shocking
inconsistenceis. Poch suzara

Christ Died

Christ died on the cross on a friday but resurrected back to life on a sunday.He certainly proved, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that death can be a temporary joke by those gifted with supernatural power able to violate the laws of nature. Poch Suzara

Something to Think About

In their own time, our parents, grandparents, and great grandparents faithfully believed in the Second Coming of Christ. Should we as well inspire our children, grandchildren, and great grandchildren to faithfully believe also in the same old religious nonsense? What’s the purpose of a Second Coming if the First Coming were already a great success? Where is Jesus? How come it is taking him so long to make the trip? Perhaps, he is scared as he might be crucified all over again! Was it really important for God to inspire the authors of the bible? Isn’t it far more important to inspire the best part of any book – the readers? Was it really that important for God to have created the planet Earth so tiny that 1,000 of it can fit inside the planet Jupiter and Jupiter so tiny that 100,000 of it can fit inside the sun and the sun small as well in that 500 of our suns can fit inside a bigger sun called “star” out there? If the Christian theologians were under the inspiration of an all-knowing God, how come the theologians have not ceased explaining the unknowable in terms of the not worth knowing? Thou shall not covet thy neighbor’s wife. What about thy neighbor’s husband; especially if his wife is out of town. My La Salle teachers were more eager about the neighbor’s wife leaving town. There was a time when everybody loved, worshipped, and adored God and the church ruled. The historians refer to it as the Dark Ages. What’s so terrible about being an atheist? Like you and everyone else, I too was born an atheist. Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day; give him religion and he will starve to death while praying for a fish. Christ died for our sins. Go ahead – dare to make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing more sins. A man of faith is life a drunkard who clings to a lamppost for support; not illumination. Immortality is the condition of a dead man who does not know that he is dead. Why should we allow God to tell us how to raise our children, who had drowned his own? What kind of an all-knowing and all-powerful God is that who creates faulty humans, and then blames them for his careless mistakes? The believers who believes that the unbeliever of the faith will go to hell after death have the brain of a pig, the heart of a snake, and the conscience of a crocodile. I was expelled out of La Salle high school because since grade school, I consistently refused to believe in anything sacred especially in the teachings I could not fathom nor understand. Indeed, I was thrown out of school for believing precisely that the most priceless treasure anyone can possess in this world is not a stupid soul, but an open heart and an intelligent human mind.