The Difference

It is very easy to determine the difference between a religious believer and the intelligent unbeliever. The religious believer looks for easy answers. Answers, indeed, that in time, become obsolete. The intelligent unbeliever, however, looks for hard questions - so basic in the never-ending pursuit of the truth. Poch Suzara

Christ’s Victory

Christ’s victory in the past gives courage for the present and hope for the future.” Phil Star, May 2, 2008
Indeed, the courage to continue to be selfish, greedy, stupid, and insane; and the hope to continue to be the Sick Children of Asia.
In the meantime, Christ preached: “Except ye be converted, and become as little children, ye shall enter into the kingdom of heaven.” Matt.18:3.
Of course, it is best that we all grow up not only older, but wiser; but how is that possible when Christ’s also preached: “Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; no yet for your body, what ye shall put on. . . Take therefore no thought for the morrow.” Matt. 6:25

Crab Mentality

Is the crab mentality one of the major negative attitudes of most Pinoys? Is this why our country lags behind neighboring nations? A sure sign of crab mentality is that everyone wants to be corrupt. Just like most, if not all of the officials in the Philippine government are corrupt? I say, please, let us not insult the crabs. They are innocent creatures. None of them are baptized Catholics. None are products of our schools, colleges, and universities. In fact, there are no known crabs who organized prayer rallies for the salvation of the crab souls being caught then boiled or steamed and swallowed by religious morons populating our sick country - the only Catholic country in Asia since the 16th century. Poch Suzara

Philippine Education

There is not one, among the great many schools, colleges, and universities in the Philippines that teach students we Filipinos are all one people, and that we Filipinos are all under one nation. The whole idea behind the system of education is to see to it that Filipinos never get to know and to love each other; especially, as we are all one and the same victims of the same historical deviltry since the 16th century known as Christianity. Poch Suzara

Atheists are Honest and Truthful People. We do not live with Lies and Deceptions

Those who believe atheism is an escape from responsibility or a license to a life of criminality will be in for a surprise. They will find atheism’s moral standards as high as those of any religion because they emanate from the exactly the same arena – human experience. Atheists will need even more responsibility because atheism expects no help from supernatural allies in the sky. Atheists will find no Big Daddy figure, no Grand Design, no purpose other than what they can make, and basically there is nothing in control of nature except the laws of nature. No wonder so many would-be atheists fail the test. But what the believers offer is even more unnerving. Consider: An all-knowing, all-powerful God who could have created any kind of world desired but deliberately and maliciously chose to create this world. This God stood by helplessly while his own Chosen people were being gassed to death by the millions. Either God approved, in which case he is at least as wicked as Hitler, or God disapproved, in which case he is less powerful than Hitler. The Great Flu of 1918 killed some 20 million people; where was our loving God? The God concept loses all the time. You simply cannot have an all-powerful, all-knowing, all-merciful God and have a world like this one. We atheists understand this, which is why we are atheists: without theism, without god-belief. It is not a careless or reckless position but quite a rational one arrived at after much thought and research. Atheism therefore will not be jettisoned without the power of reason. If that reason ( credible evidence for the existence of the supernatural ) has not been found in all of human history, it’s highly unlikely it will be discovered any time soon. So the probability of a genuine truth-seeker - an atheist reverting back to god-belief is about on a par with the chance of the man of knowledge going to back to being, once again, a man of faith traveling backward instead of forward. The arrow of time never travels backward. Poch Suzara

Errors

Why it is that when man commits an error, it is man’s fault? But when God commits an error, it is not God’s fault, but still man’s fault? If kindness, however, is the oil that takes the friction out of life, where then is supernatural kindness?
In the meantime, if man were inherently evil, why would God allow his only begotten son to incarnate and be born as a man? Born of a Virgin Mary at that! Poch Suzara

Mediocrity

To the mediocre, the highest form of religion is the one that’s based upon mediocrity. The theologians, who are always unworthy of human intelligence, prefer to call it - Christianity. The bible writers called it having faith in divinity. In the end, it is really about the different levels of pretentious serendipity, but nevertheless simplified as the complexity of mediocrity. Poch Suzara

FILIPINO TRAGEDY

There is nothing tragic about having been raised by ignorant parents at home and educated by ignorant teachers in school. What is truly tragic, however, is if we refuse to explore anything truthful at all about ourselves as individuals and to discover too where we stand as a decent nation. We just carry on with our children and grandchildren to believe and to have faith in the same old religious hokum and the same old political bunkum that’s keeping all of us popular as the Sick man of Asia. Poch Suzara

Man's Insignificance

How microscopic man must be living on this planet as tiny as a speck of dust in the immensity of space and in the eternity of time. A million planets the size of earth can easily fit inside the sun. In the meantime, the largest Black Hole ever discovered by astronomers has a mass equivalent to 18,000,000,000 suns. And to think that on this piece of dust called "earth," some 2,000 years ago, the Son of the Creator of the Universe had to die on a stick of wood so that mankind will learn to "love not this world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him." I John 2:15. Poch Suzara

Heaven and Earth

On earth as it is in heaven? Is this another biblical hogwash? If God could create a heaven without pain, poverty, and suffering, why couldn’t God create the same on earth? Or, why even bother to create earth to begin with? Indeed, why bother to create earth only to be populated by silly Christians, silly Muslims, and silly Jews, not to mention the silly men and silly women of this forum frightened of the power of thought? Poch Suzara

Silly Question

Does God have a place in science class? A silly question, indeed, because there is no God existing in religion class. Well, if God were non-existing in religion class, why should there be a God existing in science class?
In the meantime, evolution is not a theory in religion. Evolution is a fact in science. Poch Suzara

Theological Malarkey

For me, as a finite being, able to admit that I know absolutely nothing of the existence of an infinite Being, but that I know it to be – THE HOLY SPIRIT - is the height of a theological hokum. Poch Suzara

Family Relationship

Family relationship in heaven must be just as screwed up as the family relationship on earth. Indeed, on earth as it is in heaven. We never cease praying to Mary, the Mother of God in heaven to pray for us sinners here on earth. Obviously, Mary and God are not that often together enjoying family chat. It only proves that God has no time to listen to his Mother. This is strange. Since God does not have to fool around away from home, or to leave his mother in order to migrate abroad to earn a living. Poch Suzara

Catholic Bishops

27 million Pinoys have no toilet facilities and no access to clean water. And yet, despite these horrors, the catholic bishops in cooperation with our high government officials have not ceased to inspire our women to have sex not for fun, but to have sex seriously by getting pregnant. Never mind if children were born unwanted or unloved. We must never displease God. Never mind if children were born to exist under subhuman conditions. Let us give them a chance to grow up a little and then kill them with filth, malnutrition, and diseases.

In the meantime, there is also this other daily horror that our high government officials do not give a hoot about since they too believe that God will always provide: Population explosion is forcing a fantastic rise in poverty, malnutrition, illiteracy, and economic perversity in the Philippines. Poch Suzara

God's Mysterious Existence

If we see a cathedral, we assume that it was built by people like us, and since we are acquainted with people, we can assume that the cathedral designer and builder also had loves and hates, hopes, fears, bodily needs like food and sex. But we have never met anyone who designed and created a galaxy. We cannot assume that it still alive, or conscious, or indeed, that it is a spirit without end or a being without a beginning. Much less do we have a right to assume that it too has loves, hates, orgasms, or involved with stupid politics, or with stupid religion that’s keeping our world poor, sick, insane, and backward. In the meantime, a cathedral is nothing but a monument to human stupidity. Poch Suzara

Truly Incredible

It is truly incredible to witness how grown-up men and women still hold with deep faith the religious hogwash frightened into them to believe when they were innocent, gullible children in school and at home. As if those religious morons who frightened us to believe knew exactly what they were blabbering about.

I said it before, and I say it again: we are all victims of human stupidity; specially by our own parents at home and by our teachers in school. For us today
to be as equally stupid to distort and to twist the minds and hearts of our own children and grandchildren to carry on human stupidity should make us no less than those criminals who destroyed our minds and hearts leading us away from the path toward the good life – one inspired by love and guided by knowledge. Poch Suzara

Rich People

People think they are rich because they have plenty of money. In fact, most rich people enjoy poverty of the worst kind – the poverty of the mind and heart.

Bill Gates is not rich because of his billions. He is rich because of the wealth of his mind, and indeed, the nature of his kind heart.

In the Philippines, when a dumbstruck Pinoy gets to become suddenly rich either by smuggling, gambling, robbery, marriage, or inheritance – the first thing he does with his money is to look for pretty prostitutes in local cheap bars. Then he immediately plans to travel to America to look for prettier prostitutes.

Of course, there are the worst kind: those who go back to God, ask for the forgiveness of their sins and crimes, then they commit to memory verses from the holy bible, and then declare themselves to the whole world that they are now Born-again Christians. Poch Suzara

God as Designer and Creator

The trouble with God as designer and creator of the universe was that He recklessly failed to refine his original blueprint. After all, there was no need to include the existence of a stupid Talking Serpent to get the stupid original sin going against Adam and Eve not to enjoy a perfect life in a perfect paradise on Earth. Poch Suzara Facebook# Twitter# Google#

Religion and Politics as Evil Monsters

“Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion is.” Mahatma Gandhi. My dear Gandhi, you are right on target: religion and politics only pretend to be separated, but in reality, however, both have always been in cahoots together. Especially for wealth, power, and glory. Look how they have mutually concocted for themselves the “divine right of kings,” on the one hand, and on the other hand, the “divine authority of the Church.” In the meantime, silly theologians always in cahoots with the silly politicians are both masters in the art of telling lies at best, and at worst deceptions; especially with much alacrity, if not with much hypocrisy. Poch Suzara Facebook# Twitter# Google#

Separation of Church and State

The separation of Church and State has always been based on a lot of superstitious hogwash. Why should stupid religion always in cahoots with stupid politics have to pretend that they are separated? The existence of the State should be above the Church. In fact, in this 21st century, the church should already be dead and buried and gone. The Church knows nothing of the secret of life after death. She knows nothing of the secret of life after birth? So what exactly does the Church know since even her own God continue to remain nothing but an useless mystery? Poch Suzara