Children in School

During our formative years in school we were all frightened to believe in religious scarecrows. Indeed, when a child’s brain is damaged, it will believe anything, and examine nothing.

Take a look at this one serious issue: In every religion the priests alone have the right to determine what pleases or displeases God. But what we never get to examine is how come the priests will always determine what pleases or displeases them first.

Indeed, in every religion, the grand scheme of the priests is to blow hot and blow cold, to afflict and console, to frighten and reassure. They call it “theology” – the study of nothing reduced to a system not to brighten, but to frighten – the minds and hearts of children.

In our schools, colleges, and universities – students and teachers both need to teach themselves a priceless skill: learning how to learn. Especially learning not WHAT to believe, but HOW to think.

In the meantime, nothing learned from reading books is worth anything unless it is used and verified in life; and only then does it begin to affect behavior and attitude. It is life that educates; and perhaps love than more anything else in life. Especially the love of learning via the search of the truth. Poch Suzara

Why Am I Happy?

I am a happy individual because I enjoy hating the Christian faith as it is full of palpable absurdity, as much as I enjoy hating the Christian God as his existence is so preposterous still complicated as a perplexity. Rather than live in the world of fantasy, I would rather embrace the beauty of self-respect and the preciosity of human dignity.

Indeed, I am a happy individual because I have found my role in human destiny. I couldn’t give a hoot about the problems of a divinity still pretty much embroiled and lost in himself trying to find his place inside the realm of human stupidity or outside the realm of divine infinity. Poch Suzara

The Fool

Who is the real fool – the fool who does not believe in the existence of heaven? Or, the fool who wants to go to heaven, but does not want to die? Indeed, everybody wants to go to heaven but nobody wants to die.

In the meantime, we have yet to hear from our dead loved-ones. How they are really doing in Purgatory. Are the Mass Cards worth in the millions of pesos we purchase monthly for our dead loved-ones helping any to reduce their suffering years in Purgatory? Are they already on the way to be with God in heaven? How come we never get the status report from the church on the nature of these especial quiries? Poch Suzara

Theology under Christianity

To explain a mystery with perplexity is the secret of theology. To explain a perplexity with another mystery is the secret of Christianity. In the Philippines, however, mix inextricably Christianity with the perplexity of a mystery and they all add up to social insanity, if not political stupidity. Poch Suzara

What’s Wrong with Religion

To begin with - religion does not agree with other religions. They hate each other. The Jews, Christians, and Mulsims cut each other’s throats because they cannot agree as to what will happen to them after their throats have been cut. Well, even the Christians do not agree with other Christians. The four canonized Gospel writers in the bible contradict one another. The Gospel of Matthew tells us that Jesus was an aristocrat descended from David from Solomon. The Gospel of Luke tells us that Jesus was from much more humble stock. The Gospel of Mark tells us that Jesus was born of a poor carpenter. After his birth Jesus was visited by kings according to Matthew, but according to Luke, he was visited by shepherds. At Jesus’ death, the Gospel of Mark and Matthew tell us Jesus’ last words were “My God, My God, why hast forsaken me?” But according to Luke he said, “Father, into thy hands I commend my spirit,”And in John, he says simply, “It is finished.” Indeed, how could the Gospel writers remain pure in spirit when one pollutes the other with the trash of discrepancies, if not the garbage of contradictions? Poch Suzara

A Lotto Winner

Yes, since 1988, I have won the accumulated sum of more than $727,000,000 MILLION DOLLARS in the lotto games of foreign countries. This has been reported to me down through the years by lotto companies overseas. All based on a scam to swindle me off their fees and other hidden charges. The record shows my usual response to each of them: “Please keep my money for yourselves. I don’t need it. You can have it. I already won the greatest of wealth – it is otherwise known as mental health.”

Indeed, in the ultimate analysis, no matter how much money one has amassed, no amount of money can buy courage for the fool, or buy admiration for the coward, or buy a thought for the thoughtless. No doubt, with money, one can buy books; but not the love of learning, not with a million dollars, not in a million years.

Every one everywhere believe that with money they can buy security. There is no such wild animal existing anywhere in this world known as security; even if it were tamed by the American economy. Even the US government and its military always at war for the sake of national security but the expense of international insanity. Poch Suzara

Professor Anthony Flew

We are now told that Professor Anthony Flew - a famous scientist - has recently discovered evidences of the existence of God.

I ask: where, however, is the evidence that God is a He, and not a She? Or that God is a Catholic? I refuse to believe that God is just a bundle of spiritual matter existing for nothing except to prove that God a supernatural mystery.

Frankly, I would be thrilled to meet God. I would like ask God how he could play vital roles in getting the Muslims, Jews, and the Christians to stop hating and stop cutting each other's throats on this earth. These religious morons cannot seem to agree as to what will happen to them after their throats have been cut.

Also, I would like to ask God to please provide more direct help and involvement with the Filipino to achieve self-respect as a people and dignity as a nation. After all, the Philippines, poor and backward as she is historically, is the only Catholic country in Asia since the 16th century. Poch Suzara

Evolution

Many people believe that evolution is just a theory. In fact, more than a century ago evolution has already been proven a fact. Sadly, rejecting evolution as a fact in biological science, also entails rejecting, at the same time, the other sciences: zoology, entomology, microbiology, medical science, botany, marine biology, paleontology, astronomy, cosmology, ad geology. Bertrand Russell wrote, ' Science is at no moment quite right, but it is seldom quite wrong, and has, as a rule, a better chance of being right than the theories of the unscientific.” Carl Sagan in his DEMON-HAUNTED WORLD, wrote: “Science is a way to call the bluff of those who only pretend to knowledge. It is bulwark against mysticism, against superstition, against religion misapplied to where it has no business being. If we were true to its values, it can tell us when we are being lied to.” Poch Suzara

In Reality - Where’s God

According to modern physics, each unfolding reality contains the seeds of its own destruction and the embryo of a new reality that will replace it. Obviously, reality has no foundation and it is ultimately unknowable: any attempt to describe it obscures as much as it illuminates but only for the moment.

Bertrand Russell’s work on mathematics and logic contributed a great deal to our understanding science. He acknowledged the way modern physics eliminated the notion of “matter” and dissolve it into no more than a “series of events.” Indeed, a piece of matter is nothing but a series of events obeying certain laws.

I ask: where is God located inside or outside the reality of existence since, in the ultimately analysis, there is no such thing as the existence of reality? Indeed, nothing exists except atoms, space, and law; and the Mother of all laws is that of evolution and dissolution everywhere. Poch Suzara

The Insanity of Immortality

Instead of accepting death as the natural cycle of life Christianity used death as a tool to evoke fear in people. In the 4th century St. Pachomius advised his monks: “Above all, let us always keep our last days before our eyes and let us always fear everlasting torment.”

Indeed, the Christian religion is built on the spiritual claim that in death there is resurrection – not just for the moment, but on an ongoing affair. Millions believe this as the bible repeatedly exhorts people to fear God: “Fear God, and keep His commandments: for this is the whole duty of man.” “Blessed is everyone that feareth the Lord.”

In the meantime, to claim that the souls of men will be happy or unhappy after death of the body, is to fantasize that we will be able to see without eyes, to hear without ears, to taste without as palate, to smell without a nose, and to feel without hands and without skin, to copulate without sex organ.

Immortality is nothing but a race between insanity and infinity. It looks like insanity as blessed by divinity will always enjoy victory perpetually. Poch Suzara

Am Not a Real Atheist

I am told that I am not a real atheist because I read and study the bible. Indeed, I have been reading and studying the bible for almost 30 years now. The bible has been the most potent reason that convinced me to embrace the beauty and the harmony of atheism. But I have also been reading and studying the writings of Bertrand Russell during these past 50 years. I am a slow reader. I was born gifted with a low I.Q. In fact, I was expelled out of high school for being such a “dumb” student in la Salle. Of course in school, I got failing grades for “wanting to know;” but I got excellent grades for “consenting to believe.” Perhaps, it is true. I am not a real atheist. After all, if God exists he could only exist for me in the personage of a Bertrand Russell. Indeed, he was a real God to me. Russell saved not my silly soul, but saved instead my precious mind and precious heart living on this earth. Oh yes, I love, worship, and adore Bertrand Russell. If it turns out that there is life after death but Bertrand Russell will not there on my side in my pursuit of the truth, then I say fuck life after death. Poch Suzara

The Religious Cowards

The religious cowards would always look at church history with sanctimonious reverence and deem it like the ark of the covenant – too sacred to be touched. I say this is sacred infantile timidity. In the pursuit of the truth every angle that comprises human knowledge should be questioned.

Bertrand Russell, famous for criticizing his own philosophical findings, the world’s greatest thinker as far as I am concerned, honestly admitted in the end of his thinking career: “all human knowledge is uncertain, inexact, and partial.” Poch Suzara

Immanuel Kant

He was such a weird thinker. He wanted to save religion from reason, and yet, at the same time to save science from skepticism. He had great hopes in accomplishing these ambitions by longing to preserve for himself and for the world the essentials, at least of the faith inculcated in him by his mother. No doubt, in his time, he won much popularity; unfortunately, as a monument to German insanity. Save religion from reason? It is time well-spent if religious education was not evil. On the contrary, to begin with, religious education is evil because it means teaching children to believe and to have faith in the unknowable that is not even worth knowing. Now to save science from skepticism is a total waste of time and energy. Skepticism is what science is all about. There is nothing definite in science as everything in science is tentative. Listen to Carl Sagan on science: “Its only sacred truth is that there are no sacred truths. All assumptions must be critically examined. Arguments from authority are worthless. Whatever is inconsistent with the facts -- no matter how fond of it we are -- must be discarded or revised. Science is not perfect. It is often misused. It is only a tool, but it is the best tool we have -- self-correcting, ever changing, applicable to everything.” Bertrand Russell once admitted that what science cannot know, mankind cannot. Too bad an earlier philosopher in the likes of an Immanuel Kant could hardly grasp science is what we know and philosophy is what we do not know. Poch Suzara

Confusion Behind Delusion

To a virgin espoused to a man whose name was Joseph, of the house of David. And the virgin’s name was Mary. Luke 1:27

Concerning his Son Jesus Christ our Lord, which was made of the seed of David according to the flesh. Rom. 1:3

Jesus, the son of Joseph which was the son of Heli. Luke 33:23

And Jacob begat Joseph, the husband of Mary, of whom was born Jesus. Matt. 1:6

Jesus said: "I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me." John 14:6

While he was still speaking, a bright cloud overshadowed them, and behold, a voice out of the cloud said, "This is My beloved Son, with whom I am well-pleased; listen to Him!" Matt. 17:5

The beloved son declares: "If any man come to me and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple." Luke 14:26

In view of the above complication, is it really that hard to see why as the only Christian country in Asia, we Filipinos are so proud of our delusion as a people and even more so proud of our confusion as a nation? Poch Suzara

THERE IS NOTHING TRAGIC

There is nothing tragic about having been raised by ignorant parents at home; or educated by ignorant teachers in school; or indoctrinated into one’s faith by ignorant priests in church.

What’s truly tragic, however, is if, in later life, under the inspiration of more fear and ignorance, we care not for the power of ideas or to be involved in the search of the truth. We just carry on with our children and grandchildren to have faith in the same old religious mendacity; to believe in the same old political hypocrisy; and to contribute to the same old social insanity – that’s perpetually keeping us Filipinos spiritually poor as a people and keeping us morally bankrupt as a nation. 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.” What a lie!

God never loved the world. If God did, his own son Jesus, an abused child, crucified on the cross, need never have cried out loud: “My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?” Now why should a God with power to perform miracles forsake Himself? Poch Suzara

Image and Likeness

“God made man in his own image and likeness” are words written by men in the bible. If women wrote the bible they would have written that a “Goddess made woman in her own image and likeness.”

For my part as a bible reader, I am happy and proud that there were no women who contributed any of the inspired garbage written in the Old and in the New Testament. Indeed, revelation in the bible all teach that women, like the negro slaves, are not human.

The most destructive attitude that the bible imparts, however, is the hatred of human intelligence. Indeed, the Bible is a paradigm of misology - the hatred of reason. Even in Genesis, God expected Adam and Eve to have absolutely nothing to do with the Tree of Knowledge. Poch Suzara

The Creator

“How foolish to worship the creation when the creator is so much greater.” Phil Star April 22, 2009

Indeed, if creation is the norm, isn't it more foolish to worship the creator when we do not even know who or what created the creator. Poch Suzara

Born Ignorant, not Stupid

We are all born ignorant, not stupid. We were made stupid by education. Especially as our schools, colleges, and universities are owned by the priesthood industry. The same Catholic industry with the vested interests in human misery that promotes our sick society for the sake of maintaining Christianity. In the meantime, the existence of stupid divinity and the existence of human stupidity are one and the same holy baloney that promotes nothing in the Philippines except social and political and historical insanity. Poch Suzara Twitter# Facebook# Google#

INTELLIGENT DESIGN IN NATURE? NO KIDDING?

The creationists continue to amaze me. Specially those who insists that if there were no Creator, there would be no “intelligent design in nature.” Let’s examine, with a healthy dose of imagination, the creationists’ proposition. I should submit at once that if there were intelligent design in nature, such designs are as intelligent as the hairstyle of the evangelists preaching sacred lies on television. Let’s briefly explore “intelligent design” in the cosmos. How intelligent is it that everything out there, billions of galaxies are existing too far away from each other and traveling and getting farther every second away from each other? How are we to travel to the other planets and stars? Even nearby Andromeda, the closest galaxy to our Milky Way, is 2.2 million light years away (a light year is about trillion miles). One heck of a long and boring journey. Our own solar system, while relatively compact, is still a traveler’s nightmare. It takes our fastest probes years to reach the outer planets, and once we get there, we find not angelic nor demonic spacemen, but only find frozen rocks or giant balls of gas. The point is: design implies a designer; but more than that, design implies purpose. It’s hard enough to prove that the universe was designed by a designer. What’s even impossible to prove is that the existence of the universe has a purpose. The inner planets are almost as inhospitable. Mars is a dead, airless, dry, and frigid planet. One day, however, with scientific intelligence, Mars will probably be terraformed to make it habitable for humans. Venus is caught in an endless loop of a runaway greenhouse effect. Mercury’s surface temperature is over 450 degrees Celsius. Earth is our only home and we have yet to learn to love our home planet earth. But thanks to our conflicting religious beliefs, we only love God in heaven up there by hating one another down here on earth. Now comes the major premise of intelligent design - that life, specially, human life, is too complex to have just happened. If the creator had power, wisdom, and knowledge, it was shown by his creation of man. Unfortunately, we came not from among the best blueprint. In fact the creator failed to look at His master plan before starting work. Look at the facts. First, if we admit the desirable aspects of nature as products of design, we must also admit the undesirable aspects of nature as products of design. After Adam and Eve, who was the designer who designed the Talking Serpent who caused the Fall of Adam and Eve? Oh well, let’s leave that behind. Now there’s the problem of sexual reproduction. Requiring two people to make babies is so inefficient, painful and messy. Sexual reproduction breeds not only children, but also contempt. The male contribution to the process of making babies is so insignificant. It is accomplished in just a few seconds. The female then spends the next nine months in discomfort waiting the birth. The male, on the other hand, gets on with his life bragging about his God-given erectability. Now if the creator were an intelligent designer, Why would he just take a rib off Adam to design an Eve? Now look at babies born into this world. They come out of mother’s womb wet, hungry, crying, and indeed, as unbelievers of the faith. None of the baby boys born have one less rib than the baby girls. Now if circumcision were important to the creator, why did he put that extra foreskin in the boy’s genital to begin with? Sounds unintelligent to me. But then again, why couldn’t the creator designed the human stomach exactly like that of the Boa Constrictor, ( in order to survive, that snake needs only one full meal a month ). In this way, with a better designed stomach - the 800,000,000 women and children throughout the world need not go to sleep hungry every night. Next comes the fact that we are bipedal. That means when we are young we fall down a lot. And when we are old we fall down a lot. The other day, my best friend, who is neither young or old, but a devout Christian, fell down from bed and painfully broke his leg. And it wasn’t even his God-fearing wife who was with him in bed. Man is intelligently designed? How come we can’t breath water? Is that important? Think about it – what creator would make us so we can only breath oxygen, then puts us on a planet which is 78% water? Hello? Anybody home out there? The creator gave us a useless organ like the appendix, but couldn’t afford to throw in fins and gills as part of our physical nature so that we may live deep in the sea as well. All knowing and powerful, indeed. We are intelligently designed? From caducity to senility, we get sick, grow bald, get fat, lose our sense of hearing, teeth fall out, skin sag, bones become brittle, sexual performance fades, vision fails, arteries clog, senses become dull, memory becomes unreliable. Children are born ignorant in that the priesthood industry takes advantage of the situation by making it even more ignorant for the glory of God in heaven. Really, how so intelligent a design is the human body? Is it really a sacred temple of God? But the human body is also the happy home of some 2 billion germs, viruses, bacteria and other nasty little monsters trying hard everyday to kill vital human organs always at war against the human immune system. In the long run, however, as in cancer, a group of these little monsters engages in a career of imperialism, and in bringing the rest of the human body to death, these little monsters would decree its own death too. Most obviously the argument against intelligent design is the fact that we have a free will. We experiment. We observe. We discover. We think. We theorize. We disagree. We quarrel. We extrapolate. We make war against each other. If humans were the result of a master plan, the creator could have made us gifted not with a free will, but only with a good will. In this way, we need not doubt the existence of a creator or doubt the claims of his inspired writers of the bible. We could then learn to live peacefully and intelligently together as one big happy family exploring deeper the wonders in nature of which we not apart, but precisely a part of nature. In the final analysis, intelligent design is an argument from ignorance. It is equivalent to the “true or false” or “none of the above” test category. Intelligent design is a sophisticated way of admitting “I don’t know.” It is like asking: who designed the “turtle’s shell?” “I don’t know.” “You don’t know.” “Therefore we both know that the creator designed the turtle’s shell.” Indeed, an intellectually honest person, when confronted with something he knows nothing about, will admit at once that he knows nothing about it. In the meantime, in order to conclude that an object was designed, we must first establish that it was manufactured. Therefore, in order to conclude that the natural universe was designed, we must first establish that it was manufactured by an intelligent manufacturer. Nobody is perfect; but however scientifically well-informed many of us have become, the creationists would still insists that we all came from dust and unto dust we shall all return. But really, if the Creator made man in his own image and likeness, it follows that the Creator too is made of dust. Now, isn’t it rather silly to pray to a Creator who is made of dust to save our silly souls that’s made of dust too? Poch Suzara