Steve Jobs - Atheist / Bertrand Russell - Atheist/ Clarence Darrow - Atheist

"Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary." Steve Jobs, Atheist Lost causes are the only ones worth fighting for. Clarence Darrow “A man who has once perceived, however, temporarily and however briefly, what makes greatness of spirit, can no longer be happy if he allows himself to be petty, self-seeking, troubled by trivial misfortunes, dreading what fate may have in store for him. A man capable of greatness of spirit will open wide the windows of his mind, letting the winds blow freely upon it from every portion of the universe. He will see himself and life and the world as truly as our human limitations will permit; realizing the brevity and minuteness of human life, he will realize also that in individual minds is concentrated whatever of value the known universe contains. And he will see that the man whose mind mirrors the world becomes in a sense as great as the world. In emancipation from the fears that beset the slave of circumstance he will experience a profound joy, and through all the vicissitudes of his outward life he will remain in the depths of being a happy man." Bertrand Russell, Atheist

Prayer for Mercy

As devout Catholics, why should one Filipino Catholic expect his prayer for mercy to be heard by what is above him when he himself shows no mercy to the millions of poverty-stricken fellow-Catholic Filipinos suffering below him - more known as the Sick Man of the only Catholic country in Asia Poch Suzara

Thank God I am an Atheist

My dear Rev. Rivera and Rev. Gabuna, My thanking God that he created me an atheist is not an argument against my self, but an argument against the existence of your silly God. In the meantime, do you really believe that you can clown around with a high-school expelled student like me by elevating your God into the bigger celebrity in order to contain not only your empty minds and empty hearts, but also to sustain your frightened way of life? Cheers! Poch Suzara

Confess our sins to Whom and for What

"If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and it cleanses us from all unrighteousness." 1 John 1:9

I said it before, I say it again: Fuck sin. Fuck confession. Fuck the priesthood industry behind divinity always in cahoots with deviltry. Poch Suzara

Silly God in the Silly Universe

Lettie, Do you really believe that a silly God, the silly creator of the silly Universe, found it necessary, as he also had the time and energy to inspire silly authors to write such silly messages in the silly holy bible to keep silly men and silly women of this silly world as silly as ever? In the meantime, human lifetime on this earth is but a fraction of a millimeter long, a bittersweet instant in eternity, a wink of an eye, a flash in the pan, a fraction of a second long. Even our planet earth is so tiny in that a million planets the size of earth can fit inside the sun. Now do you really believe that a Son of the God Jesus during ancient times was born on this piece of dust called earth. In order to save mankind from sin he allowed himself to be crucified on the cross by silly men created too in the silly image and silly likeness of his own silly Father. And this is the same crucified Jesus who cried out from the cross: "Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do!" Lettie, for my part, I no longer feel guilty of sin against God because even during my childhood years I already began to formulate questions why we Filipinos should forgive God, instead of God wasting his time to forgive us! Cheers! Poch Suzara

Holy Garbage in the holy bible

The bible is the highest of blasphemy, if not the lowest of vulgarity. It claims to
speak for God, yet it was written by men - the superstitious primitives of the ancient
world.

In the meantime, it is indeed incredible to see in this already 21st century in the Philippines, college educated men and women are among the first to defend and protect the holy lies and sacred deceptions behind the Word of God more known as the Holy bible.Poch Suzara

More Holy Bible Garbage for Fr. Reuter

“If My people, who are called by My name, will humble themselves and pray, and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from Heaven, and will forgive their sins, and will heal their land.” (2 Chronicles 7:14). Has seen God's Face: (Gen. 17:1) – “Now when Abram was ninety-nine years old, the LORD appeared to Abram and said to him, "I am God Almighty ; Walk before Me, and be blameless; (Gen. 18:1) Now the LORD appeared to him by the oaks of Mamre, while he was sitting at the tent door in the heat of the day.” (Exodus 6:2-3) – “God spoke further to Moses and said to him, "I am the LORD; 3and I appeared to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, as God Almighty, but by My name, LORD, I did not make Myself known to them.” (Exodus 24:9-11) – “Then Moses went up with Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel, 10and they saw the God of Israel; and under His feet there appeared to be a pavement of sapphire, as clear as the sky itself. 11Yet He did not stretch out His hand against the nobles of the sons of Israel; and they saw God, and they ate and drank.” (Num. 12:6-8) – “He said, "Hear now My words: If there is a prophet among you, I, the LORD, shall make Myself known to him in a vision. I shall speak with him in a dream. 7"Not so, with My servant Moses, He is faithful in all My household; 8With him I speak mouth to mouth, Even openly, and not in dark sayings, And he beholds the form of the LORD. Why then were you not afraid To speak against My servant, against Moses ?" (Acts 7:2), "And he [Stephen] said, 'Hear me, brethren and fathers! The God of glory appeared to our father Abraham when he was in Mesopotamia, before he lived in Haran...'" Has not seen God's Face: (Exodus 33:20) – “But He [God] said, "You cannot see My face, for no man can see Me and live !" (John 1:18) – “No one has seen God at any time; the only begotten God who is in the bosom of the Father, He has explained Him.” (John 5:37) – “"And the Father who sent Me, He has testified of Me. You have neither heard His voice at any time nor seen His form.” (John 6:46) - "Not that anyone has seen the Father, except the One who is from God; He has seen the Father.” (1 Tim. 6:15-16) – “He who is the blessed and only Sovereign, the King of kings and Lord of lords, 16 who alone possesses immortality and dwells in unapproachable light, whom no man has seen or can see. To Him be honor and eternal dominion! Amen.- Poch Suzara

The Holy Bible as Big Business

The bible is the book of the church . . . The Jewish Church stands behind the Old Testament. The Christian church stands behind the New Testament. And behind the Church stands the priesthood industry - the sales force of the richest and most powerful bank in the world - the Vatican Bank.

Any of you out there do not believe this, you are either a religiously frightened bobo, if not an ecclesiastical weirdo. Poch Suzara

God and His Ticklish Burdens

"Cast thy burden upon the Lord, and he shall sustain thee: he shall never suffer the righteous to be moved." Psalms 55:22

"God invited us to burden Him with what burdens us." Phil Star Jan. 16,2012

Since God is the creator of EVERYTHING, including the formation of light and darkness and peace and evil - it follows our burdens are part of God's creation too.

Could any of you religious saps please explain what the fuck is going on with God and his ticklish burdens? Poch Suzara

Morality or Pejudice

If I disobeyed the Will of God, I will be punished in hell. If I obeyed the Will of God I will be rewarded in heaven. This is not morality. This is prejudice. If it is morality, surely it must be based upon divine stupidity. Poch Suzara

Virgin Birth. Hello Jesus

“In every ejaculation,” wrote Carl Sagan in COSMOS, “there are hundreds of millions of sperm cells, only one of which can fertilize an egg and produce a member of the next generation of human beings. But which sperm succeeds in fertilizing an egg must depend on the most minor and insignificant of factors, both internal and external. If even a little thing had gone differently 2,500 years ago, none of us would be here today. There would be billions of others living in our place.” In the meantime, in recent decades, science has discovered that to be a male baby a Y chromosome is needed and the only place you can get one is from a man. Virgin births therefore can only produce girls, not boys. Jesus, Hello! Poch Suzara

Failed Predictions

Failed predictions of notable personalities:

There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.---Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp, maker of big business mainframe computers, arguing against the PC in 1977.
Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible.---Lord Kelvin, British mathematician and physicist.
There is not the slightest indication that nuclear energy will ever be obtainable. It would mean that the atom would have to be shattered at will.---Albert Einstein, 1932.
The horse is here to stay but the automobile is only a novelty---a fad. ---The president of the Michigan Savings Bank advising Henry Ford's lawyer, Horace Rackham, not to invest in the Ford Motor Co., 1903.
I must confess that my imagination refuses to see any sort of submarine doing anything but suffocating its crew and floundering at sea.---HG Wells, British novelist, in 1901.
X-rays will prove to be a hoax.---Lord Kelvin, President of the Royal British Society, 1883.
Television won't last. It's a flash in the pan.---Mary Somerville, pioneer of radio educational broadcasts, 1948.
A rocket will never be able to leave the Earth's atmosphere.---New York Times, 1

Here, however, are Flat Out Lies By The Bible's God Character, And His Numerous Failed Predictions. We'll start with:

Lies from the bible's god in Genesis:

1. "But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die."

God says that if Adam eats from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, then the day that he does so, he will die. But later Adam eats the forbidden fruit (3:6) and yet lives for another 930 years (5:5). 2:17

2. As a punishment for killing Abel, God says Cain will be "a fugitive and a vagabond." Yet in just a few verses (4:16-17) Cain will settle down, marry, have a son, and build a city. This is not the activity one would expect from a fugitive and a vagabond. 4:12

3. God promises Abram and his descendants all of the land of Canaan. But both history and the bible (Acts 7:5 and Heb.11:13) show that God's promise to Abram was a lie. 13:15, 15:18, 17:8, 28:13-14

3. How long was the Egyptian captivity? This verse says 400 years, but Ex.12:40 and Gal.3:17 say 430 years. 15:13

4. "In the fourth generation they [Abraham's descendants] shall come hither again." But, if we count Abraham, then their return occurred after seven generations: Abraham, Isaac (Gen.21:1-3), Jacob (Gen.25:19-26), Levi (Gen.35:22-23), Kohath (Ex.6:16), Amramn (Ex.6:18), and Moses (Ex.6:20). 15:16

5. God promises Abram's descendants the land of Canaan from the Nile to the Euphrates. But according to Acts 7:5 and Heb.11:13 God's promise to Abram was not fulfilled. 15:18

6. God promises to make Isaac's descendents as numerous as "the stars of heaven", which, of course, never happened. The Jews have always been, and will always be, a small minority. 26:4

7. God renames Jacob twice (32:28, 35:10 ). God says that Jacob will henceforth be called Israel, but the Bible continues to call him Jacob anyway (47:28-29). And even God himself calls him Jacob in 46:2. 32:28, 35:10

8. God calls Jacob Jacob, though he said in Gen.32:28 and 35:10 that he would no longer be called Jacob but Israel. 46:2

9. God promises to bring Jacob safely back from Egypt, but Jacob dies in Egypt (Gen.47:28-29) 46:3

10. The tribe of Judah will reign "until Shiloh," but Israel's first king (Saul) was from the tribe of Benjamin (Acts 13:21), and most of the time after this prophecy there was no king at all. 49:10

11. Contrary to the prophecy in 48:21, Joseph died in Egypt, not Israel. Gen.50:24

A REAL supernatural God that created all that is could never be this much of a fuck up. Poch Suzara

Thailand - the Master of Religion

Jan 13, 2012

My Dear Rev. Bob Gabuna,

Indeed, Thailand is a more progressive country compared to our Philippines. However, have you ever heard of the Thai people who have more faith in Jesus than they do love and respect their King? Or, in line with the teachings of Jesus - they do not take thought for tomorrow? Or worst - they believe, like millions of poor Filipinos believe, - to love NOT this world or the things that are in the world and leave everything to God because God will provide - if not in this world, in the next? All that they have to do is to pray daily to God to give us this day our daily, and to lead us not into temptation?

Really Rev. Bob Gabuna - have you ever heard of such religion garbage going on in Thailand - like 8 million of them gathering together in a public park like a bunch of insane malnourished maniacs crying to Jesus of Nazareth for some temporary salvation of no matter what nature while devoid of self-respect as a people and bereft of dignity as a nation Yours Sincerely, Poch Suzara

EVIL AGAINST EVIL

A psuedo-scientist writes: “Humankind cannot abide the terror of mortality without the promise of immortality, I have argued in the past. In the absence of religion human society sinks into depressive torpor. Secular society therefore is an oxymoron, for the death of religion leads quickly enough to the death of society itself.” I ask: how true is this in China today as the Chinese people have been irreligious since the 11th century? Or take the USSR – a so-called atheistic nation that eventually crumbled but only because after dumping Christianity, the USSR replaced Christianity with another religion called “communism.” Indeed, Communism, a religion, just like Christianity, advocate a religious way of life on the basis of irrational dogmas; they have a sacred history, a Messiah, and a priesthood. The history of the struggle of Christianity against communism was not a struggle of GOOD against EVIL; but a struggle of EVIL against EVIL. In any case, EVIL always wins! In the meantime, our world view has been deranged by myths imposed upon us by Christianity. For my part, I refuse to believe that centuries before Christianity arrived, ours was a dying society deprived of Christian teachings, values and beliefs. In fact, what diminished the Filipino of their rights to grow and to mature as decent people is due to the evils of Christian religion. Indeed, up to this day and age, we still believe that religion has only to do with our knees, and not with our heads. I ask: What happened to our sense for the spread of common decency in our own country? I say Christianity has been and still is based on holy baloney. It continues to twist our minds as a people and continues to distort our hearts as a nation. And until we dump the evils of Christianity out of our country, indeed, out of our culture and tradition, the evils that we Filipinos accomplished since in the 16th century, we will only continue to accomplish more of the same evils in the centuries to come. Poch Suzara

God as a Cry-baby Weakling

What kind of an all-knowing or all-powerful God are you people referring to me to love, worship, and adore? A God that needs frightened morons like yourselves to defend or to make excuse or even to explain that God does not really means this, but means that. It seems to me sadly obvious that this God is a cry-baby supernatural weakling - precisely the kind of a God who can uselessly help only those who can already help themselves. Poch Suzara

Useless Revelation

REVELATION via inspired authors of the bible is not REVELATION. It is a second-hand communication and therefore not a reliable source of informatiion. As an unbeliever of the faith, if I must believe in the REVEALED TRUTH OF GOD, it must first be REVEALED directly to me. And not revealed to me by any of you religious morons of this forum, or by a Jewish idiot even if, with his magic wan, could part the Red Sea during winter some four thousand years ago. In his Age of Reason, listen to Thomas Paine: "It is a contradiction in terms and ideas to call anything a revelation that comes to us at second hand, either verbally or in writing. Revelation is necessarily limited to the first communication. After this, it is only an account of something which that person says was a revelation made to him; and though he may find himself obliged to believe it, it cannot be incumbent on me to believe it in the same manner, for it was not a revelation made to me, and I have only his word for it that it was made to him." I said it before, I say it again: FUCK REVELATION! Poch Suzara

Beliefs of the Silly Faithfools

Man’s stupidity to man is mostly due to, if not from, his infinite capacity to believe the incredible, the gullible, and indeed, to believe, especially, the inspired authors of divinity always in cahoots with deviltry. On the other hand, the ability to think is basic to what it means to be human. It is also the case that to think freely is basic to living freely with self-respect and dignity. It is sad, however, that so much of human thinking is controlled by religious, political, and other social forces based upon the charade of sacred lies, if not the parade of holy deceptions. In the meantime, to believe as true that countries like Japan, Taiwan, Singapore and all of the EU countries are now experiencing chronic depopulation so much so that now they resort to importing people to run their economies - is to believe as true such charade of sacred lies, or to believe as true a parade of holy deceptions. Indeed, the SILLY beliefs of 7 BILLION people in the world, especially amongst them are silly FAITHFOOL BELIEVERS in a SAVIOR in the Philippines! Poch Suzara

Sins Versus Crimes in the Philippines

New York, New York

Dear Mar Patalinjug,

Perhaps, you are probably right; we may be just dreaming. We may never succeed in getting the Catholic Church to apologize for the unlawful execution of Jose Rizal
and to correct the lies told about him like the "retraction" scandal; and to apologize to the Filipino people for the crimes of the Catholic church against the Philippines since the 16th century. It is, indeed, incredible that for millions of Filipinos in this already 21st century we still have neither love nor faith in our country, but have only faith in God and more faith in his Son Jesus.

I said it before, I say it again: the least we Filipinos can do is to keep silent no more. We must stand up and speak up even to stir or to inspire the conscience of the world to be aware of the damages the Catholic Church has done to the Filipino as a people keeping the Philippines once known as the "Pearl of the Orient," but now known as the "Payatas of the Orient." Poch Suzara

Sin Against God on this Earth

The size and age of the Cosmos are beyond ordinary human understanding. Lost somewhere between immensity and eternity is our tiny planetary home. Carl Sagan

In this connection, it is utterly silly to believe that on this piece of dust called "earth" we humans are able to offend God, the creator of the Cosmos, with our stupid sins.

Well, I am an atheist. If it is true that I offend God by not believing in God, I should be not ashamed, but precisely I should be most proud of my self for having achieved such a wonderful and a great accomplishment. Poch Suzara

The Most Destructive Force in the Philippines

So bleak is the picture... that the bulldozer and not the atomic bomb may turn out to be the most destructive invention of the 20th century. Philip Shabecoff In our sick society, however, in this already 21st century, the most destructive force that's keeping our country poor and backward may yet be due to the Filipino minds and hearts; especially as products of the more than 1,000 schools, colleges, and universities owned and operated by the Catholic Church in the Philippines. Poch Suzara