The Horrors of opinions, Ancient Knowledge, and Faith

The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: Be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge. . . Elbert Hubbard. . . In the Philippines, as college-educated Filipinos, we are not only satisfied with our opinions, not only contented with our knowledge, but we are also most proud of our faith in the Jewish Son of God Jesus born of a Virgin Mary impregnated by a holy Spirit in Bethlehem some 2,000 years ago. . . Poch Suzara

The Absurdity of Payer

George Bush says he speaks to God every day, and Christians love him for it. If George Bush said he spoke to God through his hair dryer, they would think he was mad. I fail to see how the addition of a hair dryer makes it any more absurd. . . Sam Harris . . . When you are talking to God, you are praying . . . When God is talking to you, you are hallucinating. . . Poch Suzara

What or Who is God

"The atheist does not say 'there is no God,' but he says 'I know not what you mean by God; I am without idea of God'; the word 'God' is to me a sound conveying no clear or distinct affirmation. ... The Bible God I deny; the Christian God I disbelieve in; but I am not rash enough to say there is no God as long as you tell me you are unprepared to define God to me." -- Charles Bradlaugh . . . Oh my dear Charles Bradlaugh, in the Philippines, GOD means Jesus, the Jewish Son of a Virgin Mary impregnated by the Holy Spirit more than 2,000 years ago. As to who or what the Holy Spirit is, nobody knows, not even the millions of college educated men and women know what "holy" means. Or whether the existence of something holy is a He or a She or an It. In the meantime, I am often asked: Why does it bother me that other people believe in God? . . . In a nutshell, for the same reason it SHOULD bother you: to have frightened saps and jerks who are mentally sick, pushing their lies and deceptions and delusions upon the rest of society, specially to twist and distort the the innocent minds of children in school! . . . Poch Suzara

Research

"Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing." - Wernher Von Braun (1912-1977) . . . In my case, as a high school expelled student, research is my way of verifying whether there was any validity or even reliability as to my teacher's stand in school that their answers have been far more precious than my questions!. . . In the meantime, Scientists Stephen Hawking said it briefly and truthfully: - "The Greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge." . . . For my part, I said it before, I say it again: the greatest enemy against the growth of human intelligence is not hard thinking, but easy believing. . . Poch Suzara Twitter# Google# facebook#

The Existence of Evil in the Philippines

There is no explanation for evil. It must be looked upon as a necessary part of the order of the universe. To ignore it is childish, to bewail it senseless. . . W. Somerset Maugham. . . My dear Somerset Maugham, I entirely agree with you; except that in the Philippines - the only Catholic country in Asia - it is highest form of stupidity, if not the lowest form of insanity if we Filipinos only continue to believe and to have faith in the existence of evil as the necessary part of the order of the universe that makes us famous as the Sick Man on this earth gifted with a Free Will by God in heaven. . . Poch Suzara

The Wisdom of God for the Philippines

God in the holy bible: - It is written in scripture: I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and I will reject the intelligence of the intelligent. 1 Corinthians 1:19... God in the Philippines: - I will eternally bless the insanity of the Filipino as a people and as a nation; especially the level of insanity that's inspired by the teachings of Christianity, historically... Poch Suzara

SUCCESS in the Philippines

Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success. . . Dale Carnegie. . . In the Philippines, the most politically corrupt, religiously insane, and the most crime-ridden society; and, indeed, the only Christian country in Asia, "success" is what most college-educated Filipinos settle for. We have no intellectual capacity to do something higher, greater, or noble enough to be failing at. . . Indeed, we are NOT a nation of great men and great women who have the power, the courage, and the intellect to put beauty into our country where nature has only put horrors! . . . We Filipinos are only contented to be a nation of sinners and criminals and prayers, indeed, historically, only to continue at being the faithful victims, and not the fearless masters of our own destiny! . . Poch Suzara

The Jewish Wailing Wall

A reporter goes to Israel to cover the fighting. She is looking for something emotional and positive and of human interest. Something like that guy in Sarajevo who risked his life to play the cello everyday in the town square. In Jerusalem, she heard about an old Jew who had been going to the Wailing Wall to pray, twice a day, every day, for a long, long time. So she went to check it out. She goes to the Wailing Wall and there he is! So she watches him pray and after about 45 minutes, when he turns to leave, she approaches him for an interview. "Rebecca Smith, CNN News. Sir, how long have you been coming to the Wall and praying?" "For about 50 years." "What do you pray for?" "For peace between the Jews and the Arabs. For all the hatred to stop. For our children to grow up in safety and friendship." "How do you feel after doing this for 50 years?" "Like I'm talking to a fucking wall." Oh My Dear Rabbi, Your Wailing Wall exist only there. Not existing here, and not existing everywhere... We Filipinos pray nightly, daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly to our Catholic God existing here, existing there, and existing everywhere... You can imagine how the few of us thinking Filipinos feel today after praying for more than 400 years in this only Catholic country in Asia! We continue to faithfully remain spiritually poor as a people, and morally bankrupt as a nation! Cheers! Poch Suzara Facebook# Twitter# Google#

FREE WILL versus GOD'S DIVINE PLAN

What's wrong with us Filipinos? We have no heritage from the past worthy to defend or to protect or even to respect. . . We have no promises for the future to look forward to with pride, dignity, and self-respect. . . Nevertheless, however, we all believe and have faith that after we are dead we shall inherit a better world to come with God, with the Son of God Jesus together with His Jewish Apostles, and with the Virgin Mary, His Jewish Mother of God in heaven. . . In the meantime, we Filipinos all have faith that God gifted us with a FREE WILL; but with our daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly prayers we feel that we also have the FREE WILL to fuck around with God's divine plan! . . . Poch Suzara Facebook# Twitter# Google#

The One and Only Famous Filipino Atheist

I entirely agree with my friend Danding Jimenez that "Filipinos are almost invisible in the world scene in terms of art and culture and intellectual, literary and artistic influence. - There are Almost no industrial products from the Philippines. - No great Philippine Olympian - No great Philippine Nobel Prize winner - No great Filipino general - No great Filipino philosopher - No world-renowned Filipino poet - Almost no great and world renowned Filipino fashion designer - No great, internationally renowned Philippine pianist, conductor, composer, operatic singer. - Almost no great, internationally renowned Philippine literary figure. - Almost no great, internationally renowned Philippine political figure. - Almost no great, internationally renowned Philippine scientist. - May I, however, point out an exception: there is one great Filipino with guts and gumption enough to declare publicly in this only Catholic country in Asia that he is an ATHEIST; and, that he has far more love, respect, and admiration for Jose Rizal than he has for the Son of God Jesus. Indeed, a great Filipino who is never afraid to admit openly that he refuses to hate humanity down here for the sake of loving a silly divinity up there! He is yours truly - POCH SUZARA Facebook# Twitter# Google#

The Religiously Frightened Saps

"For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-knowing." - Henry Louis Mencken (1880-1956) ... In our forum, however, the religiously frightened saps such as Rev. Bodjie, Rev. Rivera, Rev. Calderon, Rev. Nathaniel, and Rev. Angel Arando have not ceased telling me that anything that is not worth knowing must be treated with faith, love, worship, and respect. Poch Suzara

Mathematicians More Truthful than the Theologians

2 plus 2 equals 4 is a revealed truth by the mathematicians of this world. Indeed, the Multiplication Table is the perfect model of truth... It is free from dogma, hogma, and pigma. . . I asked it before, I ask it again: - how come the theologians of this world have utterly failed to reveal the "revealed truth" in the holy bible - a book filled with lies, deceptions, illusions, confusions, delusions, contradictions, inconsistencies, absurdities, obscenities, vulgarities, and atrocities? The multiplication table can never be successfully tampered with, or mistranslated. The same can never be said of the Bible. There are more than 57 different versions of the bible sold in bookstores today. There is only one multiplication table and, without conflict, can be universally & unequivocally comprehended: the opposite must be said about the Bible. I would like to know, why does the Holy Bible need to be interpreted by only certain "theologians" while any child is free to interpret & master the multiplication table? Indeed, there is no need for sick teachers to force children in school to believe that 1 plus 1 equals 2. Poch Suzara

The SICK MAN OF ASIA WITH HIS SICK HOLY BIBLE

Stupidity is making the simple complicated. Creativity is the exact opposite - it is making the complicated simple. . . Many of you on these pages are angry, nay, shocked with me because I continue to make simple the complicated hard-to-read holy bible for all of you to learn. . . I am never afraid to expose the brazen lies, deceptions, illusions, confusions, delusions, contradictions, inconsistencies, absurdities, obscenities, vulgarities, and atrocities - all more known as the "revealed Truth" as written by the inspired authors of God! . . . When Christianity arrived to conquer us during the 16th century, we had the land, and they had the bible. Today in this already 21st century, we have the bible. . . Christianity owns not only our land, but far more precious - owns our minds and hearts. Indeed, in control of the SICK MAN OF ASIA!. . . For millions of religiously frightened Filipinos - they continue to believe that our stupidity as a people and insanity as a nation are not only the results of our FREE WILL but more so due to GOD's DIVINE PLAN to establish in the Philippines - Christianity! . . . Poch Suzara Facebook# Twitter# Google#

The Sick Holy Bible

"Somebody ought to tell the truth about the Bible. The preachers dare not, because they would be driven from their pulpits. Professors in colleges dare not, because they would lose their salaries. Politicians dare not. They would be defeated. Editors dare not. They would lose subscribers. Merchants dare not, because they might lose customers. Men of fashion dare not, fearing that they would lose caste. Even clerks dare not, because they might be discharged. And so I thought I would do it myself." ... Robert G. Ingersoll... "Whenever we read the obscene stories, the voluptuous debaucheries, the cruel and tortuous executions, the unrelenting vindictiveness, with which more than half the Bible is filled, it would be more consistent that we called it the word of a demon than the word of God. It is a history of wickedness, that has served to corrupt and brutalize mankind; and, for my part, I sincerely detest it, as I detest everything that is cruel."... Thomas Paine... "The Bible is not the 'word of God,' but stolen from pagan sources. Its Eden, Adam and Eve were taken from the Babylonian accounts; its Flood and Deluge is but an epitome of some four hundred flood accounts; its Ark and Ararat have their equivalents in a score of Deluge myths; even the names of Noah's sons are copies, so also Isaac's sacrifice, Solomon's judgment, and Samson's pillar acts; its Moses is fashioned after the Syrian Mises; its laws after Hammurabi's code. Its Messiah is derived from the Egyptian Mahdi, Savior, certain verses are verbatim copies of Egyptian scriptures. Between Jesus and the Egyptian Horus, Gerald Massy found 137 similarities, and those between Christ and Krishna run into the hundreds. How then can the Bible be a revelation to the Jews?"... Lloyd Graham... It is not those parts of the Bible that I do not READ that bothers me. It is those parts I do seriously READ that bothers me enough to spread the TRUTH not yet REVEALED in the bible by INSPIRED authors of God... Poch Suzara

Filipinos as Sick Employees in Foreign Countries

“He called his twelve disciples to him and gave them authority to drive out evil spirits and to heal every disease and sickness.” Matt. 10:1 . . . It is truly tragic. As the only Christian country in Asia since the 16th century the apostles of Jesus miserably failed to drive out the evil spirits and utterly failed also to heal every disease and sickness in the Philippines... We Filipinos only continue to be famous as the sick people of Asia, and not considered as the healthy masters in our own country. And what is even more tragic, is when the foreigners are here as our "foreign investors." They are here as our "employers." When we Filipinos are in their country, we are there as their "employees." Indeed, it is time to look at our sick system of education where the results, historically, continue to be the same recycled garbage: Millions of college-educated Pinoys and Pinays are only educated enough to be the "employees" or only to be "servants" of any of the three of the greatest ECONOMIC MONSTERS keeping our country poor and backward: The corrupt officials of the church, the corrupt officials of the government, and both together always in cahoots together with the corrupt officials as the foreign investors in the Philippines. . . Poch Suzara Twitter# Facebook# Google# Atheist#

Ken

Ken - “Praying is like a rocking chair - it will give you something to do, but it won't get you anywhere.” - Gypsy Rose Lee. . . When you talk to God, it is called "PRAYING." . . . When God talks to you, it is called "HALLUCINATING." - Poch Suzara

Verses in the Bible that Treat Women as the Tootie-Frooties of this world

"I do not permit a woman to teach or to have authority over a man. She must be quiet." (1 Timothy 2:12 "Go, now, attack Amalek, and deal with him and all that he has under the ban. Do not spare him, but kill men and women, children and infants, oxen and sheep, camels and asses." (1 Samuel 15:3) "You shall not let a sorceress live." (Exodus 22:18) "Happy those who seize your children and smash them against a rock." (Psalm 137:9) "When the men would not listen to his host, the husband seized his concubine and thrust her outside to them. They had relations with her and abused her all night until the following dawn, when they let her go. Then at daybreak the woman came and collapsed at the entrance of the house in which her husband was a guest, where she lay until the morning. When her husband rose that day and opened the door of the house to start out again on his journey, there lay the woman, his concubine, at the entrance of the house with her hands on the threshold. He said to her, 'Come, let us go'; but there was no answer. So the man placed her on an ass and started out again for home." (Judges 19:25-28) "And the males likewise gave up natural relations with females and burned with lust for one another. Males did shameful things with males and thus received in their own persons the due penalty for their perversity." (Romans 1:27) "Jephthah made a vow to the Lord. 'If you deliver the Ammonites into my power,' he said, 'whoever comes out of the doors of my house to meet me when I return in triumph from the Ammonites shall belong to the Lord. I shall offer him up as a holocaust.' ... When Jephthah returned to his house in Mizpah, it was his daughter who came forth, playing the tambourines and dancing. She was an only child: he had neither son nor daughter besides her. When he saw her, he rent his garments and said, 'Alas, daughter, you have struck me down and brought calamity upon me. For I have made a vow to the Lord and I cannot retract'." (Judges 11:30-1, 34-5) "Then God said: 'Take your son Isaac, your only one, whom you love, and go to the land of Moriah. There you shall offer him up as a holocaust on a height that I will point out to you'."(Genesis 22:2) "Wives should be subordinate to their husbands as to the Lord." (Ephesians 5:22) "Slaves, be subject to your masters with all reverence, not only to those who are good and equitable but also to those who are perverse." (1 Peter 2:18) . . . Poch Suzara

The Holy Bible as the Best Seller Book in the World

The Bible has been corrupted, altered, edited, revised, tampered, issued, corrected, changed, modified, and re-issued. I asked it before, I ask it again: - what's been happening as well to the Truth revealed in the bible? In the meantime, It is truly amazing that the Holy Bible has always been and still is the best seller book in the world... What, however, is even more amazing is that the Holy Bible is also the most unread book by the religiously frightened Saps of this world... Poch Suzara Facebook# Google# Twitter#

If Jesus Was God - The Savior of the World

If Jesus was God - the Savior of the world, then who was he praying to on the cross when he cried our loud:, "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me"? ( Mark 15:34; Matthew 27:46) Was he praying to himself? If so, was he complaining to himself about why he had forsaken himself? Whatever happened to the power of prayer? How come it did not work for Jesus? But then again, if Jesus was God and he very well knew that after His death on the cross, He will resurrect back to life after three days, why would He feel forsaken by His relatives on earth as they were in heaven? . . . Poch Suzara Goodgle# Twitter# Facebook# Atheists#

God is Great or Greater or the Greatest

Never, will you ever find a dead Christian, or a dead Muslim, or a dead Jew in a foxhole who didn't pray. . . What, in fact, you will never find in a foxhole is a dead atheist... Atheists do not kill other atheists in war; only the theists kill each other in order to prove that the Christian God is great, or the Muslim Allah is greater, or the Jewish Yahweh is the greatest... Poch Suzara Facebook# Twitter# Google# Atheists#