CORRUPTION IS ROOTED AT OUR SICK SYSTEM OF EDUCATION

Philippine Daily Inquirer Letter to the Editors January 6, 2015 Dear Editors, CORRUPTION HERE, there and everywhere in our corrupt society? We should seriously look at our corrupt system of education. It is where our corrupt way of life is rooted at. Indeed, we are all born innocent, not corrupt. We are made corrupt by the power of education. Let's take a closer look at De La Salle University, Ateneo, San Beda, UST, UP, Assumption College, Philippine Military Academy, Adamson, Mapua, PWU, Miriam, Letran, Lyceum, AIM, Don Bosco, FEU, UE, etc, etc. To begin with, they are commercial enterprises, hardly educational. Such educational commercialism produces corrupt government officials; corrupt military generals; corrupt doctors, lawyers and judges; corrupt teachers and professors; corrupt economist, corrupt taxpayers, corrupt tax collectors, corrupt bookkeepers; corrupt policemen, corrupt fire inspectors; corrupt city engineers; corrupt investigators; not to mention those daily blessed by God -the corrupt priests who are still selling a worthless product known as that better life to come after death. They do so by teaching us how to be morally bankrupt with this life after birth. Indeed, we are still faithfully buying what they are faithfully selling. However, at a very dear price to pay: the mindless surrender of the self via the mutilation of the intellect. Look how in this only Christian country in Asia we are all educated to love not our country; but to love only a divinity up there; especially by being corrupt against each other down here! Look how all of our sins against God and our crimes against our society are easily forgivable, if not profitably pardonable by those corrupt who have the power to corrupt. Ah, yes, blessed are those who are corrupt for they shall inherit wealth, power and glory. Thus, instead of growth and maturity on the one hand, and social sanity and human decency on the other, there is only more of the same, historical mockery. This, in order to support and maintain our eternal love for the unknown, the concealed, the fabulous, the incredible, the mysterious to that which is clear, simple, decent and true. In the meantime, life in general in the Philippines can be characterized as the daily, weekly, monthly and yearly competition to be corrupt or be the sick victim of those who are already even more corrupt. Again, take a serious look at the only book that is holy in our corrupt way of life - the Holy Bible. The Bible teaches us to love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man loves the world, the love of the Father is not with him.? (1 John 2:15) For my part, I thank God I no longer belong to a religious group. I am no longer ecclesiastic. I'd rather be a Filipino proud of being more at home by being atheistic. POCH SUZARA, Twitter# Facebook# Google#

I am a Lucky Atheist in the Philippines

I am told that I am a lucky atheist because I live in the Philippines and not in a Muslim country... As an openly-avowed and publicly declared atheist my head would have already been chopped off if I live in a Muslim country... No kidding? What about Dr. Jose Rizal who lived in the Philippines? How come the Catholic church with its power, wealth, glory, and authority had him arrested, incarcerated, and publicly executed not for being an atheist, but for exposing via writing the lies and deceptions of the Catholic priesthood industry in the Philippines? Poch Suzara Twitter# Facebook# Google#

God only Always Omni-Absent

Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." John 14:6 Oh Jesus, my dear Jesus, we have no need to go through you. We can go straight to God. After all, God, the Father, is existing here, existing there, and existing everywhere! However, for my part, ever since my grade school years in La Salle some 65 years ago, I never felt God to be omni-present. To me, God has always been only omni-absent! Today, in my senior years, God is still busy playing the HIDE and SEEK games. He is, as yet, no where to be found! Despite what I am always being told:, God exists there. God exists everywhere. But God has yet to exist where it matters; where is counts: right here in the here and now. But God, Oh God, where are you? In the Meantime, a belief cannot be true here but false there. If a belief were false anywhere, it is false everywhere. Contradict yourself and you are sure to be wrong. Not giving importance for deadly contradiction is the same thing as not giving importance for serious communication that delivers lively confirmation. We unbelievers of the faith know what we are talking about. The believers of the faith, however, do not even know what “knowing” means. We unbelievers do enjoy the flexibility of intellectuality. The believers are only always stuck in the fixity of a falsity especially as they believe that human stupidity has some connection with infinity as inspired by the mystery of a silly divinity. Poch Suzara Twitter# Facebook# Google#

A Cynic

A cynic is just a man who found out when he was ten that there wasn't any Santa claus, and he is still upset... J.G. Cozzens ... Oh My dear J.G. Cozzens, this is not as horrible as when children learn in Catholic schools that there is a Santa Claus and it continues to inspire them to live for the rest of their lives as faithful Catholic because eventually Santa Claus will soon be coming to town... Poch Suzara Twitter# Facebook# Google#

Filthy Rich

For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? - Mark 8:36 . . . For my part, I asked it before, I ask it again: For what shall it profit a man, if, indeed, he has become so filthy rich; but his wife and sons and daughters have all turned out to be so filthy stupid not only with money, not only with alcohol, not only with drugs, not only with their purchased cheap spouses, but also so filthy stupid when it comes to a sense of decency for humanity, but faith only in a stupid divinity? I should know. One of my relatives married one such sick criminal who got to be filthy rich together with his sick friends - the equally filthy rich politicians as high officials of the Philippine government! ... Poch Suzara Twitter# Facebook# Google#

The Art of Fucking Against the Art of Thinking

Schools, Colleges, and universities are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed... Robert G. Ingersoll ... In the Philippines, schools, colleges, and universities are places where we learn how to earn a living. In this way, we may enjoy, in life, the art of FUCKING. Hardly, however, are such places, educational enough, where they teach the art of THINKING; so that in life, we may enjoy even more the necessity of solving problems with even more THINKING... Poch Suzara... Twitter# Facebook# Google#

The Power of Thought

All that a man achieves and all that he fails to achieve is the direct result of his own thoughts... James Allen... Oh, my dear James Allen, sadly and painfully, in Catholic schools, colleges, and universities in the Philippines - the first order of the day is not to enliven, but to deaden our thoughts with prayers. Specially for the glory NOT of our country down here, but only for the glory of sick divinity  up there! . . . Poch Suzara Twitter# Facebook# Google#

Defrock the Priesthood Industry in the Philippines

On Wednesday, 5 February 2014, 20:31, "MarPatalinjug@aol.com" wrote: Click here: Rock the boat | Inquirer Opinion NY, 05 February 2014 Here is Conrado de Quiroz's column, "Rock the boat," in The Inquirer today. Mr. de Quiroz, let me just point out, is not a "Communist." But he can distinguish a good Christian like Pope Francis and Cardinal Tagle and a bad one like CBCP head SOCRATES VILLEGAS. Bishop Socrates Villegas, the "Neanderthal" head of the "Neanderthal" organization like the Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines, is seething with anger over a Rolling Stone magazine article supposedly praising Pope Francis, "at the expense of Pope Benedict." It is Catholic priests like Socrates Villegas who has given Christianity a very bad or smelly name! He is as conservative as it gets--Catholic dogma-ridden if you will--and is clearly one of those whom Pope Francis castigates as OBSESSING ON ABORTION, CONTRACEPTION AND GAY MARRIAGE. And he is probably one of those six Catholic bishops who had no problem contributing to CORRUPTION in the Philippines by asking the corrupt PRESIDENT GLORIA MACAPAGAL-ARROYO for the SUV "Pajero," each costing several million pesos. One can only hope that when Pope Francis visits the Philippines, he will know how corrupt many Catholic priests and bishops are--and does the right thing by DEFROCKING ALL OF THEM WITHOUT MUCH ADO OR CEREMONY. Mariano Patalinjug MarPatalinjug@aol.com Dear Mar Patalinjug, If Pope francis eliminates by defrocking all the Catholic priests, nuns, bishops, cardinals out of business in the Philippines - I will reconsider being a member of the Catholic church once again. I MEAN IT! Poch Suzara, Atheist, ex-Catholic . . . Twitter# Facebook# Google#

The Faults Found in Religion

Remember that you aren't the only person who has found fault with their religion... People throughout history have looked critically at their religious beliefs and found fault... If you have issues and problems, then look at them honestly, with the notion that you will not be punished for trying to find what you truly believe... If your beliefs are valid, then they will stand up to scrutiny... Most of the religions that have ever been, have gone extinct... You would be hard pressed to find people worshiping Thor or Quetzalcoatl... Take a hard look at why you don't believe in Thor, or Rah, or Zeus... Would you be Islamic, Christian, or Jewish if you where raised in Iran, Mississippi, or Israel?... As with me, among other many great issues I have against the Christian religion, this is the greatest I have looked into with honesty, guts, and gumption: The trouble with God is that HE is only always existing THERE and always existing EVERYWHERE; but never, has God ever existed in the HERE and NOW... In brief, I find it utterly ridiculous, if not sadly ludicrous, that God is never OMNI-PRESENT; only always OMNI-ABSENT. . . Poch Suzara Twitter# Facebook# Google#

As an Atheist, I Have No Need to Serve Two Masters on this Earth

"No one can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and wealth." . . . Jesus in Matthew 6:24 ... Oh Jesus, my dear Jesus, as a Filipino, I do not hate; on the contrary, I love wealth - the greatest of which is the wealth of a free mind and a free heart! As an atheist, I am the master of my own destiny in life... Why should I still bother to serve you by playing silly games with your silly greedy church earning nothing but the wealth in money and more money on this earth; especially as the owner of the millions of Filipino minds and hearts and as the owner of the Catholic Republic of the Philippines? ... Not to mention the owner of more than a thousand Catholic schools, colleges, and universities operating tax-free basis in the Philippines... Poch Suzara Twitter# Facebook# Google#

We Filipinos Are Not allowed to be Christians According to the Holy Bible

“Now when they had gone throughout Phrygia and the region of Galatia, and were forbidden of the Holy Ghost to preach the word in Asia," ... Acts 16:6... Hey you religious faithfools, how come you people do not even know that according to the Holy Ghost in the holy bible we Filipinos are not allowed to be Christians in Asia? . . . Come on you frightened faithfools, when will you people begin to seriously read the HOLY BIBLE and begin to understand that the Holy Ghost in the holy bible never gave 3 hoots for us Asians be converted from a healthy sanity into sick Christianity.. . . I don't know about you weirdos. I will 77 in April, 2014, and for me to still believe in the existence of a HOLY GHOST now more referred to as the HOLY SPIRIT in this day and age is rather childish, ticklish, and foolish, if not utterly silly and freakish.. . . Poch Suzara Twitter# Facebook# Google#

The Philippines Should Learn From China

In China, for the sake of growth as a people, and development as a nation, the journey of a thousand miles begin with the first step. Together in unity under atheism... In the Philippines, for the sake of being losers as a people, and  for being failures as a nation, the journey of one mile begins with a thousand steps. On each other. Especially as inspired by a divinity for the sake of our silly values and silly beliefs under silly Christianity... Poch Suzara ... Twitter# Facebook# Google#

Utterly Childish, Totally Useless Prayers

Many college educated Filipinos with doctorates and master's degree still pray. From infancy to senility they continue to believe in the power of prayer. Unfortunately, God - the Father, could not answer the prayer of the son of God Jesus - Indeed, the same Jesus who, crucified on the cross, prayed out loud: My God, My God, why hast thou forsaken me? Well, as a self-expelled La Salle high school student, I asked: why couldn’t Jesus as a God himself, answer His own prayer? Jesus was obviously just bragging to high heavens when He declared: “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.” Poor Jesus, the Son of God, a gang of no read, no write, superstitious primitives ( created in the image and likeness of His Father God ) managed to get Jesus crucified on a piece of wood? John 14:6. I said it before, I say it again: The existence of hospitals prove that prayers are utterly useless. As a matter of fact, if prayers work, we must pray harder for more hospitals, especially mental asylums, to be established throughout the Philippines. We need such facilities to hospitalize and help cure the Sick Man of Asia such as our sick men and sick women in congress and in the Senate who has never cease to brag that they are all Maka-dios and Maka-Jesus. Imagine these people in this already 21st century. They still believe that the health and wealth and the general promotions of Filipino decency throughout the Philippines as a nation can only be a reality as soon as the Son of God Jesus from heaven will return back to earth! Hijos de tootie-frootie y patooties Conio! Gising na! Maga ULOL! Poch Suzara

Hate Your Family. Hate Humanity. Hate Your Country. Just Love Jesus

"Do not suppose that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I did not come to bring peace, but a sword." ... Jesus in Matthew 10:34... “If anyone comes to me and does not hate father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters—yes, even their own life—such a person cannot be my disciple. ... Jesus in Luke 14:26... So sorry my dear Jesus, as an atheist, I refuse to hate my father and mother and hate sisters and hate my wife and children and hate my own life also in order to be your disciple. No way Jesus! Over my dead body! Despite defects and imperfections, I love my family, my country and the whole of humanity. Call it the real "holy spirit" in me! ... Poch Suzara in Feb. 2, 2014 Twitter# Facebook# Google#

21 reasons Why I Abandoned Christianity

21 Reasons why I abandoned Christianity... Christianity is based on fear... Christianity preys on the innocent... Christianity is based on dishonesty... Christianity is extremely egocentric... Christianity breeds arrogance, a chosen-people mentality... Christianity breeds authoritarianism... Christianity is cruel... Christianity is anti-intellectual, anti-scientific... Christianity has a morbid, unhealthy preoccupation with sex... Christianity produces sexual misery... Christianity has an exceedingly narrow, legalistic view of morality... Christianity encourages acceptance of real evils while focusing on imaginary evils... Christianity depreciates the natural world... Christianity models hierarchical, authoritarian organization... Christianity sanctions slavery... Christianity is misogynistic... Christianity is homophobic... Christianity and its Bible is not a reliable guide to Christ's teachings... Christianity and its Bible is riddled with contradictions and absurdities... Christianity borrowed its central myths and ceremonies from other ancient religions... Christianity arrested, incarcerated, and public executed one of my Intellectual fathers - Jose Rizal... If any of you wish to know the details of any one of the above reasons, let me know... I'd be happy to supply you the horror for your attention... Poch Suzara, Twitter# Facebook# Google#

My Dear Senator Rene Saguisag,

My Dear Senator Rene Saguisag,“ It is the duty and responsibility of every thinking man to always be on the side of the living, not of the dying. Indeed, to always courageously be on the side of humanity, and not frightened of a silly divinity. We atheists have no problem with death. We simply die sober, and not drunk with lies or deceptions or with consuelitos para los bobos! Cheers! Poch Suzara

If There is a God

Those who feel nobly, even if in their day they live obscurely, need not fear that they will have lived in vain... Something radiates from their lives, some light that shows the way to their friends, their neighbors, perhaps to long future ages... I find many men nowadays oppressed with a feeling that in the vastness of modern societies there is nothing of importance that the individual can do... This is a mistake. The individual, if he is filled with love of mankind, with breadth of vision, with courage and with endurance, can do a great deal... Bertrand Russell.. For my part, I said it before, I say it again: if there is a God, his name should be spelled BERTRAND RUSSELL... Poch Suzara Twitter# Facebook# Google#

A Library is not just a Library

“Congratulations on the new library, because it isn’t just a library... It is a space ship that will take you to the farthest reaches of the Universe, a time machine that will take you to the far past and the far future, a teacher that knows more than any human being, a friend that will amuse you and console you—and most of all, a gateway, to a better and happier and more useful life.” ... Isaac Asimov. . . Oh, my dear Isaac Asimov, had you been one of my teachers in La Salle grade school, never would I have ever planned to eventually get myself expelled out of that sick rotten mess more referred to as a school- a place of learning. . . . Poch Suzara Facebook# Twitter# Google#

A thorough Knowledge of the Bible

A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education... Theodore Roosevelt. . . Oh my dear Theodore Roosevelt, you are, 100 per cent, right on target... As an expelled high school student of some 65 years ago, I began to read books, especially those banned books we were not allowed to read such as the holy bible... As an avid reader, however, gradually, creatively and joyfully, I ended up to be an atheist as Isaac Asimov truthfully said it: “Properly read, the Bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived.” . . . Poch Suzara Twitter# Facebook# Google#

Oh Yes, I am an Atheist

When I told the people of Northern Ireland that I was an atheist, a woman in the audience stood up and said, 'Yes, but is it the God of the Catholics or the God of the Protestants in whom you don't believe? ... Quentin Crisp ... My dear Quentin Crisp, when I tell the religiously frightened saps and college-educated jerks here in our sick society that I am atheist, they say that I am not... That I am only pretending to be a an atheist... As a matter of fact, I refuse to believe that there is a God existing behind any of the great religions of the world... Especially the God existing behind Catholicism in the Philippines. No way! Over my dead body will I believe in such superstitious nonsense... I said it before, I say it again and again: I have no need to believe in your lesser God because I already believe in something greater - my family, my country, and the whole of humanity. Poch Suzara Twitter# Facebook# Google#