Is There Hope for the Philippines

Is there hope for the Filipinos in the Philippines to ever grow decent as a people; and, to ever develop decent as a nation?

Yes, there is! As soon as the State takes over to be in full control of schools, colleges, and Universities. Indeed, the Church should have no business in anyway whatsoever involved with the system of education in any country.  After all, nothing distorts the minds and nothing contorts the hearts of children in school taught, nay, frightened to believe in a lot of sick religious dogma, pigma, and hogma!- Poch Suzara

Health and Wealth and the Search of the Truth

We squander our health, in search of wealth. We toil, we sweat, and we save. Then we squander our wealth in search of health; only 

to find the grave. - - - Anonymous

As with me, however, I have been most fortunate. I squandered both my health and wealth in search of the truth. It is a never-ending adventure; and in the process I managed, somehow, to discover the lies and deceptions that's keeping us spiritually sick as a people; and, keeping us morally insane as a nation. In sharing, however, my discoveries with others - I never intended to be vicious or malicious; in fact, I thought, I should be ethically meritorious, if not philosophically courageous. In the meantime, the search of 

the truth is the most delightful of adventures. Especially as it means total submission of the power of reason to the mutilation of silly or childish faith. Rightly or wrongly it's the best way to enjoy lively analysis as we should always reject the uselessness of deadly paralysis! - - - Poch Suzara

Religion a "Dying Dinosaur" - a Great Letter

Religion a ‘dying dinosaur’

Philippine Daily Inquirer / 12:12 AM February 09, 2017

This is in reference to the commentary titled “Will we ever attain economic take-off?” by Meliton Juanico (Opinion, 1/25/17).

The Catholic Church and the religious values it espouses are the elephants in the room that Juanico failed to address. The conditions necessary to attain economic take-off are not being attained because the values being taught are contrary to the “modern values” he is talking about.

We have nothing comparable to the Confucian (secular) ethic that he says the “tiger” economies of Taiwan, Singapore, South Korea and Hong Kong have. Our historical preoccupation with religion and the Church’s influence on our values have put us at a disadvantage. Obedience, subordination, subservience—hallmarks of oppressive organized religion—are the very antithesis of modern economic success.

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It is no accident that we make good retail clerks, caregivers, domestic helpers, call center employees. These are good and needed workers, but they won’t create a Samsung, a Tesla or a PayPal if we are constantly being bombarded with sinning, fear-mongering, fire and brimstone. I have never understood to this day why “may takot sa Dios” (fear of the Lord) is a virtue. A child reared in this stifling environment becomes risk-averse, timid and ambiguous.

Further, absolutism and fixed religious ideology are a bane to creativity. Self-reliance and resourcefulness continue to erode as we constantly delude ourselves into “Hail Marying” through economic downturn and poverty. You would think that after 500 years of living, breathing and eating religion the way we do, it should have already brought us unprecedented wealth and First World status.

We can’t even claim the high moral stature of the most atheistic countries in the world (read: Scandinavia). My friend Joe says: But we go to heaven, and they go to hell. This is what 2,000 years of relentless conditioning have done to Joe’s brain. It’s irrational, bordering on mental illness.

Juanico talks about “value reorientation,” using readers of the 1950s to inculcate modern values. I don’t know where he is coming from, but my grandchildren won’t read any fairy tales anymore. It’s iPad or nothing. They are assertive and smarter than some of my teachers in the 1960s.

Good grief, Juanico, “Good Manners and Right Conduct?” What is good and what is right today? (You can say “bad” today and mean “good.”) Religion is a dying dinosaur, but like prehistoric creatures, it will evolve and continue for many more years.

The pulpit should be a source of education for the masses, and not for religious bullying. Stop all nonsense about medieval mythology. Talk about what it means to be a citizen of the world instead. Speak about Carl Sagan, Charles Darwin and Bill Gates. Let the faithful know what happened during the Inquisition, the significance of the Enlightenment and tell why Evolution is fact. If the Padre cannot handle these stuff, he should humble himself and outsource the homily.

At the current state of affairs in this country, will we attain economic take-off? Yes, “until the cows come home,” if we don’t reinvent ourselves.

EDWIN DE LEON, edwingdeleon@gmail.com

COMMENT:

Indeed, we can only build a better society for ourselves by throwing all of sick religious beliefs and insane religious values out the window. They do nothing for us except to keep us spiritually sick as a people and culturally insane as a nation.

It is time to take a serious look at the evils behind Christianity:  It is all about praying daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly for the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. In the end, it is all about the same old sick story - the achievement of nothing as a people; and the accomplishment of nothing as a nation. And to think that all of the schools, colleges, and universities established by the Catholic church in the Philippines have been mostly about learning how to pray for the sake of gaining eternal salvation after death with Jesus in heaven! In the meantime, it is truly sickening: everybody wants to go to heaven; but nobody wants to die! Cheers! Poch Suzara, Father of Atheism in the Philippines

                                                                                         

The Human Capacity for human Stupidity

For my part, I say, the greatest tragedy of the human race is in its capacity to still believe in the silly existence of a silly grace who is suppose to be existing as something of a divine grace for the human race. - - - Poch Suzara

Religion like a Disease is always an Evil, Never a Good thing

Religion is not a good thing because the majority of people believe it. It is just like believing that a disease is a good thing because the majority of people have caught it. Or just like the existence of Santa Claus is a good thing because the majority of children believe him to be coming soon bringing toys for them to play with.

As with me, I grew up to be an atheist because even as a little boy at home or in school - I enjoyed playing around

not only with my toys, but mostly with my thoughts! Even

at the risk of being punished for asking questions! Such as

if there is a God who created me why do I need to have parents at home, teachers in school, or need to have priests in church?

                                                        Poch Suzara

An Agnostic was Once as Atheist

"The only thing I know about God is that God is inscrutable. In other words, I don’t know a single thing about God. I’m clueless about what God is. Maybe Jesus, or the other historical figures around which religions had been built, would be more approachable. But God itself, being on a divine level, I think it’s just impermeable to human intelligence. And there is a very famous classical book called The Cloud of Unknowing. There’s always a cloud of unknowing over God. I think that, since God is inaccessible to people, we tend to portray Him in anthropomorphic terms. We think of the best qualities in every person and you try and project it on a giant scale on God. So in effect, God is a man-made concept. We have no clue what God is."

"I do not understand why God can be all love and still inflict this kind of pain on people. This God is an underachiever. He does not do whatever he is supposed to be doing, whatever his sex is. Whether he's an it or a she or a he or whatever. But I'm sure that if you were a god or if I were the God, I would be doing a better job. Therefore, the only conclusion can be that possibly, God does not exist.'" ---Senator Miriam Defensor Santiago

The Alter of Secrets - Sex, Politics, Money, and corruption Inside the Catholic Church in the Philippines

I highly recommend that you all read this book:

Altar of Secrets : Sex, Politics, and Money in the Philippine Catholic Church

by Aries C. Rufo, Marites Dañguilan Vitug (Introduction)

 

"Altar of Secrets: Sex, Politics, and Money in the Philippine Catholic Church is the first of its kind in the country. Journalist Aries C. Rufo shows a Church that is cloaked in secrecy. It keeps the wrongdoing of its bishops and priests - in sexual misconduct and financial mismanagement - within its confines and lets them get away, unpunished. Accountability, after all, is not a strong suit of the Church. Rufo also delves into how the Church influences policy, as nowhere among Catholic countries in the world is the Church deeply involved in the shaping of policy than in the Philippines. Overall, reforms are taking place, but these are highly dependent on the Church leaders, the bishops who try to change mindsets and systems."  Poch Suzara, Father of

 Atheism in the Philippines

How Does One Travel After Death

After birth, you can travel to a foreign country by air on a plane; or, by sea on a ship.

After death, however, by what means of transportation do you embark on to travel to meet with God and his saints in heaven; or, to travel to meet with Satan and his sinners in hell? - - - Poch Suzara

Phil Star, Ninoy Aquino, Jose Rizal, and Poch Suzara

"Christ showed His love by dying for us; show ours by living for Him. - Phil Star, Jan. 17, 2017

I said it before, I say it again: the day we are born is the day we begin to live in a dying body. So, what's the big deal about Christ dying for any one?

Ninoy Aquino said: "The Filipino is worth dying for." I say, isn't the Filipino much more worthy by thinking for? What the fuck is a dead Filipino good for?

Look at our Jose Rizal, already dead more than 120 years. In 1896 he was arrested, incarcerated, and publicly executed for being  the greatest freethinker that the Philippines has ever produced. He was put to death by the greatest of evil still well-established with great power, great glory, and great authority in the Philippines. She is historically known as

"The Catholic church." The church that's keeping us Filipinos historically poor and frightened as a people; and, keeping the Philippines culturally backward and unenlightened nation.

Today, in this already 21st century, college educated Filipinos are still arguing back and forth whether Rizal, before he was publicly executed to death, - RETRACTED.

 

And millions of college educated Filipinos are shocked with me because I am more interested in challenging the evil - CHRISTIANITY - that got Rizal removed out of our minds and hearts as a people. Especially via a sick system of education as school, colleges, and universities, are mostly owned and operated, or still under the control of Catholicism in the Philippines. Poch Suzara

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Our Sick City Mayors all with College Education

"The Commission on human rights (CHR): Narco-mayors are innocent until proven guilty."-Phil Star, 1/13/2017

Our cities are among the dirtiest, filthiest, messiest, rampant with prostitution, gambling casinos, pollution infested with graft,  deception, and corruption. Famous for their slum areas as they places where squatters live.  Indeed, our cities are crime-ridden. but the mayors of such sick cities are all not only Maka-Dios and Maka-Jesus, but also all with college education proud of broken roads, causing traffic mess. Proud of the street children who eat, sleep, beg, pee, poo, and play in the streets for the glory of Jesus in heaven. Our city mayors are innocent of WHAT until proven they are guilty of WHAT?  Mga Ulol! Gising Na! - - - Poch Suzara

Our Own Big Bullies

"Disrespect invites disrespect. Violence incites violence. When the powerful use their position to bully others, we all lose." - Merryl Streep

If I may add, in the Philippines, we all learned to be the losers as a people and to be the failures as a nation. Our biggest bullies were neither our classmates nor our schoolmates; they were our own sick teachers in school. - Poch Suzara
                            

Truth Revealed in the Bible

Truth is defined by one source as “sincerity in action, character, and utterance." Perhaps the most famous verse about truth in the Bible is what Jesus said “… I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.” (John 14:6) So Jesus is truth and Jesus is also the Word (John 1:1, 14).  As Christians we believe that every word in the Bible is true; this is the foundation upon which we live our lives. Knowing what the Bible says about truth and hiding God’s word in our heart helps us to know when we are listening to the Voice 

of Truth. Here are examples of truth about women's vagina as revealed in the holy bible -

1 Corinthians 6:18 

Flee from sexual immorality. Every other sin a person commits is outside the body, but the sexually immoral person sins against his own body.

Genesis 1:28 

And God blessed them. And God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”

Ezekiel 36:17 

“Son of man, when the house of Israel lived in their own land, they defiled it by their ways and their deeds. Their ways before me were like the uncleanness of a woman in her menstrual impurity.

Song of Solomon 7:1-4; 8-9

Women's vaginas taste like "wine."

Here is a truthful example of the beliefs and values of Moses - one of God's most beloved characters in

the bible.

Moses who told his army generals: “Now, therefore, kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman that hath known a man by lying with him; but all women-children, that have not known a man by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves.” Numbers 31:17-18 - Poch Suzara

Dear President Duterte

“We are neither exhausted by praying constantly nor do we ever falter in expressing our religious fervor,” he said. “Despite the passage of time, we relentlessly fight against injustice and lies, abuse of power and the corruption that eats up the soul.” - - - President Duterte

                                                                                                                Phil Star, Jan. 10, 2017

                                                                                                                         

Dear President Duterte,

       Please take a closer look at our schools, colleges, and universities: they are places where we Filipinos learn not how to love our country, but only how to hate it. Places where we Learn not how to be enlightened leaders; or, how be bright thinkers; but only how to be frightened as followers; or, how to be sick and childish as believers. Indeed, they are place where we learn how to be corrupt, selfish, greedy, sick, and insane down here; specially for the greater glory of Jesus in heaven up there. Also, they are places were we are taught to believe in a God who

has the power to forgive our sins and crimes at any time or place; and even more wonderful attached to the arrangement - we can repeat the horror of sins and the terror of crimes over and over again in order to take advantage of God's great doctrine of eternal salvation

after death.

Indeed, we Filipinos are all born ignorant, not insane. We are made insane by an insane 

system of education. We can clearly see the insane results all around us in our insane society. Generated by our insane politicians in government as always blessed and in partner with the insane theologians behind the church; especially as the churches are the real owners and operators of schools, colleges, and universities in the Philippines - the only Christian country  

in Asia since the 16th century. 

                                                                                     Sincerely, 

                                                                                  Poch Suzara

DILG Seeking Donors for rehap Centers

 

DILG seeking donors for Rehap centers. - Phil Star, Jan 6, 2017

May I suggest to those directors of DILG to ask the bishops of the catholic church to donate many of its empty churches and cathedrals established throughout the Philippines? That they be more useful as churches converted into rehap centers for the drug addicts to reform and learn to become useful citizens of the Republic of the Philippines?

After which to once more be converted into housing facilities for the millions of poor and sick Filipinos who are homeless in our poor

and sick country! - Poch Suzara

                                              

Poch Suzara and Confucius

In the world -

Ordinary minds talk about people.

Average minds talk about events.

Great minds talk about ideas.  - - - Confucius

In the Philippines -

Ordinary minds talk about Catholicism.

Average minds talk about Satanism

Great minds talk about Atheism. - - - Poch Suzara

Lies Revealed in the Bible Thanks to Bishop John Shelby Spong

The Bible has lost every major battle it has ever fought.

The Bible was quoted to defend slavery and the bible lost. The Bible was quoted to keep women silent, and the Bible lost. And the Bible is being quoted to deny homosexuals

their equal rights, and the Bible will lose. - - - John Shelby Spong

The bible has also revealed that "the fools says in his heart, "There is no Good." They are corrupt, they do abominable deeds, there is none who does good." Psalm 14:1

Oh my dear Bishop Spong, atheism is a worldwide movement today without sick and frightened followers.  We atheists are all courageous and enlightened leaders of our own destiny in life. I myself am the proud Father of Atheism in the Philippines - the only Catholic country in Asia since the 16th century.

Also my dear Bishop Spong, thank you for writing WHY CHRISTIANITY MUST CHANGE OR DIE. It is one of  the great book that I have judiciously read 20 years ago and this great book is still a great part of my home  library today. With all best wishes always, Poch Suzara

There are about 3 million Filipinos is the USA, and, we are the second largest Asian-American, to the Chinese Americans in population.. If we put our acts together, we can become politically powerful. Our political affiliation must be adjusted, considering the imbalance, which is Democrats, -70 percent and Republicans, 30 percent. Is here racism in politics?

I hope you will have a prosperous 2017.
Best regards.
Ernie

Dear Ernie,

For most of my life I lived as I was born, raised, and educated in the Philippines. I also lived and worked in the USA for some 20 years and I also got to be a US citizen.

Sorry to say but we Filipinos living in the Philippines, nor the 3 million Filipinos living and working in the USA could never put our act together as Filipinos because to begin with we Filipinos have been educated to love only God up there by hating one another down here. Indeed, as products of a catholic system of education, we Filipinos could only to be famous as the Sick Man of Asia or be existing as a sick people in America.

Cheers!
Poch Suzara

Why I am Angry as I am an Atheist

I am angry atheist because of what Christianity has done to my people and to my country.

We Filipinos are nothing but sick as a people, and nothing but backward as a nation.

We all have been taught to believe that there is nothing precious in this life existing terrestrially in the here and now; there is only something heavenly later with the pie in the sky later by and by after death.

Indeed, everything is a dismal failure with us Filipinos in the Philippines; except religion in its churches and cathedrals and in its schools, colleges, and universities - religion has always been and still is a great financial success!

Consider the horrors with millions upon millions of us Filipinos in this already 21st century: we still do believe and have faith in the message revealed as the truth in the holy bible: "Love not the world, neither the things that are in 

the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him." 1 John 2:15

Thus, our traditional Christian approach to nature has been a major contributing factor to ecological destruction. The belief that there is 

a better world to come after death has led to our disregard even of our natural of resources. We believe instead that the only things of true value are those found with Jesus in heaven. Our country, our people and nature and the flesh - we see as low and depraved and unworthy and therefore should be of no consequence to life coming in the next life. Our country is merely a stopover on our journey to the next world with God in heaven. Therefore the less love and less respect placed on it and more love and more respect placed on God and religion the better our chances to win eternal salvation with Jesus in the next world. We therefore have better, higher, and wiser path toward eternal salvation if we all love God up there by hating one another down here!

In the meantime, I am told by my enemies, friends, associates, and relatives that as an angry atheist I am full of hate. Indeed, I am full of hate and proud of it. After all, in our sick country, when it comes to the evils of religion, we are way way ahead of everybody in poverty; especially poverty of the worst kind - the poverty of heart and mind.  - - - Poch Suzara 

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DEAR POCH,

THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR ADMITTING TO EVERY ONE IN THIS FORUM WHY YOU ARE ANGRY AND HATING.  I HOPE AT THIS POINT EVERYONE NOW UNDERSTANDS WHERE YOU ARE COMING FROM. 

I CAN UNDERSTAND YOUR PASSIONATE DESIRE FOR A CHANGE PHILIPPINES AND ITS PEOPLE BUT RELIGION (CATHOLICISM, IN PARTICULAR) IS IN THE SUBCONSCIOUS MIND, BODY, BLOOD AND THE WHOLE PERSONALITY OF PINOYS.  PHILIPPINES SHOULD NOT CALL THIS NAME, IT SHOULD BE CALLED THE CATHOLIC NATION AND ITS PEOPLE. 

WHAT A SHAME !!!  POCH, DIABLO ANG DUMAPO SA PINAS !!!  DI NATIN KAYANG PALAYASIN SI SATANAS KASI, PAG AARI NA NI SATANAS ANG MGA PINOYS, KASAMA NA TAYO.  NASA KABUTUBUTUAN ANG CATHOLIC RELIGION SA MGA PINOYS.  ANG KABUTIHAN DI NILA TAYO PINAPATAY LALU NA ANG MGA ATHEISTS NA GAYA MO.  ALL WE CAN DO IS CONTINUE TELLING WHAT HAD HAPPENED AND STILL HAPPENING WITH THE NEW GENERATION OF PINOYS BECAUSE OF CATHOLICISM.

AGAIN, THANKS A MILLION FOR LETTING EVERYONE KNOW HOW MUCH YOU ARE ANGRY AND HATING.

helen

Jesus Christ in the Philippines Since the 16th century

“I myself am the bread of life. No one who comes to me shall ever be hungry. No one who believes in me shall ever thirst." - - -  John 6:35, Philippine Star, Dec. 23, 2016

Too bad millions of Filipinos, specially street children, are hungry and thirsty because they do not come to; nor do they believe in Christ. To think that the Philippines has been and still is faithfully the only Christian country in Asia since the 16^th century. - - - Poch Suzara

There are Less Christians in this world

Christ came as a high priest of the good things to come. Hebrews 9:11

However or whatever the case may be, in view of the fact that there exist more non-Christians than Christians in this world, 
Christ was a failure as a high priests and a loser of the things to come.

In the meantime, there was a time where everybody in this world believed in Jesus.  Historians referred to that time known as the Dark Ages!  - - - Poch Suzara