On Raising Children

Raising children in the Philippines is just like raising pigs, chicken and cows: without regard to moral and intellectual capacity. Despite the increasing complexity of raising children for a happy, creative, and productive life, the task of parenthood remains in the hands of couples quite devoid of parental qualifications. There are colleges courses offered on how to raise pigs, chickens and cows in our universities, but none on how to properly raise children. There are millions of malnourished children in the Philippines today. They are abused – physically, emotionally, sexually, and economically. Not to mention poor prenatal and postnatal nutrition adversely have affected the functions of their brains. Let us not forget that our congressmen, senators, and theologians of today, not to mention college professors - were once Filipino children. I ask: Why should these children honor their mother and father? Suppose parents are selfish, greedy, stupid, and insane? Should children honor them? Honor is not something to be given. It must be earned. Parents who wish to be respected must behave so as to elicit respect. But what if parents were weak or degenerate or criminally negligent? Should children honor them? Copulation requires no especial strength of character. No high intelligence is required for a husband to impregnate his wife or lover. Consider the physical position that a man and woman must assume in order to multiply and replenish the earth. It has got to be one of the most ridiculous positions ever concocted by would-be mothers and would-be fathers. Yet, when children are born and they struggle to survive by living like animals eating garbage off the streets, we believe it a religious duty that they be taught God’s command – honor thy mother and thy father. What kind of childish nonsense is this? In the meantime, it is hard to believe in the salvation of those who work for the damnation of others: the pro-lifers who condemn hundreds of thousands of unwanted and unloved children to premature death due to hunger and diseases. These religious morons are even insisting that there is no such thing as population growth problem in the Philippines. Indeed, religion is the root of complacency and apathy that plagues our sick society. We believe it such a terrible sin against God to practice family planning and birth control. We ignore God’s greatest gift to man: - free will. We refuse to accept that babies born in the Philippines today each carry a message from God. The message is that poor and backward countries like the Philippines have shamelessly failed to utilize free will to develop a new set of moral values that should lead to humane social program for population control. To be entrusted with a large family is a great responsibility. To be entrusted with feeding, clothing, sheltering, educating, and loving a large family is a greater responsibility. But to acknowledge the fact that human overpopulation leads to the extinction of most other species that are needed to maintain the balance of nature is the greatest of responsibilities. The first law of ecology is that everything is connected to everything else in a delicate and complex web of interrelationships. It is therefore impossible to separate protection of human species from protection of natural ecosystems; they are two aspects of the same fundamental set of resources. With human population explosion we destroy the ecological system. Upon their destruction we will destroy too, eventually, ourselves. All for what? To please the sick religious morons in charge of our spiritual life as a people? Such as the Catholic bishops, Pastor Eduardo manalo of INC, Pastor Eli Soriano of Dating Daan, Pastor Mike Velarde of El Shaddai, Pastor Eddie Villanueva of Jesus is Lord church, Pastor Apollo Quiboloy of the Appointed Son of God church, Pastor Bo sanchez of the church of Tootie-Frooties, etc. Poch Suzara Facebook# Twitter# Google#

Food For the Soul

What a complete waste of time and energy – to gather food for the soul that never gets hungry as it will never die because the soul is already immortal as the soul already belongs to God. Besides, what God does to a man's soul is none of man's business. So why even bother to save souls to begin with? Poch Suzara

Catholic Teachings

It is far more important for a Catholic to study the teachings of the Church than read the bible. In fact, Catholics are discouraged to read to bible for themselves. Poch Suzara

Only A Fool

Only a fool says there is no God. Doesn't that make God the bigger fool for having created fools in his own image and likeness? Poch Suzara

To Think

To think that everybody knows absolutely nothing about the existence of God in heaven or about the existence of the devil in hell; or, about the nature of existence everywhere. And to think further that all of our social and moral values are based upon what everybody knows nothing about! Poch Suzara

Nothing

Indeed, It is true, we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we shall carry nothing out. The Lord gave, and the Lord hath taken away. But then again, what was the purpose of the coming of the Lord and His promise to return if the beginning and end of this life in this world were about bringing nothing into this world and about taking nothing out of this world? If, however, I could bring my books with me to the next world, if any, ok, I will go and take the trip. Otherwise, I'd rather die and be buried on this earth forever. Poch Suzara

If a Perfect God

If a perfect God created perfect angels to live in a perfect heaven so as to be perfectly happy forever, what perfect reasons would the perfect angels have to perfectly rebel against God only to end up as perfect but otherwise stupid devils? Poch Suzara

The Oath of Office

Taking the oath of government office with words: “So, help me God,” is a declaration of utter foolishness. On the cross dying Jesus cried out: “My, My God, why hast thou forsaken me?” If God could not help his own Son on the cross, why should God help the politicians installed in government office. Poch Suzara

Free Choices

If we do have free will, how come we never had the free choice to choose to be born in another galaxy of which, according to the science of astronomy, more than 100 BILLION galaxies exist out there to choose from. Indeed, there exist far more planets and stars out there than there are grains of sand existing in the all the beaches of the planet earth. Poch Suzara

Daily Prayer

We pray to God to forgive us of our sins; but we also pray to God to “lead us not into temptation.” Perhaps, if we can only pray for the conversion of the devil to go back to the ways of the Lord, we will commit no more sins as there will be no more devil to make a mockery of our daily prayers. In the meantime, tradition, such as prayers, practiced by a people, says absolutely nothing about its veracity, viability, or even its common sensibility. Poch Suzara

The Holy Bible not so Holy

In his AGE OF REASON, Thomas Paine wrote: “ Whenever we read the obscene stories, the voluptuous debaucheries, the cruel and torturous executions, the unrelenting vindictiveness, with which more than half the bible is filled, it would be more consistent that we call 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.”

For my part, I said it before, I say it again: if you have high hopes in seeing your children grow up intelligent with self-respect and courageous with dignity, keep them away from the stupid priest frightening them to believe and to have faith in the stupid messages written as Revealed Truth in the holy bible. Poch Suzara

Separation of Church and Scientific Knowledge

The mind grows healthy with scientific knowledge. Superstition only destroys the mind with fear and ignorance. Superstition therefore is an evil. There should be no room for superstition to exist alongside knowledge as superstition is an evil. It’s the same with the Church. There should be no room for the Church to exist alongside the State. The church is an evil: it not only divides with hate but also keeps people poor, backward, and indeed, un-enlightened, if not frightened. Poch Suzara

The Clash of Civilization

Samuel Huntington wrote: “The Clash of Civilization.” It would have been more accurate had he titled his book “The Clash of Human Ignorance,” or “The Clash of Religious hypocrisy.” Or, “The Clash of the Arms Industries.” Or, “The Clash of Nations under Conflict with American Corporations.” Poch Suzara

Demons and Angels

The only demons that exist are those that lurk inside the reptilian side of the brain: ignorance, hatred, insanity, and faith in divinity. The only angels that exist are those that are inside the mammalian side of the brain: reason, intellectual honesty, love, and indeed, faith in the human capacity. Poch Suzara

Pacificism

Pacificism worked well in India under the atheistic British rule. And yet pacificism failed to work for the non-violent Jews under the theistic Nazis in Germany. It is, I think, the result of what happens when religious morons or “God is with us” gang stands
to defend the works of the Lord as Hitler wrote in his Mein Kampf Poch Suzara

Government Officials

American government officials are exactly like the Philippine government officials: they are installed not by civil service eligibility or by examination, but by fraudulent or worse, by financial arrangement, if not by powerful political connection. It is all about the American style of freedom and democracy in the Philippines. Poch Suzara

The Futility of Coming of Christ

If the Almighty God were omni-present and therefore already present here, already established there, and already situated everywhere on this earth, what’s the purpose of the First Coming and the Second Coming of Christ? Poch Suzara

Jesus Failed as a Prophet

“For I came not to send peace, but a sword.” Matt. 10:34. “For all they that take the sword shall perish with the sword.” Matt. 26:52. Obviously Jesus failed at his own prophecy. He did not die by the sword. He was crucified on the cross. And crucified by men created in the image and likeness of His Father God. Poch Suzara

Words from Jesus

If Jesus had only enjoyed the comfort of a happy home life with his mom and dad and brothers and sisters, he need not have uttered such meaningless words like: I and my Father are one. John 10:30. I go unto my father: for my father is greater than I. John 14:28. But then again, Jesus was a failure. He failed to ask Man to forgive God for He does not appreciate love and affection within the human family on this earth. Poch Suzara

Shocked

We were all shocked when we saw what the terrorists did to the World Trade Center Twin Towers on 9/11 in New York. But only the few cared to find out what inspired the terrorists to do such a thing. Ah, but how many people are sane enough to realize that we actually live in an insane world as inspired by insane religious businessmen in cahoots with insane politics who continue to inspire the production of weapons for war? Poch Suzara