For Rose of the RP-Rizal Forum

This is one reason why I was expelled out of high school: I insisted that those religious morons who got Jesus Christ arrested and crucified – were the same religious morons that God created in his own image and likeness.
Well, on these RP-Rizal Forum pages, I am also being threatened with getting expelled, because I am insisting that those religious morons who had Rizal arrested, jailed, and executed are the same religious morons who have never been expelled out this country. In fact, they are still around in control and in charge of the system of education in the Philippines. Notice in our schools, colleges, and universities, it is taught that a Jose Rizal, a Filipino, born in the Philippines is a nothing compared to Jesus Christ, a Jew, the Son of God, born in Israel some 2,000 years ago!!
Growth and development of a nation can only be possible with the removal of falsehoods and superstitions. In our case, in this God-forsaken country, we better cease having faith in the Revealed Truth. After all, it has not yet been revealed!
In the meantime, the religious morons on these pages are scandalized by my being an atheist. If they only bother to read Karen Armstrong, a former Catholic nun, in her insightful book – A HISTORY OF GOD, she demonstrated that Jews, Christians, and Muslims were all at one time accused of being atheists when their ideas began to challenge the popular religious wisdom of their day.
Rose, there is nothing tragic about being raised by ignorant parents at home and by ignorant teachers in school. What, however, is truly painful and tragic, is when one has been frightened enough to stop learning anything new and carry on with one’s children and grandchildren to believe and have faith in the same old biblical nonsense!
Heaven is not our home. The planet earth is. This is the first realization we must embrace if we hope to have a decent country populated by decent men and decent women as products of a decent system of education. Best wishes, Poch Suzara

Filipino Family Values

I am told that one of the greatest attributes of the Pinoy is his love of family as exemplified by his devotion to the family of Jesus, Mary and Joseph. I ask: what in hell is the connection between a Jewish family born in Israel during the first century with the Filipino family born in the Philippines in this 21st century? How come countries like China, Japan, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam, Malaysia, India, and places like Taiwan and Hongkong - do not and never have recognized Jesus, Mary and Joseph as the paragon of family values? And to think faith-soaked Filipinos are in those countries today working and enjoying a higher standard of living and indeed, a higher standard of thinking. In the meantime, the religiously frightened in this country are still trying to find solid evidence to prove that Rizal retracted before he was executed for exposing the hypocrisy and the chicanery of Catholicism in the Philippines. The same religion that introduced Jesus, Mary and Joseph in the Philippines for Pinoys to love, worship, and adore. Indeed, for Pinoys to have faith in God for the sake of nothing except to participate in the silly rat-race for eternal salvation. Poch Suzara

Inspired Religious Morons

The bible says: Love thy Neighbor." Well, if we hope to enjoy a decent life, we better love not only our neighbor but love also the world. Our world. It is the only world we know. The only world we have.
Unfortunately, religious morons as inspired authors of God, proudly wrote 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. 1John 2:15. Poch Suzara

Newspaper Editors

Newspaper editors of this country are seldom puzzled why, in spite our high literacy rate, we are not, by any measure, a nation of readers. It is really all so pathetic. It is, however, quite alarmingly transparent, if not glaringly obvious that the existence of a high literacy rate in this country has no basis in fact. What does exists, however, is the high rate of daily prayer based upon the high principle of religious mediocrity. Daily prayers are even nationally approved by authority in government perpetually inspired by ecclesiastical stupidity. Poch Suzara

Reading Books

Mark Twain wrote: “The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.” To think that this is the fate of most college educated men and women comprising our sick society. In fact, throwing precious books out the window pretty much describes the climax of college graduation celebration party in the Philippines. Lo and Behold, as a high-school dropout, I pick up those thrown books to read and then for future reference I store such precious tools of learning in my personal library. Poch Suzara

Thailand

Why is Thailand a more advance country culturally than the Philippines? In Thailand, they have such famous individuals as the Condom King. He helps alleviate poverty in his country via family planning and population control.
In the Philippines we have Christ, the King. He has kept the Filipino spiritually poor as a people and the Philippines morally backward as a nation. All for the sake of the rat-race for eternal salvation. Poch Suzara

Height of Rationality

As a man engrossed in self-study, I am proud to identify myself as the Chairman of the High School Dropout Association of the Philippines. As a man, however, in need of more and deeper and endless learning, I am proud to identify myself as the Chairman of the Bertrand Russell Society of the Philippines. My friends and relatives call it insanity in need of psychotherapy. I say it is just a simple case of the height of rationality. Poch Suzara

The Philippine Movie Industry

It is indeed sick how Philippine Movie Industry keeps up with Hollywood trash endlessly producing films – the object of which is not something that corresponds to facts or reality, but anything that corresponds to myths or fantasy. Philippine Movie Industry is not about telling the truth. It is more about spreading social, political, and especially religious mendacity for the sake of maintaining a sick society all for the sake of making nothing but money. Poch Suzara

There is No God

Is it so hard to admit that we live in a world of pain and suffering, terror and horror, frustration and desperation, hate and war, death and decay precisely because there is no God? Otherwise if there is a God, he must be a mindless and a heartless supernatural power who cares not to put to a stop the never- ending evils that’s keeping our world poor and backward.
To think that if he exists, God has been existing for billions of years. We humans, comparatively, exist on this earth but for as long as a wink of an eye or a split of a second long. Indeed, existing on a speck of dust lost in the immensity of space and equally lost in the infinity of time. Poch Suzara

Faith in the Intelligent Designer

How much faith can one really have in an intelligent designer who found it necessary to include such phenomena as a woman’s birth canal designed smaller than the bigger baby painfully passing out of it; boys designed supot at birth; and, ugly pimples in the faces of prayerful teen-age girls as evidences of intelligent design? Poch Suzara

Atheism is Not a Religion

If atheism were a religion, it can only be the religion of the thinkers, philosophers and scientists. Mediocre men, ignorant women, and frightened children cannot qualify to become atheists. Atheism is life affirming. It is the opposite of theism which is life negating... We atheists do not care for life after death. There isn’t any. That is why we hate war and death and destruction. We care more about leaving this world one day a better place than we found it. Or we will have very little reason of having lived at all. Poch Suzara

Power

Priests, bishops, cardinals, popes, pastors, evangelists, ministers, clerics, imams, gurus, rabbi, shaman, holy men, witch doctors, faith healers, including theologians all enjoy power; especially power that comes not from human intelligence, but derived mostly from fear and ignorance and human malevolence. It is what schools, colleges, and universities are all about, still pretty much under the power of Christianity in the Philippines. Poch Suzara

Man and Apes

Man evolved from the apes. If only it was the other way round - apes evolved from man. There could have been more peace and goodwill to all men on this earth. Apes may be gullible, naive, insecure, impressionable, unthinking, dumbstruck and stupid. In fact, apes may be warlike too. But apes possess no holy bible or holy Quran or holy Torah that teach them to kill other apes for the greater glory of God or for the greater glory of Allah or for the greater glory of Yahweh. Poch Suzara

The Jesuits

The Jesuits say that if you give them a child until he’s six years old he’s theirs for life. Indeed, this is true. What is even truer, however, is that under Jesuit religious guidance the child grows up with a childish attitude towards life in general. Indeed, for the rest of his life, he will even believe and have faith in such mythical story about how God looked the other way ( a father guilty of child abuse ) while his only begotten Son was being crucified on a cross. All for the purpose of saving man away from eternal damnation. Poch Suzara

Good and Evil

The horror in this world is not about the difference between good and evil. On the contrary, it is about the conflict between one evil against another evil - the two great religions of the world known as Christianity and Islam. Each have not ceased hating and killing the other for the glory of God on the one side; and, on the other side, for the glory of Allah. And to think that both these evils came from the womb of mother religion – Judaism – that gave birth to Christianity and Islam.
For my part, I am proud to be an atheist. No one has ever heard of atheists hating and killing other atheists because they refuse to believe, love, worship, and adore God.
Take a good look at Osama Bin Laden. He invoked God when he directed his hijacked suicide airliners into the world Trade Center and the Pentagon in 2001.
Take a good look at President George W. Bush. He invoked God when he unleashed his missiles and bombers on the people of Iraq.
Take a good look at the Palestinians. They too invoked God when they strapped dynamite to their waste and boarded a crowded bus or entered a public restaurant in Israel to destroy themselves and anyone else who happened to be near.
Take a good look at the Jews in Israel. They invoked God
As they sent their tanks into the West Bank and the Gaza Strip to knock down houses that were thought to provide shelter to their enemies.
Take a good look at the Catholics and the Protestants. They invoked God as they killed each other in Ireland, the last gasp of a dying fury that spawned a thirty-year religious war and in 1588 propelled the Spanish Armada to a watery grave as it sought to win back Protestant England for the Vatican.
Take a good look at the priesthood industry. They invoked God when they violate and abuse little children who have been trusted to their care. It gets worse as the superiors of these priests – bishops, the archbishops, the cardinals – also invoked God when they acted to cover up these violent crimes and protect the victimizers and ultimately themselves rather then the victims.
Take a good look at the religious morons of today. They tell me that I hold not the right premise on how one should take a good look in the existence of a kind and loving God! Poch Suzara

The Fools in Christ

Ignorance is the soil in which religions grow and Christianity is no exception. The New Testament itself calls the disciples, “unlearned and ignorant men.” Indeed, the “fools in Christ.” The same Christ who preached: “Be ye wise as the serpent” and commanded: “But those mine enemies, which would not that I should reign over them, bring hither, and slay them for me.” Luke 19:27.
To think that this was the same Christ who, crucified on the cross, cried out: “Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do.” Obviously Christ was referring to those “unlearned and ignorant men,” and to those wise as the serpent, and those about to be slaughtered as they would not that Christ should reign over them. Poch Suzara

The Root of all Evil

The root of all evil is not deviltry. It is divinity. After all, deviltry in the most original of God’s most intelligent design. Poch Suzara

Ellen Blackstone

She wrote: "The Bible doesn’t forbid suicide. It’s a Catholic directive, intended to slow down their loss of martyrs.”
May I add sinners and the saints and the Sick Man of Asia too? Poch Suzara

Babies in Theology

Babies are atheists. They do not know God. Parents are atheists too. They also do not know God. In fact God is unknowable. Theology has not been much of a help either. Theology is the study of nothing; though the theologians call it the study of the unknowable. In fact, theology is the study of the not worth knowing. To think that theology is the most important subject taught to all of the students in our schools, colleges, and universities. Poch Suzara

An Atheist's Viewpoint

The RP-Rizal Forum members refused to believe me – an atheist – when I say that the execution of Jose Rizal had only to do with religious morons in authority who had him faced a firing squad for writing truths on the hypocrisy and chicanery of the Catholic Church. I am even told that if I have nothing new to add to the ongoing discussion on Rizal’s life, work, and writings, I should just shut up and to take my atheistic “frustrations” and “angst” elsewhere.
Well, I am also saying that the kind of enemies Rizal struggled against are still here pretty much alive today in charge of what should be taught in our schools, colleges, and universities.
In the meantime, as an atheist, I am treated like I am a little monster afflicted with psychological problem. Really, a feeble, if not a laughable attempt to evade the fundamental questions of truth and falsehood, of facts and fiction. It is obviously so ridiculous to try and defeat atheism by subordinating truth with infantile emotionalism. Such childish reaction only reveals the truth of the Christian traditional contempt for man’s ability to think. Ah, but the members of this RP-Rizal Forum would rather prove themselves crippled at thinking any deeper or further, and that they themselves are quite impressive at linguistic contortions, dramatic algebraic ejaculation, an indeed, ecclesiastical masturbation. Poch Suzara