Rizal dead and Incurious

It is ludicrous how one can be so jaculiferous as to inquire who exactly were those mindless women who had Rizal executed. When his own Knights continue to keep Rizal dead and incurious, if not lugubrious with their top priorities in this 21st century Philippines? Here below is a typical ALERT messages I regularly receive from the Knights of Rizal.
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Death

To a Christian, the whole idea behind Christian values and beliefs is to live a life of fear - the fear of the unknown, fear of God, fear of the devil, and the fear of death.
We atheists live a life of courage. We are not afraid of death. Why should we? Before we were born, we were already dead for billions of years. If we must die, however, we must die sober and not drunk with religious lies. Poch Suzara

Courage

It takes courage to stand up to what you believe. But it takes far more courage to stand up to what you do not believe. Jose Rizal was a man of such great courage. He was executed for standing up to what he did not believe: He never believed in the values of superstition especially when installed at the foundation of Philippine education. Poch Suzara

Archbishop Fulton Sheen

Archbishop Sheen once wrote: “ Modern man . . . has long believed that right and wrong were only differences in point of view, but now when evil works itself out in practice he is paralyzed to do anything against it.”
For my part as an atheist, I thought the Wrath of God should be more creatively directed against the evils from Satan, not against man, ancient or modern. Poch Suzara

Insanity

When one person suffers from a delusion, it is called insanity. When millions of people suffer from the same sick delusion, like in the Philippines, it is called Christianity. Poch Suzara

Hopefully

Me too, before I die, I hope to write “I go where faith does not kill. After all, in the next world, how can people already dead still kill each other over faith?” And to think that if an almighty God exists, is he really that almighty because he is able to reign over billions upon billions of people already dead in his kingdom of heaven? Poch Suzara

What's Wrong With Religion

What is wrong with religion? For one thing, it teaches you to be satisfied with answers to questions you have not even asked. In fact, religion teaches you to abandon your own questions. Just stick to the answers, especially as supplied in the holy bible – a book written by foreigners – the inspired authors of God.
In the meantime, ignorance is forever busy and needs feeding. The holy bible has all the nutritional diet for ignorance to enjoy fear and for fear to enjoy ignornace as a way of life everlasting. Poch Suzara

Faith that Kills

I do not know about you Rizalists, but each time I read Rizal’s “I go where faith can never kill,” in his Last Farewell, I understand it as alarmingly obvious that Rizal was warning everyone to face the fact that faith kills in this world he is leaving behind. As we are amongst those left behind in this world of murderous faith, why should we carry on embracing more harmful faith that has become even more murderous? Indeed, faith kills, especially precious minds and hearts of children in school. They grow up, if at all, as the victims of faith rather than the masters of reason. Obviously, instead of faith, we need more reason to remedy the ills of our sick society soaked with nothing but faith in human stupidity. For my part, as a high school expelled student, I said it before and I will continue to say it again: Faith is wrong; belief bereft of reason and devoid of question is evil. The faithful love deadly mental paralysis as they hate lively critical analysis. Thus, faith is never wanting to know what is true. In fact, it is worse. Faith makes one believe that life after death is better than life after birth. In the meantime, I am told by religious morons that religion is good because it comforts the dying. But I ask: shouldn’t religion be better if it prevents killing? After all, religion should brighten people to live and not frighten people to death! Truth to tell - everybody wants to go to heaven alive; nobody wants to arrive at the kingdom of God already dead! Poch Suzara

There is No Logic of Creative Thought

A debate between King Kong and Godzilla is unlikely to issue in a triumph of reason. An argument between two ecclesiastical liars is an improbable path to truth. An exchange between two faithfools can scarcely be expected to end in a victory for wisdom. A fight between wide-eyed exponents of X and Y will help not at all if Z was in fact the case, as it usually is. And between X and not-X the difference is merely a cipher, a nullity, a zero. In the meantime, on these pages, discussants have yet to grasp another simple truth: There is no logic of creative thought. Creativity makes its own rules as an activity. The intellect transcends them. For my part, I'd rather carry on with a mind that moves on wheels with the power of reason, than have a mind that is stuck on hinges with the power of faith. Poch Suzara

Atheism as a healthy way of Life

Contrary to what many religious morons like to believe, atheism is not a form of mental illness. The religious morons cannot rid the world of atheists by committing them to a mental asylum where they can be ignored. To label atheism as a psychological problem, as some one devoid with capacity to love, is a feeble, almost ridiculous attempt to evade the fundamental questions of truth and falsehoods. Such an evasion, in fact, it is the height of ridiculosity. Are religious beliefs true? What reasons are there for believing in a supernatural being? The religious morons who attempt to defeat atheism by subordinating truth to infantile syndrome accomplishes nothing, aside from revealing their contempt for man’s ability to think. As an atheist, I am better equip to face life, with its multitude of trials and tribulations, better than any other code of living that I have yet to discover. Atheism is a vigorous and courageous way of life - indeed, a sane and a healthy philosophy. We atheists have nothing to die for; we only have everything to live for... Poch Suzara Twitter# Facebook# Google#

God and Conscience

To deny the existence of God is to deny the existence of conscience. I entirely agree; especially when we deny the existence of ignorance that gave us conscience to believe in the existence of a lot of supernatural nonsense to begin with. Poch Suzara

The Power of Prayer

If the power of prayer were as functional and as valuable as it is believed to be by the Jews, Christians, and Muslims, its positive effects should be glaringly obvious, if not alarmingly translucent, or indeed, measurable or even durable. They are not. It does not appear – based on scientific evidence – that God exists who answers prayers in any significant, observable way whatsoever. Otherwise, if God exists, he is obviously hiding scared to face the Jews, the Christians, and the Muslims still pretty much busy with daily prayers, especially on how to get rid of the each other as the unbelievers of the Revealed Truth. Poch Suzara

Letter to a Religious Moron

Sir, I hope you are in the best of health. It is the best kind of wealth. Bertrand Russell wrote: “When I see people who desire money or fame or power, I find it hard to imagine what must be the emotional emptiness of their lives that can leave room for such trivial things.”

For my part, enjoying mental health, I am able to see the Catholic Church as the owner of prime properties, farm lands, banks, insurance companies, pawnshops, stocks and bonds, manufacturing corporations, condominium buildings, schools, colleges, universities, including hospitals. In fact, an ex-priest friend disclosed to me that the Catholic Church remits an average of $30 million dollars to the Vatican bank yearly. By the way, monies deposited yearly into the Vatican bank are in the billions of dollars from Catholic countries. Next to the US government, the Catholic Church is the richest organization in the world. The difference is that the US government is filthy rich for selling in the world arms for destruction. The Catholic Church is filthy rich for selling hate of this world for the sake of eternal salvation.

Sir, as your were once a college professor, have you ever asked why no Filipino family has ever become rich and powerful for believing that God is bad; and yet, millions upon millions of Filipino Families are poor and existing under subhuman conditions and yet they believe and have faith that God is good?

By the way sir, please take a good look at our corrupt government managed by corrupt officials who are mostly UP college graduates and from other prestigious Catholic universities. These rotten government officials are not the poor and miserable dried-up saps. NO, they are the poor and miserable dried-up educated saps! And guess what sir, these powerful sinners and wealthy criminals share one thing in common in our sick society – they too believe in Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior! To think that Jesus Christ was born in a foreign land that today is not a Christian, but a Jewish State. Unlike our Jose Rizal born in Calamba, Laguna and executed in Bagumbayan for writing against the superstitious beliefs that’s keeping the Filipino still poor as a people and the Philippines still mired as a Third World country.

Finally sir, may I say to you that if God existed and cared much for the Filipinos, he never should have gifted us with a Christian religion. Look how we Filipinos all love God up there by hating one another down here! Poch Suzara

Filipinos Lost Jose Rizal

“My dream,” wrote Rizal to a Spanish governor-general, “was my country’s prosperity . . . I would like the Filipino people to become worthy, noble, and honorable.” On another occasion Rizal also wrote: “I would like the Filipinos to be Brilliant, Enlightened, Intelligent, and Progressive.” Ever since Rizal was executed by Catholic church authority in the 19th century, the same Catholic curch carried on with power and authority to be in charge especially of the system of education in the Philippines. Indeed, we were taught in our schools, colleges, and universities to believe and to have faith in the holy bible that clearly states: “Love not this world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not with him.” John 2:15. Jesus, the loving son of God also preached: “If any man come to me and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple.” Luke 14:26. Thus, as the Sick Man of Asia, even the Knights of Rizal continue to ignore what Rizal was saying to all Filipinos more than a century ago. Only people in foreign countries believed, followed, and substantiated what Rizal was saying. After Rizal’s execution, the president of the Berlin Society for Anthropology, Ethnology and Pre-history, - Dr. Rudolph Virchow, said: “In him we lose not only a true friend of Germany and German science but also the man who had the knowledge and the energy to introduce modern ideas and thinking into the Philippines.” WHAT? Modern ideas and thinking introduce to Filipinos in the Philippines? NO WAY, JOSE! What will happen to our wealth, power, glory and authority over the Filipino minds and hearts to protect and defend big business of Catholicism in the Philippines - the only Catholic country in Asia since the 16th century? Poch Suzara

Open Letter to Jose Rizal

No doubt you are the rarest Filipino that ever lived. You are still the nation’s chief hero. Otherwise, as a humanist-scientists thinker, you were also a human rights defender during your time. Our Spanish colonizers, especially the “friars” and the “theologians” found it crucial to plan your death. This was in December 30, 1896 by public execution with a military decree under the power of the church and its authority. According to those holy men of God, the unthinking Filipino is not worth killing. But the thinking Filipino is worth a bullet inside his brain, especially in God’s name for his glory in heaven. In other words, believing is a virtue. Thinking is always an offense against God - a sin. Well sir, we know today that with you then out of the way, the friars and the theologians faced no more hurdles or threats while they profit from their big superstition business in this country. Of course they called it the “love of God.” With you dead and gone however, you could no longer encourage the Filipino to stand up with dignity as a people to enjoy not the freedom OF religion, but precisely to enjoy the freedom FROM religion. Your enemies were busy spreading Christianity. It would have been better if they were, instead, spreading Filipino decency. But with their own local version of the crusades, holy wars, and inquisition in Europe, Christianity has been quite a success in the Philippines – murdering the minds and hearts of children in school. We have yet to look, however, at the hidden truth: Christianity has always had a vested interest in human suffering. Most Christian doctrines are unintelligible unless viewed in this context. For centuries, Christianity has capitalized on human suffering; and it was enormously successful in insuring its own existence through the perpetuation of such evil. No, it has never openly advocated human suffering; it prefers to speak instead of HOLY SACRIFICES in this life to take advantage of the rewards in the next life. Quite fortunately for the priesthood industry, the dead cannot return to demand a refund. Sir, I am sad to report that, in this modern age, it’s the same old story in the Philippines. As far as love of country and love of fellow-Filipinos are concerned, we have not made any improvements at all. We only love God up there by hating one another down here. Meanwhile, Instead of a government for the people, we only have a government for the government officials. They are the criminals and the sinners of our sick democracy. They are rich and powerful especially because they are always forgiven and blessed by God via the lucrative priesthood industry in the Philippines. We are still lethargic, if not apathetic, when it comes to the power of modern logic. It is still a fright for many of us to read books. But if we read, we do not read in search of the truth. We only read to remind ourselves of the revealed truth told during our childhood days. Our system of education has not improved any. It is still about a system of recruiting believers and followers to defend the faith. In matters of nation building, our college educated men and women are as colorless and self-righteous as their faith-soaked professors. A lot of these professionals would rather immigrate to other countries. The laborers who are left behind would rather enjoy their work here to help increase the population growth of our sick country. Nevertheless, we all look forward to a happy life after death in the Kingdom of God in heaven. In the meantime, our men and women have yet to be educated to work and to develop and to improve the Kingdom of Filipinos with the power of science and the scientific way of thinking and technology. Look, for example, at our primitive dental industry. It is decades behind as compared to the dental practices in other Asian countries. I have met duly licensed Filipino dentists. They are able to expound expert opinion not on the latest tool and equipments of modern dentistry, but bible verses as inspired by ancient theology. In the meantime, according to a survey, 98 per cent of the population of the Philippines suffer from teeth decaying, molars rotting, and gums bleeding. Now look also at our highly educated men and women called “lawyers.” In the college of Law, in order to determine the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, these would be Attorneys at Law are vigorously trained in the art of cross examination. Yet, they would not, even for a moment, cross examine the crimes of religion and other superstition that’s keeping the Filipino impoverished as a people and the Philippines backward as a nation. Again many of these lawyers are more conversant with bible chapters and verses than they are practicing their profession. In the meantime, like the rest in our sick society, these lawyers too would rather play safe and not rock the religious boat. They too prefer to win in the rat-race of eternal salvation in the next life with divinity and to hell with the Philippines in dire need to catch up with modern science and technology. Sir, do you know that even your own so-called Knights are mostly bible readers than they are Rizalian thinkers? When a silly lie is told about you in the media, such as your retraction story, the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, and 5th degree Rizalists would rather defend religious absurdities. Hardly would they publicly defend what you had died for: - the right not only to a higher standard of living but more importantly, the right to a higher standard of thinking in our country. Despite your knowledge and wisdom, we Filipinos still have not as yet understood the real source of our never-ending troubles: our confused minds and damaged hearts. Mostly owing, if not due to - sacred beliefs and other superstitions that we continue to embrace in deep faith. Instead of standing up to improve by working on what is natural down here, we are still busy kneeling down praying to what is supernatural out there. In the meantime, no Filipino family has ever become rich for believing that God is BAD; and yet millions of Filipino families are poor for believing that God is GOOD. Sir, the search of the truth, indeed, is the noblest of all human activities. In the galaxy of philosophers, humanists, scientists, and freethinkers, I am most proud to be a great admirer of yours. Let me just say, quite simply, my dear Jose Rizal - wherever you are, in the hearts and minds of decent people throughout the world, we will always think of you as a great man - one who has had the courage to put beauty in nature where religious authority in this world continue only to promote horrors of religious insanity. Yours Faithfully, Poch Suzara La Salle High School Expelled Student

Response to Prof. Oros

to all members, RP-Rizal Forum greetings of peace and solidarity amidst trying times!i am a college instructor, and still young at the age of 21. i am now in my second year of teaching, but this is my first time to handle rizal subject (life, works and writings of rizal). what are the different teaching strategies in teaching rizal that would make my lessons very interesting to my students? thank you for taking time out to answer my question. god bless! My Dear Professor Oros, Perhaps, the essay below might be of some help to stimulate your students in the study of Rizal’s life, works and writings. I will privately email to you my other essays on Rizal to help you see a deeper picture, if not a wider view of what Rizal struggled against, and was executed for. Bertrand Russell wrote: “No man can be a good teacher unless he has feelings of warm affection towards his pupil and a genuine desire to impart to them what he himself believes to be of value. This is not the attitude of the propagandist. To the propagandist his pupils are potential soldiers in an army. Professor, sad to say, religious morons killed Rizal. The same religious morons of today with college education keeping Rizal dead spiritually and buried intellectually. Specially those who continue to have faith in the superstitious nonsense that the Catholic Spanish friars brought into this country some 400 years ago. Millions of Filipino students of today have no idea whatsoever of what Rizal wrote in: - The Trial of Jesus Christ in God’s Court.” Rizal has yet to be redeemed from the religious lies, misconceptions and mistranslations, including outright distortions woven around him. Please check your google in the internet. Rizal is mentioned as one of the past 1,000 FAMOUS RELIGIOUS SKEPTICS AND ATHEISTS in the world. In the meantime, Republic Act 1425 - the Rizal law making it a requirement for every Filipino student to study Rizal’s life, works and writings has not been carried out. Forget the Knights of Rizal. They feel more secure with bible verses than they should be promoting the Rizalian or the scientific way of thinking. Rizal wrote, “I would like the Filipinos to be brilliant, enlightened, intelligent, and progressive.” Unfortunately, the religious morons are still insisting that we need concern ourselves on this earth. After all, there is always that better life to come in the next world after death with God in heaven. Dec. 30,2004 OPEN LETTER TO JOSE RIZAL No doubt you are the rarest Filipino that ever lived. You are still the nation’s chief hero. Otherwise, as a humanist-scientists thinker, you were also a human rights defender during your time. Our Spanish colonizers, especially the “friars” and the “theologians” found it crucial to plan your death. This was in December 30, 1896 by public execution with a military decree under the power of the church and its authority. According to those holy men of God, the unthinking Filipino is not worth killing. But the thinking Filipino is worth a bullet inside his brain, especially in God’s name for his glory in heaven. In other words, believing is a virtue. Thinking is always an offense against God - a sin. Well sir, we know today that with you then out of the way, the friars and the theologians faced no more hurdles or threats while they spread superstition in this country. Of course they called it the “love of God.” With you dead and gone however, you could no longer encourage the Filipino to stand up with dignity as a people to enjoy not the freedom OF religion, but precisely to enjoy the freedom FROM religion. Your enemies were busy spreading Christianity. It would have been better if they were, instead, spreading Filipino decency. But with their own local version of the crusades, holy wars, and inquisition in Europe, Christianity has been quite a success in the Philippines – murdering the minds and hearts of children in school. We have yet to look, however, at the hidden truth: Christianity has always had a vested interest in human suffering. Most Christian doctrines are unintelligible unless viewed in this context. For centuries, Christianity has capitalized on human suffering; and it was enormously successful in insuring its own existence through the perpetuation of such evil. No, it has never openly advocated human suffering; it prefers to speak instead of HOLY SACRIFICES in this life to take advantage of the rewards in the next life. Quite fortunately for the priesthood industry, the dead cannot return to demand a refund. Sir, I am sad to report that, in this modern age, it’s the same old story in the Philippines. As far as love of country and love of fellow-Filipinos are concerned, we have not made any improvements at all. We only love God up there by hating one another down here. Meanwhile, Instead of a government for the people, we only have a government for the government officials. They are the criminals and the sinners of our sick society. They are rich and powerful especially because they are always forgiven and blessed by God via the lucrative priesthood industry in the Philippines. We are still lethargic, if not apathetic, when it comes to the power of modern logic. It is still a fright for many of us to read books. But if we read, we do not read in search of the truth. We only read to remind ourselves of the revealed truth told during our childhood days. Our system of education has not improved any. It is still about a system of recruiting believers and followers to defend the faith. In matters of nation building, our college educated men and women are as colorless and self-righteous as their faith-soaked professors. A lot of these professionals would rather immigrate to other countries. The laborers who are left behind would rather enjoy their work here to help increase the population growth of our sick country. Nevertheless, we all look forward to a happy life after death in the Kingdom of God in heaven. In the meantime, our men and women have yet to be educated to work and to develop and to improve the Kingdom of Filipinos with the power of science and the scientific way of thinking and technology. Look, for example, at our primitive dental industry. It is decades behind as compared to the dental practices in other Asian countries. I have met duly licensed Filipino dentists. They are able to expound expert opinion not on the latest tool and equipments of modern dentistry, but bible verses as inspired by ancient theology. In the meantime, according to a survey, 94 per cent of the population of the Philippines suffer from teeth decaying, molars rotting, and gums bleeding. Now look also at our highly educated men and women called “lawyers.” In the college of Law, in order to determine the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, these would be Attorneys at Law are vigorously trained in the art of cross examination. Yet, they would not, even for a moment, cross examine the crimes of religion and other superstition that’s keeping the Filipino impoverished as a people and the Philippines backward as a nation. Again many of these lawyers are more conversant with bible chapters and verses than they are practicing their profession. In the meantime, like the rest in our sick society, these lawyers too would rather play safe and not rock the religious boat. They prefer to win in the rat-race of eternal salvation in the next life with divinity and to hell with the Philippines in dire need to catch up with modern science and technology. Sir, do you know that even your own so-called Knights are mostly bible readers than they are Rizalian thinkers? When a silly lie is told about you in the media, such as your retraction story, the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, and 5th degree Rizalists would rather defend religious absurdities. Hardly would they publicly defend what you had died for: - the right not only to a higher standard of living but more importantly, the right to a higher standard of thinking in our country. Despite your knowledge and wisdom, we Filipinos still have not as yet understood the real source of our never-ending troubles: our confused minds and damaged hearts. Mostly owing, if not due to - sacred beliefs and other superstitions that we continue to embrace in deep faith. Instead of standing up to improve by working on what is natural down here, we are still busy kneeling down praying to what is supernatural out there. In the meantime, no Filipino family has ever become rich for believing that God is bad; and yet millions of Filipino families are poor for believing that God is good. Sir, the search of the truth is, indeed, the noblest of all human activities. In the galaxy of philosophers, humanists, scientists, and freethinkers, I am most proud to be a great admirer of yours. Let me just say, quite simply, my dear Jose Rizal - wherever you are, in the hearts and minds of decent people throughout the world, we will always think of you as a great man - one who has had the courage to put beauty in nature where religious authority in this world continue only to promote horrors of human stupidity. Yours Faithfully, Poch Suzara High School Dropout Association of the Philippines 8 Zipper Street, San Lorenzo Village, Makati City

A Nation of Criminals

We are a nation of criminals? It does not matter! There is always God available at any time via the priesthood industry to forgive the criminals committing the crimes against our country. In the meantime, what is a politician? A politician is a knave who corrupts the people with deceiving promises, lying innuendoes, mass falsifications in the name of the people, well knowing that he is born a crook, the member of the political party based on crookedness, promoting crookedness and hoping for more crookedness to come, in the name of the people, and of course, to benefit the people. Now, any politician will admit this to be a fair assessment of his profession. He will disagree only about one thing. The definition, he will say, fits like a glove his political opponent. But since our politician is the opponent of his opponent, it follows that, seen from his opponent’s viewpoint, the definition fits him like a glove as well. Result? All politicians, left, right and center, are the criminals running our government. But then again if it is not public knowledge that we are a nation criminals, it is only because the greatest crime committed daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly in the Philippines is the crime of silence! Poch Suzara

Acts of God

I am ask: are atheists entitled to receive checks from insurance companies for damage to their properties incurred through "acts of god"?
My response: do you really believe that there would be the need of insurance companies to exist to pay for damage to properties through “acts of God” if a kind and loving and all-merciful God truly exist? Poch Suzara

For Edgar, et al of the Rizal Forum

It must be very painful to notice that as a matter of historical fact no atheist, no agnostic, no freethinker, no heretic, no infidel, no unbeliever of the faith, and specially no humanist bundled together collectively or individually had anything to do whatsoever with the execution of Rizal as the greatest of Filipino thinker who ever graced this only Christian country in Asia.
It was the religious morons who had him put to death. The same religious morons of today who are more concerned on how to win the friendship of other religious morons so that they can be influenced to spread more moronic religious messages for the already spiritually impoverished Filipino.
Rizal wrote: “We can only serve our country by telling the naked truth, however bitter it may be.” My dear Edgar, Jack, Ka Ponso, CVD, Bobby, dm0904 – the bitter truth is that after Rizal was publicly executed – we Filipinos have remained as the Sick Man of Asia. Thanks to the wealth, power and glory of the religious morons who are still pretty much in authority in the Philippines in this 21st century.
In the meantime, in the Philippines, life in general can be characterized as the competition to be the criminal or be the victim of the criminals.

The Beliefs of a Faithful Moron

He believes that human intelligence is always a sin. Human stupidity always a virtue. Though at most times he cannot tell the difference. He does not read the bible; but when he does and cannot make heads or tails of bible verses, he calls it “divine wisdom.” He believes that believing is far more crucial than knowing. In fact, he believes that to be among the silly believers collectively is far more pleasing to divinity than to be among the intelligent thinkers individually. He believes that to be a “born again” is more pleasing to God especially if one remains a child in a state of chronic dependence and does not have to grow up to become a mature adult. He believes in religion not primarily as a search for philosophical veracity, but as an overwhelming search for emotional security. He believes that it does not matter what mysterious things one believes for as long as it remains perpetually mysterious. He believes that God inspired the silly authors to write the bible. But the same God could not inspire the stupid theologians to announce to the world at large if the soul of our dead parents, grandparents and other dead loved-ones made it to heaven or are now being fried punished in hell. He believes in the man of faith despite the fact that the man of faith is a silly drunkard who clings to a lamppost for support, not illumination. He believes in the existence of immortality that consists of a hereafter even if there were no herebefore. Which makes the concept of immortality nothing but a biblical farce, a fraud, and a ceremony. He believes that Jesus died on the cross to destroy the devil. The devil, however, is still alive today employed as chief military adviser of the US government installing the freedom of deviltry in oil-rich countries. He believes that the bible was written by inspired authors of God. Such authors, however, were a bunch of superstitious morons who did not even know that the earth is round or that it rotates on its own axis. He believes that eating no meat on good Fridays is a great virtue. But to live that like pigs and think like cows during the rest of the year is the greatest of virtue. He believes that if a belief were believed by some 100 million people, it must be a true belief. Never mind even if said belief does not accord with the facts. He believes that after death he will meet with God face to face. As if God has a face and as if the believer himself will have a face to face anyone after death. He believes practice make perfect. He therefore practices stupidity daily on this earth so that by the time to gets to heaven he will be stupid perfectly. Indeed, “on earth as it is in heaven.” He believes in how to win friends and influence people especially if they were the religious morons or the stupid teachers - who are the greatest influence on his children in school. He believes that the atheists are a bunch of worthless and immoral sinners. He ignores the historical fact that the atheists have never declared war on other atheists for not believing in the existence of God. He believes that Jose Rizal’s life was not tragic. On the contrary, that it was quite patriotic. Especially since inspired ecclesiastic managed to have him executed as a lunatic since, they claim, he died as a penitent catholic. Poch Suzara