What's Wrong with the Philippines

We are a nation of boys and girls, not of intellectually matured men and mentally strong women. We are a nation devoid of human dignity and self-respect... Millions of Pinoys are proud to identify themselves as college educated Christians. None are proud to say that they are college-educated Rizalian. What’s wrong with the Philippines? To find out, you need not travel far. Just visit any school, college, or university near your place! They are not educational but commercial - enterprises. They are places where students learn first and foremost to have more faith in Jesus – the Savior of the world... Indeed, they are places where millions of young Filipinos learn to have faith not in the power of knowledge, but in the power of prayer. Jose Rizal courageously wrote about this horror, and yet only a handful of Filipinos are fully aware of the Rizalian message. Poch Suzara Twitter# Facebook# Google#

College-Educated Economists

The college-educated economists employed in our government have yet to publicly acknowledge a simple economic truth: Economic growth can only be a reality if there were no reckless population growth. Indeed, more mouths to feed eats up and swallows the economic pie faster than it can be made to grow bigger and longer and wider. Poch Suzara

Who is a Moron

Any college educated Christian who keeps active and alive the lies, myths, misconceptions and distortions wrapped around Jose Rizal's life, works, and writings is a moron; especially if he does it for the glory of Jesus in the Philippines. I should know. I was one hell of a moron during my school days at De La Salle University.

Of course, there are morons by degrees. The highest are those who believe that RP-Rizal forum was established to help Rizal admirers learn more about Rizal’s life, works, and writings and why he was executed as a great thinker but that he retracted, carried a rosary in his hand, wore a scapular around his neck, kissed the Jesus crucifix and died as a repentant Catholic. In the meantime, the books written by Rizal remain as banned books in all Catholic schools, colleges, and universities in the Philippines. Poch Suzara

Deadly Proverbs

Trust Jehovah with all your heart and do not lean upon own understanding. Proverbs 3:5. Discipline your children, and … they will give delight to your heart. Proverbs 29:17. How, for Jehovah’s sake, will we ever be able to understand the values of inner discipline if we do not lean upon the beauty of our own heart to shape the beauty of the heart and mind of our own children? Especially to learn how not to be a disgrace, but only to be a grace to the human race? Poch Suzara

Newspaper Headline

Campaign to save hungry children stepped up. But unless there’s also a the bigger campaign to step up making birth control and family planning a stark reality, there will be a never-ending supply of hungry children living under subhuman conditions in the Philippines.
In 1947 our population was at 18 million. Sixty years later, today in 2007 our population is at 88 million. I ask those newspaper columnists who are still insisting that there is no population growth problem in the Philippines: how have we enjoyed growth, maturity, and development as a nation? It seems clear enough our economic pie, instead of getting bigger, has only been getting smaller. Again, I ask: If God so loved the world, how has He loved the Philippines considering his only Son Jesus is more loved, worshipped, and adored here than anywhere else in the whole of Asia today? Poch Suzara

Bible Readers

Bible readers have yet to figure out why God gifted the Talking Serpent with a free will. Just exactly like those he gifted to Adam and Eve in paradise. Due to free will our first parents ended up punished by God. The Talking Serpent though cursed by God nevertheless ended up scot-free with his free will. The crawling animal, however, is still alive today in the shape of a supernatural moron. Popularly known as the devil! Quite at home and happy existing in the Philippines and deeply involved in its system of education. Poch Suzara

Atheists have No Need to Be in Foxholes

That there are no atheists in foxholes is not an argument against the atheists. It is an argument in favor of foxholes. We atheists do not kill other atheists for not believing in God. We atheists therefore have no need to dig foxholes. Poch Suzara

Foreign Investment

Any one can see that there far more security guards posted everywhere in our sick society than there are policemen posted anywhere. Indeed, security guards are posted to guard banks, money changer outlets, schools, universities, restaurants, coffee shops, shopping malls, jewelry stores, pawnshops, churches, cathedrals, residential villages, hotels, motels, government buildings, office buildings, residential condominiums, beach resorts, movie theaters, sports complex, newspaper headquarters, airports, harbors and piers, even the palace of the Archbishop of Manila as well protected by security guards.
Now which foreign investor would be interested to risk investing capital in this God-fearing, faith-soaked, corrupt-ridden, crime infested, and only Catholic country in Asia? Of course the foreign criminals would be happy to come here to be among his peers. Poch Suzara

My Aim in Life

The true division of humanity is between those few who think and those many who believe. My aim is to increase the number of those who think, and decrease the number of those who believe. Indeed, to always be on the side of human liberty that enhances universal felicity.
I'd rather see a world populated with intelligent men without religion, than see a world populated with religious men without intelligence. Indeed, religion has had thousands of years of opportunities to change and improve our world. It is time for human intelligence to take over. Poch Suzara

Pray to Mary

To pray to Jesus as God, or to pray to God as Jesus seems to me a mockery against human decency. Isn’t it more than enough that we already pray daily to Mary, the Mother of God, to pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our death, amen? Poch Suzara

It is Religiculous

It is religiculous to believe that God can create immortal human souls, but cannot create immortal human bodies. But then again, what is there to save about the silly soul since it is already immortal and therefore deathless?
There is an explanation for everything. If there were things, however, that cannot be explained, then such things are not worth believing. Poch Suzara

The Cry Baby

“Even when I walk through a dark valley, I feel no harm. For you are at my side, your rod and staff give me courage…” Psalm 23:3. These could only be the childish cries of a cry baby. One who has been taught to believe that superstitions and myths are facts, so that as a faithful believer, the clergy of his religion has full control over his life’s purpose. The control comes under the guise of “god” developed out of fear, continues to exist in fear, and ruled by fear. This fear is god itself: fear of the unknown, fear of death, fear of the mystery, fear of reality, fear of not being wanted or needed, indeed, fear of being different. In the meantime, the power of the clergy comes from nowhere except from human ignorance. Poch Suzara

On Jose Rizal

This piece is dedicated to our teachers and professors in charge to carry out Republic 1425, better known as the Rizal Law. It prescribes the teachings of Rizal’s life, works, and writings in our schools, colleges, and universities. May the youth of our land learn more to understand and appreciate this rare and great Filipino who highly valued science, the scientific way of thinking, and technology. He was executed due to, if not because of, - the power of prayer and theology. RP-Rizal Forum The main purpose of this forum has been to invite Rizal admirers to discuss the hero’s life, works, and writings. However, to learn from him not as a great man of historical creativity, intellectual activity, and especially science and philosophy; but to learn, only and sadly, something like whether Rizal was Chinese, Filipino, or Spaniard; or that if he had sired Hitler; or that Rizal was more of a catholic than he was a man of ideas, reason and logic. Indeed, to help spread more lies, myths, and childish misconceptions, if not outright distortions wrapped around him by the religious morons – the enemies of Rizal. The same evil today still pretty much in authority over the lives of millions of Filipinos. The same evil in this country promoting nothing but more of the same old biblical gimcrackery, if not ancient sacerdotal mediocrity. Rizal wrote: “We have noticed that the countries which believe most in miracles are the laziest, just as spoiled children are the most ill-mannered. Whether they believe in miracles to palliate their laziness or they are lazy because they believe in miracles, we cannot say; but the fact is the Filipinos were much less lazy before the word miracle was introduced into their language.” Today, however, thanks to the priorities of this Rp-Rizal forum – we still have nothing going for us as a nation except to wait for a miracle – especially the miracle as promised in the “New Testament.” Or, the miracle as promised by our stupid politicians - the one better known as “foreign investment.” In the meantime, other Asian countries, have be growing and maturing and developing: they have been substantiating what Rizal had been saying more than a century ago: invest time and energy in education and enlightenment via science, the scientific way of thinking, and technology. Thus far, Rizal is characterized not as an innovative thinker, scientific doubter, truth seeker, or a man of vision – a great man who tried to put intelligent beauty into this country where stupid religion has only been generating economic perversity, political stupidity and, social insanity. On this forum Rizal continues to be represented not as a thinker of great impact, or as a writer on the side of common human decency; but only as a hero killed by his enemies but that Rizal’s enemies must remain our true and faithful friends. After all, Rizal’s enemies introduce to us the concept of faith in Jesus – the Savior of the world. Hell, we Filipinos do not suffer from a social cancer. We are the victims of a religious cancer. Our blind faith sees to it that we never see it. We are proud to be college educated Christians. Who amongst us can, instead, proudly say that we are college educated Filipinos? We, the freethinkers, humanists, and heretics of this forum have had no recourse but to keep reviving, resuscitating, nay, exhuming Rizal out the cemetery to present him as one of us – alive and kicking - men of active intelligence gifted with lively analysis to assume on our shoulders what Rizal can no longer do: to continue with courage his hard struggles against the cancer called religion. The same religious disease today that’s keeping the Filipino spiritually twisted as a people and morally distorted as a nation. Look how in this 21st century, Filipinos continue to kill fellow-Filipinos. Why not? Our schools, colleges, and universities continue to teach that love of country is not that lasting; or, love of fellow-citizens is not that lasting. But that there is a better world to come after death with Jesus in heaven that will be far more everlasting. What a crock of sacred lies to keep us Filipinos aimless as a people and rudderless as a nation! Forget the Knights of Rizal. They too continue to keep the true Rizal neither graspable nor reachable to everyone. They have proven themselves more at home with the writings of Moses than they should be promoting the writings of Rizal. The aim of Rizal’s Noli and Fili was to awaken our minds and hearts as Filipinos. That we belong to our own country to love and that we must promote its welfare. The Rizal Knights, however, have not even been bothered by the historical fact that Rizal has been used, abused, and misused not just to keep the Filipino confused mentally, but also to keep the Filipino inspired to enjoy social mediocrity, political stupidity, economic perversity. We have yet to hear from individual knights of Rizal throwing their bible out the window. They are no different from those religious morons who had planned, quite surreptitiously, to get Rizal facing a firing squad. Indeed, to get Rizal dead and out of the way in order to protect the lucrative business of selling Jesus – the son of a Virgin Mary, Mother of God whom millions of Filipinos pray daily to pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our death, amen!

Where or What is God

Let us assume for the sake of argument that somewhere in one of the millions of galaxies out there God exists. The real question, however, is where is the proof that God is male or female or an it? What is the proof that God is the God of the Jews or the Christians or the Muslims?
A belief is utterly worthless unless it accords with the evidence. Faith won't do because like piety, faith is just another sacred word we often use to justify our lazy mentality. Poch Suzara

Who are the Religious Morons

They are the children who have been threatened with hellfire to believe everything that’s written in the bible is the revealed truth. But the real tragedy about these misguided boys
and girls is that they grow up to be men and women who are either too twisted mentally or too distorted spiritually to seriously read or judiciously study bible messages for themselves. They just take the vicious verses and murderous chapters written in the bible for granted. Poch Suzara

It is Incredible

It is incredible how millions of people in this 21st century are willing to hate and kill each other because of disagreements over ancient literature more popularly called the Christian Bible, the Muslim Koran, and the Jewish Torah.

As an atheist, I look forward with much gusto to seeing organized religions eventually dying as victims of its own moronic immaturity, idiotic insanity, and
endless stupidity. Poch Suzara

Egg Cell

In 1724 the egg cell was discovered by science, and people began to acknowledge that woman was the co-creator of every life, contributing half of the genetic code of every child. Suddenly virgin birth episodes became biological nonsense. The church, however, especially in the Philippines, still refuses to face this scientific truth. The church, via its schools, colleges, and universities continues to teach on the dogma of the virgin birth of the Virgin Mother of God who gave birth to Jesus as a virgin child. Poch Suzara

As a Little Boy

I still remember as a little boy how I hated to go to church and how hated to go to school. They were places where one receives stupid answers, but we were never encouraged to raise intelligent questions. Indeed, churches and schools, just like colleges and universities are institutions established for one purpose only – to be in the mind control lucrative business.
Take a good look at the millions of college educated men and women of this country. They
are more at home as stupid believers, but hardly have the time nor the energy to learn to become intelligent thinkers. Poch Suzara

Great Scientific Discoveries

“Great scientific discoveries,” wrote E.O. Wilson, “are like sunrises. First they touch just the tips of a few peaks and steeples; then they illuminate the world.” I entirely agree. I must say, however, that if a few scientific discoveries have fallen into the hands of corrupt politicians in cahoots with corrupt businessmen, what the world nevertheless would need is not less, but more scientific discoveries. Indeed, thanks to the power of science, we are starting to shift our confidence from the power of divinity to the power of human technology. Poch Suzara

Woman

“The great question… which I have not been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, is what does a woman want?” Wrote Sigmund Freud.

Perhaps, he was just being facetious?

Fatherhood is impossible without motherhood – the carrier of male babies who grow up to be a men never knowing what to do or how to understand and appreciate with women.
For my part, I love and respect my mother – a woman. Without her wanting me, I never would have been born in this world. And until we all recognize the fact that women should always be the ones on top of men - we will never be able to fix the problems and troubles of our chauvinistic, if not psychotic male world. Poch Suzara

The Politics of Destruction

The only way we can destroy the politics of destruction is to destroy first the religion of destruction. After all, stupid politics is just one of the many stupid products of stupid religion.
Look at the Philippines, destructive politics in cahoots with destructive religion keep the Flipino enjoying self-deception as the foundation of its traditional way of life. Poch Suzara

Western Civilization

“The Western civilization is directing everyone toward materiality; while money, gluttony and carnal desire are made the greatest aspiration.” Ayatollah Khomeini

I agree; but what is even more evil about Western civilization is that it is the product of Judaism that gave birth to Christianity as Christianity gave birth to Islam. Meanwhile, the history of Western civilization is not about the hate and war of good against evil. It has been, and still is about the hate and war among three great evil religions of the world against each other. And for God's sake and glory in heaven too. Poch Suzara

The Bible and Multiplication Table

We only have to read and understand but once the Multiplication Table and use it creatively for the good life – one inspired by love and guided by knowledge. The Holy Bible has been read daily for centuries throughout the Western world. No one seems to understand it. In fact, our world has gotten more infested with troubles and problems due to bible disagreements. It is filled with hate and violence and bigotry as inspired by a biblical divinity in order to promote nothing except the fearful existence of deviltry. Poch Suzara

Power

The power of divinity and the power of deviltry - both come from only one source – the power of theocracy as inspired by the power of human stupidity. It is perpetually being generated by the power of infinity. Poch Suzara

Precious Mind

I said it before, I say it again: Health is the best kind of wealth. The most priceless treasure any one can possess in this world is a precious mind. Especially the kind of mind that moves on wheels scientifically, and not the kind that’s stuck on hinges ecclesiastically. In the long run, nothing else matters, nothing else counts. Unless of course just before you die and leave this world, your are able to convert your dollars into traveler’s checks and take it with you. Hello Vatican Bank! Poch Suzara

Senator Ninoy Aquino

Senator Benigno “Ninoy” Aquino, a devout Christian, days before he was assassinated, said: “The Filipino is worth dying for.” In order, however, to keep up with up with our religious beliefs and Christian values in the Philippines we, the Filipino, - had killed him.

Today, after twenty four years since Ninoy’s death, the Filipino goes on killing fellow-Filipinos; especially killing love and respect for each other, and killing love of country. All for the sake of proving how devoted we all are as faithful Christians in this only Christian country in Asia. Poch Suzara

Faith

Faith is mostly based on fear and ignorance. When the religious morons admit that they love it since their faith is being tested and strengthened by my arguments against faith, I clearly see why we are such a sick and a corrupt people struggling to exist against each other in our faith-soaked, God-forsaken - sick society. Poch Suzara

Science

Science is never dogmatic. It is always tentative. There is nothing definite as everything in science is subject to change or emendation. That is why it works. When I say, however, that science inspired me to conclude that God does not exists, I admit I am not being scientific. I am rather, and proudly so, only being quite emphatic. Poch Suzara

Agnostic and an Atheist

An agnostic is a thinking youth. An atheist is a thinking man. The evolution from ecclesiasticism to agnosticism is a simple fact. The evolution towards atheism is a greater fact. Poch Suzara

Religious Morons

In this 21st century only the religious morons believe that Jesus Christ existed some two thousand years ago. That a Supreme Being from somewhere in one of the billions of galaxies out there, managed, somehow, to impregnate a Virgin Mary to be his mother on this earth down here. It is all based upon a biblical hogwash faithfully believed by religious morons everywhere. Poch Suzara

MOSES - God's Favorite Author and Favorite General in God's Army

How did Moses know what verse and chapter to write to compose genesis since he was not present with pencil and paper to witness at first hand not only God’s creation, but also to translate God’s dialogue with himself? What about Adam and Eve? What language did they utilize to talk to each other and to talk to God? Moses was inspired by God to write genesis? Why then would God inspire Moses to write that He made light on the first day, but on the fourth day He made the sun to light up the day and made the moon to light up the night. What kind of astronomical nonsense is this from God for Moses to report? Again, Moses says that Adam live to 930 years. The was no calendar yet existing during that time. How did Moses figured the seconds in a minute, the minutes in an hour, the hours in a day, the days in a week, the weeks in a month, the months to comprise one year? God never told Moses that the earth is round and that it orbits around the sun! That it is also foolish to try and stop it from moving. Moses also wrote that Joshua commanded the sun to stop! It is really too bad that Adam and Eve never thought of killing and cooking the talking snake for dinner and have God over for dinner as their special guest. Moses would have made more sense writing biblical history developing as revealed by God to him. In the meantime, take a good look at Moses, God's favorite author and also God's favorite general in God's army: "They attacked Midian as the Lord had commanded Moses, and they killed all the men. All five of the Midianite kings—Evi, Rekem, Zur, Hur, and Reba—died in the battle. They also killed Balaam son of Beor with the sword. Then the Israelite army captured the Midianite women and children and seized their cattle and flocks and all their wealth as plunder. They burned all the towns and villages where the Midianites had lived. After they had gathered the plunder and captives, both people and animals, they brought them all to Moses and Eleazar the priest, and to the whole community of Israel, which was camped on the plains of Moab beside the Jordan River, across from Jericho. Moses, Eleazar the priest, and all the leaders of the community went to meet them outside the camp. But Moses was furious with all the generals and captains who had returned from the battle. “Why have you let all the women live?” he demanded. “These are the very ones who followed Balaam’s advice and caused the people of Israel to rebel against the Lord at Mount Peor. They are the ones who caused the plague to strike the Lord’s people. So kill all the boys and all the women who have had intercourse with a man. Only the young girls who are virgins may live; you may keep them for yourselves." Numbers 31:7-18 Poch Suzara Twitter# Facebook# Google#

Mother Teresa

It’s great to know that for a great many years, Mother Teresa enjoyed brave moments of lucidity: She courageously doubted the existence of God.

If one were actively involved in personally assisting the poor, the sick, and the downtrodden that is really suppose to be God’s duty and responsibility, why should one not doubt the existence of God who can remedy such horrors more efficiently, if not easily with his super power as the creator of the universe?

God did not want Mother Teresa to be a robot? But are not those poor, sick and downtrodden people much better off as robots than they are miserable pieces of suffering humanity?

So Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an example that you should follow his steps. 1 Peter 2:21. What have we here – a God, the Father, a God, the Son, and a God of the Holy Spirit with nothing else better to do except suffer? For what?

But then again, what kind of supernatural monsters are these Gods if they too suffer like the rest of us natural beings suffer? Poch Suzara

Reason, Not Belief

I am told by religious morons that reason, not belief, leads to correct behavior because reason comes from God, who is the light. Well, if light comes from God, what need have we for reason to guide any of us away from harmful, if not dark beliefs? Poch Suzara

God sees our Tiny World

God sees our tiny world of hate and violence, pain, suffering, illnesses, diseases, poverty, and misery. If God, however, can still afford to feel happy and contented with his creation, I can only say that such an all-loving and merciful God has got to be something of a supernatural monster, if not some divine Jerk! Now we are told God does not want to meddle by transforming this earth into a paradise because God does not want us humans to be like robots. What stupid nonsense is this argument based upon? Any intelligent child can see how we humans, if we do not have to waste time and energy solving our silly emotional problems or dealing with our stupid religious troubles, we can devote instead our time and energy traveling around the galaxies inspecting, discovering, appreciating the beauty of God’s entire creation, and not just what he had created on this tiny planet called earth. To think that the earth is so tiny in that a million earths can easily fit inside the sun. In the meantime, traveling is like reading: it is utterly useless if one cannot change; indeed, if one refuses to make the greatest discovery of all - finding one's SELF in this world. Leonardo Da Vinci wrote briefly: "One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of the great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he could not do." As with me, in my simplicity, even during my younger years, I discovered that I should never be afraid of the power of thought. After all, for the sake of self-respect and dignity, lively intelligent thinking is always more preciious than deadly stupid believing. Poch Suzara

Who

Who determines for you to faithfully believe parts of the bible that is supposed to be written literally, or parts written metaphorically? After that biblical illusion has been determined for you, which part of your sacred delusion further determines your holy confusion? Poch Suzara

Revelation

Revelation should be something of a direct communication. Once revelation goes through a language translation, it ceases to be a first-hand communication. In fact, it becomes a second-hand information due to sacred distortion unworthy of installation for serious consideration. That God revealed himself to religious morons thousands of years ago in some foreign land has got to be some kind of biblical jactitation, and nothing to do with revelation. Poch Suzara

Lies, Distortion and Mutilation

Here is a book used in our schools. The title is Rizal’s Life, Works and Writings: their impact on our national identity. Authored by Gapino, Gonzalez, and Pineda.
Look at these religious Filipino authors mentioning on page 135 Rizal’s great interest in science and its usefulness was expressed by him in an article: “It is our duty to follow the dreary but peaceful paths of science which lead to progress and thence to the union desired by Jesus Christ and prayed for on the night of his sorrows.” (Rizal prose, page 21)

Rizal never wrote the second part of that sentence. From his Spanish writings to English, his translators maliciously distorted and if not religiously mutilated Rizal’s scientific attitude. They tried to make Rizal appear like he is some kind of a scientific dummy. This is an example of how Rizal’s written Spanish works have been mistranslated, specially by his biographer Guerrero who was more faithful and loyal to Catholic authority than he was faithful and loyal to the subject of his biography – Rizal, the courageous man of science and philosophy. Poch Suzara

Prayerful Morons

Prayerful morons prayed for rain as the nation's water supply is getting shorter. God, being so kind and generous, answered the prayers with a typhoon that brought vast devastation drowning a few among the prayerful to death by heavy rain. Then even our Archbishop asked that we pray to God for no more rain. More rains came, however, with more devastation, especially in our farms, streets and highways. In the meantime, college educated men and women of this faith-soaked country have yet to wonder why the Philippines continue to remain as a Third World country in this already 21st century. Poch Suzara

Belief or Disbelief in God

"There is a significant difference between having no belief in a God and believing there is no God…" Michael Shermer
There is, however, a greater significance in believing that even if God exists, he is not worth believing. After all, such a God eventually puts all of us to death. He needs us dead permanently more than he wants us alive temporarily?
Happily, we atheists would rather find life beautiful and delightful to live it. It is the mark of the atheistic spirit. Atheism is all about that imperative need to think and to live. It is the exact opposite with theism – it is only about the imperative need to believe and to die. Poch Suzara

Big Bang

Let's assume that God created the big bang. Why would he start the creation of the universe in total chaos that retains neither his memory nor his personality as the God of original creativity? Indeed, why should God be the nothing instead of the something that exist? Where is God to be found? Why is he so ever busy always hiding away faceless as a nothing afraid to face mankind and its sufferings always of painful something? Poch Suzara

So God Exists, So What

If God does not exist, then everything is permitted?” On the contrary, since it is widely believed, especially by the sinners and the criminals that a God exist, therefore everything is permitted. Even Voltaire wrote: “If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.” After all, who else but a God can forgive the stupid sins of the sinners against divinity; and, who else but a God can forgive the stupid crimes of the criminals against humanity? Indeed, some kind of a divinity is always needed to forgive even social insanity especially as spread by political, if not by religious stupidity. In the meantime, what does Big Foot, the Abominable Snowman, Loch Ness Monster, God, Jesus, Mary, Joseph and Satan have in common? All of these creatures were invented by the frightened faithfools to occupy the world of fantasy. Poch Suzara

Hitler's Holocaust

Hitler’s Holocaust - the killing of more than 6 million Jews in Europe during WW2 was quite a Sunday picnic compared to the American Holocaust. Since the landing of Columbus in 1492, more than 18 million native Indians have been killed in their continent. Their land, gold, silver, oil, and other valuable natural resources worth in the trillion of dollars were stolen away from these kind and generous people. And to think that many religious morons believed then that the most horrible part of this historical butchery was that those native Indians all died without accepting Jesus. Poch Suzara

Rizal and Paine and the Bible

Here are the words of the English-born American revolutionary Thomas Paine in his Age of Reason. I have no doubt Rizal while in Europe must have read this book with much gusto: “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 called 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.” Poch Suzara

Filipinos

Filipinos are disunited, not united as a people. When we Filipinos go to live and work in other countries, we continue to be disunited, not united. That’s how fragmented we are in hatred as a people. Thanks to the teachings of Christianity since the 16th century in the Philippines everywhere that we must only love divinity up there by hating one another down here. Poch Suzara

Sick World

Only a sick person could believe in a God who does not cease to create sick children to populate our sick world. Obviously God does not exist; otherwise, if he does exist, he would, indeed, be a supernatural monster highly impressed with the multitude composed of religioul morons who worship him. Poch Suzara

Truth

It does not really matter if we disagree. It does not even matter if either of us respect the other. What is essential, however, is the truth, especially the search for it. Now in the search of the truth what is first needed is that most priceless treasure any man can own on this earth – a precious mind. Otherwise, being utterly mindless will only insure that one will only remain for the rest of one's life utterly thoughtless. Poch Suzara

Faith and Doubt

I have no respect for faith as it a product of indoctrination. I have, however, a great respect for doubt. It is what gets you an education.
Faith is all about the hatred of knowledge and wisdom. Education is all about the love of the truth, especially the search for it – the noblest of man's professions. Poch Suzara

Wars Caused By Religion

People’s range of thinking seems so short, if not trivial and banal or puny. When they are told that the history of war in this world has been mostly due to religion, they deny it by mentioning that there were quite a few wars that happened which religion played no part. It had never, however, occur to these religious morons that religion has nevertheless done nothing to ameliorate the conditions that led to local or global wars.

Look back half a century and witness the role played by the Catholic Church in aiding Nazi Germany. For example the German church opened its genealogical records to the Third Reich so that a person’s Jewish ancestry could be traced. Not a single German Catholic, including Adolf Hitler, was excommunicated for committing crimes against humanity. And Hitler often claimed he was serving God. In MEIN KAMPF HE SAYS, “Hence today I believe that I am acting in accordance of the will of the Almighty Creator: by defending myself against the Jews, I am fighting for the work of the Lord.” Poch Suzara

Prayers

During the 17th, 18th, 19th and 20th century, millions upon millions of Filipinos prayed daily to Mary, Mother of God, to pray for us sinners. Today, in this 21st century more prayers are needed. More sinners are born each and every day and night. Approximately 1.7 million sinners born yearly adding to our already population problems in the Philippines at present
In the meantime college-educated Filipinos have yet to wonder why in the race among Asian nations seeking a higher standard of living, we Filipinos are left far behind too sick even to participate in the race to seek a higher standard of thinking?
Philippine foremost historian Teodoro A. Agoncillo summarized it quite truthfully. He wrote: “Self-deception is the worst tragedy of the Filipinos as a people.” Poch Suzara

Religious Wars

As an atheist I have no need to take sides to any of the insane religious wars going on and escalating in our world today among the Christians and Muslims and Jews - hating and killing each other for the sake of a dogma, pigma, or a hogma.
I would rather be on the side of a local sanity as I am rooting for the happiness of humanity via global tranquility. I do not believe in the existence of the God of the Christians, or in the existence of Allah – the God of the Muslims, or in the existence of Yahweh – the God of the Jews. It is incredible how supernatural beings could be standing behind these great religions of the world existing to promote dreadful disgrace, instead of enhancing beautiful grace for the whole human race. Poch Suzara

No More Jose Rizals

Filipinos have set up for Jose Rizal - monuments, statues, museums, shrines, universities, province, bridges, streets, towns, theatres, including a Forum on the internet in his name. There are even religious morons who call themselves “Knights of Rizal.”
I have yet, however, to meet one rare Filipino who has been profoundly clear and consistently courageous in carrying out what Jose Rizal could no longer do. After Rizal was arrested, incarcerated, and then executed in 1896 – who amongst us Filipinos have carried out to a higher, deeper, and wider levels his struggles against human stupidity, especially as inspired by organized religion promoting nothing but a sick and a corrupt society? Indeed, only sick men and women could believe in a sick divinity - one who does not cease creating sick children to populate a sick society! Rizal exalted the values of science and technology; not useless prayer or mindless theology. Too bad I am not a Filipino scientist like Jose Rizal was, neither am I a college educated Filipino from great universities in Europe. If I were, I would gladly have carried on the works of Jose Rizal’s ambition to remedy the evils of Christianity that’s keeping the Filipino sick, rotten, and corrupt in this eternally faith-soaked country. Poch Suzara

Jose Rizal Asked

“Where are the youth who will consecrate their golden hours, their dreams, and their enthusiasm to the welfare of their native land? Where are the youth who will generously pour out blood to wash away so much shame, so much crime, so much abomination? Pure and spotless must the victim be! Where are you youth, who will embody in yourselves the vigor of life that has left our veins, the purity of ideas that has been contaminated in our brains, the fire of enthusiasm that has been quenched in our hearts? We await you, O Youth! Come, for we await you!”

Ever since the death of Rizal by public execution in 1896, the history of the Filipino people has been the daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly struggle to deny the power of the human mind with knowledge, and to reject the beauty of the human heart with wisdom. Indeed, to be not happy, sane, and culturally constructive; but only to be unhappy, insane, and traditionally destructive.

Thanks to the faith-soaked teachers and professors in our schools, colleges, and universities – millions of Filipinos have yet to be taught how to substantiate the words of Jose Rizal: “I would like the Filipinos to be brilliant, enlightened, intelligent, and progressive.”

Sadly, even the Knights of Rizal have been busy promoting social and political insanity in this God-forsaken country. Especially for the sake of preserving in this faith-soaked 21st century – the beliefs and values of Christianity.

In this world, when one person suffers from a delusion, it is called insanity. When millions of people suffer from a delusion, in the Philippines, it is called Christianity. Poch Suzara

Rizal and Jesus

Jesus said: “Verily I say unto you, Except ye be converted, and become as little children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven. Whosoever therefore shall humble himself as this little child, the same is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven.” Matt. 18:1-4.

Jose Rizal said: I place as a condition the education of the people so that by means of instruction and industry, our country may have a personality of her own and be worthy of her liberties.”

If we Filipinos have only been exposed to the teachings of a terrestrial Jose Rizal, and not exposed to the teachings of an extra-terrestrial Jesus Christ – in our schools, colleges, and universities – Philippine historian Teodoro A. Agoncillo need not have concluded: “Self-deception is the worse tragedy of the Filipinos as a people.” Poch Suzara

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.
Google Blogs Alert for: Knights of Rizal NCAA: Knights stump Altas, 63-56, to regain solo leadThe Letran Knights regained the solo leadership in the men's standings after it defeated Wednesday afternoon the University of Perpetual Help Rizal Dalta (UPHRD) Altas, 63-56, in the 83rd NCAA men's basketball tournament at The Arena in ...GMA News.tv - http://www.gmanews.tv/ Poch Suzara

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

Death After Death

Nothing is more natural and more simple than to believe that the dead man lives no more, nothing more absurd than to believe that the dead man is still living.
To claim that the souls of men will be happy or unhappy after the death of the body, is to pretend that man will be able to see without eyes, to hear without ears, to taste without a palate, to smell without a nose, to feel without hands and without skin, to have thoughts without a brain.
Grown men and women of this forum who believe themselves very rational, adopt, nevertheless, such absurdities.
Don’t you people ever think that it is time to extricate yourselves up and out of that “overextended infantile syndrome” and begin to question the concept of immortality?
How can immortality consist of a “hereafter” when there is no evidence that there was ever a “herebefore?” Immortality must consist of both the “hereafter” and the “herebefore” or else there is no immortality! Poch Suzara

The Malicious Gods

"Those whom the Gods wish to destroy they first make mad.” That’s how malicious the Gods are to each other creating, and, indeed, also atrocious at destroying. For no reason at all, the Gods seem even to be more mad at each other; though not as mad as the religious morons always ready to destroy each other in God’s name in heaven or for the glory of Jesus in paradise. Poch Suzara

Low Intelligence

Why do most people still cling to religious beliefs when presented with logic and evidence – conclusive evidence – against it?
Low intelligence is the main cause of religiosity. After all, thinking is much harder than believing – hence the great preponderance of believers over thinkers in all ages and cultures. Especially in the Philippines – the only Christian country in Asia – mostly populated by believers and not by thinkers. In fact the first and last real thinker we had in this God-forsaken country was Jose Rizal. He was executed in 1896 by the Catholic church for thinking too much. Ever since then, we have become a nation of stupid believers rather than intelligent thinkers.

A Religion Worthy of Trust

Of course only the religious morons will insists that we cannot live without a religion; especially RELIGION defined as the daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.
However, RELIGION defined as teaching our children to believe in the potentials of and for humanity, and not for some silly divinity, I would be among the first to embrace such a RELIGION as worthy of trust.
Wasn’t Jose Rizal himself, as a man of science, more concerned about cultivating the minds and hearts of the Filipinos in this world rather than about saving the silly souls going to the next world?
In the meantime, there seems to be a terrible confusion on the part of a great many religious morons to the effect that when you no longer believe you may no longer behave. Poch Suzara

Bertrand Russell's Logic, mathematics, and the Computer

One should read and study the works of Bertrand Russell. He has been described by great mathematicians as the greatest logician since Aristotle. Indeed, Russell showed that there were many forms of inferences than Aristotle had thought three thousand years ago. Aristotle tried to guard against fallacious reasoning by making a complete list – they might be called working rules – of all forms of deduction which are valid. Aristotle decided that these were nearly all syllogistic: for example, “All men are mortal, Socrates is a man, therefore Socrates is mortal.” Russell showed how much more there was to logic, and that syllogisms should have no such pre-eminence. But that is not all. When asked why Russell was a great logician, there is another important answer which is somewhat a paradoxical one; it was because he showed how little logic can do. Meantime, Russell not only insisted on the importance of philosophy and science to each other, he also tried to redefine the fundamental principles of mathematics on a few basic laws of logic. The whole project may have been misconceived and a grand failure, but it helped to make modern logic the analytical tool that it is today. Though he himself never realized it, Russell was, indeed, one of the founders of the modern computer age. Yes sir, that's the machine facing you right now at this very moment! Poch Suzara

Focus on Rizal

Only a religious moron can relate to, and agree with, another religious moron. This is usually referred to as the communion of saints and sinners.
Only a great man can read and understand and relate with other great men. This is usually referred to as the communion philosophers and thinkers.
Too bad for Jose Rizal – among the rarest of Filipino thinkers. The religious morons, those in authority, including his own Knights, have unduly reduced this great Filipino into an ordinary run-of-the-mill Filipino. They promote what the other religious historians have declared to be part of Philippine history. That before he was executed, crying like a frightened little boy, our national hero Jose Rizal went to confession, mass and communion and that he retracted. In other words, Rizal was like a little hero proud to confess his sins to a deluded priest, heard mass said by a mediocre priest, and received communion given by a stupid priest. As if these were the courageous activities worthy of a hero eager to be a winner in the childish rat-race for salvation? Meanwhile, in this poor and backward country, our schools, colleges, and universities continue to teach that Jose Rizal retracted. He therefore never really taught us how to think intelligently; but only what to believe what the religious morons have always believed traditionally.
Thus, only the religious morons can relate to, and agree with, other religious morons. Only great men can read and understand and relate with other truly great men.
To a few thinking Filipinos, however, who could read, understand, and relate to him, - Jose Rizal was always a thinking man, incorruptible, fearless and unbribable. Indeed, Rizal was never, ever, a saint - one who is always useless, if not always worthless, and indeed, always senseless – especially in the task of elevating the welfare of the Filipino as a people in the here and in the now. Poch Suzara

Reading the Bible

Most Christians in general and Catholics in particular do not read the bible from cover to cover. They even say that it is not important to read the bible as what is more important is having “faith in God.”
When, however, they read verses in the bible but do not understand what they are reading - they call it “divine wisdom.”
For my part, I am no longer in a quandary as I used to be when I was a little boy in school. I have come to the conclusion that there isn’t that much of a difference if the bible produced the religious morons or, the religious morons produced the bible. I think both mutually produced each other! Poch Suzara

Belief

If a belief is false, it cannot be true, even if it is called “sacred belief.” Indeed, a false belief anywhere is a false belief everywhere.
In the meantime, contradict yourself and you are sure to be wrong. Not to watch out for contradiction is the same as not watching out for the truth. We are all, each and every one of us - guilty. The most we can do is to be fully aware of the mess. In the meantime, never mind the revealed Truth. It has never been revealed! Poch Suzara

All Boys

All boys are born supot. It is therefore an insult to God when boys get circumcised. The male organ with the prepuce cut away is not the way God created it in his own image and likeness. Indeed, far more original than the original sin is the original supot! Poch Suzara

Rizal's Retraction

My good friend Manny Almario wrote: “If Rizal heard mass, went to confession, took communion and married Josephine, how come there were no photographs of these alleged events, while there was a photograph of his execution? And Rizal's photograph at execution did not show him holding a rosary around his hand or wearing a scapular around his neck! People who tell lies about him are traitors to our country.” Poch Suzara

Necessity

“Necessity is the most powerful divinity the world knows, and necessity is the resultant of physical forces set in operation by ethical forces." - Jose Rizal
Poor Jose Rizal, I bet it had never crossed his brilliant mind that in the future his own Knights of Rizal and the majority of RP-Rizal Forum discussants would be praying to Necessity to pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our death, amen?

Belief in Which God

I don’t believe in God? Which God? The God of Islam, Judaism, Shintoism, Christianity, Confucianism, Taoism, Buddhism, Hinduism or Brahmanic God. There are ten thousand others Gods out there. Perhaps, I should believe in the UNKNOWN God also mentioned to the holy bible. See ACTS 17:23
Indeed, the bible is a wonderful source of inspiration especially for those who do not bother read it or even to understand it.
Nothing is sacrosanct to the mind of an atheist. Everything must be examined. Everything must be questioned. Everything must be put under scrutiny and tested by objective criteria. Anything that cannot be measured up, anything which succumbs before an onslaught of questions, should never be tolerated by the human mind.
To be an atheist, one must first enrich one’s precious mind with knowledge based upon science and the scientific way of thinking. Also, it is not possible to be an atheist if one chooses to remain ignorant of the contents of holy books.
Life’s purpose of the atheists is to involve mankind to lift itself up out of the deadly maelstrom of superstitious nonsense that continue to generate hate and war that does not upgrade, but only degrade – our one and only precious world. Poch Suzara

Play God

“A lot of our problems and miseries happen whenever we play God, and refuse to obey and follow Him.” Fr. Jerry M. Orbos, SVD.

It obviously never occurred to this shallow-minded priest that as soon as God plays the role of a decent God, we too can begin to live like decent men, decent women, and decent children in this God-forsaken country since Christianity arrived here some 400 years ago.

For Christ’s sake, haven’t we been already praying daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly to Jesus for, “Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven.” Is heaven such a sick place too? Poch Suzara

Beautiful Message

Here is beautiful message from a beautiful song sang by beautiful people: “For, what is man, what has he got, if not himself then he has not to say the things he truly feels and not the words of one who kneels – the record shows I took the blows and did it My Way.” By the way, if only such beautiful words were written in the holy bible – I never would have learned how to embrace atheism. We atheists say things we truly feel as well as we feel what we truly say. We have no need to kneel down to religious morons, especially those created in the image and likeness of God! Poch Suzara

Why I Love Bertrand Russell

As a little boy, my father-confessor in school, often told me that I am not a perfect being. I should therefore always kneel down and ask God for the forgiveness of my defects and seek only obliteration. Never mind reconstruction.
Bertrand Russell arrived into my life when I got to be 18 years old. He said: “No
one is perfect and we should never be bothered by the fact that no one is perfect.”
If there were ever a thinker I have learned to love, worship, and adore – such a thinker was Bertrand Russell. Indeed, Russell saved not my stupid soul; he saved, instead, my intelligent mind.
Oh Bertrand Russell, whenever you are - thank you for showing me intellectual courage to face human stupidity everywhere keeping our world still infested with religious and political insanity. Poch Suzara

What if the Pinoys and Pinays

What if the more than the 10 million Pinoys and Pinays doing great, useful, valuable, and meritorious jobs in some 162 countries around the world today were doing exactly the same work right here in our own country? Wouldn’t that help the Philippines grow and develop into one of the healthiest and wealthiest countries in Asia today? Unfortunately, we Filipinos do not love our country nor do we love fellow Filipinos. Why should we? We were taught to believe to love only God, Jesus, Mary, and Joseph and the saints of the church. In fact, to love only any of those supernatural characters who will insure our salvation in the next world after death. In the meantime, take a good look at our dilemma. It has been going for almost 100 years now: we have government officials, but hardly have we a government. Especially a government working for the people and with the people. Poch Suzara

Why I do not Believe in God

I do not believe in God because I do not believe that a God created man in his own image and likeness. All men are born supot. I do not believe in a God who is Himself an Almighty supot. Poch Suzara.

Think of It

Jesus was crucified on a cross by the same religious morons who were created by God in his own image and likeness. And to think this is the same God who had an illicit affair with Virgin Mary - who got pregnant with baby boy Jesus. Poor Joseph, her husband, he got so dumbstruck after he was told by God’s angel that his wife Mary was still a virgin.
I ask: do any of you religious morons really believe in this biblical hogwash? Poch Suzara

What If

What if God answered the prayers of people to recover from cancer, would not that discovery for the cure of cancer no longer be a problem for medical scientists to solve? To think the Son of God Jesus cured leprosy in his community some 2,000 years ago. Unfortunately, Jesus never divulged to any one how to cure leprosy on a permanent basis. Jesus himself miserably failed to do so. Leprosy is still much of a debilitating disease in our world today. Especially in the Philippines - the only Catholic country in Asia since the 16th century. Poch Suzara

Silly Beliefs

“For those who believe, no explanation is necessary. For those who don’t believe, no explanation is needed.” What tragedy must be those who believe needlessly. To begin with, no explanation was needed for them to start believing. They just began to believe as frightened into them by religious bullies to believe. As if a belief, any belief for that matter, - could be of any value to what could perpetually be false, if not worthless, nay, harmful belief - especially as it encourages the life of fear and thoughtlessness. Poch Suzara

Poor Philippines

I remember as a teen-ager some 40 years ago I listened to my father, grandfather, and uncles arguing about the situation in the Philippines as a nation. Always doing poorly in significant categories like domestic economy, international trade, import/export, international investment, employment, government efficiency; but doing quite well in graft and corruption and political instability.
I thought then to myself, what could we expect of ourselves as a nation waiting for the Second Coming of the Lord to fix our troubles and problems. Even the soul of our own national hero Jose Rizal was thought to have made it to heaven after he was executed for writing against Catholic authority will be coming with the Lord back to the Philippines. Poch Suzara

The Mother of All Miracles

A man of blind faith able to see absolutely nothing except see the invisible God who, according to him, is a spirit here, a spirit there, and a spirit everywhere! In fact, the man of blind faith even believes that an invisible God created him in God's own image and likeness. Poch Suzara

Conscience

Conscience is not innate. It is acquired through evolution and education. It also varies with geography. Otherwise, if conscience were universally planted, then people everywhere would cherish similar beliefs and values. We would all embrace one standard of morality. There would be no disagreement over what is right or wrong. There would be no need for policemen, no need for laws and lawyers, judges in court; no need for a military to go to war to settle disputes. In this connection, throughout the world the religion of mankind is determined by the geographical accident of their birth. In England men grow up Protestants; in Italy, Catholics; in Russia, Greek Christians; in Turkey, Mohammedans; in India, Brahmans; in China, Buddhists or Confucians; in the Philippines, Christians as Christians must hate other Christians. What they are taught in their childhood they believe in their manhood; and they die in the faith in which they have lived. In the meantime, the Revealed Truth in the holy bible has yet to be revealed. Poch Suzara

Sin

Sin lies only in hurting other people maliciously if not needlessly. All other “sins” are superstitious nonsense bordering on ridiculosity. Poch Suzara

Poor Jose Rizal

As Christians in this only Christian country in Asia, we do not even read and know the bible contents! As Filipinos why should we read and know the writings of Jose Rizal? There was nothing different about Rizal. He was just like the rest of us religious morons in this country. After all, hours before he was executed by the religious morons of his day, Rizal, like a frightened little boy crying, went to confession, heard mass, received communion as he retracted! Of course there is also this ecclesiastical hogwash written by catholic scholars that Rizal retracted not with his brilliant mind, but only with his broken heart. So that Rizal ended up as a winner in the rat-race for salvation. His soul made it to heaven. In fact, I am told by grown up Pinoys and Pinays that Rizal in heaven today is most likely busy just like Mary, the Mother of God, praying for us sinners now and at the hour of our death, amen! Rizal was executed because he was promoting the good life – one inspired by love and guided by knowledge, indeed, he was cultivating human intelligence as the scientific way of life in the Philippines. Thanks to the religious morons who won against Rizal, including winning against his so-called Knights of Rizal, we just continue to be a nation of religious morons. Indeed, in the God-forsaken country, hundreds of millions of Filipinos never cease to employ religion as its major weapon in the war against reality. Poch Suzara

Most Pinoys

Most Pinoys, like most Americans, think of nothing but money. When they do make money, however, they just continue as ever to be selfish, greedy, stupid, and insane. In this connection, I have greatest admiration for the billionaire Bill Gates. He is neither a Pinoy nor an American. He is just a decent man – an exceptional wealthy individual - a total grace for the whole human race. His billions lavishly distributed to educational and philanthropic institutions that does not even bear his name. Indeed, Bill Gates has worthy causes and projects that puts beauty and intelligence into this world where governments have put only the horror of negligence. Though I never got my project off the ground, I am nevertheless proud of what I tried to do a few years ago. I submitted a proposal to the Bill Gates Foundation to assist me financially and morally to set up a chain of public libraries to be established around strategic points throughout the Philippines. Inside these public libraries will also be the center of family planning and birth control information clinic. Much to my regret, however, I never was able to raise funds out of my own to make a formal Project Study as required by the Bill Gates Foundation for its consideration. Poch Suzara

Great Religions

All the great religions of the world: Hinduism, Buddhism, Shintoism, Taoism, Confucianism, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam have their own common roots in fear and ignorance. Otherwise the Revealed Truths of God would have been an unlimited impact on global history rather than just the limited faith of a local mystery. Poch Suzara