Rizal wrote:

“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 sane, or be culturally constructive; but only to be insane, and traditionally destructive. Thanks to teachers in our schools, and to professors in our colleges and universities – millions of Filipinos have yet to learn 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 country, when one Pinoy suffers from a delusion, it is called insanity. When millions of Pinoys suffer from a confusion complicated by a delusion as inspired by corruption, it is called Christianity. Poch Suzara

If Rizal Died as a Penitent Catholic

If Rizal retracted and died not as heretic, but as a penitent catholic, how come he was never given a catholic burial? Rizal wrote: “Some write history to flatter or lower their enemies, others to support religious opinions with facts which they mutilate to suit their convenience.” Poch Suzara

Religion

I hate religion. It is the story of mankind mired in mindless sin and senseless crime and thoughtless violence, war, and death. Religion has also been and still is the story of human misery. Divinity who is the ultimate mystery, is never, in the ultimate analysis, an embraceable entity. And yet religion teaches us to love, worship, and adore such a divinity as a heavenly perplexity inextricably mixed with ecclesiastical complexity for the sake of nothing except to promote nothing but a sick society. Poch Suzara

Medicine

Medicine, and its ability to keep people alive who would otherwise be dead, is an amazing achievement of science.
Sadly, silly religion, to this day, continue to struggle against the growth and development and maturity of science – the real savior of our world.
For my part, I love science. It has exposed the mystery of religion as something of a triviality, a mediocrity, an everlasting mockery chasing after infinity. Poch Suzara

Our Greatest Good

Our greatest good may come from our deepest suffering.
This is sacred hogwash mixed with holy cow dung. What if your suffering comes from religious belief that was imposed upon you since childhood years? And it turns out that the greatest good can only be found after you are dead mindlessly and buried in a Catholic cemetery resting in peace thoughtlessly? Poch Suzara

Hating One Another

Hating one another is common in theology, not in psychology, because in psychology there is the possibility of discovering the harmony of rationality. In theology, however, there is only the complexity of imbecility masquerading as faith in the invisible complexity of a mysterious divinity. Poch Suzara

I am Told

I am told that God created the human brain. But which part of the brain – the mammalian part or the reptilian part? How odd of God to have created the animal part in anything that is already human.

In the meantime, if dogma is what you die for, and faith is what you kill for, then reason is what I live for. Indeed, reason is what makes me think – the difference between what makes me human and no longer an animal. Poch Suzara

My Ancestors

How many ancestors would a person have - assuming no interbreeding, 24 generations in the past? The answer – 16,777,216 ancestors. The real issue for me, however, is not who among my ancestors made it to heaven; or, who among my ancestors ended up punished in hell; but why did God have to create in his own image and likeness all those millions of Catholic ancestors of mine during these past centuries just to finally produce me, a die-hard atheist, in this century? So I am in the minority. So what? I am still an atheist! Poch Suzara Twitter# Facebook# Google#

Religion as Big Business

The religious morons, the pathetic bobos, the stupid fatheads, and the ecclesiastical wimps are among the kind of victims that make organized religions such a lucrative business in this poor and backward country.

Indeed, Brother Mike Velarde of El Shaddai, Brother Eddie Villaneuva of Jesus is Lord Movement, and Eli Soriano of Dating Daan are very wealthy religious leaders today in our sick society. Imagine these panderers among the few rich and the famous operating the business of selling Jesus only for decades as compared to the wealth, power, and glory of the Catholic church and Iglesia Ni Cristo operating the business of selling Jesus for centuries in this poor and backward country.

In the Philippines, Christianity has never been a religion. It has always been and still is an industry. Overshadowing the minor religious corporations in the Philippines is the major one - the Catholic church - the owner of the richest and most powerful bank in the world today - the Vatican Bank! Poch Suzara

The Chicken

Why did the chicken cross the road? Perhaps, it was dumbstruck enough not to have grasped the truth that all roads in the end lead to death and decay.
For my part, on either side of my road, I’d rather leave it as a better pathway for others to improve further upon to inspire all those after me on the same road to live the good life – one inspired by love and guided by knowledge. Poch Suzara

Catholic Bishops

No one, but no one, is happy and contented with life on this earth. The rich and poor alike have their measure of troubles, if not their level of problems. Even the Catholic bishops are bored and unhappy while attending to things spiritual. To get some excitement into their religiously empty, if not spiritually, barren lives - they meddle with things sexual, if not menstrual. And this is for no reason at all except to make a nuisance of themselves to bring more excitement into our sick society. Poch Suzara

Philippine Media

The Philippine media could mold public opinion to admire science rather than religion; to love philosophy rather than theology. To know and not just to believe. Indeed, the media could very well promote all that is creative for our society, and so diminish the impulses and desires that center round Filipinos getting more selfish, greedy, stupid, and insane. And yet, Filipino editors and columnists of newspapers and magazines; teachers and professors of schools, colleges and universities; producers and directors of the movie and television industry - all share a common interests together in this country: - they all try their utmost best to keep all of their readers and students and audiences as thoughtless as ever so as not to displease the Catholic Bishops enjoying theological and political control of the Filipino way of life in the Philippines. And to think that these are the same Bishops who are the experts with the Revealed Truth that has yet to be revealed.

In the meantime, thanks to daily mediocrity behind the power of media always in cahoots with government and the church faithfully, we are aimless as a people and rudderless as a nation. Poch Suzara

Beliefs

Beliefs come and go. The power of reason, however, goes on forever searching for more knowledge. Indeed, knowledge that is much needed to make our beliefs more in line with finding, if any, the truth. Poch Suzara

God in the Bible is Evil

Religious morons who claim to read and worship the words of the bible tend to be so ignorant about just what the bible says. Many of them have no idea whatsoever that god is quoted many times in the bible admitting that he is in fact evil. Please read on:

Isaiah 45:7 I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things.

Exodus 32:14 And the LORD repented of the evil which he thought to do unto his people.

Joshua 23:15 Therefore it shall come to pass, that as all good things are come upon you, which the LORD your God promised you; so shall the LORD bring upon you all evil things.

Judges 9:23 Then God sent an evil spirit

1 Samuel 16:14 But the Spirit of the LORD departed from Saul, and an evil spirit from the LORD troubled him.

2 Samuel 12:11 Thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will raise up evil against thee out of thine own house

1 Kings 9:9 ...therefore hath the LORD brought upon them all this evil.

1 Kings 14:10 Therefore, behold, I will bring evil upon the house of Jeroboam.

2 Kings 6:33 ...Behold, this evil is of the LORD;

2 Kings 21:12 Therefore thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Behold, I am bringing such evil upon Jerusalem and Judah, that whosoever heareth of it, both his ears shall tingle.

2 Kings 22:16 Thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will bring evil upon this place

Nehemiah 13:18 Did not your fathers thus, and did not our God bring all this evil upon us, and upon this city?

Jeremiah 4:6 Set up the standard toward Zion: retire, stay not: for I will bring evil from the north, and a great destruction.

Jeremiah 6:19 Hear, O earth: behold, I will bring evil upon this people

Jeremiah 11:11 Therefore thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will bring evil upon them

Jeremiah 25:29 For, lo, I begin to bring evil

Jeremiah 35:17 Therefore thus saith the LORD God of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will bring upon Judah and upon all the inhabitants of Jerusalem all the evil that I have pronounced against them:

Jeremiah 44:2 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Ye have seen all the evil that I have brought upon Jerusalem, and upon all the cities of Judah

Jeremiah 45:5 ...behold, I will bring evil upon all flesh, saith the LORD

Jeremiah 49:37 ...I will bring evil upon them, even my fierce anger, saith the LORD; and I will send the sword after them, till I have consumed them

Micah 1:12 .... evil came down from the LORD

Micah 2:3 Therefore thus saith the LORD; Behold, against this family do I devise an evil

What's the Sexual Difference...

What's the sexual difference between the words: mating, procreating, copulating, impregnating, propagating, fecundating, and fucking? In order to penetrate a woman’s vagina, the man must have an erection. In order to have an erection, however, all the blood in man’s brain must travel down to his sex organ. Thus, a hard-on is blood somewhat solidified. The same thing goes with the woman sexually excited. All the blood in her brain goes down into her sexual organ. So in reality, we are completely brainless when we follow God's command to multiply and replenish the earth. Now consider seriously the physical position that a man and woman must assume in order to have children! It has got to be one of the most ridiculous position figured out by the would-be mothers and would-be fathers of this world. The Pro-lifers are proud to teach God’s commands, especially the 4th, - Honor thy mother and father - even to children struggling to survive under subhuman conditions in the streets of our major cities. As if strength of character, or a high I.Q. is a necessity to get a woman pregnant to be a mother. Honor is not something given or shown. It must be earned. In the meantime, life, indeed, is but a sexually transmitted disease with a mortality rate of 100 per cent. For my part, as an atheist, instead of looking forward to a better life to come after I am dead, I would rather try and leave this world a better place than I found it. Or there would be very little reason for my having lived. Poch Suzara

My Filipino Friend on the Greatness of Dr. Jose Rizal

I give space here for my great Filipino friend - Gil C. Fernandez - on his views about our Jose Rizal. I said it before, I say it again: If only our schools, colleges, and universities taught less about Jesus Christ by teaching more about our Jose Rizal - the Filipinos today would be one of the healthiest people and the Philippines one of the wealthiest of countries in all of Asia today. Poch Suzara The Catholic Church is the greatest beneficiary of Spain colonization of the Philippines. It has gained unimaginable wealth and power, amidst poverty, overpopulation, suffering and misery of the Filipino people. It has introduced the concept of heaven, hell and purgatory to obtain obedience from the people. Confession, to control the community, a classic example was the discovery of the Katipunan, which was leaked out through the confessional. It has spread alleged miracles to fool the people. It exploited the people as proved by the possession of the best lands in many parts of the country; the biggest tract of lands in central Luzon belongs to the Dominicans. The most expensive schools and hospitals belong to this church, and the biggest depositor in the Bank of the Philippine Island is the Archbishop of Manila. And this church, the richest church in the world, has not been paying taxes to a country which is considered one of the poorest countries in the world,-- which is the Philippines. Even after more than a century after the catholic religion was declared not the official religion of the country and the introduction separation of Church and State in the Philippine, the Filipino people still suffer from religious fanaticism. There is still a very important need for the Filipino people to learn even more the life, works and writings of Jose Rizal. As I said before, let the words of Rizal serve as a boost in our morale, not to allow the continuation of this ruthless tyranny, hypocrisy, and the taking advantage of our poor people by this powerful Catholic Church. Let Rizal be the inspiration of our youth, a role model in the struggle for a good life, and to emulate the virtues of this great man, -Dr. Jose Rizal. Written by Gil C. Fernandez, August 2008 Springfield, Illinois Facebook# Twitter# Google#

War

War is always big business for the munition makers. They naturally do everything possible to market the idea of war such as war is the only way to settle international disputes. More often than not, the munition industry will even concoct such disputes by declaring it to be the war for freedom and democracy, or for God. In fact, war is mostly about men killing other men so that the munition makers will earn big profits. Poch Suzara

Indecision

When you do not or cannot make a decision, indecision takes over. When you refuse to think for yourself someone else will think for you. At most time, it is usually referred to as having “faith in God’s Will.” In the meantime, there is no such as thing the right decision or the wrong decision. There is only evil of indecision. We must face the fact that life is a series of decisions. We must learn to never be afraid to make decisions. Poch Suzara

Loneliness

Loneliness has always been an emotionally painful experience. Today, however, paradoxically enough, loneliness is a shared way of life. Even within the family members. In loneliness, they pray together to stay together. Too bad prayers don’t work. More families are derailed in this century than it was during the last century. Poch Suzara

Progress

If Progress only means the accumulation of money, then it becomes a mockery against human decency. In fact, progress should be like a flowering tree with many branches extending to the future. As a product of the power of the intellect, progress is not revolution. It is evolution. Progress should mean a better tomorrow than it was a better yesterday.
Take, for example, progress in education: more and flexible learning should occur outside, rather than inside, crowded school rooms. Poch Suzara