Our Greatest Strength

“Our greatest strength is often shown in our ability to stand still and trust God.” Phil Star Jan. 8,2000

On the contrary, our greatest strength is often shown in our capacity to stand up and tell God that enough is enough. Oh God, dear God, you were a such a God in the beginning good; unfortunately, in the end, you are good for nothing. Where is your power under your own free will to change and improve creation? Why are you so busy at only being omni-absent; never busy at being omni-present? Poch Suzara

Corruption

It is often said that what goes up must always come down. Not however in our corrupt society. Corruption never comes down. It always goes up. Look how in this already 21st century, we spiritually corrupt Filipinos are still praying to a God up there to “give us this day our daily bread,” and to “lead us not into temptation” down here.

We also pray daily to Mary, the corrupt Mother of God, - to “pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of our death, amen.” Poch Suzara

GMA

When Gloria Macapagal Arroyo publicly declared that “God put me here,” we all laughed privately at her as she became the new President of our country.

We forgot, however, to laugh at ourselves too. GMA’s God is the same God as every Filipino’s God in this God-forsaken Philippines. Poch Suzara

Love of the Filipino

Oh yes, I love the Filipino as a people, not however for what they are, but for what, with proper education, they can become: ahead in the whole of Asia in Science via the scientific way of thinking. Poch Suzara

Lucifer and his angels

The bible tells us that Lucifer was expelled out of heaven. Can any of you bible scholars out there explain what in hell was Lucifer doing in the heaven to begin with? And where in hell did Lucifer's silly angels come from? Who created these supernatural morons so much feared by equally frightened morons known as the Sick Man of Asia on this earth? Poch Suzara

Three Great Religions

It is not ironic that the most troubled part of the world is the cradle of the world’s three great religions: Christianity, Islam, and the Jewish religion - all founded not on sacred veracity, but holy mendacity. Each grown and spread out with the power of political lies and religious deception. Especially the mother of all religions – Judaism. The Jews after grabbing more land in Gaza for themselves, they also continue singing: “This land is mine. God gave this land to me.” Poch Suzara

The Collapse

The fall of Wall Street in America spelled the collapse of Capitalism. It was the same thing with the fall of the Berlin Wall in Germany. It spelled the collapse of Communism. Historically, both were a kind of ideology in a sense. Capitalism and Communism have been great evils as neither couldn’t care less about the human race for as long as either was winning as rats in a race.

Consider capitalism, just like communism: it is the extraordinary claim that a bunch of clowns, with the clownish of reasons, can work for the benefit of all mankind.

Hopefully, with these great evils out of the way, our world can now begin to embark on the road towards the achievement of a new kind of civilization where man’s humanity to man will be a terrestrial reality, sufficient unto itself - globally and indeed, peacefully. Poch Suzara

Reform of Ideals

We can never solve the problems of our country with the same traditional mentality that created them in the first place. If we hope to seek new achievements, we should not be going about doing the same thing. Indeed, it will be only more of the same circular story if we just install new faces in the chorus to sing the same old traditional songs.

We can only radically reform our way of life as a people and indeed as a nation by the radical reform of values and beliefs.” And that is precisely what other Asian countries having been doing – growing not with faith behind theology but developing with reason behind science and technology. Poch Suzara

Rizal’s Killers

The killers of Rizal never left town. In fact they were the owners of the town. In fantasy, the town eventually got to be known as the Republic of the Philippines. In reality, however, the Philippines is just one of the numerous backward provinces of the Vatican State – the same power that had Rizal executed during the 19th century. The same killers of the Filipino minds and hearts in this 21st century. All for the sake of God’s will to be done on earth as it for his glory in heaven. Consider most Filipinos today would not with love and respect memorialize the death of Rizal (December 30, 1896), but would rather manifest more faith and devotion to the Rizal’s killers - the Catholic priesthood industry of the Philippines. In the meantime, in Ateneo, the best Catholic school in the Philippines, the main building is named after the Inquisitor Archbishop Roberto Bellarmine, the supreme arbiter for the church in all theological issues. Canonized a saint in 1930, Bellarmine was the same saint who sent the freethinker Giordano Bruno to burn at the stake for heresy in the 16th century. The same Bellarmine syndrome that got our own Jose Rizal executed for writing two great books – NOLI and FILI in the 19th century; and, Hypatia torn off her flesh with Abalone shells to death by the mob of Cyril, the archbishop of Alexandria in the 5th century. Also canonized a saint who saw to it that Hypatia’s name and character be expunged from everything that represents woman’s intellectual capacity. Poch Suzara

Faith

January 11, 2009
Philippine Daily Inquiry
Letter to the Editor

Dear Sir:

We feel no shame for losing a job, health, or pride as a people, or even losing our dignity as a nation. However, we would feel shameful and indeed sinful if we lose our faith.

Sadly, however, a man of faith is like a drunkard who clings to a lamppost for support, not illumination.

As the only Christian country in Asia since the 16th century, what have we proved to the rest of the world with our faith? We have proved ourselves stuck as a people with comfortable myths; and stuck as a nation with political lies and deception.

Indeed, thanks to our faith, blind as it has always been, we obviously cannot see that in this already 21st century, we are still the victims of superstition, and not the masters of religion. Look how with blind faith we only love divinity out there; and we do so by ignoring our sense of common human decency down here.

I write as an atheist and I define my lifestyle as follows: As an atheist I love myself and fellow Filipinos instead of a god. I accept that heaven is something for which we should work now – here in our own land – for all Filipinos to enjoy. I accept that I can get no help through prayer but that I must find in myself the inner conviction and strength to meet life, grapple with it, subdue it, and to enjoy it. I accept that only in knowledge of my country and of the world can I find the understanding that will help me live a life of fulfillment – indeed - live the good life – one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.

As an atheist, I do not want to believe; instead, I want to know. I seek to know the nature of human life in reality rather than to believe in a god wrapped in fantasy. As an atheist, I accept that a hospital should be built instead of a church. I accept that a deed must be done instead of a prayer said. I strive for involvement in life and not escape into death. I want diseases conquered, poverty vanquished, war eliminated via human population control. I love the Filipino as part of the human race. I have no need for a divine grace. I want to live not a moral, but an ethical way of life. I accept that that I cannot rely on a god nor channel action into prayer, nor hope for an end of troubles in a hereafter.

In the ultimate analysis, as an atheist, I accept that we are – in a great sense – our brother’s keepers. We are, first, keepers of our own lives, and that we are responsible people responsible for the growth and development of our country. The job is here, and the time is now.

Yours sincerely,
Poch Suzara

Christianity Everywhere

Christianity is everywhere. It is demonstrated in our custom and tradition, indeed in our culture, damaged as it is already. Christianity is in the home. In the schools, colleges, and universities. In the cinema, theatre, and radio and television, in newspapers, in books, magazines, and journals. Christianity intrudes into our judicial, executive, and legislative branch of government. In the social functions and other civic organizations. In the business meetings, political campaigns, commercial seminars. Christianity is there in prayer before mealtime. In sports contests. The music of the day is contaminated with Christian messages. From all sides it moves in on us, endlessly. Ceaselessly. It is not possible to go through a day of one’s life without being exposed to Christianity. In the office, banks, hospitals, police precincts, city hall, residential buildings, hotels, motels, streets, highways, and in billboards, and public transportation system. In any important event of one’s life Christianity is standing by ready to take over the event: birth, marriage, anniversary, death. In fact Jesus Christ demands that you shove Christianity at everyone. Matthew 28:19 “Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, son, and of the Holy Ghost: 28:20 Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and lo, I am with you always, even unto the end of the world.” It is all about behavioral control of the Filipinos. To have more faith in the failure of education that brings about not the Age of Reason or the Age of Enlightenment, but simply the Age of Christianity that gives the Filipinos the power to act as its own destroyer both as a people and as nation. We are not, by any measure, the intelligent masters; on the contrary, as a matter of history, we are the insane victims of organized insanity otherwise more known in the Philippines as Christianity. Indeed, Christianity has developed insufficiency, incompetence, and diminished self-reliance of, with, and for the Filipino as a people since the 16th century. The essence of Christianity is its intolerance. The first commandment of the Christian god is: “Thou shalt have no other gods before me.” Christians cannot live with other ideas. They are forced to convert all persons to their belief system because that person, who is outside, illustrates that your god has failed to bring at least one person to his flock. Therefore he is not all-seeing, all-knowing, all-understanding, all-benevolent, all-powerful god. If he were that, he could induce all to “come unto him” and feel the “glad tidings of great joys.” It is impossible for those of you who are caught in that trap to understand that others have no need of faith in such beliefs systems and do not live in mental prisons or spiritual cages. Therefore you scream out to us atheists that our position is one of religion too, that we have a belief system as you do. What you are trying to do is, by definition, include us in your insanity. You define the positions and attitudes, opinions and ideas that we have as “a religion” because your thinking is so structured that it is impossible for you to understand the concept of a “free mind.” Indeed, you can only believe in the freedom of religion, when there is something better and greater - the freedom from religion. Atheism has none of the attributes of a religion. We have no god above or beyond nature, no breach of natural laws by such a god to demonstrate that he exists, no method of communication between such entity and ourselves, no elaborate reward and punishment system such as heaven or hell for being in accord with that god’s dictates. There is not one element needed for religion existing anywhere in Atheism. We have no atheistic morons known as atheist saints. Therefore, you charge that our religion is the worshipping of “nothing.” But, in fact, this is what the Christians do: worship nothing. An unseen, unknown, unhearing, unresponding entity which you call god is supplicated by you daily with no response. Nothing is there – but you worship it. Nothing hears you – but you address communication to it. Nothing responds – but you hear some messages in the void. Nothing ever happens – but you rationalize that “something” occurs somewhere, perhaps in one’s heart. It is an incredible game that you play all year round like children do for centuries. Poch Suzara

Jesus on the Cross

“One of the malefactors which were hanged railed at him, saying, If thou be Christ, save yourself and us.” Luke 23:39 If I were among those present during the crucifixion of Christ, I should ask: Jesus, as you are the Son of God, the creator of heaven and hell and the universe, gifted with powers to perform miracles including walking on water, making the blind see, the deaf hear, curing diseases, changing water into wine, raising the dead back to life, what are you doing there nailed to a cross crucified by a gang of religious dumbstruck morons who were themselves created in the image and likeness of your own God, the Father? Poch Suzara

Moses

Can any of you really believe in the revealed truth of this biblical hogwash? Moses writing his own death and burial?

“The Lord buried him in a valley in Moab, opposite the town of Bethpeor, but to this day no one knows the exact place of his burial.” (Deuteronomy 34:6)

To think that this is the same Moses who wrote about Joshua commanding the sun to stop? The same Moses who parted the Red Sea? The same Moses earlier who told his generals: “Now, therefore, kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman that hath known a man by lying with him; but all women-children, that have not known a man by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves.” What a bunch of child-molesters, sex fiends blessed by the Lord maniacs! Poch Suzara

Our Medical Doctors

It is sad and pathetic, our medical doctors have yet to find the cure for the deadliest of diseases. It is a mental disease called religion. It is very contagious, especially with threats of eternal punishment if you refuse to believe in the word of God. Religion is the deadliest of all mind viruses.

No other disease has brought more damage to Filipino minds and hearts than the organized insanity known as Christianity. It is what makes for our sick society. Look at the Filipino today as the Sick Man of Asia - still waiting for the Second Coming of the Lord – the same Lord born not in the Philippines, but born in a Jewish land some 2,000 years ago that is still Jewish today as it never got converted to be a Christian country. Poch Suzara

Second coming of the Lord

It is vacuous, no less ridiculous, if not indeed ludicrous, not to mention utterly lugubrious. In the Philippines, Filipinos are still waiting for the Second Coming of the Lord as if the Lord had anything to do with Filipinos guilty of Original Sin in the Philippines some 2,000 years ago. Poch Suzara

Faith

Faith is childish and foolish. I was once a foolish and a childish boy of faith myself. Atheism changed me. It changed my mind and heart. Much more than that however, Atheism made me look deeper into my own life as it paved the way toward my struggle to live the good life – one inspired by love and guided by knowledge. Poch Suzara

Who is a Religious Moron

Who is a religious moron? He is one who hates his mother and father, hates brothers and sisters, hates his wife and children, and yea hates his own life also in the name Jesus and his teachings. As a matter of biblical instruction, if you do not hate your mother and father, if you do not hate your brothers and sisters, if you do not hate your wife and children, and yea if you not hate your own life also, you cannot be a disciple of Jesus Christ. Please read Luke 14:26. Of course a religious moron is also one who does not properly read the holy bible. In fact, verses and chapters written in the bible that he finds hard to read or difficult to understand he believes that to be the same as having faith in divine wisdom. Well, the religious moron is also one who has not stopped proving the existence of God as if it were any of his business since the real business of the proofs for the existence of God should come from God himself. But where is God? How come he is always omni-absent? Never omni-present? Poch Suzara

Nothing Dies

Matter composed of energy can never be created or destroyed. In the universe therefore nothing dies. Nothing is wasted. Everything is just transformed. Well, when we ourselves will be transformed one day, let us experience the matter sober, and not drunk with superstitious lies.

Philosopher Bertrand Russell happily reminds us that “Happiness is nonetheless true happiness because it must come to an end, nor do thought and love lose their value because they are not everlasting.” Poch Suzara

The Greatest of Questions

It is not “where did the universe come from,” but “where did the creator of the universe come from, and who knows if the creator were a He or a She or an It; and, if such a creator were still alive these days still busy outthere somewhere creating only God knows what else? Poch Suzara

Anti-Atheistic Hogwash

Atheist Holiday Court Ruling: This is courtesy of Connie Hooper, a lady who works for the judicial system in Florida. Have you heard about this case? Great answer from the judge! In Florida, an atheist became incensed over the preparation of Easter and Passover holidays. He decided to contact his lawyer about the discrimination inflicted on atheists by the constant celebrations afforded to Christians and Jews with all their holidays while atheists had no holiday to celebrate. The case was brought before a judge. After listening to the long passionate presentation by the lawyer, the Judge banged his gavel and declared, 'Case dismissed!' The lawyer immediately stood and objected to the ruling and said, 'Your honor, how can you possibly dismiss this case? The Christians have Christmas, Easter and many other observances. Jews have Passover, Yom Kippur and Hanukkah ... yet my client and all other atheists have no such holiday! The judge leaned forward in his chair and simply said, 'Obviously your client is too confused to even know about, much less celebrate his own atheists' holiday!' The lawyer pompously said, 'Your Honor, we are unaware of any such holiday for atheists, just when might that holiday be, your Honor?' The judge said, 'Well, it comes every year on exactly the same date--April 1st! Since our calendar sets April 1st as 'April Fools Day,' consider that Psalm 14:1 states, 'The fool says in his heart, there is no God.' Thus, in my opinion, if your client says there is no God, then by scripture, he is a fool, and April 1st is his holiday. Now have a good day and get out of my courtroom!" Wow, truly a nice fairy tale from Connie Hooper, a religious tuti-frutie who works for the judicial system of Florida. Sadly for her, she is not aware that the judge in this case is typical of the religious morons who are even more confused. with so little knowledge of bible contents. “The fool had said in his heart, There is no God. Psalm 15:1. The same words are repeated in Psalm 53:1. Well, Psalm is in the Old testament and since you Christians revere more the New Testament, you should read Matthew 5:22 which says: . . .”Whosoever shall say Thou fool, shall be in danger of hellfire.” The judge in the above-mentioned case put himself in danger of going to hell. My dear reader, we atheists have no dogmas, no pigma, no hogma, no rituals, no gods, no angels, no devils, no priests, no worship, no prayers, no holy places, and no holy books. Now you expect us to believe that we atheists need to celebrate a holiday too? And get it legalized to boot? Everyday of the year is already a joy for us, especially as we daily celebrate the power of ideas under freedom of thought. There is nothing quite like in all of nature. The fool says there is no God. We, the wise, say it to the world. In the meantime, religion encourages the silly fixity of credibility at a price paid dearly: - the mindless surrender of the self via the mutilation of self-respect and human dignity. In the ultimate analysis, if there is hope for lasting peace in this world, it will be due to more and more people realizing that religion at best is a farce, a fraud, and a ceremony; and at worst a source of prejudice, intolerance, conflict, insanity, and everlasting stupidity. Poch Suzara Google# Facebook# Twitter#