Can Faith Move the Mountain of Stupidity

If the Catholic church has built Western civilization - how come the same Catholic church has never been able to built civilization in the Philippines - the only Catholic country in Asia since the 16th century? Are we Filipinos civilized as a people? No kidding? How come under Catholic teachings we Filipinos still do not know how to love one another as a people; nor do we have the knowledge on how to develop ourselves as a strong and independent nation. We only know how to pray and wait for a Savior. We only know how to love God up there by hating one another down here? We only know how to go to heaven after death and to hell with life on this earth after birth! In the meantime, if we have the knowledge on how to move mountain, then surely we have no need of faith to move mountain. Since the 16h century however - the Catholic church is still teaching us Filipinos to believe that only faith and faith alone can move mountain! Well, we are already in the 21st century? So how come we Filipinos are still dominated and ruled by the mountain of Catholic corruption in this only Catholic country in Asia? Poch Suzara

Holy Books of the Great Religions of the World

May 8, 2012 Philippine Daily Inquirer Letter to the Editors, Dear Editors, All the great religions of the world have their holy books, which are regarded as "divinely inspired. The Jews have their Talmud; the Muslims, their Koran; the Buddhists, their Sutras; the Confucians, their Analects; the Taoists; their Tao-Te-Ching; the Hindus, their Bhagavad Gita; the Vedantis, their Upanishads; etc. I ask: why should one group of religious faithfools be regarded as "inspired" authors or prophets or Messiahs of God? While those active at hallucinating are known as the "crack-pots," "faith-healers," or, in the Philippines, more known as "the chief Justice of the Supreme Court" or "senators," "congressmen," "governors," and "mayors?" Also known as "Bishops," "Cardinals," "Ministers," "Evangelists," not to mention in our schools, colleges, and universities known as "Teachers," and "Professors." In the meantime, our own silly bible teaches us to: "Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world the love of the Father is not in him." 1 John 2:15 Yours sincerely, Poch Suzara San Lorenzo Village Makati City, Philippines

Intellectual Honesty by Unbelievers

Intellectual honesty comes from the power of reason via the search of the truth. Per contra - habitual dishonesty comes from silly blind faith in the silly holy bible - a book written by superstitious primitives as inspired authors of God. In the meantime, an unbeliever is usually a man who questions everything that the believer takes for granted. What is wrong with most believers? They usually believe things at so dear a prize to pay: the mindless surrender of the self via the mutilation of the intellect. Poch Suzara

Does God in Heaven or the Devil in Hell Need more Sick Souls

Since the death of Jesus on the cross and His resurrection more than a 100 BILLION PEOPLE have already lived and died on this earth. Let's assume 50 BILLION SOULS of of such dead people made it to heaven with God; and 50 BILLION SOULS of dead people made it to hell with the devil. Are we suppose to believe that both GOD and the DEVIL are still so thrilled and excited playing around with the endless SALVATION/DAMNATION GAME to win for the either sick souls? Both are still hungry for more silly souls? They cannot exists without souls? For what? For breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Especially eating souls like the soul of a Poch Suzara? I ask: when will we start to seriously look at the horrors in the hear and now happening to the fellow-citizens of our poor and backward country - the only country in Asia still waiting for the Second Coming of Jesus to remedy the historical ills of our sick society still powered by sick values and sick beliefs such in the existence of sick souls of Filipnos to be damned for hell or to be saved for heaven! Poch Suzara Twitter# Facebook# Google#

I do Pray Daily to Satan

"But who prays for Satan? Who in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most?" - Mark Twain I don't know about you Mark Twain; but I do pray daily to Satan to please help God who, after all these past centuries, still know not what exactly He is doing! - Poch Suzara

It Matters NOT to God

It matters not to God whether you are an atheist or an agnostic. What, however, is endlessly important to God is that at worst, you are a Catholic; or, at best, a lunatic. After all, God gets more thrill out of anything in this world that is perpetually satanic. Poch Suzara

We welcome the pain of Problems

"As Benjamin Franklin said, 'Those things that hurt, instruct.' It is for this reason that wise people learn not to dread but actually welcome problems and actually welcome the pain of problems." M. Scott Peck, Psychiatrist If I may add, there is neither spiritual growth as a man or as a woman nor intellectual development as a human being without problems. Therefore we should welcome the pain of problems. Good news make us weak. Poch Suzara, Atheist

Jose Rizal to stay DEAD in the Philippines

"The death sentence is a necessary and efficacious means for the Church to attain its ends when obstinate heretics disturb the ecclesiastical order." Pope Leo X111 (Vincenzo Pecci, 1810-1903) ---------- HELLO YOU KILLERS OF JOSE RIZAL - a heretic. HOW COME YOU ARE STILL HERE not only as a Church but also IN CONTROL OF FILIPINO MINDS AND HEARTS IN THE PHILIPPINES AS OWNERS OF SCHOOLS, COLLEGES, AND UNIVERSITIES; HOSPITALS AND BANKS; NEWSPAPERS AND TV STATIONS; and OTHER COMMERCIAL ENTERPRISES IN THIS ONLY CATHOLIC COUNTRY IN ASIA SINCE THE 16TH CENTURY!Poch Suzara

Happy Old Age

I got to be 76 years old this year. Friends and relatives are wondering why I am, as ever, still bullish against insane religion that's keeping us Filipinos spiritually poor as a people; and morally backwar as a nation! Indeed, both religion and politics in cahoots together keeping us Filipinos deprived away from the wonders of science only to stay famous as the Sick Man of Asia! Well, old age, like any other age, is the time to struggle away from silly biblical revelation. It is time to be involved with intelligent evolution. Indeed, human life on this earth should be about the struggle for humanity to enjoy human decency locally and to enjoy terrestrial sanity globally. Precisely, to put away all that silly business of divinity always in cahoots with deviltry. No doubt, it is a waste of time. It is an impossible dream. But my dear reader, what about you - how do you waste your precious time? You are accomplishing WHAT in this God-forsaken world of ours? Brief, short, and fleeting as life is on this earth! I said it before, I say it again: instead of looking forward to a better life to come after death, it makes more sense to try and leave this world a better place than how we found it. Not in the material, but in the humanitarian sense. Otherwise, there will be no reason for our having lived. In the meantime, today may be the last day of my life. Whatever or however the case may be, I am, as always, still happily singing loud and clear - my favorite song: "For, what is a 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 knees, the record shows I took the blows, and did it MY WAY! It is, in this way, that I continue to be a man of vision, ambition, and revolution. I have more than enough ingredients to carry on my lifetime struggle against the evils of revelation. Poch Suzara

The One and Only Verse I respect written in the Bible

Here is the one and only verse I have the highest respect written in the bible: "You shall not follow a crowd to do evil; neither shall you testify in court to side with a multitude to pervert justice." Exodus 23:2 As for the rest written in the Old Testament and in the New Testament they should be totally thrown out the window. I did! In the meantime, I repeat with Dan Barker: Atheism is a worldwide movement today without followers. We atheists, in our respective field of work, are all leaders! Poch Suzara, Atheist

Filth and Pornography in the Holy Bible

“Because of you I will rebuke your descendants; I will smearon your faces the dung from your festival sacrifices, and you will be carried off with it." Malachi 2:3 "THOU SHALT EAT IT AS BARLEY CAKES, AND THOU SHALT BAKE IT WITH DUNG THAT COMETH OUT OF MAN, IN THEIR SIGHT." Exek. 4:1 "hath he not sent me to the men which sit on the wall, that they may eat their own dung, and drink their own piss withyou?" (II Kings 18:27 "Yet she multiplied her whoredoms, in calling to remembrance the days of her youth, wherein she had played the harlot in the land of Egypt. For she doted upon their paramours, whose flesh is as the flesh of asses, and whose issue is like the issue of horses." Exek 23:19-21 "And lusted after her paramours there, whose members were like those of donkeys, and whose emission was like that of stallions." Ezekiel 23: 21, NRSV) If a man find a damsel that is a virgin, which is not betrothed, and lay hold on her, and lie with her, and they be found; Then the man that lay with her shall give unto the damsel's father fifty shekels of silver, and she shall be his wife; because he hath humbled her, he may not put her away all his days. Deut 22:28-29 And Moses said unto them, Have ye saved all the women alive? ... Now therefore kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman that hath known man by lying with him. But all the women children, that have not known a man by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves. Numbers 31:15-18 Comment: it is indeed despicable how in this already 21st century college educated Filipinos still believe the bible as a holy book written by inspired authors of God. As a matter of fact, the bible is really a lot of BIBULLSHIT that should have already been flushed down the TOILET centuries ago. Poch Suzara

Come on you Frightened Jesus Freaks

Come on you frightened Jesus freaks. WAKE UP! There is poverty of the worst kind:
The poverty of the mind and heart. It is what our schools, colleges, and universities are mostly about: DO NOT THINK. JUST BELIEVE.

And famous as we Filipinos are as the SICK MAN OF ASIA, we are more proud and
ready to protect and defend the ways of our stupid BELIEVING; especially for the glory of Jesus up there. Hardly do we ever do intelligent THINKING for the sake of courageously establishing common Filipino decency down here! Poch Suzara

George Carlin on Religion

In the Bullshit Department, a businessman can't hold a candle to a clergyman. 'Cause I gotta tell you the truth, folks. When it comes to bullshit, big-time, major league bullshit, you have to stand in awe of the all-time champion of false promises and exaggerated claims, religion. No contest. No contest. Religion. Religion easily has the greatest bullshit story ever told. Think about it:

"Religion has actually convinced people that there's an invisible man living in the sky who watches everything you do, every minute of every day. And the invisible man has a special list of ten things he does not want you to do. And if you do any of these ten things, he has a special place, full of fire and smoke and burning and torture and anguish, where he will send you to live and suffer and burn and choke and scream and cry forever and ever 'til the end of time! But He loves you. He loves you, and He needs money! He always needs money! He's all-powerful, all-perfect, all-knowing, and all-wise, somehow just can't handle money! Religion takes in billions of dollars, they pay no taxes, and they always need a little more. Now, you talk about a good bullshit story." Holy Shit! Poch Suzara

We All Need Jesus

There is no bigger hypocrite than the person who pretends he doesn't need Jesus. Phil Star, April 15, 2012 Oh yes, indeed, we all need Jesus, especially the officials in the government. They all need Jesus to forgive them of their sins against God and to forgive them of their crimes against the people who, like dumbstruck idiots, voted for them to be in government. Poch Suzara

I am a Plagiarist, Scholar, and a Researcher

If you copy the works of one author, you are a plagiarist. If you copy the works of two authors, you are a researcher. If you copy from the works of three authors you are a scholar. If, however, you copy from the works of hundreds of authors you are a plagiarist, a researcher, a scholar all rolled into one Poch Suzara - a high school expelled student. Indeed, I copy from the works of hundreds of famous authors. And aside therefore from being a plagiarist, a scholar, and a researcher, I am also a high-school expelled writer. In my writings, I freely copy from the works of my favorite authors, historians, philosophers, and scientists. These great thinkers of the world have inspired in me to stand on their shoulders. Indeed, thanks to them, I managed to learn how too see wider, how to view higher, and how to fathom deeper, in that I may be enlightened, not forever be frightened like the dumbstruck religious teachers I was blessed with in La Salle grade school and high school years! I love the freedom of expression and I enjoy copying from many authors. To name a few: Bertrand Russell, Will Durant, Carl Sagan, Robert G. Ingersoll, Thomas Paine, Friedrich Nietzche Mark Twain, Charles Darwin, Alvin Toffler, Richard Dawkins, George H. Smith, John Horgan, Stephen Hawking, Lee Eisler, Clarence Darrow, Arthur Schopenhauer, Voltaire, Madlyn O’Hair, Jeremy Rifkin, H.L. Mencken, George Bernard Shaw, Lloyd Graham, Socrates, Noam Chomsky, Sam Harris, Dan Barker, Jean Meslier, Bishop John Shelby Spong, Hypatia, St. Augustine, Christopher Hitchens, Teodoro A. Agoncillo, Jose Rizal; and, indeed, many more such as Matthew, Luke, Mark, and John of the Holy bible who inspired in me to never be afraid to question authority as it always inspired by mediocrity, perpetually. Oh yes, there is nothing original in the works of authors. Except for mathematical logic, they all copy from each other as their various sources are inextricably mixed with other points of view. After all, there is no such thing as the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. It only looks new and fresh and logical; but it is not. For example, my own writings on atheism are mostly derived from what’s revealed in the holy bible as the bible, seriously read, has been and still is the most potent reason why we must all trust the simple fact that man's greatest of professions is the search of the truth as no truth, as yet, has ever been discovered! - Poch Suzara Google# Facebook# Twitter# Atheists# __._,_.___ Posted by: poch suzara

God as a Divine Monster

A God who tells Noah: TO HELL WITH LOVING YOUR NEIGHBORS. SAVE INSTEAD THE ANIMALS - is not a God but a divine monster. Never, will I ever believe, love, worship, and adore such a divine disgrace - the savior of animals, not the savior of the human race.

In the meantime, why should we listen and be afraid of such a God who tells us how
to raise our own children when He himself had drowned to death his own children? Poch

Jesus Christ - Our Savior

Jesus Christ said, "And all things, whatsoever ye shall ask in prayer, believing, ye shall receive" (Math. 21:22). Each and every day, millions of believing Filipinos pray daily to God to "give us this day our daily bread," and to "lead us not into temptation." We also pray daily to "Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of our death, amen." As we, however, continue to be spiritually fucked as a people and even more morally fucked as a nation - would it not be adding insult to injury if we were yet expected to blame ourselves for our daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly stupidity behind our childish religiosity faithfully since the 16th century? Poch Suzara

The Silly Fear of Death

“I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.” ― Mark Twain “I believe that when I die I shall rot, and nothing of my ego will survive. I am not young and I love life. But I should scorn to shiver with terror at the thought of annihilation. 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. Many a man has borne himself proudly on the scaffold; surely the same pride should teach us to think truly about man's place in the world. Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cosy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own." ― Bertrand Russell "If after my own death, I shall have to be with God in hell, or have to be with the Devil in heaven, or have to be with Jesus in Purgatory - no way, Jose. Over my dead body. I'd rather stay buried in the cemetery with my precious books forever and ever till the end of time and space. - Poch Suzara

Don't Be a Useless Believer; Be a Useful Thinker

Nothing is more dangerous than an idea when you only have one. - Alain Chantier If I may add, this is precisely what is wrong with our formative years in school: Do not think. Just believe. Never mind the beauty of fresh thought or the power of ideas; especially to challenge the lies and deceptions that keep us Filipinos spiritually poor as a people, and intellectually bankrupt as a nation. In the meantime, the search for new and fresh ideas under creativity is by far the noblest of all human activities. Poch Suzara

SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND STATE

If you believe that there is a separation of Church and State in the Philippines, you might as well also believe in the existence of the separation between insanity and stupidity. As a matter of historical fact, the union of Church and State in the Philippines is just like a good Catholic marriage: what God has united, let no man put asunder,-till death do us part. Both the Church and State protect each other, the former with forgiveness of sins and the latter with tax exemption laws. The job of the State is to keep the people living in ignorance. The job of the Church is to keep the people living in fear. Combine the two horrors inextricably together and we have what is known as Christian values and beliefs more known as the government off, buy, and fool the people under the slogan that it is MORE FUN AND SAFE IN THE PHILIPPINES. Indeed, the separation of Church and State in the Philippines is more than just a farce and a fraud, but also a charade of lies, --a parade of deceptions. Look seriously at our senators as judges in the impeachment trial to dump the Chief Justice Renato Corona out of office for betrayal of public trust and culpable violation of the Constitution. They start the trial not as leaders of our country, but like sinners themselves with prayer to God for the forgiveness of their sins and crimes. The need for religion in the Philippines will end when we Filipinos in our schools are taught to be strong and sensible enough to govern ourselves not as religious fanatic Catholics or what-not, but as self-respecting Filipinos, i.e., who believe in the power of reason and not believe in words written long time ago, by ignorant men who did not know what we know today and in all probability were influenced by the barbarity of a primitive age. Meanwhile, our officials in the Philippine government and the church hierarchy have always enjoyed an illicit secret affair together. They have illegitimate children otherwise more popularly known as "politicians" of the State, and the "theologians" of the Church. Such "leaders" are never lively with intelligent power of ideas for growth and maturity. They are only deadly with the power of daily prayer producing nothing but an obnoxious odor in the air - the bad smell of the Philippines dying as the Sick Nation of Asia. Hypocrisy and indifference to truth make corruption acceptable as part of our national defects. It is sad to see our government officials in cahoots with church officials devote so much faith in increasing and justifying such traditional nonsense. I said it before, I say it again: our leaders drunk with power are destitute of wisdom, and so long as they enjoy the glory of popularity - our country will be devoid of sanity and beauty on the one hand; and, on the other hand, filled with more of the same old misery and poverty perpetually. In the meantime, while there is more creativity in diversity, there is nothing but stupid religiosity in uniformity. And what we have in our sick country is the sick uniformity even in the art of bribery. We have yet to see our way clear that the bribe-giver is no worse than the bribe-taker because there is always in between, the bribe-fixer! There is also the fun of vote-buying, vote-selling, and vote block fixing. Indeed, again, when it comes to the life of crime and sin, graft and corruption - IT IS MORE FUN AND SAFE IN THE PHILIPPINES. There is a tremendous need for the rehabilitation of our damaged nation. If we ever hope to succeed in our revolution against political illusion, against religious delusion, and against social confusion - we must first see to it that there is no more divine revelation at the foundation of our sick and corrupt system of education. No more Immaculate Misconception; no more public prayer transformation; no more revealed Truth that has never been revealed. We need only science and technology and the wonders of its lively evolution. Millions of Filipinos ask: is there hope for our country? My answer is Yes, but first we must allow the nation's youth to learn during their formative years in school to believe not in a weird foreigner more known as Jesus, our alleged savior, but rather to believe instead in living decent life inspired by love of country and guided by the power of knowledge. Indeed, to feel the pleasures of mental growth and positive material achievement, to live, to learn and to love,- happy, generous, and expansive; thoughtful when others are happy, and even more thoughtful when others are not. These beauties should be permanent fixtures in the hearts and minds of our nation's youth after they go through many years of education in our schools, colleges, and universities. In the ultimate analysis, if we can set aside intellectual cowardice against the courage of ideas, there is much more to hope for our country. Indeed, it is high time for us Filipinos to accept the challenge to work for ourselves as a people. After all, this world is the only world we have. The only world where we can, here and now, create a paradise for ourselves as thinking people happy and proud of our existence with self-respect and dignity not as frightened Catholics, but as brave citizens of our Republic. Poch Suzara