Reality as Insanity in the Philippines

We are all born ignorant, not stupid. We are made stupid by education. Indeed, our collective will is due to, if not because of the result of - our stupid system of education. Look how in this already 21st century, our schools, colleges,and universities still teach that in order to save our souls for heaven we must only love God up there via hate of our country and hate of one another down here. Bertrand Russell summarized it neatly for all of us: "Religion encourages stupidity and an insufficient sense of reality." And to think that in the Philippines even daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly reality is mostly based upon historical Catholic insanity. Poch Suzara

The Philippines is a Theocracy, Not a Democracy

The Philippines is NOT a Democracy. It is a Theocracy. It has been and still is since the 16th century - a Church for the Catholics, by the Catholics, and for the Catholics. There is no monument that stands for Filipino dignity and social sanity with great national pride anywhere in the Philippines except the MANILA CATHEDRAL- the monument to priestly historical stupidity. Poch Suzara

Like you, I too was born as an Atheist

Every one of us, when we are born, fresh out of the uterus, is an atheist. All babies are born atheist: free from religion. No baby is born as a Catholic, or a Muslim, or a Jew, or a Baptist, or a Hindu. We are all born free and then indoctrinated. When we attain the age of intellectual discretion - we repudiate that indoctrination. That is how we become in the truest sense of the term- BORN-AGAINST ATHEIST. We are back to the purity of our beginning before any of this dreadful theistic philosophy was put into our receptive, but undiscriminating, little minds. Conscience is no inner voice from God. Conscience is merely the combined product of evolution and education. If one were to follow one’s conscience rather than reason, what follows is not only confusion, but also delusion. Atheism Atheism is the world of reason, reality, and freedom. Atheism is human concern, and intellectual honesty to a degree that the religious mind cannot begin to understand. And yet it is much more. Atheism is not an old religion, it is not a new and coming religion, in fact it is not, and never has been, a religion at all. The definition of Atheism is magnificent in its simplicity: Atheism is merely the bed-rock of sanity in a world gone mad. Atheism rises above divinity and puts humanity upon every one else. There are no 'chosen people' in the Atheist philosophy. There are no bended knees in Atheism; No supplications, no prayers; no doctrines; No sacrificial redemptions, no eternal promises; No 'divine' revelations, no sacred writings; No washing in the blood of the lamb; No crusades, no massacres, no holy wars; No inquisition; no dogma, hogma, or pigma. No heaven, no hell, no purgatory, no limbo; No silly rewards, no vindictive punishments; No Christ, and no saviors; no I am who am; No burning bush, no talking donkey; No devils, no ghosts and no gods; No fear of silly divinity, only the courage to work for the good of humanity and to struggle only for the spread of human decency. Globally. YES, I AM AN ATHEIST AND PROUD TO BE ONE. I WAS BORN AN ATHEIST AND I SHALL DIE AN ATHEIST. There are no other options. No other choices. It is impossible to believe in God while coming out of mother’s womb. It is equally impossible to believe in God when one is already dead, buried, and gone out of this world. Poch Suzara

No Read, No Write Jesus

Jesus was a NO READ AND NO WRITE savior. So was His Father. Who was also a NO READ AND NO WRITE creator - look how GOD could only inspire authors to write but could NOT write the bible Himself. Look at Mary, the Mother of Jesus, she too was a NO READ NO WRITE mother. So was Mary's spouse Joseph, a NO READ AND NO WRITE carpenter in his Jewish community. JESUS was a product of an ILLITERATE family. After all, Jesus himself believed that "IN MUCH WISDOM IS MUCH GRIEF, AND THAT INCREASETH KNOWLEDGE INCREASETH SORROW." Ecc. 1:18. Moreover, why bother to learn how to read critically and how to write argumentatively when God, Mary, and Joseph and indeed Jesus preached: "THE WISDOM OF THIS WORLD IS FOOLISHNESS WITH GOD. FOR IT IS WRITTEN, HE TAKETH THE WISE IN THEIR OWN CRAFTINESS." 1 Cor. 3:10 As for me, I was expelled out of La SALLE high school precisely because I never ceased to question the teachings that we must only READ and WRITE as the stupid followers of FAITH, but never, must we ever read or write as the INTELLIGENT MASTERS of REASON! Thus, the index librorum expurgatorius - a list of forbidden books deemed morally and politically harmful by the authority of the Catholic church Jose Rizal was arrested, incarcerated, and publicly executed for exposing himself as a Filipino of intelligent reason who loved the world and loved humanity. He was one great avid reader of banned books and a great writer of great books himself. And yet, in our only Catholic country in Asia since the 16th century, who gives a hoot about the real Jose Rizal - a Filipino of the highest intellect. Indeed, a rare Filipino addicted to the fields of thought - surely a scholar and a gentleman who, at the expense of his own precious life, he tried hard to spread sanity and beauty into our country where the Catholic church with Jesus, Mary and Joseph have only put the horrors of religious insanity that makes for our sick society! Poch Suzara

Ordinary Minds, Average Minds, and Great Minds

Confucius said it: ORDINARY MINDS TALK ABOUT PEOPLE. AVERAGE MINDS TALK ABOUT EVENTS. GREAT MINDS TALK ABOUT IDEAS. Sad to see those who often brag that they have acquired college education; or, that they have even studied the philosophy of the Doctors of the church in a Catholic university. And yet, PEOPLE and EVENTS are about the most such ordinary and average minds talk about. Indeed, they are all ready and willing to impart thoughtless mediocrity instead of expressing thoughtful philosophy. Specially for those watching on TV or listening on Radio eager to learn lessons about living the good life - one inspired by love and guided by knowledge. In our print media and in the radio and television industry - instead of great minds, we only have Jesus freaking, jerks and saps. We even have a famous Teditorial on TV. Teddy Locsin Jr. He puts under deadly analysis the insane daily and nightly news with the conclusion that we need never think about it. We are only expected, as the Sick Man of Asia, to laugh with him at the sick mess of our sick society. Poch Suzara

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