missterious:
Sorry I'm bringing politics into this but this is why I shake my head at those who refuse to vote for Buhari because Jonathan is a Christian. It is absolute ignorance. It's amazing how blinding "religion" could be.

Having said that, I haven't attended church in a month because what's the point? The only thing I see there is the latest shoes & clutches. No spirituality whatsoever. People are so f*#king pretentious.

standd:


Where am I headed, Mr. Kevoh? I should apologize in advance to those who think this is a Moslem vs Christian thread. No it isn't. I was born a Moslem, went to Quranic school for a long time too...Now, I am a Christian but I still don't like Religion. I just want to be human, love everyone equally and not be too religious that I lose sight of my humanity.

standd:

...How do you love God but hate your neighbour?


I remember that as a Moslem child, the first thing I learned was 'decent dressing' and how I must study my Quran, recite my Tira at the Quranic school and basically learn the techniques of evading my Imam's long whip. I remember how mum got a lot of long trousers and head-covers for me as a child. Up till my formative years, I was never comfortable with wearing cloths that bare my body. It was a good start (minus that scary Quranic teacher)


I am a Christian now and I really wonder why Christians think they are actually better than people of other faiths.
Are we not all the same?
Born to thread the paths of our parents (and believe in Gods before we had a chance to make our own choices). Holding on to the faith of our parents and believing in their Gods.

Did we ever question them as to why they chose to follow 'Jesus' or 'Mohammed' or 'Buddha'
Do we really have a choice?

It's like 'Tag and follow', bound under traditions to obey our parents and do their biddings.



Well, it wasn't funny as I was practically jostled from raising my bum up in the air and hitting my head on the floor in Mosques to shouting hallelujah and dancing shokii in churches.

A young gal who swapped 'Gods' and 'faiths'


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The transition albeit was a relief, I ultimately hated the rigours of going to the mosque everyday and having to pee in my pant at the thoughts of Imam's whips...
Ramadan was a war of wits, I learned at a very young age to eat my fill, drink a basin of water and then rub my lips vigorously against the coarse walls of the sitting-room, so my lips can become dry and chaffed; as expected, if one had not eaten all day.
The day my mother caught me, she couldn't help but burst into laughter ( of course, she did the same as a kid and told us about it)
I learned very fast


Religion makes us cocky and confident. After all, we have the promises of a higher deity. We can not be wrong, and if we are wrong, our Gods have got our back.
A typical Christian who has not prayed in 50 years will quickly shout Blood-of-Jesus' at the sight of danger.
Of course, Jesus is supposed to be the sit-in spiritual Nanny who has nothing else to do but run in different directions in his eternal duty of attending to every Christian that screams his blood.



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I once heard of a man who screamed 'Temitope Joshua' when he was attacked by armed robbers.
Bikonu, is TB Joshua an angel or a god? Or is there 'blood of Joshua' too?
The audacity of 'faith' and the diverse constrictions of the human mind.



I prefer being a Christian not cos I feel assured that the heaven they talk about is meant for Christians- mbanu!
But because I will no longer allow myself be 'pushed' into believing in anything else.
If the Bible is literature- I have found succour in it.
If Jesus Christ is a figment of someone's imaginations- then I want such an awesome 'character' to be my Lord and Savior.

If believing in God is a laughable and stupid thing to do- trust me, I have made worse decisions. This single one will not kill me.


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I simply refuse to swap 'Gods' again.


But then, the simplest and purest minds I have met are those who don't believe at all. They do not have the cockiness and confidence of those with 'Gods', so they live each day conscious of their every action and kind to people they meet on their journey through life.

I read of Tai Solarin and I wonder if there is a separate heaven for people like him who do not need any God to be human and moral. People who have so much empathy and kindness, plus an intense urge to do good.
The people who do not scream 'Blood of Jesus' but give their own life-blood just to help a neighbour.
They make Christians and Moslems alike seem like nonentities.
Through their acts, we see that humans do not really need any God to help them choose between good and bad.

Being created with a working brain means we can be whatever we want to be when we choose to be. CHOICE NOT RELIGION.


People are who they are not because of their religions but because of their individuality. And what they choose to do with their beliefs.


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Three years ago, I met a dude who says there's no God. He lives and breathes kindness.
And puts all my religious friends to shame cos he is a better man than they can ever dream to be.
He lives, fully aware of the consequences of his actions. He feels there's no God to safe him or wash his sins away, hence decides to live- ever ready to take full responsibilities for his actions. Lacking the misplaced cockiness of spiritual people- Touching lives with kindness and showing love that stems from knowing that he can't deceive himself about loving God when he can't even love his friends or the man-next-door.
I am glad I met him.


I can't not talk about the Christians seeing that the ones with the 'biggest bibles' are the ones with the deepest-hatred.

Some have booked space in heaven, conveniently pulling down others on their way up there. Please do not remind me that some Christians even hold the key to hell.( I shiver)

The hell-fire supervisors are the ones with the 'divine-gift' of marking some people for hell. They seem to have gotten their own visa from heaven embassy, plus Angel Michael gave them a peek into the book of life.
So, they constantly tell others-
'you will end up in hell'


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My moslem brothers have been promised 72 virgins. (And a bountiful harvest at every slash of their holy swords) No wonder virgins are now scarce on earth.
I always try to read the Quran and its various translations...but i can't just deal.
Come-on, we are not that daft, we just don't want to question our 'faith'.
For fear of having our soul-threads unravelled and blown away.


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The people who can think will always question their faith.
And I do NOT believe that I am better than the next man, worshipping a ram- as long as he keeps his ram out of my face and doesn't expect me to do anything with a ram asides slaughtering and cooking it (for chowing)


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Some of my Christian friends feel I'm not 'born-again' if I don't go to church. Church to them is the building and the random show they put up every Sunday. Shioooor!

I should say I am not comfortable with Christianity...People have conveniently divided their hearts into compartments, they know how to slander and praise God with the same lips. They can bend for a doggy or to take communion on the same knees
They sing sweet melodies to the glory of God and then later wag the same tongue in gossip.

My Christian 'friends' will go from speaking in tongues to Screaming Jesu! as their boyfriends ram them from behind.

Oh yes! God is a merciful God.

But, pls Shut the fu*k up with all the pretence and stop making others feel you have a right to judge them or make them feel inadequate with the choices they have made!


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Before you scream the 'blood-of-Jesus'..kindly wipe the cum and slander hanging on your lips.

Yes- he can not behold iniquity. Yet we feel so cocky that we think we have a right to feel so special despite our iniquities.


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And you, when you shed blood, you must seriously think that virgins await you.
See, only spirits attain eternity- how do you intend fu*king a spirit poosie with your spirit dick!
I know konji to be a bastard- but konji bastardizes humans not spirits.


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If you are Christian, what exactly separates you from people of other faiths!
God himself must be tired by now- since he has to create different heavens for different denominations.
Of course, I am not a Catholic- I do not wish to bow down to any thing 'Mary-like'
And I am not JW, those ones have a list of people making heaven already.

The Deeper lifers don't even expect you all to make heaven, heaven is not for people who wore trousers and fixed weaves on earth!
So, I wonder the kinda heaven that the Christian God will fit you all into.


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Hahahaha
Funny humans! We claim to love God, yet our neighbours do not deserve our love.
I wonder why we can so easily love a God that we do not see yet hate the people that we see everyday.


I can not even pretend to like religion.
But as long as I do not downgrade to being an agnostic.. I still declare and confess Jesus Christ as my Lord and Personal Savior


I walk a path everyday to discover the essence of my humanity.
I yearn to be a better person.
To overcome hate. To love more.
To do the things that would uplift my soul.
So I can reach out to others in every way I can.

My creed is to love the people around me regardless of their religion or beliefs, before I can claim to love God..

How do you hate your neighbours so much and get divided along tribal and religion lines, yet you claim to love God...why do you cut other people down with your mouths and swords, all because you want to fight for God! My dear, use your head...If you keep fighting for the almighty, then you only prove that your brand of God is a dummy who can not fight for himself.

Love your neighbour as yourself...How dare you claim to love God when you you can not love those around you. How?


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Seun:
You should be an atheist, not a Christian. That is the final destination, but it requires courage. Do you have courage?

AllNaijaBlogger:



She should be what she wants to be. She chooses to be a christian and that is fine.

You atheists generally think that intelligent people will become atheists. Just because she wrote an interesting piece about religion and challenging one's thinking, you assume tat she should be an atheist.

I disagree

standd:


Exactly. You can NOT love your moslem God and hate your Christian neighbour. That is the point. How can you claim to love a God that you never seen but hate people who are with you physically.

standd:


Where am I headed, Mr. Kevoh? I should apologize in advance to those who think this is a Moslem vs Christian thread. No it isn't. I was born a Moslem, went to Quranic school for a long time too...Now, I am a Christian but I still don't like Religion. I just want to be human, love everyone equally and not be too religious that I lose sight of my humanity.

Seun:
I fail to see the problem here. Are their boyfriends supposed to ram them from the front?

freecocoa:
I'm in love with you standd.

Isn't it just funny how someone(my sister actually) just coming back from spending the night with her bf, tells me "so you won't go to church today again, I just dey pity you", I'm like, seriously me and you who go pity each other? Then she says "God know say atleast I dey try", you try when you dey already pre-plan sin, abeg comot for my front jor, then she says, "I want do 30 days fasting, I go try make I no see am(her bf) till after the fasting", come hear me laughing na, it almost drives her nuts, I dey finish them wella.

The biggest reason why I seem to lean towards agnosticism, is hypocrisy, I can't stand it, how can I know and even plan to go against the rules of the bible and then call myself a christian? The worst is even judging others, you should hear these so called christians condemn someone, you'd think they already saw the person in hell.

A friend of mine said that Rihanna and the rest will occupy the deepest/hottest part of hell, yet when she goes to the salon, she carries along with her, a CD plate of Rriri's album to show the stylist a style she wants to make, she knows and sings her(Riri's) songs like she is her back up singer, still she's sure the 'good girl gone bad' is a daughter of the devil and an usher in the church of satan.

Most 'religionists' are seriously deluded if you asked me.

FrancisTony:

It'll interest you to know that in "Jehovah Witness" heaven on earth, only 144,000people would make it. That's about 0.5% out of 100%.

P.S- Don't mistake Oyedepo's heaven on earth with JW own.

Oyedepo own is already taking place while JW witness own is on the last day.

Confusion grandeur.

And ermm, Standd is a physicists not a lawyer.

freecocoa:
I'm in love with you standd.

Isn't it just funny how someone(my sister actually) just coming back from spending the night with her bf, tells me "so you won't go to church today again, I just dey pity you", I'm like, seriously me and you who go pity each other? Then she says "God know say atleast I dey try", you try when you dey already pre-plan sin, abeg comot for my front jor, then she says, "I want do 30 days fasting, I go try make I no see am(her bf) till after the fasting", come hear me laughing na, it almost drives her nuts, I dey finish them wella.

The biggest reason why I seem to lean towards agnosticism, is hypocrisy, I can't stand it, how can I know and even plan to go against the rules of the bible and then call myself a christian? The worst is even judging others, you should hear these so called christians condemn someone, you'd think they already saw the person in hell.

A friend of mine said that Rihanna and the rest will occupy the deepest/hottest part of hell, yet when she goes to the salon, she carries along with her, a CD plate of Rriri's album to show the stylist a style she wants to make, she knows and sings her(Riri's) songs like she is her back up singer, still she's sure the 'good girl gone bad' is a daughter of the devil and an usher in the church of satan.

Most 'religionists' are seriously deluded if you asked me.

Seun:
I fail to see the problem here. Are their boyfriends supposed to ram them from the front?

OLUJOSHINS:






Christians fall when trying to obey the biblical way of life cos our flesh is working against the biblical way of life. but we are to keep trying, keep going to church, keep fasting & praying, keep trying to live the good christian life cos we are trying to defeat the flesh. that's all we can do sis. keep attempting to defeat the enemy.

freecocoa:
Very funny, you are attempting to fight when you've already given in to sin even before the temptation comes.

A young christian girl clearly knows, it is a sin to have $ex outside marriage, yet she decides to have it and then ask for forgiveness afterwards, yet you say she's trying?

A pastor knows it's a sin to steal church funds, yet with him is a list he made from home, of things he intends to use the money to purchase, this is even before the offering is collected, yet he's trying?

The bible said explicitly, to love one's neighbor as you do yourself, yet you see someone in need and because he's of a different faith than you, you treat him like a plague, yet you are trying o.

Alright, make una keep trying.

OLUJOSHINS:
after examining most comments, I conclude with regards to this thread that:
Atheist are a group of judgmental ex Christians, who have chosen to stray from the Living light & go about arguing with people trying to defeat their own conscience in the internal debate it keeps bringing up about returning as prodigal kids to the waiting Shepherd.

neoapocalypse:


Never thought I'd see the day , freecocoa tending towards agnosticism

Weah96:


Some atheists were Muslims. Others were already irreligious. How did you arrive at your false conclusion that atheists are judgmental former Christians?

Seun:
You should be an atheist, not a Christian. That is the final destination, but it requires courage. Do you have courage?

OLUJOSHINS:





with regard to this thread bro. have U seen an ex Muslim atheist ?


if U have, then please pardon my observation skills.

OLUJOSHINS:





Is Ur salvation based on the lifestyle of the sister next door?


Is the corrupt pastor Ur ticket to eternal life?



Y have U decided to quit the religion due to failure of the end time Christians?

neoapocalypse:


Were you truly a moslem ? I disagree with you on this. The moslem god specifically encourages the killing of people of other faiths who do not submit to theirs , in other words , as a true moslem who loves his god he must kill people of other faiths ( including Christians ) who do not proclaim allah as the supreme being