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Re: Why Criticism Of Religion Is Important In Contemporary Africa by johnydon22(m): 2:38pm On Jul 28, 2015 |
italo:Hahahahaha sorry bob, you have no case... Go grab a book and read what government is |
Re: Why Criticism Of Religion Is Important In Contemporary Africa by italo: 2:45pm On Jul 28, 2015 |
johnydon22:My initial statement was that Atheists kill and molest children and justify it...and I have given clear examples of Nambla and Atheistic Govt...there are many more examples. the moment a Christian tells you "it is right for me to molest a child," he has begun to chart his way out of Christianity. That is heresy! |
Re: Why Criticism Of Religion Is Important In Contemporary Africa by johnydon22(m): 3:03pm On Jul 28, 2015 |
italo:And by so doing you stereotyped by attributing individual and political actions to a whole. . . . Nambla movement is a movement that involves both theist and atheist, these are individual ideological and orientation and has nothing to do with belief or unbelief in a deity... Even the nambla movement claimed to recruit through the catholic church. Several catholic priests molest young boys yet the church extinguishes and shields them. . . Stop attributing the Nambla movement which is made up of both theist and atheist to the unbelief tilt. You have been shown how government deals with constitutional charter which in turn is the politics of a state.. You have to tell that to the christian members of Nambla and also to the pedophile priests that molest young boys in the sacristy all over the globe. Simple the actions of these few does not equate Christianity and so it will wrong to attribute the actions of these individuals to Christianity. Atheism is not a religion or doctrine, its just a position of unbelief. . . So people who act of their orientation or ideologies in the state of unbelief do so at their own accord .. 1 Like |
Re: Why Criticism Of Religion Is Important In Contemporary Africa by italo: 3:05pm On Jul 28, 2015 |
johnydon22: Science in the modern sense of the word, refers mainly to the Scientific method that Roger Bacon developed. The real breakthrough in the development of the scientific method, however, came from a man named Roger Bacon. Roger Bacon (1214-1294) was an English philosopher often considered the 'Father of the Scientific Method'. Bacon's contribution to the development of the scientific method stems from his emphasis on experimentation. Bacon suggested scientific truth could be found out through the cycle of observation, hypothesis, experimentation, and independent verification. http://study.com/academy/lesson/bacon-descartes-the-scientific-method.html This one is not |
Re: Why Criticism Of Religion Is Important In Contemporary Africa by johnydon22(m): 3:17pm On Jul 28, 2015 |
italo:[b]And your copy and pastes still proves you wrong all the time... Scientific Method is not Science in general. . . Roger Bacon played an important role in the development of MODERN scientific METHOD but there were still ancient scientific methods in play before then. Observation, experimentation were all part of the ancient Scientific method which still are maintained in this modern scientific method. When you pick up a pythgoras theorem just know that pythagoras helped develop mathematics but was not the inventor of mathematics or even the theorem itself So boy pick up a book and stop disgracing yourself by asserting the church invented science when science (Natural philosophy) predates it by thousands of years. By the way i like the fact you agree Bacon was a philosopher further buttress my point and teachings to you in the other thread that both theology( religion) and science (Natural philosophy) are all off shoots of the noble art of Philosophy You really need to step up your game and study more.. i recommend you go to a seminary it will do you a lot of good study wise ... lol [/b] 1 Like |
Re: Why Criticism Of Religion Is Important In Contemporary Africa by italo: 3:17pm On Jul 28, 2015 |
johnydon22: I didn't stereotype. I gave irrefutable examples of Atheists justifying their crimes...some in the name of Atheism. johnydon22: I will tell any Christian who justifies his sin as "right" that he is a heretic. I haven't seen a pedophile priest claim to be right yet. johnydon22:Simple. Christianity teaches the contrary. johnydon22: Yes, those Atheists kill in the name of Atheism...on their own. |
Re: Why Criticism Of Religion Is Important In Contemporary Africa by italo: 3:20pm On Jul 28, 2015 |
johnydon22: Science in the modern sense of the word, refers mainly to the Scientific method that Roger Bacon developed. |
Re: Why Criticism Of Religion Is Important In Contemporary Africa by free37: 3:20pm On Jul 28, 2015 |
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Re: Why Criticism Of Religion Is Important In Contemporary Africa by aminae: 3:23pm On Jul 28, 2015 |
HOW TO IDENTIFY TRUE RELIGION. • True worshippers respect the Bible as God’s Word. They strive to live by its principles. So true religion differs from religion that is based on men’s ideas. (Matthew 15:7-9) True worshippers do not preach one thing and practice another.—Read John 17:17; 2 Timothy 3:16, 17. • Jesus’ true followers honor God’s name, Jehovah. Jesus honored God’s name by making it known. He helped people to know God and taught them to pray that God’s name be sanctified. (Matthew 6:9) Where you live, which religion makes God’s name known?—Read John 17:26; Romans 10:13, 14. • True Christians preach about God’s Kingdom. God sent Jesus to preach the good news of the Kingdom. God’s Kingdom is the only hope for mankind. Jesus continued speaking about it until his dying day. (Luke 4:43; 8:1; 23:42, 43) He said that his followers would preach about it. If someone approaches you to speak about God’s Kingdom, to which religion does he likely belong?—Read Matthew 24:14. • Jesus’ followers are no part of this wicked world. You can recognize them by the way they take no part in politics or social conflicts. (John 17:16; 18:36) Also, they do not imitate the world’s harmful practices and attitudes.—Read James 4:4. • True Christians have outstanding love for one another. From God’s Word, they learn to respect all ethnic groups. Although false religions have often strongly supported the wars of the nations, true worshippers refuse to do so. (Micah 4:1-3) Rather, true Christians unselfishly use their time and resources to help and encourage others.—Read John 13:34, 35; 1 John 4:20 1 Like |
Re: Why Criticism Of Religion Is Important In Contemporary Africa by adsonstone: 3:27pm On Jul 28, 2015 |
italo: italo: Who's dancing around, you or I? Ignorance is truly killing you. Adult roman catholic, keep reveling in self deceit, lies and hypocrisy...in public, you're well known for that. |
Re: Why Criticism Of Religion Is Important In Contemporary Africa by johnydon22(m): 3:28pm On Jul 28, 2015 |
italo:Hahahahaha so you showed us where the atheist scripture stipulated that thou shall commit crime. . ? The thing is you can never attribute an individual crime to atheism because atheism is not a doctrine or religion just a state of unbelief.. This is like saying: "John terry slept with someone's wife, therefore that action is the evil of football" You don't even know how silly you sound Nobody have accused the church of being pedophiliac because it is just the actions of a few.. And as you know atheism is not a doctrinal position that has any rule.. It simply is "you dont believe in deities then the label for you is atheist." so any action perpetrated by an atheist is sorely an individual action and has nothing to do with the position of unbelief or belief. [b][i].. It takes a pedophile to commit pedophilia. . Oh not this childish defence again.. Alright then show us an atheist creed or doctrine followed by atheist to justify or lay basis to their actions, just like i can show you the bible commandments If you cant then it only shows actions of people has nothing to do with their position of unbelief because there are no doctrines or law in unbelief 1 Like |
Re: Why Criticism Of Religion Is Important In Contemporary Africa by johnydon22(m): 3:30pm On Jul 28, 2015 |
italo:We are talking about SCIENCE (Natural philosophy so as not to confuse the young ones like you) We are not talking about scientific methods. Stop disgracing yourself and degrading the intellect of catholics by not knowing the difference between SCIENCE and scientific methods let alone modern scientific method... 1 Like |
Re: Why Criticism Of Religion Is Important In Contemporary Africa by freecocoa(f): 3:33pm On Jul 28, 2015 |
italo:And the day any atheist tells you its okay to molest and kill children, he is deviated from atheism, that's a lie, that's not atheism. Like why can't you use your brain? How hard is that? 1 Like |
Re: Why Criticism Of Religion Is Important In Contemporary Africa by freecocoa(f): 3:35pm On Jul 28, 2015 |
johnydon22:Can someone really be that daft? Jeez! |
Re: Why Criticism Of Religion Is Important In Contemporary Africa by winner01(m): 3:48pm On Jul 28, 2015 |
IamLEGEND1:www.nairaland.com/2474302/most-committed-atheists- once-chtistians 1 Like |
Re: Why Criticism Of Religion Is Important In Contemporary Africa by marcondo13: 3:48pm On Jul 28, 2015 |
Emyben: Do you know that it took a vote of plus one before a Church council decided that black people have souls? How did certain books become excluded from the Bible as the Appocrypha at a church council when only one of the members present was literate? If you are a true catholic, can you tell us what happens to a dead Pope at a secret conclave, who have been found guilty of breaking the laws of the Mother Church? Normally, the Fisherman's ring is only destroyed, but for a defaulting Pope, several fingers are also cut off! If you think that I am kidding, ask any Catholic Priest that you know! There are issues every where in the religious circle! Muslims killing Christians and Buddhists killing Muslims! It is really a crazy world! 1 Like |
Re: Why Criticism Of Religion Is Important In Contemporary Africa by winner01(m): 4:10pm On Jul 28, 2015 |
italo:You are giving these pawn atheists the arguement they crave. Give them logic, you will find that most of them are foolish and confused.... www.nairaland.com/2474302/most-committed-atheists-once-chtistians 1 Like |
Re: Why Criticism Of Religion Is Important In Contemporary Africa by menxer: 5:02pm On Jul 28, 2015 |
KJV: Romans 12:2 "And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God." is it necessary to renew our minds if the thoughts/idea(l)s held are serving us well? is it possible to renew our thoughts without examining it critically for its merits and demerits? how can we know the "perfect will of God" when we refuse to criticize/examine the thoughts (doctrines and dogmas) that we hold? An un-examined thought-life is not worth living... |
Re: Why Criticism Of Religion Is Important In Contemporary Africa by italo: 5:11pm On Jul 28, 2015 |
johnydon22: I'm talking about Science in the modern sense of the word, which mainly refers mainly to the Scientific method that Roger Bacon developed...with full observation, experimentation, verification, peer review etc Not the science that Aristotle and others used to discover that the earth was flat...without proof. |
Re: Why Criticism Of Religion Is Important In Contemporary Africa by iamord(m): 5:20pm On Jul 28, 2015 |
Janiwili:the black mindset is naked and prone to all sort of junk. So it's very easy for us to be deceived with organised religion 1 Like |
Re: Why Criticism Of Religion Is Important In Contemporary Africa by italo: 5:23pm On Jul 28, 2015 |
adsonstone: What lie or hypocrisy? That the Catholic Church invented the modern university system... That it is the biggest Charity in the world? That it practically invented Science when Friar Roger Bacon advanced the Scientific method at the behest of the Pope...which is the way Science is practised today? |
Re: Why Criticism Of Religion Is Important In Contemporary Africa by italo: 5:26pm On Jul 28, 2015 |
freecocoa:Now this sounds like Atheism is a doctrine, Johnydon22. 1 Like |
Re: Why Criticism Of Religion Is Important In Contemporary Africa by johnydon22(m): 5:29pm On Jul 28, 2015 |
italo:[b]Lmao and you further castigate yourself more on your ignorance about ancient science... First of all by mentioning SCIENCE of Aristotle era you have agreed science was before the emergence of your church even though you now misrepresented it in order to down write it. Ancient greeks knew the earth was round, even ancient egypt and sumer knew this little fact and they had telescope to OBSERVE this and the phenomenon of star constellations. They observed the existence of other planets and planetary rotations. . . Pythagoras fully developed the pythagoras theorem and proved it of which am proud to say you still suffer his bullshiit in class today as SOHCAHTOA. Egyptians had a sound knowledge of geometry evident enough in the pyramids, they even left behind writings on papyrus on Physics, biology, alchemy, astrology and so on of which many of this knowledge we still see in the classrooms. An ancient egyptian physician imhotep performed surgery long before the emergence of greek civilization even... SCIENCE in the ancient days had a philosophical approach and yet still had the ingredients that defines modern science now which is OBSERVATION and EXPERIMENTATION .. You only ended up showing to be quite naive about history and ancient antiquities and science [/b] 1 Like |
Re: Why Criticism Of Religion Is Important In Contemporary Africa by johnydon22(m): 5:31pm On Jul 28, 2015 |
italo:Its a clear misconception on her part of which is obvious.. Whether someone is good or bad has no effect or anything to do with atheism...anybody's behaviour GOOD or BAD is sorely their doing.. Atheist simply means "This guy disbelieves the existence of deities |
Re: Why Criticism Of Religion Is Important In Contemporary Africa by italo: 5:38pm On Jul 28, 2015 |
marcondo13: False. Mention the council and provide evidence. marcondo13:Which Church council? You're very ignorant. marcondo13:There is nothing like that. Ignoramus. marcondo13: Yes. A crazy world full of crazy people who peddle false damaging stories about people and religions. |
Re: Why Criticism Of Religion Is Important In Contemporary Africa by italo: 5:41pm On Jul 28, 2015 |
johnydon22: Yet the Albanian constitution said the state pursues an Atheist propaganda. And it killed for that purpose. |
Re: Why Criticism Of Religion Is Important In Contemporary Africa by italo: 5:45pm On Jul 28, 2015 |
johnydon22: Show me where Ancient Greeks ever proved that the earth was round...for starters. Let's see who is ignorant. 1 Like |
Re: Why Criticism Of Religion Is Important In Contemporary Africa by Nobody: 6:43pm On Jul 28, 2015 |
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Re: Why Criticism Of Religion Is Important In Contemporary Africa by herald9: 6:58pm On Jul 28, 2015 |
johnydon22:Italo is a drowning man, he's desperately looking for a straw to clutch. What a shame. Just let him drown in his own ignorance, it'll save you the stress. 2 Likes |
Re: Why Criticism Of Religion Is Important In Contemporary Africa by marcondo13: 7:10pm On Jul 28, 2015 |
shalomm: They need to read the open letter by President Vladimir Putin of Russia to Obama about the American people losing their Christian identity! Putin and his family belongs to the Russian Othordox Church, likewise most of the apparachitiks of the Communist Party! I don't really know why people keep referring to Russia as athiest. The glastnost is over, wake up! |
Re: Why Criticism Of Religion Is Important In Contemporary Africa by adsonstone: 7:14pm On Jul 28, 2015 |
italo: It is hypocrisy when you say the roman catholic church does/has done good and evil...and you list the good and refuse to list some of the numerous evil....and even claiming to be tired to list them only for you to return in less than 12 hours with other epistles of good. It is a lie when you allege that I'm trying to take the glory for another person's work. It is a lie when you say that the catholic church 'invented' science. It is a lie when you say Bacon 'invented' scientific methods when history has it that; "Several scientific methods thus emerged from the medieval Muslim world by the early 11th century, all of which emphasized experimentation as well as quantification to varying degrees." - Wikipedia https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ History_of_scientific_method Infact, scientific methods/science has been around for over 1500years BC. It is hypocrisy when you describe the work of priests who are scientists as 'the work of the roman Catholic church.' I wonder when a good individual work becomes the work of catholicism while evil works of priests remain their individual work. It is hypocrisy and self deceit when you refuse to claim that catholicism is christianity yet fail to prove that Kepler and Boyle were roman catholics. It is hypocrisy and self deceit to claim that catholicism is christianity and post that; "According to 100 Years of Nobel Prize (2005), a review of Nobel prizes awarded between 1901 and 2000, 65.4% of Nobel Prize Laureates, have identified Christianity in its various forms as their religious preference (423 prizes).[84] Overall, Christians have won a total of 78.3% of all the Nobel Prizes in Peace,[85] 72.5% in Chemistry, 65.3% in Physics,[85] 62% in Medicine,[85] 54% in Economics[85] and 49.5% of all Literature awards.[85]" Yet, you fail to prove that those 'Christians' were roman catholics. 1 Like |
Re: Why Criticism Of Religion Is Important In Contemporary Africa by shalomm: 7:20pm On Jul 28, 2015 |
marcondo13: Most of them never knew that communism started from the bible.... I have never had that a Russian man is seeking to migrate from Russia because he can't practice Christianity. |
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