Nigerians are apt to attribute every bad that happens to them to the devil and everything good to the Lord or Jesus and so on. Considering the fact that the guy was a jew and his story sometimes seems farfetched just like the stories of Sango,Orunmila,osun and all our indigenous gods, why do y'all latch on to every word your clergymen preach to y'all.
Before we were colonised we had our culture and way of worship to get closer to the "Supreme Being", so what makes what the british brought better than ours, the Hindus never fell for that crap afterall, they still worship their monkey gods and whatnot(though I find that ridiculous).
Y'all always talking about pray and fast for the country, whatever nigga, what Nigeria needs is real people who are prepared to face the facts on the ground and start getting rid of all the greedy bastards who steal y'all money every f*cking day, clergymen and imams included. Stop spending all that tithes on the freaking church and find a way to use to better your life because the church done become a hustle for these people and if one y'all say my pastor won't like, my pastor said, my pastor feels, I'ma just shoot myself, forget your pastor and all his crap about going to hell, hell and heaven can be found right here on earth if you just open your eyes. I love my people and their passion but I just can't stand their dependence on the church and the mosque, it's high time we just grab life by the horns and takle back whats ours, we are a nation of kings and queens not followers. Maybe I sound crazy, demented or just bored but think about. Yea I'm the antichrist

oya make una answer

The more downtrodden and desperate people are, the more they have to cling to something to give them the will to carry on and provide a glimmer of hope for a better future.

Most Countries where people are poor and have little or no prospects are very religious. Nearly all African states, most of South America, India, and nearly all Arab nations.

It is one of the reasons why religion still survives. If you really stop for one minute and think what people are agreeing to beleive in? The religious stories are based on absolute incredulous, fabricated stories. Invisible men living above the clouds, a God who can see everything that everybody does 24/7 :-) Heaven, Hell, Angels and Demons!

There is nothing supernatural about religion. It is a man made product. It thrives in areas where people are living like animals, in filth and squalor without prospects for a future.

The problem is that many of these poor people live under the aprehension that "God' is going to help them out of their predicament. The truth is that the invisible man is not watching you, and is not going to help you.

YOU CAN ONLY HELP YOURSELF IN THIS LIFE! DON'T WASTE YOUR PRECIOUS TIME WAITING FOR SOMETHING THAT IS NOT THERE :-)

Peace

Whats the point speaking my mind here.
Guess every thread is not meant for the right response. Goodluck in your search for ignorance!

Mr Pataki just answer the question, don't come in here and say I'm ignorant. Better yet go to church, biatch or stay under the rock and may it squash u "in jesus' name" amen.

@thor Invisible men

Because it at once fills a void and serves as a vehicle for their hope (lessness?). Without hope the spirit of many in Nigeria would be crushed by the sheer grind and privation of day to day life.

Because religion is a massive con and generates hyper-profits for the hucksters & charlatans behind it.

Because its a sign of the times as prophesied in the Bible. Nigeria is just a case in question. End times, end game. And those who know their God_______

@TV01

You have hit the nail on the head. It is about the manipulation of poor people.

Manipulation = Profit $$$$

I wouldn't use the word SERIOUS with the generality of the Nigerian attitude to their faith.

Perhaps it will be right to say that just as there is so much truth, there is so much error and those perpetratiing such errors box it up with a lot of things to make it look like the truth. For the fact that a lot of people cant read in between the lines and are looking for short-cuts to get out of poverty, they do whatever they are told to do, hoping that some miracle will happen, which hasnt and never will.

Religion is too much overated in Nigeria. Any African who is a captive to religion is not in his or her right mind, because religion is a product of mankind for mankind's ultimate aims. Wooly-Haired African People are slaves to alien culture, that is why we wear other races’ names, claim other races' religions, histories, and others identities. We can never be liberated as long as we do this.

it is not just Nigerians, it is everyone everywhere, it is from all the high we get from smoking it daily.

[b]Religion is the opiate of the people [/b]KARL MARX

Muslims, CHristians, others bathe in it daily, it forms 99% of what is discussed on Nairaland, that is why it all seems like everyone is at a beer parlour on Friday night, we are all high on rligion we forget to do what God asked simply

Because its a mind control tool.

I don't know.

Maybe we are just created so by the God.

Who knows exactly?

Nigerians are just bloody stupid.
Just look at the christians, they even claim to know more than the white man who sold them the jesus lie in the first place!
Even the bloody nigerian muslims are now more islamic than the arabs!
What these illiterates do not know is that islam is just arab culture and education disguised as a religion. . .you look at a typical nigerian muslim and you don't know whether the goon is from kano or sudan. . .damn!

If you people dont want to worship, you should leave us alone, religion is good to our country nigeria, without religion, our country could have been full of , occult ,con men,bad leaders, prostitutes,armed robbers and hopeless people, but bacause we have two great religions Christianity and islam who redeemed us from all thos evil above, we are leaving happy life,

God bless our dear country Nigeria.

Why do nigerians take religion so seriously?

. . . Because everything else in their life is a joke!

Tudór:

Nigerians are just bloody stupid.
Just look at the christians, they even claim to know more than the white man who sold them the jesus lie in the first place!
Even the bloody nigerian muslims are now more islamic than the arabs!
What these illiterates do not know is that islam is just arab culture and education disguised as a religion. . .you look at a typical nigerian muslim and you don't know whether the goon is from kano or sudan. . .damn!

Can't you ever without either name calling or swearing words?

muhsin:

Can't you ever without either name calling or swearing words?

This just confirms my earlier thoughts that you are an illiterate.
Where did i call names or use swear words?

Dios:

Before we were colonised we had our culture and way of worship to get closer to the "Supreme Being", so what makes what the british brought better than ours, the Hindus never fell for that crap afterall, they still worship their monkey gods and whatnot(though I find that ridiculous).

Hindus do not worship a "Monkey God". . . Hindu's believe "God" can not be defined.  They believe in one supreme God that is beyond the grasp of the human mind. Hinduism is very misunderstood, and a lot of the stuff people think about Hindu practices are inaccurate. They believe God is everywhere and in everything . . . In humans, animals as well as in objects. . . so when they bow to a statue, they are not worshipping a statue. .  (the same way catholics do not worship an image of the pope, and Christians to not worship the cross on their necklace, or the bottle on "annointing" oil in their purse). They are just avatars, some of which represent the  characters in stories (myths) that are part of their tradition. Some are more popular than others, and anyone is free to make up their own avatar. They are symbolic. . 

Hinduism is a tradition, like Judaism, and was only defined as we know it by the British. It was never one religion, or tradition, but different forms of practice with similar features that the British just piled into one and called Hinduism. Kinda like they came to Africa and just grouped a bunch of tribes together and named them countries without being sensitive to what their history was.

I agree with the rest of ur post tho . . .

hanuman

http://www.chitrahaar.com/wldofind/wallpapers/hanuman/LordHanuman%20(12).jpg

I agree with the rest of ur post though . . .

haha. some of those things are really creepy looking.

Isn't that a  character from one of their epics?. . . Just like Krishna, Rama, Varaha.  I think the top dawg in hindu mythology is Vishnu or Shiva (depending on tradition), which is kinda like an attempt to articulate the concept of the Brahman - "the unchanging, infinite, immanent, and transcendent reality which is the Divine Ground of all matter, energy, time, space, being, and everything beyond in this Universe in the Hindu religion". So they (Vishnu, Shiva) are kinda like God taking physical form. . .kinda like Christians understand Jesus.

In Hinduism, the christian Jesus would be seen as just an avatar.  When Christians first tried to export Christinity to India, they were shocked to see how open minded and welcoming the Hindus were. Hindus were used to having tonnes of "objects" of worship so one new one wasn't a big deal. It was when they realized they were supposed to abandon all the others that wahala started.

Because a lot of Nigerians are intellectually bankrupt

@because nigerians are used to over doing & abusing things.

Because we like magic, miracle and instant success we dont like going through process but to be sincere any one in dire situation really needs to cling to one hope or the other whether reliable or unreliable and that's the situation nigerians find themselves

Poverty, profiteering, miracle seeking, fear of hell, illitracy, make believe, loves jewish & arabic fable & d most especially intellectual bankrupcy.

@riff raff
@chrisbenogor
what do u guys actually mean by intellectually bankrupt?

walahi if no be religion
and the believe that there is a God somewhere watching
nna the world for don end.
all the poor ppl you see that seems so jentle for don show say dem craze pass ANINI!

We fear for our souls, that's why we take religion so serious.

because we are gullible,we believe everything we are told we be mumu

1, fear
2, lack of knowledge
3, human nature to belive something higher than them
4, other stuff that makes us human do stupid thing
i dont know what i belive anymore. i use to be a die hard bornagain. since my knowledge of the world and church has increase. i think am half God half world

Lack of akonuche (thinking faculty)