cyborg123:

Hardly does an atheist openly reveal his/her atheism and you attempt to use this line as a defense? You can't possibly be planning to keep this promise. Bestialists caught in the past were never atheists as far as I know.

As far as I know, pastors and christians, not all, do watch pornography, fornicate, do drugs etc. Even bestiality is not far from religious folks. Later, they will tell you that they have the holy spirit and Jesus died for their sins.

If Jesus death couldn't change the world and people's lives, I am not impressed. If I were Jesus, I would demand my life back. oops, Jesus is a lie.

Martinez19:
As far as I know, pastors and christians, not all, do watch pornography, fornicate, do drugs etc. Even bestiality is not far from religious folks. Later, they will tell you that they have the holy spirit and Jesus died for their sins.

If Jesus death couldn't change the world and people's lives, I am not impressed. If I were Jesus, I would demand my life back. oops, Jesus is a lie.

I agree with your first paragraph 100%. I'll still want to respect the religion and its people though.

Martinez19:
The theists in this thread obviously lack a good comprehensive ability. I think a low IQ is one of our problems as well. When scientists said Africans have a low IQ in general, we taught they were joking.

What makes you think Africans have a low iq? Have you administered iq tests to a large sample of Africans?

Martinez19:
Religion is in every country. The developed, developing and underdeveloped all have religion. So can religion be one the causes of backwardness in Africa? Yes it is, infact a major cause.

Why the religious Americans and Europeans are wasting time in the church, their atheist and agnostic scientists, even few "unserious" religious scientists, are working tirelessly moving their countries forward. Don't forget that they are sponsored by the government and their environments are topnotch and great for learning. So while the religious folks are whiling away their precious time, the scientists effectively fill the gap to move the country forward.

The same can't be said for Nigeria and Africa at large. We don't have these scientists in great number, our universities are nothing to write home about neither is our environment. We even take these religious stuff too far. So tell me, who need to drop religion the most and quickest? How can our leaders and influential personalities loot this country mercilessly and all we can do is rant and say that our future is in God's hands?

The politicians, after looting, will say the country needs prayers and many will be touched. What foolishness. The country is in a very bad state for religion to continue reigning in Nigeria. Our pastors and politicians are smart. Just like other rich folks, they profess their God in their comfort but in health crisis or any challenge, they use their resources to do the needful only for them to profess God in their comfort.

We need to wake up.

your work is too myopic because you are stressing on Christianity without looking at Islam,Africa traditional religion but you were comfortable to mention atheist. You forgot that these religious beliefs plays a role in our thinking even through some of shy from it.
Secondly religion isn't our problem instead it's our attitudes. There are countries practising religion till date yet they're doing well to a great extend e.g South Korea,Japan, China,just to mention a few.Even if we do away with religion we will still remain were we are if our mindset doesn't change. Haven't you wonder why most countries despise us?

asuustrike2009:

your work is too myopic because you are stressing on Christianity without looking at Islam,Africa traditional religion but you were comfortable to mention atheist. You forgot that these religious beliefs plays a role in our thinking even through some of shy from it.
Secondly religion isn't our problem instead it's our attitudes. There are countries practising religion till date yet they're doing well to a great extend e.g South Korea,Japan, China,just to mention a few.Even if we do away with religion we will still remain were we are if our mindset doesn't change. Haven't you wonder why most countries despise us?

I didn't leave Islam, even in my argument down the thread, I did mention El Rufai and the building of mosque.

NairalandSARS:


What makes you think Africans have a low iq? Have you administered iq tests to a large sample of Africans?

Google is your friend. Check the average IQ of Africans compared to Europeans and Asians.