gamaliel9:
Dialogue happen between two cultures....[ eg,christianity and igbo culture]and the result becomes more fruitful...thats what we are trying to have...a richer way of worshipping God..

Very soon Igba Nkwu and Sacramentalization[white wedding] will be joined in our ceremony..

bloodofthelamb:



Listen, the "new creation in Christ" is a citizen of heaven sent as an ambassador to the world. An ambassador of America in Nigeria have no business with the tradition and culture of Nigeria.


He is here on behalf of his Nation (America), even so are believers in the world on behalf of heaven.

Mpanyi:


Seems you have personal issue with catholic church. My fear is it may kill you.

Samsimple:
I tire 4 Nigeria church ushers person no fit sleep 4 e papa house again

Originalsly:


Lost what?...you can't lose something you never had. Nothing wrong in celebrating culture or whatever in any such 'church'. Catholics are Catholics...not Christians.

NwaAmaikpe:



Yes it is,
It actually shows that we are thanking God for our diversity. We first had culture before we even became Christians. Christianity does not erase our culture, instead it validates them.

My church even takes it further,
On our cultural day, you are either expected to come with your native food, dress like your village's masquerade or bring a charm.

As long as it is to the glory of God, it doesn't matter.
(1 Cor. 10: 26-31).

nwokoyepraise:


So an American ambassador in Nigeria is forbidden to wear Nigerian cultural clothes, speak Nigerian languages, eat Nigerian food and partake in Nigerian cultural activities including traditional marriages just because he is an American ambassador in Nigeria?

Gggg102:


But your white wedding is adopted European culture...
Baptism and other rites are Jewish culture...
The suit you most likely wear to church is European culture.

Jigba:

Nice read but I don't agree with the Western education part.

Jigba:

Nice read but I don't agree with the Western education part.

MrAnele:
Why?

HeyCorleone:


What exactly is that statement supposed to mean?

Haphazard kind of worship?

No. It's just plain wrong. Because you don't understand something doesn't make it "haphazard". Do not just judge from the outside. Have you ever attended a single Catholic mass in your life.

I was once attending Redeem but I went to the Catholic church once and never went back. I was awed.

At least in the Catholic Church there is no stress on tithing and other mundane form of extortion to enrich the Priest like in Redeem.

And what is the issue with cultural day? Have you no culture? What is bad if the church decides to promote culture?

One unique thing about the Catholic church is they always try to fuse or highlight the culture of the people with whom they reside. If that is what you term as "magnitude haphazard kind of worship", then I can only pay that one say you come to your senses and realise the grave error you committed by the statement.

Funny thing is the one-man-business Pentecostal churches keeps fighting the Catholic church and never get a reply. That speaks volume. Like when Christ admonished us to turn the other cheek.

In my church on cultural day everyone is expected to dress in their cultural attire. Certain hymns are rendered in various native tongues. Then, at times, there is a minifeast after mass with people identifying by their culture.

If you or your Pentecostal pastors think there's a problem with that then you all are mentally deranged.

So "we have lost it" by choosing to celebrate our culture?

It is mental slaves like you that the white man likes. I bet you bear 2 English names and have never been to your village. But you would want to have an English wedding even tho it has no place in the Bible and is purely a European thing? Smh. People like you are the reasons why Africa won't grow. You feel being developed means doing away with your culture but that very thing can seriously hinder development. Why do you think Asians are getting it right?

Emancipate yourself from mental slavery. Because you're a born again Pentecostal doesn't mean you sacrifice commonsense on the altar of pleasing your pastor.

Jigba:


I mean I understand the need to teach the African version of Physics and so on but do we have it?

MrAnele:
I'm sorry, but there's no such thing as "the African version of physics".

What you i want is for us to start Teaching physics, chemistry, mathematics in our indigenous languages like it is done outside the shores of Africa...

CAPSLOCKED:




OH.... THE IRONY.
WANTED TO PASS BUT.. COULDN'T RESIST.





- THE CATHOLIC CHURCH COLLECTS TITHE.
- THE CATHOLIC CHURCH COLLECT OFFERINGS EVERY SUNDAY, YOU'LL HEAR THINGS LIKE FIRST COLLECTION, SECOND COLLECTION, THIRD COLLECTION.. AND SOMETIMES "SPECIAL COLLECTION". ALL THIS DURING A SINGLE MASS. THE CATHOLIC CHURCH DOESN'T COME OUT STRAIGHT TO DEMAND FOR COINS BUT USES SUPREME TECHNIQUES TO EXTORT IT'S MEMBERS.

- YOU MUST REALLY BE A CHILD TO THINK THAT THE CATHOLIC CHURCH IS NOT A ONE-MAN BUSINESS. ALL THE CATHOLIC CHURCHES IN THE WORLD SENDS MOST OF THEIR MONEY MONTHLY/YEARLY TO ROME. OR HAVEN'T YOU HEARD ANYTHING ABOUT "TARGET"?
THE CHURCHES ARE MANDATED TO MEET THIS OR THAT TARGET MONTHLY.. THAT'S WHY THEY'RE ALWAYS DEMANDING THIS AND THAT OFFERINGS UP TO FOUR COLLECTIONS PER MASS. AT THE END THEY SEND ALL THE MONEY TO THE DIOCESE.. THEN TO ROME THROUGH THE APPROPRIATE CHANNEL.

THIS IS ORGANIZED SLAVERY. BLACK MAN SENDING MONEY FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE WHITEMANS VATICAN CITY... WHILE OUR OWN LANDS STAY POOR... IN THE NAME OF RELIGION. RUMOR HAS IT THAT THE VALUE OF GOLD IN THE VATICAN IS ENOUGH TO FEED THE ENTIRE AFRICAN CONTINENT FOR A CENTURY.

YOU FAILED AT PAINTING PENTECOSTAL PEOPLE BAD, WHATEVER THEY DO WAS BORROWED FROM YOUR BELOVED CATHOLIC CHURCH.

Deltayankeeboi:
as long as it is the yoruba(skull miners), fulani or hausa denomic, babaric and evil cultures, it is not ALLOWED! Their cultures are setback to national development.

we igbos have a very peaceful, God loving and biblical culture. We are therefore allowed to celebrate our beautiful culture in church and anywhere else

Jigba:


But in the article it stated African version of Physics or maybe I misunderstood that part.

Ermm till now I don't think there have been efforts to translate these languages to our native languages.

I'm guessing it would be hard in Nigeria though I heard one time there have been efforts to do so..

In which African country is it done?

Lilisticlili:
This trend has been going on for years in Catholic churches but one can only look aside on any thing pertaining Roman catholic idealogies of their long aged magnitude of haphazard kind of worship.
But recently Redeemed churches too joined the age lond trend and the occassion is a sight to behold seeing different people with cultural attires displaying all manner of antics in church.
A man even demonstrated some usage of charms and herbs on stage citing it as a cultural believe before christianity and at the end cultural dance was exhibited by various groups.

My question is,"where has some of these churches lost it?

Originalsly:


Lost what?...you can't lose something you never had. Nothing wrong in celebrating culture or whatever in any such 'church'. Catholics are Catholics...not Christians.

Ubenedictus:
you mean Protestants are Protestants.... not Christians.

HeyCorleone:


Nigga stfu.

You celebrate the white man's traditional marriage in a church already. So? Yesterday you watched the Royal Wedding - that is European culture. Funny thing is such wedding is repeated in churches around Nigeria every Saturday. Another man's culture. And you have a problem with celebrating your own culture in church?

It's just inferiority complex that makes you think celebrating cultural day in the church is wrong.

redangel2017:
lol ok cm nd celebrate masqurade in ur church naa.. U knw the kind culture we er talking about here

TheUbermensch:
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Is it every aspect of our culture that is associated with darkness?
Don't we have traditional praises to God? Can't we say a prayer to God? So is it a crime to adorn your traditional attire and come sing traditional praises to God while highlighting your culture?so u er saying some will celebrate in church while some will not... Culture is culture.. Anyway i understand whr u er coming from.. I wish u get my point too

You're intellectually inept and would be a very dull parent to your kids.