Typically, when a religion, its leaders and adherents feel insecure about their belief system, they resort to certain actions to try and stem the tide of academic discovery exposing their fallacies. Their key objective is usually to discourage both members and non-members from continually questioning and challenging their myths.

• They would formulate lies, perform fake miracles and emphasise the myth to overcloud the revelation of their fallacious formulations
• They stifle debate and discourage questions that challenge the origins and foundation of their belief system
• Report any critical article to the forum moderators on social media including but not limited to YouTube, FaceBook, Twitter and even on Nairaland
• Close down threads that are deemed too dangerous for consumption by their members.
• Go on personal vendettas against experts in their belief systems , to discredit their findings and factual evidence disproving certain myths
• Liaise with governments to bring in laws that punish blasphemy against their pet delusion
• Resort to threats and outright economic sanctions to discourage individuals from leaving the faith (hell fire, beheadings, loss of business earnings, divorces, rejecting children etc)
• Label former believers as apostates, shameful backsliders and hell bound rejects, to discourage others who may harbour similar plans
• Ostracise former members from the entire religious community to shame them and ‘protect’ their business empire
• Direct threats against individuals who study, reveal and expose certain flaws in their religious belief.
• Direct insults and abuse with incoherent and illogical convoluted ramblings in response to carefully laid our facts, without addressing the main points
• Belittling of new members, teenagers and adolescents who ask lots of questions about their belief system. This is usually because they do not have a full knowledge of the ‘scriptures’ and are therefore ignorant of the truth.
• Go into paranoia mode and label everybody an atheist
• Pit wife against husband and husband against wife to prevent the loss of a whole family from membership. Normally the wife becomes a threat to the unity of the family through close alignment with the dictates and desires of the man of God.

These are some of my personal observations (please feel free to post yours ).

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