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Why Do We Worship Foreign Gods? by Topman7: 10:37am On Mar 10
Muhammed, Allah, Jesus, Mary, and all these characters whom foreign invaders have forced on us…

Who does our worship of those figures really serve?

Our ancestors recognised the Almighty long before whites and Arabs existed.

Our ancestors INVENTED religion.

The ancient Greeks referred to Africa as “the land of the Gods”, and the Greek God Zeus, was said to retire twice a year to “the land of the Ethiopians”, the general name for Africa south of the Sahara being ‘Ethiopia’ of course.

Ancient Africans were known for being highly pious and spiritual. Noble-minded.

The Greeks called them “the blameless Ethiopians”.

“Zeus went yesterday to Ocean, to a feast
With the blameless Ethiopians, and all the Gods followed.
There is no time to sit.
To the streams of Ocean…
To the land of the Ethiopians
Where they offer a hecatomb to the Gods.
I go once again, so as to receive my share of the feast..’’


- Iliad, by Homer

…………..,


How has the teacher turned student?

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Re: Why Do We Worship Foreign Gods? by GanagiBitrus: 10:55am On Mar 10
As long as you continue to depend on their technology for survival & run to them for better life & greener pastures, you will always appear inferior, along with your native gods & religions. cheesy
Re: Why Do We Worship Foreign Gods? by Aboks(m): 11:03am On Mar 10
nice
Re: Why Do We Worship Foreign Gods? by FlatEarthGuy20(m): 11:05am On Mar 10
Our ancestors were brainwashed by these aliens. Religion destroyed our common sense

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Re: Why Do We Worship Foreign Gods? by muyico(m): 11:57am On Mar 10
Search urself! Thy lord will reveal himself to u! Who is ur creator? Ask urself?
Re: Why Do We Worship Foreign Gods? by perfectsusanoo(m): 12:02pm On Mar 10
Asking this question when 99% of what you do and use is imported. What value are we to ourselves is more appropriate IMO.
Re: Why Do We Worship Foreign Gods? by Topman7: 12:51pm On Mar 10
perfectsusanoo:
Asking this question when 99% of what you do and use is imported.
What value are we to ourselves is more appropriate IMO.

What do you mean “99% of what you do and use is imported”?

That is untrue and meaningless even if it WERE true.

The language most of us speak at home is not imported. The food we eat is mostly not imported, our traditional attire we wear are not imported. Our cultural values, such as those that make you oppose LGBTQ marriages, are not imported. Our music and film industry are not imported.

Oh, and the Chinese, Japanese and Indians also are part of the modern world of technological interdependence, but that hasn’t made them abandon their traditional religion in favour of Arab and European religion.

Their traditional religion was simply updated by them, and they continue with it.

It gives them a cultural solidarity, solidity, and racial pride that we lack.

I was studying Japan and their national religion, Shintoism.

Shintoism is Edo/IFA religion in everything but name.

They have over 100,000 shrines in Japan, with a good number of them built and maintained by the government!

Because they are recognised as legit, these shrines are well-tended to, neat, and well-funded.

Each of the shrines is dedicated to one or more deities, but the average Japanese man on his way to work, stops and enters any shrine on his way, regardless of the specific deity, and does a short prayer before moving on.

In fact in Japan today, if you buy a new car, you will be expected to take it to a shrine somewhere so they can sprinkle their shrine holy water on the car, for safe journeys etc.

The Japanese are actually descendants of ancient Nigerian and African settlers, mixed later with invading Mongoloids.

That’s why they share numerous cultural similarities with Africans, especially Nigerians, in their hundreds of Nigerian-sounding names.

They are practicing an updated version of our traditional religion, and that is exactly how it should be HERE.
Re: Why Do We Worship Foreign Gods? by Dtruthspeaker: 1:20pm On Mar 10
Topman7:
Muhammed, Allah, Jesus, Mary, and all these characters whom foreign invaders have forced on us…

Who does our worship of those figures really serve?

Our ancestors recognised the Almighty long before whites and Arabs existed.

Our ancestors INVENTED religion.

The ancient Greeks referred to

What a mad post.

Who wants to create God? Or whst factory are they.made in that has not closed down?

And in Christianity who forced us? Is it not because our local gods and idols were not good enough,evil, very dirty and unjist that made a Christianity a better option especially as it contained all the things that we already know God should and must have?
Re: Why Do We Worship Foreign Gods? by perfectsusanoo(m): 1:22pm On Mar 10
@topman7
Wrong comparison, the asians are known to be extremely uncompromising to their core values.
Other than tech and education, most asian society frown upon deviation and alteration.
Here, even our national values are adopted: the constitution is so 'unafrican', national language, most formal attires, probably all expensive and desired material things.
in short, we dont value locality, those who do are seen as archaic,ancient,narrow minded, a threat to modernisation.
what do you expect?.
And our entertainment industry is adulterated. All the drug promotion, sexual content etc are what?.

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Re: Why Do We Worship Foreign Gods? by Topman7: 9:24pm On Mar 10
Dtruthspeaker:


What a mad post.

Who wants to create God? Or whst factory are they.made in that has not closed down?

And in Christianity who forced us? Is it not because our local gods and idols were not good enough,evil, very dirty and unjist that made a Christianity a better option especially as it contained all the things that we already know God should and must have?


Ignoramus drowned in colonial self-hatred and inferiority complex.

Your traditional religion, which you know NOTHING about because you are brainwashed and ignorant, served your ancestors for THOUSANDS OF YEARS.

With that religion they established KEMET, known today as Egypt, which pioneered civilisation and learning throughout the world for THOUSANDS of years.

With THAT religion they established the Benin Empire, whose capital, Benin city, was described by visiting Portuguese and Dutch merchants as being among the world’s most beautiful and best-planned cities in the 15th century, with crime non-existent to the point that people built their houses without front doors.

A city with multi-storey buildings, palm oil - powered streetlights and underground drainage.

A city designed with ancient African mathematical fractal design, unknown to Europe till the late 19th century.

A city destroyed, burned down and looted in 1897 by the English animals that brought you their nasty little religion.

Even the fake, imported European and Arab religions are low grade copies of African religion.

What thick heads like you who've been so comprehensively brainwashed to think that the BLACK GODS worshiped by the world for millennia, are actually white Europeans with blonde hair from Sweden, need to do is to revisit the unquantifiable spiritual knowledge and power bequeathed you by your illustrious ancestors, instead of remaining stupid, lost, demented slaves to foreign thieves who FORCED and BLACKMAILED your ancestors to abandon their religion which kept them PIOUS and NOBLE, and become the modern-day, white-worshipping, ignorant, skin bleaching, self hating, corrupt criminals you are today.

……………..

Guardian UK

Benin City - Mighty Medieval Capital Now Lost Without Trace:

https://amp.theguardian.com/cities/2016/mar/18/story-of-cities-5-benin-city-edo-nigeria-mighty-medieval-capital-lost-without-trace

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Re: Why Do We Worship Foreign Gods? by Topman7: 11:32pm On Mar 10
Re: Why Do We Worship Foreign Gods? by Topman7: 11:49pm On Mar 10
FlatEarthGuy20:
Our ancestors were brainwashed by these aliens. Religion destroyed our common sense

Honestly.

The only reason we have corruption and mismanagement, greedy leaders etc, is that the moral restraints imposed on our people by our traditional religion was removed, and replaced with this nonsensical fake religion that says ''If you loot 10 billion dollars from the treasury and deposit it in London, ALL you need to do is 'accept Jesus as your personal lord and saviour', and he will 'FORGIVE' you, and you can keep the money, even as your countrymen and women starve.

Same with Islam. You can loot and steal public funds and engage in terrorism INSOFAR AS you visit Mecca on Hajj pilgrimage, and accept Muhammed as your prophet, or whatever rubbish they say.

Meaning that those so-called religions have NOTHING to do with piety or with God.

Just deliberately designed licenses to be wicked, corrupt, criminal, selfish, greedy, and murderous with no consequence.

Today our leaders place their hand on a bible and koran and are sworn into office, and start LOOTING the same day.

Because they KNOW the imported religions are USELESS at punishing evil and instilling piety that isn't fake.

If they had to swear with an Ofo or Opon Ifa, you can be guaranteed that corruption will end the next day.

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Re: Why Do We Worship Foreign Gods? by MaxInDHouse(m): 7:48am On Mar 11
The Gods only fights where fairness and justice for all is what you all agreed upon but where there is no fairness the Gods becomes helpless so if you want the Gods to act then pay everyone equal salary from the president to the gate man and equal benefits for all, with that in place you only need to tell the Gods that everything has been shared equally and if anyone goes behind to take what doesn't belong to him or her the Gods should deal with such individuals.

But in situations where someone is earning millions on monthly basis while others are given ₦30-40k monthly and all of you have the same market yet you're all claiming civil servants.

Ọmọ the Gods has been handcuffed so they are helpless!
Re: Why Do We Worship Foreign Gods? by Topman7: 1:07pm On Mar 11
MaxInDHouse:
The Gods only fights where fairness and justice for all is what you all agreed upon but where there is no fairness the Gods becomes helpless so if you want the Gods to act then pay everyone equal salary from the president to the gate man and equal benefits for all, with that in place you only need to tell the Gods that everything has been shared equally and if anyone goes behind to take what doesn't belong to him or her the Gods should deal with such individuals.

But in situations where someone is earning millions on monthly basis while others are given ₦30-40k monthly and all of you have the same market yet you're all claiming civil servants.

Ọmọ the Gods has been handcuffed so they are helpless!

Thanks for this.

Even what you typed here is GOLDEN ANCIENT AFRICAN WISDOM of the type we’ve discarded long ago.

You are indeed right. I didn’t even see it in this way, but it makes PERFECT sense.

100% perfect.

The Gods need us to decide that WE value ourselves as being equals, and value what they can bring to the table in terms of helping us to enforce that paradigm.

But without that fundamental acceptance of our equality, how can they do anything?

The imported capitalist system we practice, in which one man can legally own billions of dollars while his neighbour can barely feed, has totally confused the Gods.

They are thinking maybe that’s how we like it, so who are they to interfere?

The other day, I started a thread in the Politics section, urging our richest millionaires and billionaires like Dangote to establish ‘soup kitchens’ for the poorest to be served free food, and people were abusing me!

Saying it is not the job of private citizens to do that!

That it was the government’s job!

They’ve forfeited their common humanity to something called ‘the government’ who comprise less than 0.01% of the population!

Today, we not only accept inequality. We embrace it and REVEL in it.

So we are just lost in the way we reason nowadays.

No wonder the Gods are hiding from us.

We’ve totally lost our minds!

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Re: Why Do We Worship Foreign Gods? by MaxInDHouse(m): 3:34pm On Mar 11
Topman7:

The other day, I started a thread in the Politics section, urging our richest millionaires and billionaires like Dangote to establish ‘soup kitchens’ for the poorest to be served free food, and people were abusing me!

Our own people has handcuffed the Gods and they are all hypocrites and thieves.

Ask them:

Do you want 24/7 power supply?
Do you want good roads?
Do you want housing and feeding to be cheap?
Do you want peace and security?
Do you want justice?

To all these questions they will all shout "YES"

But then ask them if all civil servants should be paid equal salary that's when they will start insulting you.

It's like we all had a gigantic tuber of yarn and a big knife we also chose a leader to share it among us but we don't want him to share it equally for everyone to have a fair chance abeg who will not say:
"èmi ló kàn"
"It's my turn"


So don't mind them they're all wicked at heart if the Gods should interfere they will kill everyone who is in support of iniquity not just those in power because all of them have the same thing in mind.

God bless you and may you have PEACE! smiley

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Re: Why Do We Worship Foreign Gods? by Dtruthspeaker: 5:46pm On Mar 11
Topman7:


Ignoramus drowned in colonial self-hatred and inferiority complex.

Your traditional religion, which you know NOTHING about because you are brainwashed and ignorant, served your ancestors for THOUSANDS OF YEARS.

With that religion they established KEMET, known today as Egypt, which pioneered civilisation and learning throughout the world for THOUSANDS of years...

He-dot! Is it religion that created and built things or people? And is the topic about buding things or about worshipping things you create? And by forgetting your own post you prove you are M.O.R.O.N!
Re: Why Do We Worship Foreign Gods? by Dsimmer: 1:17am On Mar 12
One thing I know is it's stupid for anyone to change his identity because of a religion. The Asians are still Asians with their identity today and are doing fantastically great. Point is If God is said to be all knowing, he should know everyone's identity which is the person's culture/heritage, hence God is not stupid nor dumb to not understand that there are several races with different cultures. You don't have to change your language in order to communicate with God, except the person is saying God is stupid and doesn't understand that there are diverse races on earth who speak diverse languages. In fact, anyone who does such in a bid to communicate with God is more or less saying God is stupid!

In fact , if I were to talk about the Yoruba religion, Ifa for example which is filled with a lot such as science, innovation, creativities etc and yes, fasting is no stranger to Yoruba religion. Fasting is what is called "Isera" in Ifa while prayer/petition is called "Ibewe". So all these things are not strange to Yoruba religion. Yoruba had always known about Isera before Jesus fasted on earth. Jesus was regarded as the first to fast in these foreign religions which includes christianity and the Arab religion, yet the Yoruba already knew about fasting (Isera) before that. As a matter of fact, fasting has no specific time because it's between you and God. In fact, your fasting mustn't be known to anyone. That's why it's called Isera. So, that's about Isera and Ibewe in Yoruba religion.

While Isera is often related to Ibewe (petition), it's also a principle to ensure discipline and fitness, especially for the gluttons who know next to nothing than being gluttons. However, this doesn't mean one should starve himself because that's also not healthy.

Point is God expects nothing from anyone except for the creations to go display their intelligence and creative talents to make the world a civilized better place.. Also being good, which entails not doing to others what you don't want done to you. Don't steal for example if you don't want it done to you.

Speaking of intelligence and creativity for example, a lot of things mentioned in Ifa is to civilize the people, even as the ebo are intellectual symbolism which shouldn't be taken literally because they're simply intellectual symbolism 💯. For example oil is needed as ebo for Orisha Ogun which represents iron, mechanical engines etc and we all know oil lubricant is needed for mechanical engines. Hence the ebo are intellectual symbolism.

Another is Gbere sinsin done by making incision and also squeezing juices from medicinal plants into the incision made for example were known as traditional acupuncture back then which later birthed the idea of injection today. Aseje is the principle that birthed taking meal before medication which is applied in hospital today. And so-on. Meanwhile, the aseje was part of what birthed the idea of several Yoruba's cuisines 😂.. So all these are meant to civilize the people. In fact, The Yoruba already started road construction before the Europeans came. Not to mention agriculture, mathematics, creative arts and designs etc.
Re: Why Do We Worship Foreign Gods? by Topman7: 2:09am On Mar 12
Dtruthspeaker:


He-dot! Is it religion that created and built things or people? And is the topic about buding things or about worshipping things you create? And by forgetting your own post you prove you are M.O.R.O.N!


LOW IQ.

He doesn't understand the connection between religio-cultural independence and socio-economic development.

Go back to sucking white nuts.

That's what you were born to do.

Air head.
Re: Why Do We Worship Foreign Gods? by Topman7: 2:16am On Mar 12
MaxInDHouse:


Our own people has handcuffed the Gods and they are all hypocrites and thieves.

Ask them:

Do you want 24/7 power supply?
Do you want good roads?
Do you want housing and feeding to be cheap?
Do you want peace and security?
Do you want justice?

To all these questions they will all shout "YES"

But then ask them if all civil servants should be paid equal salary that's when they will start insulting you.

It's like we all had a gigantic tuber of yarn and a big knife we also chose a leader to share it among us but we don't want him to share it equally for everyone to have a fair chance abeg who will not say:
"èmi ló kàn"
"It's my turn"


So don't mind them they're all wicked at heart if the Gods should interfere they will kill everyone who is in support of iniquity not just those in power because all of them have the same thing in mind.

God bless you and may you have PEACE! smiley

Thank you my brother. You are indeed a wise man, with the golden wisdom of our ancestors. wink

When the Gods return (because they will return) they will know the heart of everyone, including those who will resist fairness and equality, and they will act accordingly to cleanse humanity, as you have stated.
Re: Why Do We Worship Foreign Gods? by Topman7: 2:21am On Mar 12
Dsimmer:
One thing to know is it's stupid for anyone to change his identity because of a religion. The Asians are still Asians with their identity today and are doing fantastically great. Point is If God is said to be all knowing, he should know everyone's identity which is the person's culture/heritage, hence God is not stupid nor dumb to not understand all the languages spoken to him. You don't have to change your culture in order to communicate with God, except the person is saying God is stupid and doesn't understand that there are diverse races on earth who speak diverse languages. In fact, anyone who does such in a bid to communicate with God is more or less saying God is stupid!

In fact , if I were to talk about the Yoruba religion, Ifa which is filled with a lot such as science, innovation, creativities etc and yes, fasting is no stranger to Yoruba religion. Fasting is what is called "Isera" in Ifa while prayer/petition is called "Ibewe". So all these things are not strange to Yoruba religion. Yoruba had always known about Isera before Jesus fasted on earth. Jesus was regarded as the first to fast in these foreign religions yet the Yoruba already knew about fasting (Isera). As a matter of fact, fasting has no specific time because it's between you and your God. In fact, your fasting mustn't be known to anyone. That's why it's called Isera. So, that's about Isera and Ibewe in Yoruba religion.

While Isera is related to prayer, it's also a principle to ensure discipline and fitness, especially for the gluttons who know next to nothing than food. However, this doesn't mean one should constantly starve himself because that's also not healthy hence the idea behind aseje.

Secondly, God expects nothing from anyone except for the creations to go display their intelligence and creative talents to make the world a civilized better place.. Also see others as oneself in the sense that what you don't want done to you, don't do it to others. Don't steal for example if you don't want it done to you.

Speaking of intelligence and creativity for example, a lot of things mentioned in Ifa is to civilize the people. Gbere sinsin done by making incision and also squeezing juices from medicinal plants into the incision made for example were known as traditional acupuncture back then which later birthed the idea of syringe injection. Aseje is the principle that birthed taking meal before medication which is applied in hospital today. And so-on. Meanwhile, the aseje was part of what birthed the several Yoruba's cuisines 😂 Also, The Yoruba already started road construction before the Europeans came. Not to mention agriculture, mathematics, creative arts and designs etc.


You are 1000% correct.

Here are some of the ancient pavements of Ife dating back thousands of years before white people knew what a pavement was.

Our ancestors paved roads as well as their own houses and compounds.





Here are some of the ancient pavements of Ife dating back thousands of years before white people knew what a pavement was.

Our ancestors paved roads as well as their own houses and compounds.



Typical Paved Courtyard In Ancient Ife

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Re: Why Do We Worship Foreign Gods? by MaxInDHouse(m): 5:44am On Mar 12
Topman7:

Thank you my brother. You are indeed a wise man, with the golden wisdom of our ancestors. wink
When the Gods return (because they will return) they will know the heart of everyone, including those who will resist fairness and equality, and they will act accordingly to cleanse humanity, as you have stated.

I worship JEHOVAH the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob! smiley
Re: Why Do We Worship Foreign Gods? by Dtruthspeaker: 12:30pm On Mar 12
Topman7:


LOW IQ.

He doesn't understand the connection between religio-cultural independence and socio-economic development.

Go back to sucking white nuts.

That's what you were born to do.

Air head.


Fool! Is that the topic you? Confused Mumu.
Re: Why Do We Worship Foreign Gods? by Dsimmer: 2:15pm On Mar 13
Dsimmer:
One thing I know is it's stupid for anyone to change his identity because of a religion. The Asians are still Asians with their identity today and are doing fantastically great. Point is If God is said to be all knowing, he should know everyone's identity which is the person's culture/heritage, hence God is not stupid nor dumb to not understand that there are several races with different cultures. You don't have to change your language in order to communicate with God, except the person is saying God is stupid and doesn't understand that there are diverse races on earth who speak diverse languages. In fact, anyone who does such in a bid to communicate with God is more or less saying God is stupid!

In fact , if I were to talk about the Yoruba religion, Ifa for example which is filled with a lot such as science, innovation, creativities etc and yes, fasting is no stranger to Yoruba religion. Fasting is what is called "Isera" in Ifa while prayer/petition is called "Ibewe". So all these things are not strange to Yoruba religion. Yoruba had always known about Isera before Jesus fasted on earth. Jesus was regarded as the first to fast in these foreign religions which includes christianity and the Arab religion, yet the Yoruba already knew about fasting (Isera) before that. As a matter of fact, fasting has no specific time because it's between you and God. In fact, your fasting mustn't be known to anyone. That's why it's called Isera. So, that's about Isera and Ibewe in Yoruba religion.

While Isera is often related to Ibewe (petition), it's also a principle to ensure discipline and fitness, especially for the gluttons who know next to nothing than being gluttons. However, this doesn't mean one should starve himself because that's also not healthy.

Point is God expects nothing from anyone except for the creations to go display their intelligence and creative talents to make the world a civilized better place.. Also being good, which entails not doing to others what you don't want done to you. Don't steal for example if you don't want it done to you.

Speaking of intelligence and creativity for example, a lot of things mentioned in Ifa is to civilize the people, even as the ebo are intellectual symbolism which shouldn't be taken literally because they're simply intellectual symbolism 💯. For example oil is needed as ebo for Orisha Ogun which represents iron, mechanical engines etc and we all know oil lubricant is needed for mechanical engines. Hence the ebo are intellectual symbolism.

Another is Gbere sinsin done by making incision and also squeezing juices from medicinal plants into the incision made for example were known as traditional acupuncture back then which later birthed the idea of injection today. Aseje is the principle that birthed taking meal before medication which is applied in hospital today. And so-on. Meanwhile, the aseje was part of what birthed the idea of several Yoruba's cuisines 😂.. So all these are meant to civilize the people. In fact, The Yoruba already started road construction before the Europeans came. Not to mention agriculture, mathematics, creative arts and designs etc.


In fact, only a foolish person adopt another person's culture just because of one nonsense religion he chooses but the question such foolish person always fail to ask is the fact if a god of a supposed religion is all knowing, shouldn't such god know that there are several diversities of people? In fact, any religion who wants you to change your culture should tell you that the god of such religion is a stupid god because if he isn't stupid, he will know there are diverse cultures in the world.

It's still painful how the North Africans were wiped out by the murderous Arabs for example. If not for the Europeans who stopped the Arabs. Point is if you don't conserve your culture and heritage, you will get wiped out. It's simple.

In fact, what African needs the most isn't religion but more civilization, more industrialization and more development. The basis for religion is to inculcate morality and goodness.. That's it. But beyond that, there's need for innovative and creative ideas📌 That's why any religion which lacks innovative and creative ideas is trash!

The world itself is an intelligent creative world. So these are what Africans need the most.

Also checkmating useless corrupt politicians. In fact, a gruesome prosecution should be met on the corrupt politicians. Politics isn't a career. It's an avenue to serve the people. The money is not yours but for the people, which is needed to ensure better economy and civilization for the people. Annoying thing is some politicians doesn't even know if they invest in more industrialization which also includes agro industrialization combined with large scale farming, more revenue
will be generated.
Re: Why Do We Worship Foreign Gods? by Dtruthspeaker: 5:13pm On Mar 13
Dsimmer:

. The basis for religion is to inculcate morality and goodness.. That's it. But beyond that, there's need for innovative and creative ideas📌 That's why any religion which lacks innovative and creative ideas is trash! ...

Do.you see the stupidity of you contradictiing.yourself, all because life has been terrible for you and you already know that God would not be helping you instead of being jealous of others who God is helping?

So what is stopping you from going to your cultural gods to make it well for you?
Re: Why Do We Worship Foreign Gods? by Dsimmer: 5:21pm On Mar 13
Dtruthspeaker:


Do.you see the stupidity of you contradictiing.yourself?

There's no Contradictions. Of course Religion is meant to inculcate morality and goodness however innovative and creative enlightenment are what a nation needs the most for civilization and development.

No doubt the Europeans came with the innovative enlightenment which was the western civilization they brought to African countries and not just the religion alone and tbh, such innovative enlightenment did help to civilize Africans a bit.

Should the Europeans have colonized Africa? Absolutely not. They were wrong for that but they at least stopped the invading Arabs from wiping out the whole of Africans while the Europeans also offered civilization with some innovative enlightenment.

So while the Europeans have got their fault, I wouldn't say they destroyed the African culture because if they did, the core Northerners in Nigeria for example wouldn't even exist today 🤔 In fact, from the look of it, it was Arab who destroyed the core Northern culture because the core Northerners in Nigeria have got no culture today, except their language which some of it were already lost to Arab however it was an European, Rupert East who actually preserved it by ensuring that the core Northerners in Nigeria write their own Northern language for example, instead of the Arabic they were previously writing. So, I wouldn't say the Europeans destroyed African culture because most of the African culture they met were retained which they even documented. An example was how they didn't have problem with Africans using their own language for God. For example, Yoruba calls the supreme God in their own language such as Olorun, Olodumare, Oluwa etc. Another example was how they didn't have problem with the Yoruba making several creative hymns and songs in Yoruba language.

In fact, the Europeans preserved most of Africa culture and heritage by documenting on them. So I wouldn't say they eroded African culture and they also didn't come with religion alone but also brought innovative enlightenment and civilization to enlighten Africa the more with some innovative ideas and civilization however they were wrong with the colonization. The colonization was quite wrong even though they didn't wipe out Africans like the Arabs wiped out the Northern Africans and stole the Northern Africa lands.

Would African have been civilized if the Europeans hadn't come? Of course yes, take the Yoruba with the Ifa for example. IFA was already enlightening the Yoruba about a lot of things such as the materials which formed the world which is related to science, the materials which formed the body which is related to biological sciences, how to use these materials with several innovative and creative ideas which was what birthed the construction of roads by the Yoruba, traditional acupuncture, several creative arts and designs by the Yoruba, Agriculture and several Food cuisines, Yoruba clothing fabrics such as aso oke etc. Hence why I said any religion without innovative and creative ideas is trash! The world itself is an intelligent creative world.
Re: Why Do We Worship Foreign Gods? by Dtruthspeaker: 6:48am On Mar 14
Dsimmer:

There's no Contradictions. Of course Religion is meant to inculcate morality and goodness however innovative and creative enlightenment are what a nation needs the most for civilization and development. ..

And is this not contradictory? The same Person that would teach good behaviour will still be the.same one to teach science, art, techology, craftsmanship, agriculture etc?

You are not being readonable at all. Take responsibility, No one has stopped.any African from being creative like the guy who has made water powered generator.. And that is something i.would have done if my g
talent was in creating engines.
Re: Why Do We Worship Foreign Gods? by Dsimmer: 10:08am On Mar 14
Dtruthspeaker:


And is this not contradictory? The same Person that would teach good behaviour will still be the.same one to teach science, art, techology, craftsmanship, agriculture etc?

You are not being readonable at all. Take responsibility, No one has stopped.any African from being creative like the guy who has made water powered generator.. And that is something i.would have done if my g
talent was in creating engines.

You're the one unreasonable. There are several atheist scientists, technical engineers with several inventions, medical doctors in the world etc for example. So It's stupid to think religion is only what Nigeria or Africans need the most.

While I have got no problem with religion inculcating moral values and goodness, however the focus should also be on innovation, agriculture, creativity, and civilization. That's what African government should mostly focus on to develop the country. The world itself is an intelligent creative world. Also, one's culture shouldn't be eroded in the process of any religion. Just as I previously stated, any religion which ask one to change his culture/identity before such person can communicate🙄, should tell people that the god of such religion is a stupid god as a matter of fact because if the god of that religion is all knowing and not stupid, he will know there are diverse different cultures in the world. One thing is if you don't conserve your culture and heritage, you will get wiped out and you've got no one to blamed but yourself because No one asked you to change your identity and heritage to begin with but your stupidity.

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Re: Why Do We Worship Foreign Gods? by RightChannel: 10:15am On Mar 14
Ask your daddy why you worship idols
Re: Why Do We Worship Foreign Gods? by Dsimmer: 12:19pm On Mar 14
Dtruthspeaker:




So what is stopping you from going to your cultural gods to make it well for you?

Meanwhile, I need to relay to you that Nothing is wrong with Yoruba religion for example, which is IFA because aside its belief in a supreme God called Olorun/Olodumare/Oluwa, it also encompasses innovation and creativity. The only thing is, some of the IFA practitioners need to be enlightened to know that the Orisha who are also Yoruba ancestors and also the ebo are simply intelligent creative talents and clues respectively. For example, IFA asking the Yoruba to celebrate the ancestors is to celebrate history and also an act to ensure these creative clues are kept in memory as constant reminders to be brought forth into technical realities, according to one's talent (Orisha) dictates because the Orisha who are also Yoruba ancestors represent the important materials which formed the world, the materials which formed the body and also represent intelligence and creative talents/abilities. Hence, It's like IFA teaching innovation and creativity to Yoruba while asking the Yoruba to keep it in memory as a constant reminder to bring it forth into technical realities, according to one's ability/talent (Orisha) dictates, just like the ancestors had done.

Did you even realize that Computer today uses the same process as IFA? IFA uses 8 bit byte. That's the basic unit of computer, same principle which IFA operate on.
Re: Why Do We Worship Foreign Gods? by Maximus692(m): 3:35pm On Mar 14
Dsimmer:

Meanwhile, I need to relay to you that Nothing is wrong with Yoruba religion

The Bible foretells the future of mankind in an outstanding way please what did your religion say about the future of mankind and our day?
Re: Why Do We Worship Foreign Gods? by bobestman(m): 9:45pm On Mar 14
Christianity and Islam are foreign to Africa. They brainwashed our ppl with their false gods. I laugh when i see this ppl think they brought the truth. The bible they carry they don't know it was actually written by Africans but the stories was twisted and credited to other ppl and their gods. The bible revealed Africans as the true children of God Almighty. It also revealed christianity and islam as a false religion with false gods. Care to know?
Re: Why Do We Worship Foreign Gods? by bobestman(m): 9:46am On Mar 15
YOU WORSHIP THE FOREIGN GODS OF CHRISTIANITY AND ISLAM COS OF YOUR DISOBEDIENCE. CHRISTIANS THINK THEY BROUGHT TRUTH BUT DON'T KNOW IT IS ALL LIES. THE BIBLE THEY THINK IS THEIR BOOK WAS WRITTEN BY AFRICAN AND IT EXPOSES THEM AS THE THIEFS WHO BROUGHT FOREIGN GODS. LET'S SEE DEUTRONOMY 28. THEY ARE PART OF THE CURSE AFRICANS ARE SUFFERING. VERSE 33 EXPOSES THEM AS THE THIEVES WHO WILL OPPRESS YOU AND FEED ON YOUR RESOURCES. VERSE 36&64 CAPTURE THIER GODS THEY BROUGHT AS WOOD AND STONE. WOOD SYMBOLIZES CROSS, CHRISTIANITY & STONE, KABALA, ISLAM. VERSE 37 SAYS FOLLOWING THEM WILL MAKE PPL CALL YOU STRANGE NAMES, NIGGAS, MONKEYS, POOR AND CURSED PPL. VERSE 49 REVEAL THEM TO COME FROM ONE END OF EARTH, AMERICA, EUROPE. THEIR EMBLEM ON THEIR SHIP "JESUS OF LUBEK" WAS AN EAGLE. VERSE 48 YOUR ANCESTORS SERVED THEM IN unclothedness AND HUNGER WHILE THEY RAPE AND STEAL. VERSE 68 THEY MADE YOU SLAVES. CHRISTIANITY AND ISLAM ARE A CURSE ON AFRICANS. THEY ALL WORSHIP FALSE GODS. THEIR END COMES AS WE ENTER AQUARIUS

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