Xeroz: Are you saying there are no generational curses or saying visions are fake?

nollywood20: Nigerians are not obsessed with religion.
They are only obsessed with HYPOCRISY AND LIVING IN DENIAL OF THE TRUTH.

Majority of those claiming to be "Christians" are just mere church goers who have no conscience or fear of God, otherwise they would not be so envious, jealous, evil, greedy, dishonest and wicked in their daily lifestyles.
And the so called Muslims are as hypocritical as the so called "Christians".
And among them are majority of the members on Nairaland, including the Administrator and fake moderators.

You see a member preaching on Facebook and Twitter, but is an evil liar and shameless trollop.

Only fools can be fooled by these fake religious legions of hypocrites and parasites in Nigeria.
But they can never fool God.

15 “Watch out for false prophets. They come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ferocious wolves.
16 By their fruit you will recognize them. Do people pick grapes from thorn bushes, or figs from thistles?
17 Likewise, every good tree bears good fruit, but a bad tree bears bad fruit.
18 A good tree cannot bear bad fruit, and a bad tree cannot bear good fruit.
19 Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire.
20 Thus, by their fruit you will recognize them.
~ Messiah Jesus Christ in Matthew 7:15-20, Holy Bible (NIV).

Bearshare: Humans are by design religious. What is religion? A set of belief.

To a christian, he believes there is God that controls existence

To a muslim, he believes there is a God he knows better than the Christian

To the Atheist, he believes there is no God.

We all believe on something, that makes us all religious

nellybadas: [color=#990000][/color][b][/b]
MAY ALMIGHTY GOD BLESS YOU FOR YOUR POST. YOU HAVE SAID EVERYTHING. THE HYPOCRACY IS JUST TOO MUCH. MOST RELIGIOUS PEOPLE. YET MOST CORRUPT...SMH

senbonzakura_kageyoshi: The fact here is that, religion is really not at fault. Why? Because religion is not a tangible entity! Religion does not come to you and ask you to believe in it, a human being does, directly or by proxy. And religion does not force you to believe, you choose to believe of your own free will. The problem is not religion, the problem is people.

Religion is basically just a set of beliefs one adheres strongly to. However, it's human beings that profess it, expound it and relate it. Humans being the imperfect beings they are will also make religion imperfect. It is a human being that will tell you that Jesus is Lord and, if it suits his purpose, that Jesus has appointed him your spiritual leader. It is also a human being that says he has studied religion and knows your God better than you and the only way you can access that God is through him. Funny thing is, very few people have gone in search of God on their own. They just depend on their "spiritual leaders" to tell them who God is. So if the spiritual leader says God hates adherents of other religions and wants them blown up, they believe it. If the leader says God hates black people (yes, there are places such a thing is preached), they believe it.

But then, that's just for the Theists. Atheists are also religious. They also have a set of beliefs that they hold strongly and adhere to, and that is that there is no God. They also have other atheists they look up to for guidance or as role models (though maybe not as strongly as theists but still) and they can also believe blowing up people is nice.

The real issue on ground is a lack of morals. Our leaders preach spirituality (or aspirituality) but leave out morality. Our churches and mosques don't preach morality as strongly as they used to. Even parents are more interested in going to church and forcing their children to go to church than teaching them that stealing is bad. They leave the moral development of their children in the hands of sunday school teachers, who themselves have other things to worry about. The result being that we have children that can recite the Bible offhand but will rob you blind if given the chance.

Religion has never been the problem. Gullible people have...and in Nigeria, we have too many of them.

Van snickers:

musKeeto: And for those who would care to know, atheism is a religion as much as abstinence is a 5ex position.

Dolts, this thread is not about atheism but religion - the belief in God.

The man who believes his actions are validated by an Almighty is dangerous cue Oyedepo's slap on that little girl and the stout defence his deluded people immediately put up.

That, my friends, is religion: dropping off common sense and picking up a helmet of slavation...

elliottibanga:

You make a lot of sense but you have a rather "white or black" view of personal belief structures. I'm sure you would like to think that people are either theist or atheist, but that is far from the reality at hand. There are a lot of "Grey" belief Structures out there (Even in Nigeria) like the Pantheist, agnostics etc who have an amalgamated view of what their own faith (or lack of faith) is.

Bottom Line is that common sense, mutual respect and tolerance are in short supply in Nigeria today. (Emphasis on Common Sense!)

Okija_juju: ..[b]@ OP THE BIBLE EXPLAINS IT WELL IN THE BOOK OF PROVERBS 22:6 Train up a child in the way he shoud grow, and when he is old, he will never depart from it. What you are seeing is the result of upbringing. Its easier to train a child than to repair an Adult

Religion to Nigerians is not so much abouts its content, but about an identity. A girl who spent all Saturday night in the club or even having sex with her boyfriend/aristo will wake up by 7am, have her bath, dress up and she is in church. That Muslim chap that hides his alcohol inside his prayer kettle would do his Abulution and head for the Mosque on friday. Its now a part of what they do. It has no real meaning to them. Thats why a convicted felon would go straight from the prisons to a church for thanksgiving.

Immorality is very high in Nigeria right now, corruption, crime and all sorts of vices.. Yet every Sunday, the churches are filled to capacity.

To the Rich/upper middle-class Nigerians, Church is nothing but a social gathering where they can come into contact with the poor and subconciously oppress them. Thats why its easier for a rich man to see the pastor than it is for a Poor Church Usher to even enter the Pastors office, let alone see him. They dont pray as hard as the poor, they come late and leave early, they get choice seats in church, they get special invites to every occasion and the pastor always answers their calls personally. This classonly attend church on SUNDAYS!!


To the lower-middle class/independent enterprenuers, Church is nothing but another avenue to meet potential clients. These ones get access to the pastors, but not as easily as the rich folks. They can get a Pastor to pray for them, but cant get a pastor to come to their houses. This class would attend Church on Sundays abd are always at house-fellowships (as this is where they c=get to interact with the rich).

The Poor, To them, Church represents hope. This class are the most dedicated members of the church. they sweep the church, they make up over 75% of the churches workers, they are very loyal to the pastors, they pray the hardest, loudest and longest. They are the first to arrive in church and the last to leave. To them, they really do believe that if you pray hard enough, manna will fall from the skies. They are the most committed. This class can never see the pastor at will. Infact, they will be lucky if they can get the pastors number let alone speak to him one on one. They come to church every sunday hoping for a miracle. They dress their best but always come short. They eat at the feet of the rich & upper middle class who use them as they like.


The Politicians need religion for control. They use it for election purposes and to keep the masses under control. A christian wouldnt kill a Politician that is stealing him blind because of religion. And he is so shackled bythe religion that he cant even fight the system, so he prays to God for a solution to a problem that is within his control.



Religion is not important to Nigerians, its now a habit.

Sadly, we have chosen foreign gods like the Jewish god and the Persian god. Abandoning our local gods. If we still actively worshipped Amadioha, by now, someone would have dragged their governor before Amadioha and made him swear with his life if he stole our money during his tenure or not.. By now, a Yoruba man would have dragged his council man before Sango to swear if that fake road was truly tarred with 15 billion Naira. INFACT, ALL OATHS OF OFFICES WOULD BE TAKEN IN FRONT OF AN ORACLE.. Maybe, just maybe, things would not have been this bad. [/b]

senbonzakura_kageyoshi: Another reason i point out that we the people are the problem in Nigeria and not our religions is that Pastors/Imams/Other religious leaders are not the only people we believe. We also believe politicians, in spite of the fact that we know they are corrupt. Politicians continually blind us, blind side us and play us against each other and we believe them instead of doing our homework and asking the right questions. Wasn't it this time last year that the legislature was spending weeks going on and on about gay people and Nigerians were hailing them. Right here on Nairaland, i asked everyone to forget he Gay issue and focus on the real problem, the imminent subsidy removal. Yet we continued to bask in a law that we really don't need right now while they sneaked in the subsidy removal. We only realized what's up when we started buying fuel at over N110 per litre.

Gullibility is one of our biggest problems aside a clear lack of morality.

~Royal~:
Nigeria has a Larger Muslim Population than Iran and Saudi Arabia.....

Just An Utterly Disgusting Statistic

Yo What Up TingTingz, How you living Fam?