We have people who are baffled and have
lost the inclination to accept any of the amazingly multifarious
concepts of God that is taught in religions. Each religion paints a
different picture of God and incredibly, each wants its own concept to
be accepted by others and when this does not happen, they brand those
who refuse to accept their theories as condemned and subdue the mind of
their believers with the ultimate theoretical fear of an eternally
burning hell. It has been scientifically proven that all humans are
susceptible to the illusion of the truth effect. The more you hear
something without even seeing, the more you believe it’s true no matter
how staggering, ridiculous and illogical it sounds. Its frightening how
often people believe in what they least know.
What is most interesting about all these is that each religion and
denomination tries to monopolise the Almighty, that they alone have
access to him and that only the way they have prescribed can lead to him
and no other way. Thus, they force their opinion upon the world. Strong
willed people who still have within them their humanity could not
accept any longer the reason for the various versions held out today of
the concept of the almighty.
Unfortunately, the commercialism that religion has become today makes it
imperative that each religion and denomination have to device means and
strategies ways to capture a chunk of the 'market'. They do this by
besmirching those who do not share their views or who refuse to be drawn
into their web; and tag as possessed by the devil those that totally
denounce religion altogether. That is so prevalent today.
In addition, “there is so much about life, existence and the Almighty
that no religion has been able to explain” and so the word 'faith' was
coined to get people to believe the unbelievable (Faith cometh by
hearing) Lolz. They have not been able to give a logical reason to so
many things that are in existence today, for example why some people are
born into particular circumstances, why from the very beginning some
are exposed to the very hard side of life while others are born with
silver spoons. Why natural disasters happen and why there is so much
wickedness in the world today. All they tell you is that it’s for a
purpose because they are equally clueless.
Given the number of religious people in Nigeria, the country ought to be
the best country in the world to live in. But the reality today should
tell you that what is done in the religions cannot be the way because
it has not brought us progress. Clear and deep thinking people usually
reject religion and that is what is often mistaken to be atheism. Fela,
Soyinka, Einstein, Galileo etc. Thus beloved as a free thinker, I have
Agnostic views about God but I also believe that every faith by notion
is actually a mirage!
Think about it for a moment.
QUESTIONS
1. What faith were you born into (religion)?

2. Despite your conviction, how do you know of a surety that your faith
is the right path to God?

3. Does your faith not teach you that goodness, salvation, paradise-like
life, making heaven, etc. is only achievable via its own tenets,
doctrines, and methodologies alone?

4. Does your faith not castigate other faiths as erroneous, wrong,
demonic and misleading?

5. Does your faith not claim that it isn’t a religion? That it’s a way
of life (very rampant nowadays)

6. Do the leaders in your faith not immediately brush aside, religiously
criticize, and even tag as devil inspired; staggering milestones,
inventions, and findings attained by mankind that “ultimately disproved”
initial claims, myths, Beliefs, sentiments and fables they illogically
sermonize to their followers/disciples? E.g. (Space exploration,
Dinosaur fossils, Extinction, Cloning, GMO, DNA fusion, Gene
elucidation, E=MC2, Rainbow, Lightning etc.)

7. If not for the men (born to this world like every other) who
centuries ago cascaded to your own end of the world the very faith you
now practice religiously, what would have your belief system looked
like?

8. If there's one true God, how come 7 billion people on earth's surface
are divided on the concept of him and his ways? Even within a
particular faith there are divisions. Christianity for example has about
30,000 sects. All this cannot be the will of any supreme being.

ANSWERS
1. Every man born into this world was born with a mind as clear and
blank as a plain sheet of paper with no belief. Growing up, our
immediate environment has instilled in us what we now know or believe
about God

2. We humans are born empirical beings that apply logic in every aspect
of our existence. Our faith is the only branch of that existence that is
at cross-road with this empirical behaviour

3. If you are still reading this, there is a 93% chance that your belief
in a faith system isn’t because you converted into it but simply
because you were born into a family, community or society that practices
that faith of your belief! If you were born elsewhere under different
circumstances, far greater chances are you would be a believer of a
different faith.

4. With or without religion, good people can still behave well and bad
people can as well do evil; but for good people to do evil, that takes
religion.

5. The 2 major religions in Nigeria: Islam (50%) which came in through
the ancient northern caliphate cities in the 17th century via
Arabian/Saharan trade believes Christianity is wrong. Christianity (45%)
which came in through the southern sea shores of Calabar and Lagos via
the Portuguese missionaries and British colonial masters believes Islam
is wrong. I strongly believe they are both right.


6. Believe it or not beloved, your faith is irrelevant; because all
theists (people of belief in God) in the human race have different
concept of it.
So how is one more legit than the rest?
Is it by the hearsays consistently wired into your mental faculty from
birth?
Is it by who came first?
Is it by their scriptures, doctrines, dogmas and religious mantras?
Actually, they “all” teach some form of goodness, divinity,
supplication, ethics, morals, and life after death. So which one is the
correct one? If none cum all of them are right, does that not mean that
none of them really matter?
 Dinosaurism was founded 5000BC ( lolz just kidding)
 Judaism was founded 1300BC
 Taoism was founded in 550BC
 Buddhism was founded in 520BC in India
 Confucianism was founded in 471BC in China
 Christianity was founded in 30AD in Israel (Protestant, Roman
catholic, Orthodoxy, Mormon)
 Islam was founded in 622AD in Saudi Arabia
 Sikhism was founded in 1500AD
 Jainism was founded in eastern India
 Grail, Jehovah’s Witness, eckankar etc.
N.B this aren’t idol worshipping religions
Religion creates rifts and divisions in the world; it causes backward
thinking, thereby halting medical, scientific, and societal progress.
Religion locks young people in right from birth and ensure they never
ever have the opportunity to look in any other direction. It encourages
people to be content rather than try to better themselves, and to trust
in an invisible friend rather than strive to succeed. It takes away the
joy that we might have in our own successes and instead throws them at
the feet of this invisible being that might have had something or
nothing to do with it. It makes people sit idly by and pray rather than
stand up immediately and do something about it.
Born into a Christian family, I was made to shove down my being the very
idea that somebody (I never saw, nobody I know ever saw, nobody knows
anybody who ever saw) died on a cross for me 2013 years ago; and this
martyr has significant relevance to my ultimate happiness in this life
and hereafter.
In summary, I must confess faith has its positives for the society. It
gives people perspective, things to strive towards and helps keep human
behaviour in check and under control to a very great degree. It prevents
chaos, freewill, and maintains a global equilibrium. If we did not have
faith systems, the world would be a jungle, Wild West (anything goes),
and an extremely dangerous place to live in as people would have no fear
of karma and repercussions. The problem I just have with faith is that
it’s very foundation is a paradox and it should never be used as a
premise to justify or manipulate human actions. Faith is a construct of
the human mind by men with far greater intellect than their peers. It is
reason and not faith that has brought advances to mankind and every
field of human endeavour. In the end, only your clear thought
(conscience) and not faith is the ultimate arbiter of truth!!! But
faith as a whole is good to have around because mankind don’t all
possess equal footing.
Even after objectively reading this article, it’s only natural that
you’ll most likely choose to discard this truth because you lack the
guts to review the religious status-quo of your birth mind for fear of
the unknown, family persecution and societal discrimination….

SEEK KNOWLEDGE
TODAY!!!