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, Bill Gates etc. Thus beloved as a free thinker, I have Agnostic views about God but I also strongly 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 cum personal relationship with a deity? (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. In other words, every man was born an atheist. 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 is; we 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 a 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 modest 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 as 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….

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