In the course of our discussion last week, a friend who teaches in a secondary school mentioned that since she started work some three years ago, she had worked with four principals -- the current one making the fourth.

The three previous ones had their last professional outings in her school having reached the peak of their careers. Now here is the gist:

All three of them--being pastors,--retired to the church.
When intellectuals who served for 35 years retire to the church instead of a school, an SME, a library, a research institute, an education consulting firm, or an industry, then we should not be surprised that this rubbish we--out of delusion-- brandish as religion will kill us.

Soon, very soon, Christians will start competing with cockroaches to eat Bible, Awake, and Open Heavens.
Muslims will slug it out with rats to eat Quran, Hadiths and Fiqh materials.

Pastors collect tithes to feed and build more branches. Imams collect offerings to eat and build more mosques. The Redeemed church intends to have a church on every street in Nigeria, Living Faith Church has two universities, Nasfat has one...
None of these men who sit on fat riches has deemed it fit to own a commercial farm, a milk factory, a rubber industry, or a storage and processing facility where we could apply for decent jobs after school.

Everyone now wants to be a G.O.
Aiti ri nkankan. The day we become real, these shady characters will not know when they will put FOR SALE on religious buildings.

Nana Akufo-Addo, the new Ghanaian President has begun the move to implement his One District, One Factory policy. Since we have a blind man as president, must we allow the men who also receive spiritual taxes from us to remain blind to our survival?

This is why the Nigerian government's extreme interference with religion as is manifested in the law that forced the opulent RCCG overseer out of "power" further reinforces our position that religion has lost in totality, the respect that buoys it.

The moment NEPA started charging churches and mosques -- not even as normal consumers -- but on commercial rates ought to have signaled to adherents that an inversion had occurred in the sacred house of God.

For, save the vivid evidence that Sunday tithes go to the pockets of pastors and Friday contributions get pushed into the bellies of Alfas, a government that professes so much belief in God would never have deemed it fit to charge the sacred pulpit, in the same manner, it charges Nestle, or, Chevron.

Let genuine Christians and Muslims see this as a signal to take their faith back from the hands of the litany of chameleons whose calling has everything to do with tithe and offering as it has nothing to do with God and heaven.

Religion is messed up. A character who swims in the cloud in the same country where at least two-third (120m) of the population - - mostly lost souls -- survive on ration 1-0-0, or 0-1-0, or 0-0-1 could in all honesty not be preaching the same gospel that modest son of a Carpenter preached.

In the same vein, a character who made a well a sanctuary to invoke the Almighty at the behest of the CCT customer and rogue Senate president, Bukola Saraki could not have been a follower of the noble man from the desert of Arabia.

Charlatans with sugarcoated oesophaguses have mastered the art of turning the sacred scrolls upside down to swindle unsuspecting folks.

Mr. and Mrs. De Graft of the Methodist Church built the first school in Nigeria --Nursery of the Infant Church -- here in Badagry. From there, hundreds of white missionaries planted thousands of schools and hospitals across the country with proceeds from tithes, offerings and government grants.
What have your black Men of God done with the humongous wealth they get in Jesus name? What have your black Alims done with your donations?
How many schools have they built for your children to attend? Landmark? Redeemers? Fountain?
How many hospitals?
How many farms?

Can we then conclude that since the white man left, religion has lost its mandate?
Modiu Olaguro writes from Lagos.

Nice write-up. Makes sense.
The essence of religions and its foundation is to curb societal evils.

But now people use it for personal gain. We keep going further from the ideal religious teachings and we keep blaming everyone except ourselves.