Life is not a straight forward affair, there are many mysteries that need unveiling and many questions that need answers, hence man reliance on God for a solution to these puzzles. There are two biggest industries in Nigeria and Africa at large which are; Religion and politics and what fans these two industries is tribalism. In Africa we are content to say it’s not okay to marry someone just because he is not from our tribe or because he is from the other side of religious divide. Here you cannot buy land unless you are a native and you cannot find work unless you are an indigene, yet we go to America, get their passport and settle whenever, wherever and however we want. We stay there and fight for equality, same rights as the owners of the lands but come back here and practice tribalism to me this is cannibalism. Here we are happy to judge a man just by the pronunciation of his name. But we all fail to understand that whatever religion we practice is by chance. For instance if the missionaries had taken the Saharan route into Nigeria the whole of the North will be dominated by Christianity and if the Islamic scholars had taken the Badagry route into Nigeria then the whole south will be dominated by Islam today. Religion has continuously thrived in Africa because of the African man un-readiness to solve the myriads of problems facing him and this has kept him gullible to the wits and caprices (lies) of his religious leaders who constantly promise him help from above but never remembers to tell him that heaven doesn’t move until you move and doesn’t act until you act. He fails to show him the part of the bible where God promised his people victory over their enemies but asked them to fight for this victory he promised them. Which goes to prove that God don’t fight for you, but he fights with you. The Africa man gullibility has made him so lazy and blind to the truth that help will not fall from above. No, God uses man to help man and until we are ready to face this truth Africa will remain much the same way it has always been. The African man will sit at home and pray to God for maize but the European will go to the field, plant maize and pray to God for rain and good harvest. Put yourself in God’s place and tell us which prayer you will answer. The African wants changes to his situation but doesn’t want to change himself, forgetting that change starts within. He gives God social distancing but goes to him for help, how hypocritical an African can be. God is not our problem but religion is and until we stop practicing religion and start serving God then there is no hope for us. The African man asks God to do it for him when he prays but the European asks God what must be done. The Europeans are ready to solve their problems hence, the reason they are far ahead of us, but Africans are not ready yet hence, the reason we are far behind. The African prays for good leaders but fail to vote them in, forgetting that electoral bodies doesn’t count prayer points but votes and that God will not send angels from heaven to vote in good leaders for us. An Africans votes are based on religion and tribalism but the Westerners have gone beyond this. That is why you find Africans as members of parliament in the western world. There they don’t look at where you came from but what you can do. But here we focus on where you come from and not what you can do. We focus on your religion and not on your ability, hence the constant failures we repeatedly vote into our government. The Africans are lazy to think and lazy to act, he is so unserious and take everything for a joke, no wonder the rest of the world see us as jokes. They call our continent a shithole and we see that as racism but let’s tell ourselves the truth and ask the right questions. Beginning with is Africa not a shithole continent? The Africans must brace up and act, religion has only brought us pain but God will make us laugh if we start working on solution to our problems. Every state in Nigeria has a pilgrimage board but only a few has a bursary board. If the state government sponsors religionists on pilgrim is the country now secular or religious. Our constitution says we are a secular nation and not a religious state but yet our government builds churches and mosques but can’t pay workers nor bursary to its students, are we not hypocrites? And unwilling to solve our problems? Instead of solving our problems we use religion as an excuse. We pray always saying may God help us but fail to realize, that help lay within us.
The Africans pray for everything from good roads to good hospitals but will not build one; will God build them for us? No, He won’t and that’s because he has given us the resources and abilities to do that for ourselves. The Africans must do it themselves and until we are ready to nothing will change. It’s not a curse but this is reality staring at us.
A country that pays 5000 naira as hazards package to its health workers and pays 1.2 million naira as newspaper allowance to its lawmakers is not ready to solve its problems. A country when other nations of the world are on lockdown and everyone is contributing their own quota to curb the Covid-19 menace but our own lawmakers in this crisis deems it right to share cars among themselves is not ready to solve its problems. The good thing is we know what is right and what should be done. But only don’t know when it should be done and how it could be done.
So my dear friends, religion thrives in Africa not because we are God fearing or God loving but because we need someone to turn to with all our fears and problems. When we start solving our problems religion will thrive less.


Written by Victor Utomi
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Mtsww white washed

Religion is not our problem, African leaders are our problems

"In Africa we are content to say it’s not okay to marry someone just because he is not from our tribe or because he is from the other side of religious divide" u think in other part of the world is different? Is worse.

"Here you cannot buy land unless you are a native and you cannot find work unless you are an indigene, yet we go to America, get their passport and settle whenever, wherever and however we want." U think they will even let u buy land in other part of the world in China, Russia, and many Asian country. U can buy land u can only rent it. "Go to America get their passport and settle" it's to early to be intoxicated. The rest of the write up is also rubbish. U are been hurt so much but don't take it on Africa. Don't believe Hollywood. They're in business of manipulation and lying

Bros two cold stout for you ... You hit the nail on the head ..we all have this burning desire to see this continent rise ... But Africa no get one mouth every man dey do me and my family must oppress any other family below me... Africa is cursed I swear ... See the youths now doing rituals in their teens because their role models are not academics but yahoo boys.. I just tire

On point

Religion is the biggest problem in nigeria



uote author=Yenefer post=87874216]Mtsww white washed

Religion is not our problem, African leaders are our problems

"In Africa we are content to say it’s not okay to marry someone just because he is not from our tribe or because he is from the other side of religious divide" u think in other part of the world is different? Is worse.

"Here you cannot buy land unless you are a native and you cannot find work unless you are an indigene, yet we go to America, get their passport and settle whenever, wherever and however we want." U think they will even let u buy land in other part of the world in China, Russia, and many Asian country. U can buy land u can only rent it. "Go to America get their passport and settle" it's to early to be intoxicated. The rest of the write up is also rubbish. U are been hurt so much but don't take it on Africa. Don't believe Hollywood. They're in business of manipulation and lying[/quote]

Yenefer:
Mtsww white washed

Religion is not our problem, African leaders are our problems

"In Africa we are content to say it’s not okay to marry someone just because he is not from our tribe or because he is from the other side of religious divide" u think in other part of the world is different? Is worse.

"Here you cannot buy land unless you are a native and you cannot find work unless you are an indigene, yet we go to America, get their passport and settle whenever, wherever and however we want." U think they will even let u buy land in other part of the world in China, Russia, and many Asian country. U can buy land u can only rent it. "Go to America get their passport and settle" it's to early to be intoxicated. The rest of the write up is also rubbish. U are been hurt so much but don't take it on Africa. Don't believe Hollywood. They're in business of manipulation and lying

it's people like you that makes me continue to wonder if truely the African man has brain