CONDEMN NOT RELIGION, BASH THE "SINNERS"

With due respect to persons (unjustly) accused of one infraction or the other, kindly permit me to cite few instances currently hugging public discussions.

1: The Baba Ijesa, Princess, "Underage" Girl and Iyabo Ojo sex scandal, all these persons are Christians. Millions of private and public commentators have blamed and counter blamed each individual in this unfolding drama. They've been called all sorts of demeaning names. But no one has condemned the faith they profess, Christianity, for their foibles.

2: In the Super TV boss versus UNILAG girl homicide, both the murdered Usifo Utaga and murderer Chidinma Ojukwu are/were Christians. The world has dragged an old adulterer and the young Jezebel on all fronts, but no one has attributed their sins to their Christ followership.

3: Last but not the least, in the Senate President Ahmed Lawan's statutory marriage to a 100% eligible lady, it is curious that one began to hear and read comments like "these Muslims, the only thing they know is marriage and sex".

Shouldn't we be concerned about the recent trend by some persons (whatever is impelling them) to selectively or blanketly invalidate or demonize religion(s)?
But for Religion, fornication would be legal, robbery would be commonplace, murder would be sport, conscience would be fatally arbitrary and life itself would be brutish.

Was it Christianity that allegedly propelled James Omiyinka, Princess, "Underaged Girl", Iyabo Ojo and even Yomi Fabiyi to all the shenanigans we are witnessing? Was Christianity responsible for Usifo/Chidinma fornication and eventual blood-shedding?

People should enjoy their liberty to castigate whoever acted wrongly. But it is unreasonable, unfair and provocative to selectively or stereotypically black-paint their religion for their individual failures.

-AbdulAzeez Salami writes from Ondo State.