I have for years now followed Experience as conducted by Pastor Paul Adefarasin and the House on the Rock cathedral. It signifies to me the beginning of the Christmas season. I also look forward and get some good doses of beautiful christian music. I can not forget the show of 2012 and my attachment to artists like Frank Edwards, Lara George, Don Moen and comedians like Chi Girl and Akpororo. I wondered how it was that comedy blended with the mood of worship. However I thought it worked and I have followed other editions till date. Let me say that one thing I didn't and may still not understand is the introduction of personalities during the event. A pointer is the Lagos state commissioner's speech and the booing that followed. I watched as Pastor Adefarasin cautioned the congregation and apologized to the Lagos state government on their behalf. He reminded the people of their duty to pray for their leaders and the possession of weapons of violence by government. In other words the people should be afraid of the leaders. I hereby observe as follows:1) If there was no special invitation to political leaders especially the Lagos government to make a speech,there would have been no booing. What was the religious benefit of the Lagos government address? 2) The bible is filled with examples of men of God who openly attacked kings when they were going wrong and those kings retreated. If the people booed the government because they were getting out of line, why will the man of God apologize? 3) What about the threat of violence? What was in the man of God's mind when he was reminding the people of the king bearing the sword? I thought especially for people in the lekki axis, the man of God should not have made that error. That was just like trying to stoke the embers of endsars and the perceived injustice and cover ups thereto. Anyway I couldn't continue watching the programme thereafter because I didn't understand the vision anymore. That was even as there had been appearances of ambassadors and introduction of perceived high profile individuals. And I wondered, to what end?

A union of the church and state

It doesn’t take special intelligence to figure out that the pastors and the politicians have something in common. The politicians impoverish and keep the citizens poor so that they could run to the pastors to be further brainwashed and conned out of their monies.

The day Nigerians will realize that 99.856% of their religious leaders are glorified yahoo boys and girls who keep them in perpetual fear with the threat of hellfire, poverty, ill health etc just so they don’t wise up and demand for accountability from the politicians, meanwhile the politicians give the religious leaders freehand to operate and enrich themselves. It’s a cartel folks.

They are all in it together.