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hakeem4:
GRECO-ROMAN RELIGION
The ancient Greeks believed that people died and ended up in Hades, a gray and misty place where the lord of the dead ruled. Others believed in a paradise-like place called Olympic pantheon on Mount Olympus, where gods such as Zeus lived and decided the fate of humanity. The people

who lived a good life and were constantly in the minds of the living enjoyed sunny pleasures of the Elysium, those forgotten wandered eternally in the bleakness of Hades, while the wicked fell into dark pits called Tartarus. Although the gods decided the fate of every individual on earth, someone could control his fate through divination and sacrifices to them.

EPICUREANISM
This religion known as Epicureanism is approximately 300 years older than Christianity and it has an unclear number of believers in Greece and other parts of the world today. Unlike most other religions on the planet, Epicureanism believes in many gods, but none of them takes notice of what human

beings are up to. The believers here think that everything including their gods and souls is made up of atoms. Furthermore, according to Epicureanism, there is no afterlife, so nothing like reincarnation, heaven, or hell exists to them. When an individual dies, the believers here believe that the soul also dissolves and that becomes the end of them.

BAHAI

The Bahai is a religion made up of approximately seven million people. The believers here consider that the soul of a human being is eternal and good, and it is the work of every individual to draw closer to god. Unlike most other religions that have their own specific god,

the Bahai believe in one god, who has shown himself through all other religions in the world. According to Bahai followers, heaven and hell do not exist; the two are states of being either close to or far from god. The Bahai believe that most other religious groups are mistaken when they interpret heaven and hell to be physical places as opposed to seeing them as symbolic representations of distance from god.

JAINISM
The approximately 4 million Jainism followers believe in the existence of many gods and reincarnation until liberation, a liberation that is achieved through avoidance of bad karma and causing no harm. People who do not achieve liberation continue in the cycle of rebirth and some might even have to go through

eight hells of suffering before a rebirth. The eight hells get colder at every stage, and a soul passes through a lot of torture before getting another opportunity for rebirth, and another chance to reach liberation. Although it might take a very long time, liberated souls get a place among the gods.


SHINTO
Something weird about the Shinto is that the believers need not confess that they are Shinto believers in public. According to some old Japanese legends related to the Shinto, the dead enter a gloomy underground place called Yomi, where a river separates the dead and the living. The Yomi is

a place much like the Greek Hades, and the people here have a negative view of death and corpses. The followers of this religion believe in ancient gods and spirits called Kami, although they believe that some human beings can become kami after they die. According to the Shinto, people are naturally pure, and they can retain their purity and keep away from evil through some purification rituals.

Thanks for trying, but apart from the Grego-Roman Religion where Hades keeps souls down under his power, none other religion you mentioned believed in a supreme God and eternal Afterlife whether in Paradise or Fire.

And, do you also know that according to the Grego-Roman religion, a soul can escape from Hades back to earth?

No sir, these will not do. I need 500 religions which preach AfterLife of Paradise or Damnation in the Fire.

Specifically in the Fire.

The reason am saying this is, anytime you guys come up talking about God/religion, when we begin to present reasons from YHWH, you throw in these 500 religions hoping you are making sense. So, for once let's talk about what these 500 gods say about eternity.

And pls, group the Abrahamic religions together for now because they all believe in eternal life in Paradise if you obey and Fire if you don't.

Hermes019:
Totally speechless,u just took dishonesty to another level just to prove u are right,ur fellow Christians would view this as blasphemy

No. I'm a Christian and i don't see blasphemy in what he said. But, if you say it is, point it out.

NPComplete:
It is a punishment for not following a particular precept. You are just hairsplitting. My analogy is far more accurate than yours however you choose to look at it.

Except i'm wrong, but, isn't reincarnation meant to be a second chance to make amends for the wrongs done in the previous life?

We are told, it's impossible to attend godhood in one life time, so they keep coming to improve on themselves until they reach their godhood.

If i'm wrong, pls give me an elaborate explanation about reincarnation.

If you can, keep insults out.

NPComplete:
Nah. If we count the number of christian sects that do not agree with each other alone. That is probably up to that number. Before we even start adding the Muslim and Jewish ones. Before we start adding the non-christian karma-based religions.

You know u have lost the narrative when your argument is now based on the number of useless religions there is. Lol

Is this argument about the different Christian sects or about different distinct gods and what they promised in the Afterelife?

NPComplete:
Wrong and dishonest analogy.

In the appropriate analogy, it's not just one pot in the middle of the road. In the real sense, it is more like 500 pots are on the road. And each of them says "100kg of gold in here. Stick your hand in here and be rewarded. All other pots contain poisonous snakes". Then there are people who have never actually stuck their hands in any pot telling u to pick their favorite pot or risk being bitten by a snake. And some of those people actually have the same favorite pot but can't agree of the best way to stick a hand in it.

So it is understandable that some people just ignore the pots and their mad advocates and continue on their way.

Pls outline the names of these 500 different gods and post where they promise eternal condemnation in hellfire in the Afterlife when their laws are disobeyed.

Westaslave2:
he/her words ar enough..
a wise blind man knws a dark liar by his footsteps..

i hate pple who arent sentimental in regards 2 justice, dey wl always say " it dosent concern me cos am mature"

in eyes of God u ar a bloody fool YES

With regards to, not 'in regards to'.

Ishilove:
Please ignore him. Don't you see how incoherent he is?

No be small tin.

Westaslave2:
he " she " wat difference dos it make in here! here pple ar always wt mask ,
she/he is as terrible as ngeneukwenu

You hate people without knowing them?

chigozie1010:
Are they on ebook (pdf) form...I would like to have them. I started reading yesterday, am still on page 2. The description of heaven is much more than what you penned down. Though you gave a vivid description of your imaginations and encounters, but I tell you, there is more to it. Though I have not seen Jesus face to face, but I have encountered His awesome presence believe you me, it was ecstatic.

That is why i keep saying no one can encounter Jesus and later say He does not exists. Jesus is sweet.

Westaslave2:
Ishilove dat does d ' i dnt care' he is a hypocrite!

Him n hausafulani pple has destroyed d hopes of innocent citizens, Am in ph city audition but just 2 lookaround wt my friend who has bbn direct inclusion (of 50persons) after thorogh interview

All i wl say is dat hausafulani n yoruba pple shall suffer greatpains 4 dis,

Tell ishilove no one takes him serious until i start taking him serious

I think you should first know people before you decide whether or not to take them serious.

Ishilove is not a 'he'.

Daeylar:
Na wa. This guy is very dramatic.

Blood flowed limbs were torn and heads broken."

But this Lagos audition that was so horrible like this. Bad news coming out this audition left and right.

In Creative Writing, it's called 'Imagery'.

Sabby1:
Well done Sir,
Please stop giving false stats like this one

It wasn't yet 7am yet, but nothing less than 13,500 humans
were sandwiched on that road already

How do you know the humans there were not less than 13500?
How do you counted them?
How Long did it took you to count them?

You mustn't give us numerical values to describe the colossal amount of people at the venue

It's February and you still haven't avoided exceeding exaggeration or is over exaggeration your new month resolution?

English...

bedspread:
Check out the logo for that show..... if u know the logo, you'll know where it's connected to

George Orwell wrote that book to warn the society about a System of Government that will destroy Man, but today Man is celebrating Big Brother, to his own detriment.

bedspread:
It's a Demonic and Devilish Sponsored show.. So they had to take blood....

If ur Eyes are Open, you will see and Understand......

I liked the show back then for reasons i can't tell now. But i lost interest when i read George Orwell's book '1984'. Big Brother's concept came from that book and it is totally against the people on the streets.

Big Brother is depicted in that book as satan. He imprisons and controls people. He watches over everything people do, say and if possible think. He denies people free movement, speech and pretends to reward those who will obey him.

The NWO is turning everything negative and making them seem positive and the ignorant society just laps it up.

It began ionocently, but it is graduating to blood letting, and when the earth is made drink human blood, hmmm.

Satan has been promoting laziness from Adam.

You don't need to work, you can have it all.

SolutionMee:


I don't see any Nigerian making heaven.

Reason is that we are serving a foreign God.

Which Heaven are you talking abt? Your native ancestral gods does not have a heaven. Or, do they?

Sarang:
You make it sound like raping a girl is a lighter sin than raping a boy. Please stop that. Rape is rape. I don't care who did that as long as to a child, rape is f**king rape!

Read within the line

Sarang:
No you haven't actually rationalize it except you or a relative or close friend is one, that's when you really begin to empathize and rationalize. You know what they say we are always harder on other people. We can agree to disagree of course but we all know that's how life is. If it doesn't touch us somehow it is nothing to us. Be empathetic.

You are gay i perceive.

Now, here is how it will be if you were my sister and a lesbian. I will treat or look at you as an afflicted or a leprous person who needs healing. You can never be normal to me.

Sarang:
I am an Orphan and I was not defiled by anyone. Until now I have never slept with any one. But love? Feelings? Affection? Like. All these for same sex? I have done those from as long as I can remember. You don't know everything

You are an orphan who grew in an orphanage?
And you have done from as long as you can remember?

johnydon22:
hahaha I agreed with you there is a God. Let's base our argument on those fundamental assumptions.

- There is a God
-There is an afterlife.

Now, take it from there.

I do not assume that there's God. I know for a fact that there's God, and until you and i stand on that premise, we can't have this conversation.

It's either there's God who did what you are implying or there's no God.

Remember, i no dey beg you to believe say God dey.

TroubleMaker47:
I purposely refused to use pedophilia as a yard stick because some might argue dat homosexuality is 2 consenting adults while pedophilia is rape.
Hence while pedophilia Hurts d oda, gay doesn't.

You mean those Gay catholic priest don't hurt others?

And, gays hurts and kills nature. Procreation is nature and gays kills her.

1StopRudeness:
Science has made sure people don't believe in evil and Satan...Yet we have serial killers and rapist.. they use the word tolerance to make every evil in the world manageable.....

We shall all reap what we sow in due time.

johnydon22:
Are you answering the question or not?

Your question is stupid. As far as you are concern, there's no God. Case closed. Move on with your life.

Joshmodest:
Of course the trauma is worst when it happens to be same sex !!

I have tried to rationalise homosexuality, my being has refused to accept it.

How can a man have sex with a fellow man? For crying loud. Imagine all those men Jossie slept with in Empire. Imagine how strong they were.

There's a reason God made me soft and tender and a man tough and hard.

It's crazy. Antichrist followers

johnydon22:
I give up on you

Hmmmm. Jon, Jon, Jon. how many times did i call you?

Dami12345:
Stop peddling that crap you call the good God and tell him to actually prove he is good.

Hit rocks demon.

1StopRudeness:
We have to tolerate everybody no matter how they behave....That's where the world is going....

Well, Satan is walking bare faced on our streets and we must live with him.

Joshmodest:
Sister being gay is different from being a rapist....if a man defiles ur daughter would u be happier...Jussie smollet is a gay has he raped anybody No
R.kelly and bill Cosby are straight dudes , yet they have been accused of rape....let's get the difference here !!

You are right. But, i shd not find a man sniffing around my kids.

Joshmodest:
But you'll shake a straight man who does same , all gays are not rapist , just like all straight guys are not rapist!
Say no to Rape !!!

A straight man can not rape a boy. And i will not shake a man who rapes my child. If a man defiles a girl, it's strong, i will hand him over to the Army, because i deal with the Military, not the Police. But, a homo faces me directly.

Joshmodest:
Nobody wants his child to be gay , but if u have a conscience , u wouldn't cheer a crowd attacking or lynching a gay ....if proven guilty according to Nigerian law , let him be arrested ...but in Jussie smollet's case it's legal in America ....still he was attacked by the crowd ....yes na gay , we no like am , but the emotional side of you would show face if u see people lynching a gay ....no matter how much u hate the act , except you're heartless !!!

I watched Empire, i liked his human nature but abhorred his proclivity. Anytime he went close to a man, i cringed and fast forwarded.

They tried to paint his character as nice and gentle, yet he was letting those strong muscled men bend him over. Oh my God!!!!!.

1StopRudeness:
We have to tolerate everybody no matter how they behave....That's where the world is going....

I cannot promise to tolerate a gay man who will defile a child under my care. With everything within me, i will cut off his pen.is.

famzynet:
Tonto,how would you feel if homosexual rape your son? If man allows homosexuality to be morally accepted and then man will have to deal with homosexuals raping none homosexuals.

This question you posted the Tonto happened in a movie 'Greenleaf'.

A lady was married to a closet gay guy without knowing it. And she was a Bishops daughter, in charge of the Church's Choir. A gay guy came for an interview as the Choir director, she accepted the guy.

The guy told her that he was gay and many Churches had rejected him because of who he was. She said it wasn't a problem with her.

He said he'd bring his gay partner to church every sunday, she said ok. When her family discovered this, they fired the guy. She raised the roof.

Then she discovered her husband liked men. She, the gay lover, refused to remain married to the gay guy.

The guy wanted to remain married to her (Maybe because of her money) but keep his lifestyle, she refused. Right before her, the gay guy moved in with another gay man, took their son to live with them. She cried, but it was too late.

What you love, you attract.

May Tonto's Son be loved by another man let's see how she claps for the man.

TroubleMaker47:
The problem isn't in the homosexuality, the problem is in the gays trying to find justification for their absurdity!
It's like a chronic lair telling u to accept him the way he is!

My dear, i know lying is wrong, but it's more tolerable than Pedophilia. It's like a grown up man raping little toddlers and trying to make the world accept it as okay. Accept him as he is.

I raise orphans and i'm thinking, 'What will i do to a man who dares defile my child?'. A man will defile my little orphan boy and say it's the way he is created? Oh Lord help me. I can without a doubt castrate such a man. My Gooood.