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DappaD:
ALL. As long as force was used, we can’t say that it was Christianity that was being propagated. Need reasons why?

Intriguing.

Even the missionaries among them who came for evangelical purposes?

And by force, do you hint that not all of them who came made use of force? Does that singular attribute differentiate a percentage from all, or all as you highlighted.

lomprico:
if a clergy does something bad or wrong and you point out what he did wrong, and he goes on to tell you 'judge not' he is using the bible as a weapon to defend his bad ways.
the Europeans used bible passages to justify the slave trades. thus using it as a weapon.
the crusaders spread the Gospel through wars and invasion, justifying their acts with bible passages.

that's what weaponising the bible is like according to what OP is asking.

Also, spiritually it's also used as a weapon against forces of evil. which is a good thing.

Did the colonialists have Christianity as their religion before their various invasions, or did they find themselves lucky to have a new book which they might have looked upon in glee, knowing that such discovery can propel their expeditions?

If you answer in the negative, did they use those passages that seemingly support slavery because of what they wanted to achieve?

And again, must they have sincerely thought that those passages actually supported slavery, or did they make their colonies understand it to be so? If they had wanted their colonies to accept slavery as permissible, don't you think other means other than the bible could have been used?

If not, were they simply ignorant in all sincerity to these things?

paltielx:
It wasn't, to me fulfillment in Bible prophecies and it's accuracy when in touches scientific matters even science didn't discover them proves it that the Bible was and is never a weapon

So, your line of argument is that the Bible is scientifically accurate, and that that scientific consistency means that it wasn't possibly written by the new-age invading colonialists. And to add to your position, the ancient manuscripts and codices
which were the foundation of the bible make it impossible to agree that it was written by them to serve as a weapon in their hands, right?

But, do you think that it nullifies the belief that it was a weapon in their hands?

DappaD:
Christianity was established by Jesus Christ in the first century(Matthew 28:19-20) and after the first century C.E., Christianity lost its meaning throughout the Dark Ages when Catholicism and Protestantism became the order not until the last days in which we find ourselves that true Christianity has again come to the fore as the wheats have been separated from the weeds. Matthew 13:30

The point of my previous post was to let you understand that those white men who used force to spread their teachings in Africa were not Christians but were the ravenous wolves who would infiltrate the Christian congregation, the ones that the apostles Paul and Peter talked about. Acts 20:29-30, 2Peter 2:1

I admire the turn this is taking. But of a truth, I know part of what your point is before now. I believe any true christian who have made a contact with the Spiritual would be convinced that it's beyond politics or scheme.

Nevertheless, I'm quite ruffled by this: ...those white men who used force to spread their teachings in Africa were not Christians but were the ravenous wolves who would infiltrate the Christian congregation...

By 'those', do you make a reference to a particular set, or all?

lomprico:
it was used as a weapon

Can you be more lucid, please?

DappaD:
Jesus prophesied that after the death of his apostles, impostors would overrun the congregation and they wouldn’t treat the flock kindly(which indeed occurred after the first century) Matthew 13:24-30, see also Acts 20:29-30, 2Peter 2:1
These set of persons brought in all sorts of apostate teachings and practices of demons (1Timothy 4:1) e.g. Trinity, Christmas, hellfire and so on.

In the hands of the weeds(these false Christians), the Bible was used as a tool for domination and colonialism. In the hands of the wheats(true Christians), the Bible today is being used properly as a tool for building up a person’s life! Hebrews 4:12, 2Timothy 3:16-17

I deduce that you refer to an already-written bible of an already-established religion. At least, if I'm correct, you understand that in contrast to what many believe, neither Christianity nor the Bible were formulated by Whites to help them subdue Africa.

It's very sickening to keep on coming across the "White-man-religion" and "Bible-was-written-by-Whites-for-the-purpose-of-mental-subduction-of-their-colonies" mantras.

Or do you align with the thought?

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It's quite ironical that the HQ of First Bank, one of the strongest operators in Nigeria, is dwarfed by that of an average contender Union bank. Although they stand shoulder-to-shoulder, Union Bank doesn't stand a chance with First Bank.

Height or beauty is nothing, really.

When People Say That The Bible Was A Weapon In The Hands Of Colonialists, what do they mean?

You may have made the assertion that Christianity is/was a religion used by the Whites, the imperial Europe in this regard, to abbett colonialism in Africa.

I have a lot in view, but what does that mean to You?

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"No, it's not possible. That's a barbaric belief that Africans got indoctrinated to (it's always Africans, once it comes to religion). Christianity, most especially exploits fear to subdue adherents mentally (it's always Christianity, once fear becomes the subject)."

If I were someone who loves and have sex, only folly would make me accept that glory can go through sex, because I cannot imagine a life without sex, neither one without glory. I'd then resort to disbelieving it for my mental safety.

The Spirit has been misconceived by many. Every now and then, as long as spirituality and the related are discussed, you get to hear this annoyingly cliched line; the spiritual controls the physical. A thousand percent of users of that line knows close to nothing about the spiritual.

This might end up being long, but what would be my expiation if I begin what I won't finish?

First there are demons, then there is demonic possession and then, the possessed. I haven't found much interest in christian or mainstream demonology, but at the scratch level, these three concepts are the foundation of exchange—or loss, through sex.

The act of sex is beyond biological, as it symbolizes agreement. This agreement is not one that is sought or given; it is taken or established.

To avoid being equivocal, this instance will suffice: when you bed a girl without her consent, it is a legal offence which can fetch jail time for one. But this is not so in the spirit. As long as the act is in progress, there becomes a passage between the two entities involved. This passage is never established through consent, rather the act of sex alone is enough. There are rape vitims who got strange spirit through unconsented sex, but which spirit cares?

The exchange of spirit is a similitude to the exchange or loss of glory, as anyone who is armed with such spirit strong enough to take glories can easily rip the other of their glory.

The above is bound to remain a mockery in the court of logic.

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It'll only end with pictures of a few hand-picked people shaking the hands of some officials, and posing as beneficiaries.

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Was her makeup shaved off too?

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You're a young adult, and a Nigerian. So if I'm guessing right, no one has run off with your millions, neither has any one of your men defected from your Corleone camp to a rival Tattaglia circle. Which begs the question, how have people been betraying you? Do they lash your girlfriend behind you?

To address the second one, I'd say that in a world where respect is hard to earn, having people treat you with such regard is a possible pointer that they could be in awe of your charisma. And I don't see that as something you should be sad about.

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Apart from sounding like words proceeding from a charlatan, this expectation is basically counterintuitive.

You don't wait for a leader to blow a kick-off whistle when you've had it up here, and have been brutally pushed to the wall. It becomes natural to pounce, so much so that you may not need supporting numbers to do so.

Then, no one would regard anybody assuming that position. If it's not glaring enough that he's been sorted behind-the-scene, the doctored energy would tip the protesters off.

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Naira Marley should be made a guest minister then, who'd step onto the alter and instruct all man on the art of stoning.

Before now, everyone was asking; 'Where is it written in the scriptures, that smoking is a sin? '.
This pastor is only praising a known smoker, but you're already finding a thousand things wrong in it.

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Buhari will be more willing to hand SE his prodigal son Yusuf than to sit down and imagine himself pledging support for a Dot indigene. He could throw up at the thought.

That's Buhari's height of aversion towards the Igbos. A sitting president with diplomatic expectations uploading genocidal posts on a widely-accessed platform is not something found in one of David Baldacci's Stone series— it was done by Buhari, the president of a multicultural country. He apparently hates the Igbos with an unusual passion.

The only time he would support an S-Easterner to become a president is when there are no Igbos occupying there anymore. Maybe when they eventually get decimated and replaced by his Fulanis brethren.

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I think it should be added to the counts against Nnamdi Kanu. Who knows, his breath could have influenced the attack.

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I forgive a lot. I even forgive you in advance before you ask for it. That means I'd also forgive a cheating woman.

Forgive I said, because that wouldn't stop me from expelling you from my life without traces of your presence in it.

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In the area of development and overall nation building, I'd go back to the manifestos of the past governments and fulfill as much as I can before the expiration of my tenures.

Every campaigning party and ruling government seem to have satisfactory visions, which shows one that it's no longer about people stepping out with new ones; it's about doing them.

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As a Nigerian, if an animal is given a gun to protect me as a citizen, I would sleep with my both eyes closed because I am safer.

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Buhari is the most popular person in Nigeria today, so much so that a child of 3 must have, at a time or two, heard of him.

Of course, Adesina must have based his claim on the seeming facts that he was easily the most rooted candidate in the 2015 presidential race. Before or betwixt that, people were pledging their allegiance already. But it would be ridiculous to have expected those he mentioned to be swarmed around like he claims people do to Buhari. The nation was still dark with political immaturity.

He is a sensation; a soul laden with far left enigma. People, politicians always don't want to pitch where they'd lose. They stand behind him to get a place in the tyrant's good books. In 2015 even, a lot of voters chose him against a promising Atiku-Obi combo.

Buhari is simply a lucky devil, who always eats his cake and have it back. His debut tenure was hell but somehow—though I like to blame it on ignorance of the past—he returned.

Buhari is the most popular person in Nigeria today, so much so that a child of 3 must have, at a time or two, heard of him because if its patents are not taking turns in cursing him, a neighbor frustrated by the tyrant's tyranny and incompetence would be doing just that.

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It's almost impossible for a court to sentence one for murder when the murdered is still alive. Circumstantial evidence must have convinced the jury that the 'deceased' was actually killed and is dead. Without enough circumstantial evidence, the accused can only be detained, but not sentenced.

But if it does happen the way you said, she will be charged for illegal possession and usage of arm, and not for a murder whose term she has served.

To add to my view, if I were to be the woman's attorney, my line of argument would be that you cannot kill a dead person.

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Arrested?

Were they out of bullets? They should have just shot him in the chest and told the media point blank that he was an IPOB member.

Then display some cartridges found on him. As usual.

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Even our military men agree that it's cool to share the videos of people they waste.

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This is irritating me.

"The sweetest thing you have said to me..." sounds familiar. The same thing he would say to the first wife is what the second would get to receive, then the third down to the seventh.

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Tinubu is a very blessed man.

Everybody, including a rudderless Representative, wants to stake because they believe the odds are high and could be favourable. Like a Manchester united -Swansea match.

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Xixo of 'The Gods Must Be Crazy' even had to squeeze liquids from roots in order to quench his thirst and that of his family. Liquids, because those drops of whitish substance weren't water. Now that was a family that appreciated what they had. They knew that we humans don't need much to survive and be happy.

Idunn's forefathers survived on that type of water laced with dirt and fecal matter. Perhaps, this age wants to be drinking off a stream of sparkling water.

What a sneer at nature's benevolence.

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All I can say is that the man is tormented by guilt and uncertainty stemming from introspection which must have convicted him of pride, thoughtlessness and sheer iberiberism.

Perhaps, validation from people would help him know what to feel at the moment.

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It must have been a Holy Crime.

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You've been warned. So the next time you want to buy frozen chicken, ask your supplier if it was smuggled. If he answers in the affirmative, relay what NAFDAC has advised to your supplier. Then leave his shop. Very wise NAFDAC.

Also, since Formalin is hazardous to us, before buying we should be sure to turn those frozen chicken over to see a tag that says 'Smuggled. Please do not consume. Contains Formalin'. Once you spot this tag, be responsible enough to walk out of that supplier's shop. Your health is priceless.

It's just like my bank telling me to inspect the cash they've given to me, because people have been depositing counterfeit money to them.

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Some people would think that his offence was trying to steal from a transformer with high potential for danger.

These same people would agree that he should have gone to rob living persons or opted for yahoo or scam. Perhaps, they would call him foolish for not considering other forms of stealing.

Well, I think he was simply unfortunate to have become a person who will be stoned by people of same occupation.

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My failure to understand why Buhari, despite the heat and resistance he suffers at the hands of Nigerians, has maintained an unflinching disposition as regards resignation might perhaps, not be because of any rocket science: It could be because of my disregard for reality.

The reality that in Nigeria, given that you voted in a person into an office on no gunpoint or threat, you can as well have the patience enough to see that person through his tenure.

So, when next you want to vote, consider your future wellbeing. If you're convinced that the candidate is fit to lead you, then vote.

We're not whites.