It I partial in Jos. Just saw it

It is simple. Just like money church comes in different denominations.Have you seen any money making organizations that have same doctrines?

kingthreat: Three pastors on the top-ten list. No Imam, No Hindu Guru, No babalawo. No atheist leader. No beef. Just an observation

You're right the best way to make money in Nigeria is to be a pastor or a reverend.It is a shame

Bishop Oyedepo has more private jets than Aliko Dangote, the best enterprenuer in Africa. Means most of us are sick in the country.Oyedepo and other “men of god” are making money on the gullibility of most Nigerians.It is a pity.

MAYOWAAK: The history of the world over centuries is littered with dead religions, dead gods and dead worshipers. In some ways, we are all children of a retired god. Key events in the world always retire religions and their gods. Traumatic world events always prove the old religions inadequate. The coming of the Europeans, for instance, essentially laid to eternal rest a lot of the African gods. Other events and movements like the Enlightenment reform religion. Reformation extends the life of a religion. An irreformable religion is one that is bound to implode.

The tragedy of Africa is that it reached the information age without first passing through the industrial age. In matters temporal, Africa got to the modern age without passing through the Enlightenment. That is why some people believe that a child was born holding a mini-Koran in its hand, or that a child came out of the womb holding a cross in its hand. Why mini-Koran? Why a cross? Why something we already know? Why does this kind of phenomenon only happen in societies that wallow in superstition? If it is a message from God, as some believe, why won’t God use the opportunity to send a definitive manual of life?

The Enlightenment instituted the culture of demanding empirical proof before believing. If a woman comes into the church and gives birth to a dead horse, you don’t clean up the floor and bury the horse. You send the horse to the lab and the woman to the hospital- mental and/or medical.

Every religion that comes begets a new one. Two hundred years from now the people that will occupy this world will look at our era and our religions that we fight for and die for and call our age the Extreme Dark Ages. In another two hundred thousand years, nobody will remember what god we fought for, killed for, or died for. Just like we have no idea what god the people who were on this earth 100,000 years ago fought for, killed for or died for.

It is hard to imagine it now, but after the Third World War and after a nuclear war, a new world will emerge with new religions. The old religions left standing will go through reformation. And subtly and gradually, new religions will replace the old. Because it takes hundreds of years for this kind of transformation to be visible, it is hard for those living in that age to notice the change as it happens. We won’t wake up one day and notice that our religion is dead.

It is hard to live without the concept of God because it is hard to live without an answer to the original questions, even if it is not definitive. That is why many will stick with their religion as if it is their parents. Virtually all religions place God beyond reach- at times above the sky. Do you know why? If God is within reach, God will suffer the fate of all parents – be critiqued and be seen to have fallen short.

The trouble with religion is that for every religion to survive and gain members and fend off competitions, it has to proclaim itself to be better than the others. That my religion is better than yours is like saying that my moon is better than yours. That my God is better than yours is to say that my sun is better than yours.

To be willing to fight for your God- which is to say, kill and die for your God, is like to climb on top of each other to pull the moon until it stands still on your side of the sky. It may sound stupid but it has been done before and continues to be done.

Those who worshipped the Greek gods used to believe that they had the final answer. Those who worshipped Oduduwa used to think that their story of the creation was the ultimate. The highest level of human stupidity is the belief that our religion is the final answer to these original questions- who am I? Where did I come from? Where am I going? Who made me? The arrogance of that assumption has no equal in human folly.

Religions come and go but the earth remains the same. Until we know the definitive truth about the very beginning; and until we answer the original questions without a doubt, religion will remain attractive. But religion will continue to promise us that we find the answers only when we die. Science is the only one trying to find answers to these questions while we are still alive. And science is the only one trying to get to the very beginning and empirically show it to us for the very first time. It may take science one million years to get there. But I am rooting for science not religion.

.You really make my day with your right up.This is the first time in recent time that I read something like this.The root problem we face on earth today is religion,the crises going on in Nigeria, Somalia, Egypt, Kenya, Iraq are as a result of religion. Religion will make you dumb that you will believe in a talking snakes and donkeys.If care is not taken it is religion that will consume the world.Thanks once again for your right up.

Laundry list.Same old story.They should tell us HOW they will acieve the long list that they listed.Talk is really cheap

I drove Jos to Lagos
KM 1000
Hour 12-13 depending on traffic
Car Toyota Corolla 2010 model
Route Jos-Nasarawa-Abuja-Abaji-Lokoja-Okene~Owo~Akure~Ibadan~Lagos

0monnakoda:
Shut up! What does God have to do with this.We don't accept homosexuality because it is alien to our culture full stop.We are not "Godless" but we are a nation full of raping and kidnapping,419,child marriage,drug dealers,fathers impregnating daughters and using humans for rituals and cheating in exams etc. Are we more godly than any other country?
It is always the brainless that invoke God's name in debates
There are so many good arguments against homosexuality in our country and none of them has anything to do with God.Why is it when it come to this we remember God.Do you need gods to tell you not to eat s,hit
When it comes to evil Nigeria is probably the most godless place on earth so spare us the "God" crap !
There are so many forces that pervert the minds of men everywhere and plenty of that in Nigeria too so stop the brainless generalizations. Homosexuality has been around long before America or the West. So it is NOT a western thing .At least America gave the world the Internet.What has the "godly" Nigeria contributed to mankind. Please mention one thing of value that has come out of Nigeria.
Your Jesus probably was a gay anyway!

Thanks a lot for your write up.The problem with most nigerians is that we too hypocritical.We calim to be holy but our deeds and actions show the opposite.Afterall the xtian god says he creates man including homosexual in his image.It means the xtian god is a gay too.He even says that everything that he created is good in his eyes.Means he does not see anything wrong in being gay.Countries that legalize same sex marriage,are our ways of life better theirs? Let us stop being hypocritical.Homosexuality is a foreing culture here but I think they have a right under the constitution just like senator Yerima has too

See wetin poverty,dogmatism and hallucination can cause

Our politicians won't stop amusing me.Cos of flyover governors,Oba left their duty posts.Funny so if na rocket we launch into space wetin for happen

Kai Lai Mohammed will come out now and accuse GEJ for allowing CAN to rain abuses on Buhari.Afterall the children of Lai Mohammed are safe and secure so BH can bomb as many innocent lives as they want

Hmmn funny church that believes in dogma enjoying gadgets produced by scientists that don't believe in dogma but in reasoning

Though both of them play good music when compare to what obtains today.However Sunny is better.The following points will be used to back up my points.
1 Sunny Ade is the first Nigerian to be nominated for a Grammy-he has been nominated twice
2 He was applauded by president Clinton when he first came to Nigeria
3 He has played in big concerts outside the shore of this country
4 He has played for important dignitaries like the queen of England,Ghadafi and host of others
5 His music is still relevant today.
6 He is the artist of choice during celebrations

There is only one thing religion does-makes you a fool.This is a lady that graduated from a higher institution and she believes that wearing a pair of trouser will make her sin. I am sure she will be a hero in her church for doing what god likes.Nigerians let us enmacipate ourselves from mental slavery called religion

Happy women's day to all the beautiful women in the world.Let us stop all form of discrimination and violent against women.

When those of us in the atheist community say all relgions are products of same raw materials-violence we are justifed. When you become a dogma your sense of resoning will be blurred. What Boko Haram and all terrorist groups do is to give Islam a bad name.I hope Islamic leaders in the country have a lot of work to do.The image of Islam has been destroyed both locally and internationally.There is no how anyone can tell me that Islamic is a religion of peace

What do atheist stand to gain? They tend to gain freedom.Freedom from any god or goblins. They see things from the common sense of view

Atheists are not living a double standard as you claim.They cannot come out in our society just like homosexuals cannot.This has to do on the society that we find ourselves.This society is hostile towards atheists.You will be killed in certain parts of the country if it is found out that you are an atheist.I have known people who are disowned by family and friends because there are not believers in god.The best thinng in this context is to remain silent.
I am happy you did not claim that the 9/11 attacks were caused by atheism but by religious believes of some fanatics.You asked what did atheists do to the attacks?Same question I will put back to you.What did the xtian religion do to the attacks? The attacks bring to fore that religious can do senseless things in name of their religion.
You asked a question that how many times have atheists go to Muslim counties to debate? Good question.I will only answer that if you tell me how many times Pastor Adeboye,pastor Chris,pastor Oyedepo have come to Maiduguri,Yobe,Zamfara to preach? Talk less of going to Iran,Afghanistan to preach.What stops them from having their branches in places like Kabul,Tehran etc? If you can why then I will tell you why atheists don go to theses places either. For your information atheists had been interviewed on Aljazeera. Sir David Frost interviewed Richard Dawking in January on religion and science.
On why atheists don't talk about Islam,most atheists were born xtians just like me.I can only talk on something that I know of.For eg I know that Jesus is a sun god.No differnce between his history and that of Horus,Mithra,Krishna,Budha etc.

Intersting write up.Let me add some
1.You believe in divine protection but you go ahead to have an issurance cover for your cars and houses.
2.You believe in divine healing but you go to the hospital when sick,takes medications done by scientist.
3.You laughed when someone told you that his dog just told him that he is hungry,but you believed that Balaam`s donkey can talk.
4.You call other religions intolerance,but you agreed that inquisition carried out by the church is divine instruction.
5.You said cloning is wrong but what god did by putting Adam to sleep and remove one of his ribs to creat eve is ok
6.You laugh at other religion as being pagan but you forget that most of the stories found in the bible are not original but interpolation from pagan religion.
7.You don't believe in the theory of evolution but you believe that it is when the angels open the heaven that brings about rainfall.

Non of them is a star.They are local stars just being hyped by the media.How many of them has their music played on Broadway.How many of them has been nominated for a Grammy award.The stars Nigeria has are Fela Kuti,King Sunny Ade and Femi Kuti.These are the artist that met the criteria stated above

Another hellish experience for motorists that will ply the Lagos Ibadan expressway during the program.

It is a welcome development.If the catholic is asked to pay tax in Italy.Nothing stops them from paying in Nigeria after all they all money making organizations.

That is to show you that Obasanjo is influential in the international arena.If he is not he will not be invited to monitor an election outside of naija.I am waiting for what Lie Mohammed will say on this.Abi him no see am?Tinubu will never be invited by anobody to observe an election even in Benin republic.OBJ is the most influential Nigerian we have today

Reverend fathers or Pastors are nothing but parasites that do nothing but feed on the sweats of others. Churches are nothing but money making organizations.Court should jail the rev father if found guilty.This will serve as a lesson to other parasites who parade themselves as men of god

The gap theory is an after thought by the xtian.How come bible talks of the Sabbath day to be kept holy.The xtian god said he worked for 6 days and the 7th should be kept holy.Gap period is just a way of shielding their ignorance

The bible is the most unreliable,inconsistent book man has ever invented.Can the bible apologist reconcile the story of creation in Genesis 1 and 2 why the differnce in the sequence of creation. The bible tells us that stars are specks in heaven~wrong.The bible says that world is flat~wrong.The bible says that the xtian god created light before the sun~wrong.The bible says that Adam and Eve had two male children how did procreation happen then?The bible says that he created man by moulding clay and gave it breath~wrong.The bible created plant before sunlight~wrong.Can the bible apologolist reconcile the birth of Christ as written in the book of Luke and Mathew.Lastly without science and scientist the world will in darkness where superstitious and dogmatism will reign

I don't know much about Islam and its doctrine but if Boko Haram can justify its actions using quotations from the koran'then I don't want to agree with what the writer says.If the writer can enlighten me why the crises between the Sunnis and the Shittes?
For me all religions are based on fear and every religion will claim that its doctrine is the best

I totally agree with the writer.I will use myself and family as an example.My dad was a yoruba man,my mom Ibo.My dad attended Methodist church while my mom a staunch catholic.One of my sibling is married to a Muslim man.The others attend pentocoastal churches.Infact one of them attends any church she feels like pentocoastal today white garment tomorrow.During Muslim festivals we all visit the one married to a Muslim to eat and drink.During xtian festivities they do the same.Talking about myself iam married to a xtian while I am a freethinker.Every Sunday I drop and pick them from the church.When it comes to religious tolerance the Yoruba should be emulated.This is partly due to education.The yorubas are highly educated and have come to see religion as a personal thing

Heaven and Hell exist only on the mindss of those who think so.No heaven or hell exist in the first instance

This is funny.I think there are more pressing things to be done than fixing pride price.One of them is the Osu caste system.Every right thinking people should see how this madness should be stopped. Imo house of rep should expend their energy on something important than fixing of pride price

I don't why reporters misinterprete issues.Lantang where the flooding happened is about 500km from Jos.Why write the story as if it is in Jos town.
Anyway good things are happening in Jos.One of them is Mars22 Home of beauty.For your makeup,makeover,fixing of nails and lashes call Ella on 07031594993 or 08154326126.Mars22 Home of beauty...experience beauty at its best

Nigerians are tired of Lai Mohammed's antics.How come he did not ask the speaker of Lagos House of assembly to step down and apologise to Lagosian.Afterall the speaker is being prosecuted for fraud.He is fond of just opening his mouth and speak.I think he is suffering from diarhea of the mouth.ACN is as corrupt as the PDP.