₦airaland Forum

obadiah777: jeremish 28 vs 8 The prophets that have been before me and before thee of old prophesied both against many countries, and against great kingdoms, of war, and of evil, and of pestilence.

bolaino: you illuminati/new world order agents on nairaland I want you people to leave pfn alone. Your plans won't work.

davidylan: It is obvious you dont know what you are talking about. The fossil records are the strongest argument against evolution. But i wont bore you with facts.

davidylan: By its nature... faith is the believe in something even when you havent seen it. I have no shame in declaring myself a follower of Christ. My problem is with atheists like you who trade one "myth" for another (the theory of evolution) while declaring themselves skeptics.

Irises: the fault is from the person playing it. if you think it will make you act violently, then quit the game. if you think it does not affect you, then play it. the game was not built to cause voilent, it depends on the players. thats all

Tomoarika: @GeneralShepherd, hope u saw d thread for d production manager. I'm having trouble accessing my e-mail. Send to "teeveyan@yahoo(dot)com".
Regards.

Emusan: What a million question....
Atheist have been helping Jesus to separate the tears from the wheat (those who didn't know their stand in Christianity) and helping those who are weak to be strong.

snthesis: tanx Lyn, but i feel being outta of sight is being out of her life

Ajibam: they are bored and lonely without theist.. they cant survive alone.. just like tapeworm and human being,

plaetton: Bros,
I do a lot of introspection, and ask myself that same question everyday.
Am I a bigot, an opinionated hater?

When abroad, I lived with, schooled with, worked and befriended people from every corner of the Earth, with different histories, different cultures and different religions.
At no time, did the beliefs or religions of the people I came into contact with ever become a contentious issue. It never ever mattered and was hardly ever discussed. Religion was only sparingly discussed when my ever curious self would ask people questions about their religion for the purpose of learning.

In an ideal society, the religion of your friend or neighbor should never be a problem or concern to you.

However, when I cam back to Nigeria, I was shell-shocked at the level of havoc religion was causing in Nigeria.
I felt( and I am not kidding) as if there had been some kind of mass surgery where critical portions of the brain had been removed, mass lobotomy of sorts.
Even my grandparents and great grand parents did not match the level of superstition that had engulfed the whole land.

At that time, big churches had taken over closed factories and warehouses, and everyone was shouting Halleluyah!.
As someone who had very solid understanding of the principles of economics, I thought everyone, including the leadership , had gone crazy. Where will the prosperity being preached come from?

I said to myself and everyone else cared to listen that Nigeria was in deep deep trouble.
With minds actively involved with the "New magical thinking" in the form of pentecostal revival, the future looked terribly bleak .
I was in my late twenties and this was about 15 years ago.

So, bros, I have predicted, cried and mourned my beloved country as I have sat and watched the wide scale destruction of our national IQ, the widescale descent of reason, the dearth of intelligence and the epidemic of s.t.u.p.idity turn a once promising people into unthinking zombies.

How can anyone ignore religion in Nigeria, especially when a new breed of scoundrels and parasites advertise our gross national lunacy on television every single hour?

I truly wish I can ignore my neighbors turning their houses from one night fellowships to daily fellowships, and finally into full blown churches?
How can I ignore every shade of clowns walking into my office on a busy weekday to preach the word of a god that just conveniently happens to be invisible?

How can I ignore religion while when people meet me, instead asking sensible things about me, they first ask "which Church do you belong to?" .
I beg your pardon sir?
I don't belong, I am a free man.

How can I ignore the irrationality of religion religion when business associates insist on prayer before a business deal is consumated?

Sometimes it takes a trip abroad just to assure me that I am not the insane one.

Do you want to talk about Boko-Haram and their holy blood lusts?

Anyone who is not religious cannot simply look aside and let things be.

I often ask myself whether I am fighting people because of their religious beliefs, or because of the irrationality that they bring to bear on everyone who interacts with them.

I, and I can speak for most Nl atheists fight the irrationality and what it portends for the future if left unchallenged.

Reyginus: This thread means what it says. This indeed perfectly explains the Cwardice of Atheism. And davidylan knows how to treat these dudes.

Boomark: did you ask yourself who he was going to speak to? Is it the whole world? NO

Do you expect Paul to rewrite all that he taught in his letter to the Corinthians, Romans, galatians, Ephesians, Hebrew, timothy, etc, to this people. The revelations he got are in these letters and he knows them so he can teach them orally.

Don't be deceived by those who teach you lawlessness and tell you it is oral tradition. Na who we go ask? I hope i have guided you. You still have the right to continue believing your oral traditions. Na who we go ask?

aManFromMars: Sorry, your BIble says faith, without works, is dead. Not the other way round.

fergiiosugo: oboi yu are 'murder' already