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Sile12:
You can imagine too bro, those bridges are handling tens of landing/takeoffs daily, despite the weights of those machines. And some people will construct mere pedestrian bridge, within months, it will collapse and kill many.

FriedPlantain:

When one person suffers from a delusion, it is called insanity. When many people suffer from a delusion it is called a Religion- Fried Plantain

plaetton:
Exactly.
This why I commend him for being honest that religion is more or less like an opium, that relieves pain in small measures, but very dangerous in large measures.

The person who does not need nor depend on this opium is still, by all measures, better OFF, than one who does.

Ubenedictus:
mr plaetton,

while I certainly do not appreciate the overconsciousness some Christian have of the unseen and the misplaced fear that seems to keep their prayers "yoked" with demons, witches and watnot, I am convinced that the presence of God in their lives does keep the fears in check. While you can point to certain extremes in christianity, atheism has it own extremes, there are a few who while not paranoid about demons spend all their time trying to kill a God they say do not exist. Every belief or refusal to do so can be pushed to an extreme. You may not exibit this particular trait you notice among some Christians but that doesn't mean you are better than them, you just don't have their problem but that doesn't mean you don't have yours.



As to prayers, supplications and intercessions for one favour (bailout) or the other, you may not believe in such but that doesn't make those wrong nor does it diminish the person! In my personal experience one who believes he has some "sky daddy" (God) working in his favour is usually more resolute, more free,...and even more optimistic than most.
I have been seeing people who are in "bad places" regularly for some time now and this belief in God has been a source of great hope to many, a cure for loneliness and the difference between sanity and depression for many. I saw a sick old lady the other day who was so courageous in her great suffering because she actually believes. Praying in my experience never make a human less! It make him more, enables him to move past his enviroment and situation and give him great hope for the future. I understand why many programs for addict teach them to hold unto a higher power.

I don't think you refusal to pray makes you better than your neighbour, it actually should make your neighbour better than you.

Jeromejnr:
So many Mumu people on the planet.

menesheh:
whats the side effect then, because i ve never seen anybody that is tasty and then decided to drink fuel to replace water. or somebody that need to get enough protein then decided to drink a gallon of fuel to gain protein.

johnny1980:
You are just knowing him? Pathetic liar and protection seeker.

Next time he brings forth another useless epistle, I hope people like you can discern the rubbish that gushes from his mouth. Can you imagine the thrash he just spewed?

jerflakes:
As my ADC, you know how many lives I've changed abi?

jerflakes:
Wetin i dey talk be say I dey make the money since 2003 too.

Na only one maga person dey get?

Wetin u sef dey talk?

If you wan learn work, go learn work.

jerflakes:
Haba, 100k friends in 2003?

E easy?

Ride on baby, do your thing.

Yahoo dey pay $40k per maga.

PassingShot:
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Olodo! Your god scammed us with outdated trains and you have mouth to talk?

Shame no dey your dictionary?

barcanista:
The incompetence of Muhammadu Buhari is staring at our faces. He cannot even maintain the trains that he inherited from his predecessor the most noble Dr Jonathan.

madlatunji:
god is the father of jesus but no wife

5minsmadness:
Please this is WRONG and shouldn't even be on front page.

Are you making fun of his height or what?
Did you ask his permission before taking his picture?
Does Nairaland need the money so much that it has resorted to making fun of innocent folk?

Deplorable!

Spits!

Goddygee:
I dnt doubt this but i dont recieve alerts, i dnt knw y