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jadeus:
I am an atheist that was formerly a Christian. Till today I still can't fathom how educated individuals in Nigeria can still believe in the bible despite all the impossibilities in it. During my transition into atheism, I went through this phase where everyone I met told me that I should just believe without the evidence. They said that it was my disbelief that was driving me away from God and that I should not question him. I should just keep quiet and follow him even though I'm not sure he exists. I'm sure most Christians would ask what is wrong with that but I want to ask you, if a someone of another faith tells you to convert to their faith without showing proof that their God is real, would you do it? You wouldn't. That's how I feel. If there is no scientific evidence showing the existence of God, then I cannot believe in him.

Also, one of the reasons that I started doubting Christianity is all the impossible and horrible stories it contains (I'm sure someone would use the 'God of the Gaps' argument here and say that God did it):

1) How could God create this earth in 6 days, but take only one day to create the rest of the universe? That is impossible. According to recent estimates, there are about 100 billion planets in the universe and assuming that they are all the size of the earth, it would take about 600 billion days for God to create them and that's not including the stars!!

2) God is omniscient, omnipotent, omnipresent and yet, he didn't know that creating putting the tree of knowledge in the garden would lead to the destruction of his beautiful creation? Didn't he know that he would later regret his choice (Gen. 6:6)? After all he knew the end from the beginning, he would have known that creating the tree would lead to billions of people to hell, yet he still created it. How is that loving? As a parent, how many of you would create something knowing your child would suffer forever as a result of that thing? I'm sure none of you, yet you would excuse your God from doing the same thing.

3) If God is caring and compassionate and provides for the needs of the faithful if they just ask, why is Nigeria in the state it is in today? After all, we have people praying from morning to night asking for Go'd guidance and help, yet things seem to only get worse. In countries like Sweden, Denmark, Finland, they are made up of mostly atheists, yet they do not experience the amount of violence that we experience in Nigeria. They have good social safety net, low rate of unemployment, very good security, high life expectancy, low rate of corruption and are constantly said to be the happiest countries on earth (Nigeria was recently said to be the worst place to be born in).

4) How did Noah carry all the species of animals on the earth into the ark? Presently, there are about 15 million species of animals on the earth (a conservative estimate and we are losing species everyday). How did Noah put all these animals inside that ark? Also, apart from the two of every kind of animal, they had to carry extra animals for the lions, the tigers and other carnivores to eat. They also had to carry lots of hay and grass for the cows, goats, horses and sheep. How did they fit inside the boat? Why are there still fish alive today. If the flood happened, it would have messed up the salt balance of the waters and that would have killed loads of fish. Also, how come 8 unskilled people were able to build an ark of that size that lasted for about 40 days without bending, while skilled people build the Wyoming and it bent. It was not even as big as the ark.

5) Why did God punish the people in Noah's time? It was not like he had given them any commandments and there was not evidence that he talked to them.

6) Using the timelines of the bible, the earth is 6000 years old. How is that possible when there has been fossils that have been dated to around 100,000 years.

7)Why do you actually believe in God? is it because you genuinely believe that God exists or you are just using him as an insurance policy against the bad times and ultimately hell.

There are many more reasons that I doubt the existence of a God, particularly the Abrahamic God, but I can't list all of the here. I am just worried that this deep religiousity of Nigerians would not overcome our common sense and our ability to think about the world around us in a purely scientific way instead of relying on a book that was written 2000 years ago. If we just use God to answer everything in the universe, we would not advance, we would not be able to do research on things that we don't understand like HIV, homosexuality, small pox etc and try to come to reasonable conclusions not rash conclusions based on things that were written by people who thought that blood letting worked.

Okanokan:
Oby Ezekwesili is a BIG DISAPPOINTMENT! that she allowed herself to be used for purely electoral purpose and after the election the #BBOG# just died a natural death, is one of the major reason pseudo activist who are PEP should not be allowed to lead our struggle. If Lady Odumakim had led the #BBOG#, the ALUTA would have been ongoing now. They used our pains as thier platform for promotion.

Iamoluwaslim:
Thank You mr Lecturer! I hope u'r one of d professors in OAU!... I did Abbreviated my spellings! But u never mentioned 2 me u had headache cos of it!... Mtcheeeeeeeeeeew Agbaya!

Ymodulus:
It's so sad today that religion - Christianity and Islam have laid a bad path for its future followers. Even Christians were terrorist, in the time of David , Moses and old testament, Christians went around destroying others home, now Islam has followed the way. It's time religion is wiped out. It has caused more harm than good.
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PastorAIO:
... He says as he grabs the last word all for himself and gobbles it down.

Iamoluwaslim:
dictionary finish 4 una haus? Abi ur fone no sabi visit google.com? Wasn't even referring 2 u in d first place! Stop doing sofo! Amebo Oshi!

InesQor:
Don't vex that i thought you vexed. Your "you don't have the monopoly of personal pronouns I'm sure" was uncalled for if you didn't vex, though. But that's my own problem, I guess.

InesQor:
Oh dear me. I would have thought it sensible and rational that if someone replies on a thread and mentions nobody, but uses a pronoun then we can assume the person is referring to the OP.

No vex oh.

kenchylala:
Dem.no dey review budget

saint047:
Can I just be broke like Nigeria?

And ...
Spend N5.8Billion only on Presidential Jet in 6 months

saint047:
Its obvious that its a different yard stick used
to measure a leader once he is a minority

politricks:
Good but dont we have good interrogators that can question these people so that we can retrieve vital informations that can help us in this fight or am i watching too much action film?

anonimi:
What happened to Chibok girls?
Have they been found since BBOG is now quiet?
Maybe their objective has been achieved into Aso Rock.




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saint047:
This GMB led APC govt will make Guinness Book of Records as the most Hypocritical government in History of Mankind

5.8B on Jets in 6months

Eboski:
what has she achieved during BBOG? Why was the campaign not active in this new govt?

saint047:
The worst part is that GMB has been cruising these jets to tell the World we are broke and corrupt

It cost 5.8B of taxpayers money.

calaway:
speak for yourself. merely stating the obvious

FreeGlobe:
Buhari zombies will be like, we now have a listening president

hamzakito:
Nigeria sef.. see this woman wey been shout bring back our girls during Jonathan's Administration but she's no longer shouting, we dnt have true freedom fighter in Nigeria... by the way y she come even meet osibanjo hope say she no kom meet osibanjo to ask him y buhari didn't choose her as a minister of federal republic of Nigeria....... some time I ask God y he created me in Nigeria.. buh though still thanking him.............

calaway:
manly oby has what it takes to absorb the blow of being used and dumped. she took it like a man, no hard feelings.

Iamoluwaslim:
Shaking my head for all of dem! I don't knw hw far they'v gone for d Pedophile case! U knw being a Pedophile was ordained by God and being was not!..

emmykk:
then provide us tooth pick company

emmykk:
this is even after the devaluation,what buhari is doing is that he is increasing foriegn reserve at the detriment of the masses.he should unturn that is evil foriegn policy to align with what is obtainable world wide.

If he want any items excluded from forex transactions he should first of all be providing that goods of services in abundances first.

tmosco:
Please I don't trust all this research, I just read one which says porn users are feminist. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/womens-life/11865582/feminist-porn-study.html

emmykk:
let me give you an insight,thailand import rice to nigeria and as at GEJ rice was N8500 now with PMB preventing them not to exchange a discounted dollar at central bank rice is N10500 wholesale price and is not yet xmas.which means you are paying N2000 more on decision.

PMB quick response approach as if nigeria is a family house has made 41 items importers or company usind those item that has since incrreased to layoff workers.


Well is just temporary,pmb can not continue like this,otherwise other countries will gang up against us by stop importing and you yet to make common steel spoon,so stop saying what you dont know.

Country develop when you export more,not try to control impoet at the detriment of your citizen

CSTR2:
What indigenous economy?
Indigenous economy and yet he opened the borders to indiscriminate rice imports.
Compare this to the much maligned jonathan that focused on home grown agricultural self-sufficiency, and an attempt at rewamping the home-grown automobile industry,e.t.c.
It was the jonathan administration that even blocked the EU trade deal.
The west is annoyed with buhari, but his phantom indigenous policy is not one of them, because it is virtually non-existent.
Stop trying to be a sycophant.

Durenttt:
And in d president buhari's mind, homosexuality does nt happen here. Smh

ichidodo:
[color=#1986BC] He's just a lawyer... what does this horribly inept and clueless square peg know about electronics, electricity and concrete bridges?... This warped phenomenon is a dumb first from President dulladeen from Daura village[/color]

mumoftwo:
My take on all this OP is that the calibre of people who are often reported as rapists in Nigeria do not look like people who would ordinarily have so much data access to be able to watch porn and the likes. Where is the correlation between access to porn site and increasing rape cases in Nigeria? Actually pornography is addictive but me think people who watch porn a lot do it only as a hobby and not to cause harm to others.