₦airaland Forum

uncjay:
Well u r entitle to ur opinion.

sonOfLucifer:
Hahaha. It's more culture than religion, although in some cases, it's quite difficult to separate the two. How tall are you btw?

uncjay:
I'm sorry @Jognnydon22 but ur integrity is questionable here, so because some people believe in God and heaven mean they should die at anytime since they have better place to go?

This is more like blasphemy against humanity than your constructive religious augment. I'm sorry if I sound harsh or accusing, to me it more theists should die because of their belief.

sonOfLucifer:
Funny enough, it's possible that they don't. Some hotels would could even ask for a marriage certificate before letting you rent a room with a female.

I once got an invitation by a basketball club in Qatar, My dad swore over his dead body will he let his Last Child to go and die in an Islamic state..

These people can murder you for just looking at a girl's bumz..

agitator:
bad belle lecturers

Seriously dude is it still Education... Next time you will say Nigerian Education is messed up but the likes of you are the problem..

bqlekan:
in Islam, one should not promote adultery or fornication

urahara:
This is very informative

krattoss:
oh I even forgot that u live in the same city with mbaka..

so have u visited his ministry or service before?

if yes what's ur observations?
u know some Catholics worship the man like god.

Yeap not only have i gone to his ministry before like 5years ago in fact it was a regular thing for all of us in the street then ...

I have also sat with him many times on the virtue of a seminarian back then and recently last year my dad asked me to go with him (they are close associates though)

Quite a jovial person, he joked about me being too tall and how i would over shadow him in basketball and stuff..

Every Christian domination reveres both their MOG and the BIBLE just like they revere their respective God concepts most times without knowing it..

But he is more loved by the Enugu faithfuls than the Bishop of the diocese.. C.V.C Onaga.

But this news is quite misrepresented.. He is not being transferred, his ministry was moved to the permanent site i think since 2009/2010 now he is planning to relocate from his Parish in Christ the King G.R.A and live permanently in his permanent site located in UMUCHIGBO NIKE to run a Parish and his ministry there.

The diocese is ok with that am sure, Onaga quite likes the man.

But Mbaka makes money oo you need to see the amount that guy blows every adoration night.. Millions..

Am gonna join this whole church thing and chop my own Poor Masses Yams ..

Nigerians sef... i tire

bqlekan:
any help?

Take this to the ISLAM SECTION .. very certain you will find better help there..

More over ..... well choices differ

SirWere:
A very valid advice. I hate to do this but I will like to appeal to the theists to please also assist any orphan they know

plaetton:
This is the silliest, most outrageous statement I have seen this year.

Tedassie:
Thank you all for ur response...pls,share this info' on other platforms as well

bqlekan:
I know very much of the concept of Osa nla (supreme being) how we believed he created the other deities, I laid emphasis on the likes of ogun, sango, obatala and even esu because they are the peak of Yoruba beliefs, ask a sango worshipper how he got saved from a storm and here him say it was sango. how reasonable is it to say a man who died long time ago is in charge of lightning and thunder? some local bus drivers worship ogun more than the supreme being himself. They even have a mini shrine at home. some of us even worhip esu ( one who doesn't give without taking in folds).

imagine someone from the oje family, (masquerade) told to put on the masquerade attire before a particular problem in his life could be solved. why not pray to the supreme being? instead of running around in the market under intense heat disguising as a masquerade.

bro, we as humans want something easy, something not rigorous.. sitting and praying to an imaginary God is easier than dancing around, beheading a dog, or prostrating in front of a lifeless idol.

why not worship the supreme being, and ditch the representation of some dead heroes..

it's good you said I don't need to believe.. I can assure you I know a great deal about my culture, that was why I didn't follow blindly, I embraced the necessary ones and discarded the unnecessaries.

you seem not to understand my question here, I mean, how m I supposed to know my genealogy from Oduduwa when there is no proper documentation..

I ask a lot of questions and Godwilling, I can draw out my family tree right from when my great grand father converted to Islam.

the ignorance culture could not bring an end too, but religion did right?

when did leaving lepers to die in the bush and their corpse left to decay became QUARANTINE?

no its not a lie, religion helped in
reducing this.. I will take Omu-Oke (a town in Ekiti state) as an instance, witches now co exist with ordinary humans, religion thought us to let them be.

brother, I get your point, all in saying is that religions has improved our culture in one way or the other. western civilisation also thought us not to just follow things blindly, we should reflect on what we learnt and see how it fits into our everyday life and society.

matrix600:
there's something you're missing here, one time every developed countries had similar cultures, but just like language and reason, culture also undergoes evolution. The cultural practices of our ancestors were not bound to remain the same forever and ever, at some points there will always be cultural amendments that will be brought by societal awareness. Nearly all religion and culture were once barbaric, but the inevitable thing is transformation. So how can you tell that our cultures would not have evolved or transformed into something better than what we have now if we had maintained them. The imported religious ideas has caused us more harm than good no matter how you look at it. Our cultures were not perfect neither is any religion. I think we would have fared better maintaining what truly represents our identity. My thoughts

Seriously this is wonderful.. someone gets the point..

I wish i believed in God(s) I would have said Chukwu should bless you, or even Eledumare or Amadioha even Yahweh anyone you believe in..

This is exactly what i told him "Well I think our cultures being
relics of a distant past should also be modified upon to also reflect a touch of
our own views while also maintaining it's original theme."

Thank you my brother

bqlekan:
like I said earlier, the write up was wonderful. the value of our culture is lost to this foreign religion (extremist) for example, some part in Islam forbids us from kneeling or postrating to ones parent or elders.

like you said, we should embrace our culture, but I believe culture isn't about embracing, I believe its about choosing what to embrace. some embrace ogun, some sango, some oya, some all.

If I'm dumb enough to embrace ogun (god of iron), yes I mean (Fe) or sango, (god of fire, thunder and lightning), why can't I embrace God of everything?

at least, that sounds more logical, considering the fact that I've never seen both sango and God, also, 'God of everything' appears to be greater than god of iron (logically)

Talking about Genealogy, the Jews have a proper documentation of the genealogy of Jesus (pbuh), (the bible) so are the Arabs.. where is my family's documentation?
how am I supposed to know this?

brother, it was once part of our culture to to slay twins,

seclude lepers,

stone ACCUSED witches to death etc.

I'm not willing to go back to that. we need these religions, we just don't need extremism.

ikenigel:
Hehehe... Mehn pasa n'ogbe! Might pay you a surprise visit this year.

Yaksson:
to start with, do you believe that God exist?

ikenigel:
Haha.. you may living next to me and I don't even know. You come naira land come dey form atheist.

Ugbene, liberty, last bus stop, afia 4, Texaco, Umuchigbo? Ebee nwanne?

ikenigel:
So this atheist lives in 042? Bia nwokem, kee syd GI? Emene, New Haven, Abakpa, Independence Layout, Gariki, Okpara ave, Obiagu?? Ebee ka I no?

Abum nwa abakpa my brother... Ibu nwa 042 kwa? I see you just took a peek on my profile

menesheh:
Quotations with igbo name will be manageable.

funny

plaetton:
Johnnydon22,
You're neglecting one very important piece of these mysteries.

We are not the ones suggesting that aliens did this or did that.

1. The Dogons say they were visited and taught astronomy by the " Sons of the stars ".
Why do we neglect that ?

2. The ancient Sumerians said in all their texts that whatever astronomical knowledge they had were taught to them by the Annunakis ( those who from above came).
Why do we neglect that part?

3. The Egyptians claimed their gods traversed the heavens on the " Boats(ships) Of heaven", today's equivalents of spaceships.
They also claim that pyramids were already there before the earliest Egyptian civilization.

Why do we neglect that ?

The bible says that the sons of gods( aliens of course) came down to Earth, cohabited with humans, interbred with some humans to produce giant leap offsprings, the Nefilims, Emmims, also referred to in the bible as sons of the Annakims(Annunakis ?).

The book of Enoch details the names of the leaders of the fallen angels ( of course Aliens) who came down to Earth to teach humankind agriculture, animal domestication, metallurgy, architecture, medicinal herbs, as well as social contracts, warfare etc.

When we put the architectural and building legacies, their advanced knowledge of astronomy and mathematics, and then add them to their own written testimonies, it becomes obvious that all these ancient cultures could not have been hallucinating from the same potion.

donnffd:
What happens after we die is the same thing that happened before we were born...a state of non-existance

ikenigel:
Sure thing bro. Read that quotation. Make sure you read it. Just try.