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 Christianity Etc › Africans And Superstition by johnydon22(op): 11:26am On Dec 17, 2015*. Modified: 1:02pm On Dec 17, 2015 |
I heard shouts, people were screaming at top of their voices. Young men wielding long whips and sticks and machetes. The shout grew and cracks of whips followed, painful groans rented the air, not that of children, not young men but old men and old women. Cries from the old as the young meted out on them cruel treatment of a mindless nature.. Different kinds of relics, talisman and clothes of different colours were taken out from their homes and burnt while they looked on with whips on their back.. What was their crime? they were accused of being witches and wizards and their involvement in the traditional practice was supposed to be proof of this. Many of these youths have relics of Jesus hanging on a cross, Virgin mary standing ever pious, pastors smiling in pictures hung on their homes and religious talisman hung on their necks. Why is it that the old men are accused of being evil for keeping a relic of their own belief but you have yours tied around your neck? This was a sad event that took place right before my eyes in my home town.. Old men and women were accused of being evil, their homes invaded, dragged out into the cold, beaten and disgraced with no shred of evidence to support the idiotic accusations but mere speculations and nonsensical effects of abject phobia for flimsy superstitious suspicion. Nobody cared for the evidence of their crimes, no human bone or skull was found on them, no gun was found on them they only kept relics of their beliefs and that automatically makes them the bad ones. This is the case in a thousand and one places through out Africa not just my home town have seen such mindless idiocy from the youths but the whole of southern Nigeria is neck deep in such imbecility. Africans needs to grow out of these sheepish superstitions. Africans needs to stop being Afraid of imaginary foes. Africans needs to out grow the unjust lynching of old men and women and even little children with the tag of witches and ogbanje. Africans needs to stop regarding little illnesses to be attacks by demons. Africans should outgrow idiotic fear of terming owls witches when they cry at night Africans needs to stop regarding convulsions to be demonic possessions. Africans needs to stop pointing at rats running about the room to be witches Africans needs to outgrow blaming an imaginary succubus and incubus for sleep paralysis. Africans simply needs to outgrow sheepish baseless superstitions that are only products of their own fears and unbalanced mind insecure in their own self. the hold such simplistic superstitions have on many minds is disturbing, the rate by which violence is being meted out on unsuspecting souls because of insecure unsure speculations and assumptions from a fearful mind is demeaning. when will we outgrow the fear of abstract things that are not there? when will flimsy placebo not being dubbed the work of spirits. when will pastors and men of god stop dipping africans deeper into these superstitions and fears of ancestral spirits and grandma witch craft. When are we going to outgrow falling prey to cheap con men wielding bibles and roman collar suits accusing an uncle from the village of being the architect of our economic conditions. when will africans learn one can never change an economic status by praying for it, if wishes worked we all would be richer than Bill Gates now. when are we going to untangle our minds from such retarding and demeaning beliefs roped around our fears of the unknown or the insecurity of our beings. If we are going to grow as a people we need to first of all develop psychologically and ideologically and this means we have to shed much of these disturbing superstitions and mindless idiocy and primitive state absurd superstitions has thrown us into.. 19 Likes 9 Shares |
| Christianity Etc › Re: If My Father Is Not Healed Before This Year Ends, Then God Exist Not by johnydon22(m): 8:09am On Dec 17, 2015 |
Jadonjack:That is serious.. He is playing with his life for real |
| Christianity Etc › Re: If My Father Is Not Healed Before This Year Ends, Then God Exist Not by johnydon22(m): 7:58am On Dec 17, 2015 |
Jadonjack:why not convince him to try a hospital again, a test will reveal the ailment and then it can be treated accordingly 2 Likes |
| Christianity Etc › Re: If My Father Is Not Healed Before This Year Ends, Then God Exist Not by johnydon22(m): 7:54am On Dec 17, 2015 |
menesheh:by talking to himself like a freak |
| Christianity Etc › Re: If My Father Is Not Healed Before This Year Ends, Then God Exist Not by johnydon22(m): 7:42am On Dec 17, 2015 |
This isn't really a sound way to deduct the inexistence of any deity, it wreaks of emotional sentiment rather than logical deductions. Well i think it will do you and your father much good if you guys stop trusting abstract concepts for help, stop hoping for helps from the sky. any deity should be able to say HI before helping anybody 12 Likes 4 Shares |
| Christianity Etc › Re: Pastor And Native Doctor Confess To Killing People, Paraded With Their Rituals by johnydon22(m): 1:39am On Dec 17, 2015 |
greenhulk:I dont recognize juju either |
| Science/Technology › Re: Urgent!!! Solar Cells by johnydon22(m): 9:33pm On Dec 16, 2015 |
Olatund19:Am in need of those too |
| Christianity Etc › Re: Pastor And Native Doctor Confess To Killing People, Paraded With Their Rituals by johnydon22(m): 7:05pm On Dec 16, 2015 |
fortune1968:Of the allegation is based on the claim that they used preternatural means to hurt people then i must say it is flimsy as it is nonsensical. i take no part in such superstition |
| Christianity Etc › Re: Pastor And Native Doctor Confess To Killing People, Paraded With Their Rituals by johnydon22(m): 7:04pm On Dec 16, 2015 |
tartar9:lol not at all you know i do not believe any of the supernatural mumbo jumbo. . . . I am referring to hurting people physically like the case of chopping off people's head and limbs for ritual purposes. |
| Christianity Etc › Re: Pastor And Native Doctor Confess To Killing People, Paraded With Their Rituals by johnydon22(m): 7:03pm On Dec 16, 2015 |
Divinehenrich:Neither do i recognize charms or juju.. my own problem is if the practise involves hurting another human by physical means. i do not pay mind neither do i believe any preternatural claim in that regard |
| Christianity Etc › Re: Pastor And Native Doctor Confess To Killing People, Paraded With Their Rituals by johnydon22(m): 6:16pm On Dec 16, 2015 |
sonofananimal:Personally am not an advocate of jungle justice, it brews disorder and most times makes the innocent casualties of untold violence and unjust treatments. I believe people should be given a fair trial under the right judicial process to ascertain the severity of their actions against the people and state. |
| Christianity Etc › Re: Pastor And Native Doctor Confess To Killing People, Paraded With Their Rituals by johnydon22(m): 5:49pm On Dec 16, 2015 |
I am against the mauling of people because they practised what ever belief or religious rituals they deem fit. But once their practise involves hurting or killing of another human then they deserve what they got. But seriously people should stop this jungle justice, simply hand them over to the authorities to be prosecuted according the the nations constitutional dictates 3 Likes |
| Politics › Re: DSS Drops Charges Against Nnamdi Kanu In Magistrate Court by johnydon22(m): 1:15pm On Dec 16, 2015 |
This is a good step to ensure peace in Nigeria... the next thing we need now is a referendum to seek the mind of the Igbo populace. It shouldn't be too hard i suppose, lets not make it seem hard 18 Likes 3 Shares |
| Christianity Etc › Re: More Photos Of The 'tallest Statue Of Jesus' Set To Be Unveiled In Imo State by johnydon22(m): 12:01pm On Dec 16, 2015 |
lol |
| Christianity Etc › Re: Church Sends Man Letter For Refusing To Pay Dues by johnydon22(m): 11:54am On Dec 16, 2015 |
allanphash7: Nothing is ever more efficient in conning people than selling them fantasies and wishful hopes .. Tell people you have an 18carat diamond for sell, nobody will believe you until you provide the stone. But tell them you promise them a golden mansion with diamond waters and white robes after they are dead somewhere in the sky... You are rich.. what we are seeing here is business transaction for the conned to fulfil his dues to the con enterprise.. 3 Likes 1 Share |
| Science/Technology › Re: A Must See. Amazing Salt Art By Mexican Artist Rob Ferrel. Talented by johnydon22(m): 11:45am On Dec 14, 2015 |
Oh damn, this is wow.. How in the world did he do that? 1 Like |
| Christianity Etc › Re: How Brainwashing Works by johnydon22(m): 7:54am On Dec 14, 2015*. Modified: 8:15am On Dec 14, 2015 |
Catch them young, start singing it into their heads at a very young age, stop them from asking questions, use threat to kill their curiosity then sing into them all the ideas you want for them and they will grow up believing every iota of that idea no matter how absurd or implausible it may be. Another name for this is Indoctrination... 12 Likes 5 Shares |
| Christianity Etc › Re: This Is Highly Sacrilegious!!!(pics) See What A Young Lady Did With The Bible! by johnydon22(m): 10:21pm On Dec 13, 2015 |
KingEbukasBlog:Lmao.. Hell, tartarus or anything coming from both a muslim or a christian or anybody from any religion sounds to me just like a kid pointing at tooth fairies. If such ideas gets to me i wouldn't be an atheist not at all but it doesn't because it is childish and ridiculous to me. Such ideas being laid on the public as truth should be refuted when necessary, i see no reason why people should celebrate blackmail and barbarism in the name of doctrines. Maybe you had a very wrong observation you need to recheck... this is even my first time engaging someone on that topic for months now.. And am sure i addressed a human who was wishing another burns because she covered her breast with a book... 1 Like 1 Share |
| Christianity Etc › Re: This Is Highly Sacrilegious!!!(pics) See What A Young Lady Did With The Bible! by johnydon22(m): 9:53pm On Dec 13, 2015 |
malvisguy212: malvisguy212:I don't need to point pastors or anybody else, you are already the one pointing this glaringly. You need to review the sadism you peddle about, you need to review the idea of some angry humanoid who is so barbaric as to threaten people to accept some unfounded truths or it burns them. Cigarettes are real, your beliefs are just beliefs.. You either provide empirical substantiation for them or you are a plain liar once you lay it out to the public 3 Likes 2 Shares |
| Christianity Etc › Re: This Is Highly Sacrilegious!!!(pics) See What A Young Lady Did With The Bible! by johnydon22(m): 9:45pm On Dec 13, 2015 |
malvisguy212:[b] I am under no obligation to respect ideas because that would mean i should respect ideas that are both dangerous and retarding. I have no problem if you believe anything without empirical back up, you have every right to hold such beliefs but once you bring it out in public you are a liar. once you propagate it and pushes for it to be accepted as a universal truth you are both a liar and a fraud. You are here asking i respect people's belief, i should respect the fact that you go about threatening people with torture? i should respect the fact you encourage negligence and abandonment of the planet we live in for the clamor of a wishful Paradise. The same you do not respect the beliefs of others but demands respect for yours. And lastly it is not a disrespect calling an imaginary character imaginary, i have never seen spiderman complaining i called it imaginary or found it offensive .. No my good sir, your ideas do not deserve my respect.. You have the right to hold them and i have the right to disagree to it when you bring it out in public.. [/b] 6 Likes 4 Shares |
| Christianity Etc › Re: This Is Highly Sacrilegious!!!(pics) See What A Young Lady Did With The Bible! by johnydon22(m): 9:37pm On Dec 13, 2015 |
malvisguy212:Aren't you ashamed of threatening people with fire and torture to coerce them to accept a truth? How is it that this truth banks on threat to ensure conformity? It is funny when something claims to be the truth at the same time relies on threat of torture and violence to coerce people into conformity. How come people are being forced to accept this truth or get burnt... aren't you ashamed peddling such sadistic idiocy? i thought truths should be glaring and not supposed to be forced on people... Review your beliefs before blowing out in public with such alacrity 4 Likes 6 Shares |
| Christianity Etc › Re: This Is Highly Sacrilegious!!!(pics) See What A Young Lady Did With The Bible! by johnydon22(m): 9:29pm On Dec 13, 2015 |
malvisguy212:If being more loyal to human kind and less so to ideas means being atheistic to you then i believe you lack basic comprehension. And yes, prizing humans and nature ahead of ideas and primitive concepts is the best of being human for me. . I am always scared of people like you, it terrifies me to think that you will have no simple basis of societal ethics if not because you think that there is some kind of angry deity waiting with reward or punishment shows you really have no basic moral basis as a human but just on a leash by religious ideas and without that idea you might be a serial killer ... 5 Likes 5 Shares |
| Christianity Etc › Re: This Is Highly Sacrilegious!!!(pics) See What A Young Lady Did With The Bible! by johnydon22(m): 9:24pm On Dec 13, 2015 |
malvisguy212: Hahahahahahahahaha do we really blame little kids for thinking Peter Pan is real. . It's quite funny really.. 5 Likes 3 Shares |
| Christianity Etc › Re: This Is Highly Sacrilegious!!!(pics) See What A Young Lady Did With The Bible! by johnydon22(m): 7:49pm On Dec 13, 2015 |
jaymejate: Yes exactly and that is what i am referring to.. For you to have a mindset that a human is going to burn because of a book and be ok to reel out such ideas is horrifying and disturbing.. If this is born again then i think such barbaric and sadistic mindset is not for me .. 5 Likes 3 Shares |
| Christianity Etc › Re: This Is Highly Sacrilegious!!!(pics) See What A Young Lady Did With The Bible! by johnydon22(m): 7:29pm On Dec 13, 2015 |
GAZZUZZ:The world would be a better place if we humans became more loyal and loving to our fellow humans and less so to imaginary deities and primitive books and ideas 3 Likes 3 Shares |
| Christianity Etc › Re: This Is Highly Sacrilegious!!!(pics) See What A Young Lady Did With The Bible! by johnydon22(m): 7:27pm On Dec 13, 2015 |
jaymejate: Because she covered her breast with a book she deserves to burn, do you even imagine the type of mind you possess? How are you any different from Islamic extremists who would murder her if she did it with the koran. Both you and the Islamic extremists aren't any better because you both prize a book more than humans. . You revere ancient primitive constructs more than fellow humans. Such horrifying mindset as wishing a fellow human burns in fire because of some damn book. 4 Likes 5 Shares |
| Christianity Etc › Re: Nigerians And Religion by johnydon22(m): 6:04pm On Dec 13, 2015*. Modified: 11:11pm On Dec 13, 2015 |
achinaboy:The thing is Morality has no religion neither is it an expected trait of religiosity. Morality is neither Islamic nor Christian or any other in this world that somehow has a moral code. Morality belongs to no ism and is not dependent upon any holy book, creed or supernatural for basis. It is a human societal construct and as such has a societal fundamental basis. . Nigerians should learn to distinguish Moral actions in coincide with societal and individual goodness from religious obligations or actions. If only we can learn that we are humans, living together in a society then we can realize that our actions must accommodate others around us. We can learn to treat others more kindly . . 5 Likes 3 Shares |
| Christianity Etc › Re: Music Is Haram by johnydon22(m): 5:04pm On Dec 13, 2015 |
finofaya:I mostly encourage reason, questions, doubts and knowledge instead of belief. . I argue and engage propagators of such ideas not to change already made minds but because there is always a number of unmade minds 2 Likes 1 Share |
| Politics › Re: Biafra: Kanu A Bigger Crowd-puller Than Buhari, Says Kukah by johnydon22(m): 3:20pm On Dec 13, 2015 |
OgundeleT:Hey bro send me a message on whatsapp |
| Christianity Etc › Re: My Fellow Atheists...it's High Time We Went Political To Rebuild This Nation. by johnydon22(m): 3:13pm On Dec 13, 2015 |
matrix600:Correct, any political reform needed in this country is a movement that should involve every youth in this country no matter their religious affiliation or irreligious tilt 3 Likes 1 Share |
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