₦airaland Forum

dalaman:
. I haven't met much people that practice ATR . The few ones ive met display the Nollywood outlook.

Martinez19:
Hypocrisy and stupidity are two of the things keeping faith alive.

CatfishBilly:
Apt.

Broad daylight hypocrisy.

UncleSnr:

Seun, Lalasticlala
Come and ban me

adepeter2027:
Wow
Interesting.

But you know what?

God works in mysterious ways. The gate of hell shall not prevail

dalaman:
All of them are scammers. Traditional African religion is associated with evil everywhere. If you want to harm another person them you go to the ATR priest to do that, you want to make money, same thing, you want to dominate others, same thing. ATR is ONLY associated with magic and nothing else. The priest have oversized powers accorded to them by members of the public and they always abuse it.

People don't practice ATR for personal upliftment only for one evil or selfish aim or the other.

sonofluc1fer:
Yeah, I still want to. But I all have is book knowledge, which isnt really knowledge. I want something practical..unfortunately, i couldnt visit villa this past holidays.

dalaman:
African traditional religions need to be reformed, but unfortunately it has few adherents that are contemporary and educated. Most priest are illiterates that reside in remote villages.

sonofluc1fer:
This especially. And then also, a lot of scammers/fakes esp those on fb..even one or two or NL.

sonofluc1fer:
Wouldn't you consider those small cults sects too?

Also, are these Gods different manifestations of one God, or do they act of their own volition/will?

Nature of God.
Man's place in God's world.
Man's relationship/interaction with God.

I grew up in a Christian home and knew only Christianity until early in my adult life. My transformation to an atheist hasn't dislodged completely some ideas I had about God when I was Christian.

I find it's better to have a general idea of a religion, or gain some sort of familiarisation with the basic concepts/ideas, before going deeper.

hypemarket:
any religion can break into different sects provided there is this huge void of wants and greed in man.
Me sef want to start my religion tho'

sonofluc1fer:
Was the Igbo religion (Odinani) also broken into sects like we have in Christianity?

What was its philosophy?

tjmc:
Following numerous thread here for both the Christians muslims atheist and non atheist alike. I think we would be doing great injustice to the African traditional practitioners if they are not given a to discuss their own religion.

First I strongly believe in our tradition.

Feel free to share your experiences

urahara:
Evolution kind of makes god look......... superfluous....

urahara:
Loooll

Funny enough some homosexuals find heterosexual acts disgusting

urahara:
Yh

Seun:
You know that women enjoy having the thing “done to them”, right?

AnonyNymous:
I have a feeling you probably think its wrong because you grew up religious, and its an idea that's been drummed into you over and over again. For example, many African/Nigerian atheists still find homosexual relationships disgusting and 'evil' because they've grown up believing that and its hard to shed those ideas. Logically, they might concede that its natural as its found throughout other animal species and there's nothing specifically wrong with it, but they just can't shake that feeling off. It could be the same for you and your belief that premarital sex is wrong. Its very hard to shed values that you learned in your childhood.

MightySparrow:
16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

What is the meaning of only in this passage? Were angels also begotten? What does it mean to beget? Explain John 16: 27 - 28.
27 For the Father himself loveth you, because ye have loved me, and have believed that I came out from God. 28 I came forth from the Father, and am come into the world: again, I leave the world, and go to the Father.
Note the words, 'came out', came forth', 'plainly'

urahara:
But alas they haven't come to terms with that.

salvation101:
he already answered dat d question was meant to be in the literal sense

salvation101:
i don't know if u mean the question literally or as a figure of speech.. I will answer in the literal sense.. the obvious answer is a "no". Reason being that God is eternal. And eternity breaks the barrier of time, space and matter. Weight/mass is a fraction of matter, lift(change in elevation of the object) is a fraction of space. Since Eternity breaks these three barriers of time, space and matter definitely the eternal God can never be limited by matter or space... QED...

Ferisidowu:
lolz this question is been around for centuries ..let's Know your thoughts..


Many times when talking with non-believers, they will appeal to some sort of one-liner or meme to render their unbelief a more credible position than the reality of an omnipotent God. Nevertheless, although these one-liners seem credible to the untrained mind, they actually don’t work as arguments. The same goes with this riddle, which basically attempts to pit God against himself in asking, “Can God create a rock so heavy that he cannot lift it?”

so I invite all atheists ( wise ones only and open minded) theist (but not Christians ,)
and interested Christians

urahara:
So how do Christians who support evolution deal with this

vaxx:
for the first time reading your topics here i agree with you...

bloodofthelamb:
Every living soul believe in something, whether conciously or unconciously...

No man is deviod of believe.

Daviddson:
All of you atheists are just wasting your time - making yourself happy that you're winning Ebuka over when it's totally out of possibility - by the grace of God.