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Sooo OP lemme get this sh*t straight
You were coming back from church
You saw something like this happen
And rather than running back to church you ran to nairaland to look for a "logical explanation" when you're supposed to be coming to tell us the deliverance story
*in British cockney accent*
And you expect us to take you and the credibility of this story seriously
Lol

raphieMontella:
the worst part is that the book of revelation wasnt written for them nor directed to them nor talking about their timeline nor in anyway connected to them(today's christians.)

thier matter just tire person
Christianity and confusion

OP you sound like you want to become an atheist again. Lol atheists or agnostics don't live a purposeless life oo you basically make a purpose out of your life. We are all basically stardust so we are one with the universe same way the universe is one with is. This is the greatest spiritual feeling anyone can ask for. It's only rational someone would want to live forever. Even christians aren't even sure of their eternal life. They always sing this world isn't they're own but when one of thier brethem dies it's a different story. The thought of heaven is beautiful though who won't like the idea. But I've come to the realisation that it's just a coping mechanism for the fear of our mortality sounds like you still need the coping mechanism a lot

TomHagen:
Una just plagiarize Bible anyhow.

lol ppt calling kettle black

AlPeter:
ask the right questions and you'll get the right answer. The right question is, why did the Europeans, Asians, Africans, Native Americans (generally the ancients) believe in witchcraft, even amongst people who could not have been influenced due to isolation? Start genuinely trying to answer this simple question without jumping to conclusion

I think the problem was ignorance. After all the Aztecs used to rip beating hearts out of people every morning just to supposedly make the sun rise

TomHagen:
How does a person go about this? I just want to see where the UN reference comes from.

don't mind them jare they aren't even sure. Some people said it'll NASA that'll explain away the supposed event. So basically every good christian would disappear and the rest of the world won't realise Christianity is true and oppose the antichrist more than support him ehn?? They'll stupidly believe UN and NASA. even when I was a christian rapture doctrine never made the slightest bit of common sense. It was invented by john Darby in the 19th century
Dude you can be UN sectary general if you want. All these end time prophecy warriors from every generation since the supposed death of jesus' Christ would not let somebody hear word because they feel the world would end soon so we should all just be mumu

Lol all witchcraft experiences are like this:
Anecdote from someone who heard the anecdote from somebody else who exaggerated somebody else's anecdote who didn't have an anecdote to begin with and whose misinterpreted anecdote was a folklore story from grandma

MrPresident1:
lol .
Hey, but why are you agnostic?

lol cuz religion is a lie and the concept of God is unknowable (at least for now anyway)

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Tellemall:
They're simply a modern way of what African witch doctors do.

If Africans would create a mechanism or board, we would call it a harmless game, too.

And by the way they are actually real spiritual tools. You need to use one.

lol nawa oo I don't have that kind of time. I haven't experienced amy supernatural phenomenon neither has anyone I know experienced any. What I just hear is anecdotes which were also anecdotes from other people which were also anecdotes for other people. You said something about Ghostbusters. That's a 1984 movie that had a remake during the summer of this year. I don't know any any other "ghost buster" outside the movies apart from ed and Lauraine warren who are basically rip offs
The actual source of the association of Halloween with the dead is the fact that it is, like the name says, the eve of All Hallows Day
It was a roman catholic feast that commemorated the communion of the saint but in modern days it has become more of a secular thing . But as usual christian fundamentalists demonised it.. You know cuz that's what they do demonize everything and sad it came from Celtic pagan roots
It's quite strange tho cuz death, resurrection, and the afterlife loom fairly large in Christian belief, and the existence of a holy day meant to call these things to mind seems like something you would expect.

Tellemall:
As I said, you need to mingle with people who aren't blacks. Then you'll get to understand that the metaphysical is a standard everywhere. Everywhere there are witch hunters.

I said the first person I heard it from. I never said the ONLY person. You didn't notice that because you didn't want to or you simply can't. Says a lot for you.

Who created Halloween? What is a Ouija board used for? You are dancing around these questions.

I think you need to do a survey of how many people have had a supernatural encounter and stop your ravings. You haven't actually experienced any of the stuff you postulate. Mingle. It will go a long way.

End of discussion.

actually before Ouija boards were seen as a harmless parlor game. Their association with Spiritualism didn't take off until World War I, when one Pearl Cullan started saying that it could be used to contact spirits

zzzzy:
please stop making illogical statements. Why would I say he should do a personal research, wouldn't it be to know about personal encounters with people?

I read your quora article. It wasn't really talking about witchcraft per se like in the sense of the way it is stereotyped in the African community

MrPresident1:
Nooo, you are wrong o. I have never said the earth is flat o, or you gotta show me where i said the earth is flat. I do believe the world is spherical. The Yorubas say Obiri laiye , they also say Olodumare joko sori obiri aiye , now you must know that the Yoruba are Judah. I am suspecting that Igbos are Benjamin, cantankerous little brother Benjamin who cannot understand why big brother Judah is pandering to Fulani . And if you care to know, wherever you find Judah, you must find little Benji near him. Benji must be guided and protected by Bros Judah. They were both in Jerusalem together. I digress

Obiri means something round/spherical.

The evidence that the earth is spherical is more convincing

lol ooh so sorry

MrPresident1:
A very funny thread, I have been roaring with laughter .

It is a good thing to see that more and more peoppe are wakimg up from the delusions of organised religion, more and more people are seeking for rational explanations, the world is no longer peopled by people who accept it as it is, more and more people are asking how and why questions.

This thread is fulfiling prophecy, because knowledge is increasing, and the dead are rising.

The critical mass is being reached which will start the chain reaction that will culminate in the Apocalypse and the revelation of the Son of God who is already in our midst, only waiting to be revealed.

abeg make we hear word is it not u that said the earth is flat

Mustiboy:
I've joined too. But I'm afraid judgement is awaiting Us all somehow

lol nah bro religion especially the Abrahamic ones are jokes that aren't funny anymore

I strongly doubt. Even those people that sell body parts usually do it to make ends meet. They are very poor and it's likely they went into such nonsense as a last resort. When they are caught do they magically disappear from the police
Africa join the modern world oo

New horizons completely explored our solar system last year. Meanwhile the Nigerian government is "hoping" to launch a man into space by 2030. When this kind of nonsense are the priorities of Africans how would we continue to innovate??
Somebody recently told me the earth is flat
I have lost hope in this continent

sukkot:
brother, one of my fields of expertise is astronomy. i know what i am talking about

no you don't sorry to say

sukkot:
bros you are indeed very correct. all the images are CGI computer generated images and yes the earth is indeed flat. all the nonsense they peddle today only started 500 years ago under copernicus after the european rennaisance. other great empires before that did not peddle this earth being a spinning globe nonsense. in fact the definition of a planet IS A WANDERING STAR. question is is the earth a wandering star ? . The white man has bamboozled us with rubbish science

planet (n.) Look up planet at Dictionary.com
late Old English planete, from Old French planete (Modern French planète), from Late Latin planeta, from Greek planetes, from (asteres) planetai "wandering (stars)," from planasthai "to wander,"

I have nothing to say to you except I'll be going for my astrophysics masters by next year January so you honestly do not have the slightest clue of anything you are saying. Neil degarsse Tyson a black man is a renowned astrophysicist and cosmologist despite his colour and look at what you people are saying in Africa. It's just embarrassing. From the few months I've been around I have started to lose hope in this continent

Audray:
I thought god and Jesus were one.The holy trinity blah blah blah .Xtians be confusing themselves upandan.

lol they actually believe all the animals in the world entered a wooden boat made by 8 unskilled people and that only two animals can propagate an entire species

Slikbae:
And all atheists agree right? Nobody is forcing you to join religion. You can start by staying away from the religious section.

lol atheism isn't a religion. The fact that you couldn't answer the simple question I asked on why you guys can't agree on a doctrine shows that you have no clue of what you believe in
Enjoy chasing your own tail
Chao
I'm agnostic btw

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akintom:
No harshness intended oooo. May be a perceptive collateral damage has occurred. Apologies!

lol I'm on the same side with you bit I don't take it too far

akintom:
Just because you can't intelligently disprove it.

Your usual pathway loading....... You will soon fizzle into meaningless copy and paste from your creationist sites.

lol dude you're a bit harsh na it should be an intellectual discussion.

Lol some Muslims are condemning Christianity
Lol that just makes me laugh
Pot calling kettle black

Lennycool:
Remember that he's also a jealous God. And an avenging fire.

How can a perfect being be jealous.
Not to mention all the times he regretted in the Bible even though being omniscient he knew it would happen.
I swear the Bible is poorly scripted.

lol if he's a consuming fire doesn't it make more sense to consume us with his fire once and for all??
But no ooo
He'll rather turn us to living suya

DoctorAlien:
Whether you worship GOD or not, it changes nothing. You can at least be truthful enough to admit this.

The problem here is that you're trying to make your own perception of "perfection" universal.

It is also not hard to see that your ideology lacks any epitome of forgiveness in it: why do you think murdering somebody is far more grave than denying the existence of GOD and living in rebellion against Him?

lol no you're not getting the point I'm all about forgiveness but it doesn't make sense that me a mere unbekiber would be punished for eternity while people that were really terrible on earth won't even get any divine retribution even for a small time

DoctorAlien why should a perfect being care about worship
That is why it is perfect
Its not supposed to be egoistical
And why would a perfect being punish unbelievers like ourselves in an eternal fire for lack of belief but allow someone like Joseph Stalin into heaven if he repents on his deathbed?
If this is the being that did create everything it is obviously not intellegent
Your works matter most not belief

Wait oo DoctorAlien why aren't you in church??
*gaap*
Are you pinging in the service??

JayJayGee:
The amount of people that don't believe in the second coming of Jesus dey shock me...

op Jesus is coming soon but some of those things you write there follow abeg...

lol how would we believe when he's supposed to be coming on a flying horse
Why did he have to fly to heaven since heaven is not in this dimension shouldn't he have just disappeared?
Dude the guy is a lie. His claims were grossly exaggerated
And please how would all eyes see him
It's like the nigga doesn't know we are on a spherical earth and we don't see the sun at the same time it's now a Palestinian Jew portrayed as a Caucasian in the media coming on a flying horse with a two edged sword from his mouth all eyes would see
Lol talk about comedy

It's better the guy shouldn't even come atall cuz the nigga has bleeped up real time

felixomor:
Ah, u too join them?

lol fake moniker??
No naa that's strange

4kings:
felixomor, today is Sunday, go and read your bible and stop this puerile rants.

I wonder oo I also found it strange I even asked him this morning

There are also christians that create other monikers naa
Though I personally think it's strange tho