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 Christianity Etc › Re: My Thoughts And Questions About Religion by joseph1013(op): 10:51am On Feb 11, 2018 |
Nkechi Bianze So, I saw a video that got me infuriated. A young female school teacher posted a Facebook video showing herself leading her student in praise and worship session, right in the classroom. Questions: 1. Who gave her the right and permission to post such a video of people’s children? 2. What makes her think she has the right to indoctrinate other people’s children with her religion? 3. Are all the children in that class Christians? 4. “Did the teacher get approval from all the parents before taking this spiritual trip with these babies, not to talk of videoing them and putting it on social media  ?” So PhieThe average Nigerian religious person is a religious zombie. There’s this compulsive urge for many religious Nigerians to want to shove their religions down people’s throats. Just like a deeper life teacher in a Federal University in Eastern Nigeria told the female students to stop wearing trousers, that they should all wear below the knees skirts or dresses, and she also asked the male students to stop wearing jeans. And just like a Muslim lecturer in a Federal University in Northern Nigeria asked all the female students to start covering their heads to his class. This is ridiculous. You are a teacher/lecturer. You don’t have the right to force your religious doctrines on your students. In saner countries, that would earn you a sack. You are using your position of trust to infringe on the rights of your students to choose a religion or none, practice a religious doctrine or not. This is actually a FUNDAMENTAL HUMAN RIGHT you people infringe on. If I want my children to do praise and worship, I will take them to church. If I pay tuition fees, I’m paying for them to learn academically. I don’t want any teacher indoctrinating my children with her religion. What many of you Nigerian Christians and Muslims need to understand is that not everyone gives a Bleep about your religion. Not everyone gives a Bleep about your Bible or Quran. Your right to indoctrinate people into your religion ends with your children and your church and mosque members. I do NOT want my children to grow up as Christians. I don’t want any Christian teacher to make them do praise and worship at school, where I would pay through my ass to get them to learn. My right to decide that I don’t want my children to be Christians (especially the Nigerian brand) is as valid as your right to decide that you want your children to grow up as Christians. Practice what you want on your children. But you haven’t got the right to practice such on other people’s children. A school teacher is paid to teach academically. Not to indoctrinate people’s children into his or her religion. Nigerian Christians need to understand boundaries. Not everyone wants to be Christians. Not everyone cares about whatever has been written in your Bible. Stop shoving your Christianity down people’s throats. Leave other people’s children out of your shits. Despite how religious you all claim to be, your country is still in a rotten state. A vast majority of Nigerians are religious, including all your thieving political office holders, employers who sleep with potential employees, lecturers who sleep with students to give them due or undue marks, bribe givers and collectors, you are all mainly Christians and Muslims. *-* This issue of Christian and Muslim school is one of the worst disasters happening on earth today. Most of these Islamic brainwashed kids who volunteer to kill people, or even sacrifice their lives as suicide bombers were bred in many of these Islamic schools. Let school for children be a place to learn academically. Leave religious institutions like churches and mosques to handle spirituality. You are a Christian teacher, practice your Christianity in your church and at home with your family. Don’t force my child to pray with you. This religious madness has got to stop. 9 Likes 1 Share |
| Christianity Etc › Re: My Thoughts And Questions About Religion by joseph1013(op): 5:27pm On Feb 08, 2018 |
Fortune Chukwuemeka I have said this before but I'll say it louder for those at the back. The term "Respect my belief" is religious blackmail. Beliefs�Do Not�Deserve�Respect. Beliefs should be talked about, ridiculed, critiqued and discussed so that only those that conform to centrist societal ideals are allowed into society. Muslims have beliefs that encourage them to throw gay people off roofs, stone fornicating women to death etc. There are few religions or even situations that oppress women more than Islam. When it comes to the marriage of teenage and preteen girls before they're ready for sex or pregnancy, they take the lead Are we seriously not supposed to talk about that because beliefs deserve respect? Hindus have a caste system that keeps select people and their generations in perpetual oppression just because they are both into lower castes. Are we supposed to not talk about this? Christianity was used to oppress people based on race, is now used to oppress people based on gender and sexual orientation. My Bible said so. Are we not supposed to talk about this? If some random religion was still sacrificing human virgins, would we be expected to keep quiet about that because your beliefs deserve respect? Talk about all beliefs. Beliefs are ideas. It's okay to challenge ideas. That's how they grow. Belief systems that aren't challenged are the ones that carry terrible ideas from one generation to another with no loss of enthusiasm. 2 Likes 1 Share |
| Sports › Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2027, 2028 And 2030 World Cup by joseph1013: 5:47pm On Feb 07, 2018 |
I love the one Iwobi wore. The other one is bleh...that's not our national green. |
| Christianity Etc › Re: My Thoughts And Questions About Religion by joseph1013(op): 6:18am On Feb 07, 2018 |
Filmewell:People tell me that I have an introspective spirit and I think so too. An introspective mindset is one which is able to look at his core beliefs from a distance often and try to argue against it. Another word for being a devil's advocate. I do this often for my libertarian beliefs. I do this for my pro-capitalist beliefs. I do this for my apatheism beliefs. Etc There have been times when I had gone anonymous arguing with some militant atheists about the merits of religions and why it is not wrong to be a religionist. Each time, instead of feeling I may be wrong, it ended up making me foolish that I stayed in religion for as much as I did before denouncing it. It really does not take much to know that religions are man-made. One just has to take away that veil and the picture becomes much clearer. Your words I have highlighted in bold is an old form of argument for religion called Pascal's wager. Pascal's wager is an argument that asserts that one should believe in God, even if God's existence cannot be proved or disproved through reason. You know Blaise Pascal? He was the genius mathematician who helped the world on the subject of projective geometry and probability theory. Pascal's reasoning was that since nothing is known for certainty, the christian faith may be as good as any other belief, and since the possible gain from belief is so much greater than the possible gain from unbelief, Christianity was the bet that gave the highest gain. This is what is referred to as Pascal's wager. But think about it this wager for a while. There are many gods. You talk about faith but there are different faiths. The Christian faith is different from the Islam faith, which is different from the Hindu faith. Essentially, we have more than 3000 god and they are different from one another. So if you wager that Jesus' Christianity is the true religion, you have so much to lose if it turns out that it is Mohammed's Islam that is the correct religion. The main problem with Pascal's wager is that it suffers from the fallacy of bifurcation. It only calculates with two options when there are, in fact, at least four alternatives: The christian God and afterlife, some other god and afterlife, atheism with afterlife, and atheism without afterlife. Therefore Pascal's wager is invalid as an argument. Like I said earlier, because of the multitude of possible religions, if any faith is as likely as the other, the probability of the christian being right is P=1/n where n is the number of possible faiths. If we assume that there is an infinite amount of possible gods (i.e. ideas of gods), the probability of you being right is infinitely small. Because Pascal's wager fails to tell us which god is likely to be the right one, you have a great probability that you picked the wrong religion and go to some other religion's version of hell. This is referred to as the "avoiding the wrong hell problem" Sometimes I think that the reason the intelligent Blaise did not see through this wager was that he had such poor health, especially after the age of 18, that he died just two months after his 39th birthday. That might have affected him and drawn him to religion for hope. may be. 9 Likes 1 Share |
| Christianity Etc › Re: My Thoughts And Questions About Religion by joseph1013(op): 6:22pm On Feb 03, 2018 |
THE STORY OF GOD God had no beginning. He was always there. He is maximally intelligent. We don't exactly know what this means but let's say his IQ is a few billion compared to our average IQ of 100. And he was alone. Definitely. We are told he is the ONLY real god--all the others are human inventions. So he had no friends, no wives, no one to talk to, nothing to do, no TV, no nothing. He didn't even have day and night. As far as we know, he spent infinity in the dark and terrible cold all alone. But he must have been happy, because he is perfect. At some point he tired of being alone and decided to make some friends to love. He made an unimaginably huge universe and then made trillions of solar systems and in one he placed a tiny (and rather dangerous) planet for his friends to live on. He looked at his creation and thought it was good. With preparations done, he created his new friends. Now, you might think he would have made them as intelligent as himself. That would have allowed for interesting late night conversations. He could even play games with them and not always win. But he didn't. He made his friends pitifully weak; very, very tiny, belligerent, argumentative and very, very, very stupid (compared to himself). Well, they say God works in mysterious ways but this was like a lonely human being making bacteria for company. Unsurprisingly, it didn't work out too well. He was careful to provide each human with a dedicated comms channel, so he could talk to each one directly. Yet, still many of them didn't love him back, some didn't even believe he existed! He wanted them to follow his rules of behaviour but most of them ignored him. They even invented their own gods, and some actually masturbated! (He should have made their arms shorter!) Finally, he was so exasperated with his friends that he decided to kill them all. What else could he do? He truly loved them but they ignored him. He just left one family alive whom he thought would behave better. I suppose we could call this supernatural selection! Well, to cut a long story short, it still didn't work out. Humans continued to do their own thing; some of them pretended to love him, some of them loved other gods and hardly any of them would stone their unruly sons to death. God was at his wits end. So he thought and he thought (with an IQ of several billion, that's a heck of a lot of thought) and came up with his master plan. He would come to Earth as a human and have the locals kill him as a sacrifice to himself. Then he would be able to forgive all past, present and future human sin; obviously. What could possibly go wrong? Of course, it is possible that this story is not true. We can either believe that the immensely powerful being with a several billion IQ did all this, or we can believe the whole story was invented by tiny, tiny beings who are very, very, very stupid (compared to God). I don't know. What do you think? 11 Likes 3 Shares |
| Christianity Etc › Re: My Thoughts And Questions About Religion by joseph1013(op): 6:58pm On Feb 02, 2018 |
YOUR IMAGINARY FRIEND Sometimes God is called an imaginary friend. I have no problem with 'imaginary' but isn't 'friend' a bit of a stretch? After all, how many friends do you have who demand you love them and promise to inflict indescribable pain on you without mercy if you put a step wrong? That's the kind of friend you're better off without. But, to be fair, there is a bright side--imaginary friends only do imaginary torture. 5 Likes 1 Share |
| Christianity Etc › Re: My Thoughts And Questions About Religion by joseph1013(op): 6:37pm On Feb 02, 2018 |
budaatum:Thanks. Let's see what I can do about that. |
| Christianity Etc › Re: My Thoughts And Questions About Religion by joseph1013(op): 8:42pm On Feb 01, 2018 |
Religion followers, 2015. Christianity: 2.3 billion Islam: 1.8 billion Unaffiliated: 1.2 billion Hinduism: 1.1 billion Buddhism: 0.5 billion Folk religion: 0.4 billion (Pew Research) |
| Christianity Etc › Re: My Thoughts And Questions About Religion by joseph1013(op): 2:51pm On Jan 30, 2018 |
Olayinka Ayinde Behaviour modification for children. "If you don't eat your food #OjujuCalabar will come and carry you away!" Behavior modification for adults. "If you don't give me your money, #Devourer kee you there!" Same thing. Different age groups. � 9 Likes 1 Share |
| Christianity Etc › Re: My Thoughts And Questions About Religion by joseph1013(op): 3:24am On Jan 30, 2018 |
WHY FEAR? I love my parents and i respect them immensely, they created me, nurtured me and facilitated in my education. I really do owe them my life. Some have told me family is overrated but that is so very difficult for me to imagine judging by the relationship I have had and continue to have with them. Once in a while though I am able to voice my opposition to their choices and decisions because my position is respected. What would that say about our relationship if i feared my parents. It would suggest that violence, intimidation and abuse was part of my childhood and my relationship is not that of respect and love, but rather disregard and hate. So why would anyone will themselves to believe anything so repulsive as; "Fear of a deity/God is a good thing and a recipe for wisdom?" In fact, believers believe that the consequences of not fearing God is hellfire. Why is fear a good thing? Is the fear of your God rather not evidence of intimidation and abuse? Why would you wish and will yourself to hang out with an intimidating and abusive superhuman you have no evidence for? 4 Likes 1 Share |
| Sports › Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2027, 2028 And 2030 World Cup by joseph1013: 3:15am On Jan 30, 2018 |
fabyom:Happy birthday to your boy! So much hope and aspirations in front of him. Congratulations on leaving Nigeria(LOL)! I wish you the very best in your new journey. 2 Likes |
| Sports › Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2027, 2028 And 2030 World Cup by joseph1013: 1:35pm On Jan 28, 2018 |
tbaba1234:Heartwarming. If he does well in the coming friendlies, he seals that number 1 position, whether he plays in the first team or not. 2 Likes |
| Christianity Etc › Re: My Thoughts And Questions About Religion by joseph1013(op): 11:00pm On Jan 27, 2018 |
HELP ME SO I CAN ARGUE WITH GOD I've been arguing with god-believers for years and I'm tired of it. All I get is the dreary repetition of fallacious arguments that were thoroughly rebutted decades or even centuries ago. Why bad arguments are persuasive to believers, I don't know, but they are. I don't learn anything from bad arguments and they don't get better if you keep repeating them. So I won't argue with humans any more (LOL). However, if you are convinced you have a responsive relationship with God, ask him how to convince me. Get your arguments from the highest authority. Then share God's own arguments and evidence with me. Let me argue with God. Help me to do that. If God is real, you will come back with ingenious and subtle arguments that are non-fallacious and unanswerable. I will learn something amazing and so will hundreds of others. But, even if you come back with the same dull and broken arguments as everyone else, I will still have learned something--I will have learned you don't talk to God, you talk to yourself. 3 Likes 1 Share |
| Christianity Etc › Re: My Thoughts And Questions About Religion by joseph1013(op): 10:39pm On Jan 27, 2018 |
junnyjake:It's kind of blurry now but I think it was the realization that I would never have been a Christian if I was born in Pakistan. In other words, religion is mostly geographical. 3 Likes |
| Christianity Etc › Re: My Thoughts And Questions About Religion by joseph1013(op): 6:24pm On Jan 26, 2018 |
RELIGION AND THE BICAMERAL MIND Humans are a type of ape. We evolved from animals with limited reasoning skills that relied largely on instinct and emotions to survive. We came to exist when new brain tissue evolved, capable of logic and planning but we never lost our primitive brain. So our species is cursed with battling brain parts--the part that wants to follow our emotions and the part that wants order, logic and planning. Sometimes it works out beautifully. From this battle emerges wonderful art, music, architecture and inventions that have literally changed the world and made us the most powerful creatures on the planet. And sometimes it is terrible. All too often the old brain rides roughshod over the upstart new brain and we behave much as our distant ancestors would have behaved. Driven by hate, anger, greed and the big daddy of them all, fear, we defend our own, and attack outsiders. Reason tells us human life is valuable and must be protected but wrath ignores reason and lashes out. We all have the potential to be murderous, no matter how smart and civilised we appear. We may wish it was otherwise, but it is not. If we ever lose our instinctive, emotional brain we will no longer be human. We will have become a new species. It is this quirk of evolution that makes religion so dangerous for humans. Religions live in our emotional brain and can make outsiders of anyone with different beliefs--sometimes, even our own children. And the emotional part of our brain knows outsiders are a threat... This is why religion is a ticking time bomb that can only be fully neutralised by training the new brain to eradicate religion from the old brain. The good news is we know this is possible--millions of people have achieved it. The bad news is most humans resist change so it's taking too long and people are being killed every day in the name of religion. The religions that most of us have today are simply too dangerous for our bicameral minds--it is like mixing fuel and fire. This is why they must go. 8 Likes 3 Shares |
| Christianity Etc › Re: My Thoughts And Questions About Religion by joseph1013(op): 3:30pm On Jan 21, 2018 |
kingmarv:When atheists make this comment, they don't make it because they believe, they make it to taunt people who keep telling them they will not make heaven. So don't get so worked up about it. 3 Likes 1 Share |
| Christianity Etc › Re: My Thoughts And Questions About Religion by joseph1013(op): 3:26pm On Jan 21, 2018 |
kingmarv:Webster's New World College Dictionary defines faith as "unquestioning belief that does not require proof or evidence; unquestioning belief in God, religious tenets." 1 Like |
| Christianity Etc › Re: My Thoughts And Questions About Religion by joseph1013(op): 3:09pm On Jan 21, 2018*. Modified: 3:26pm On Jan 21, 2018 |
kingmarv:Because I joined Nairaland before I became an atheist. I was a Christian when I joined this forum, a proselytizing one at that and I see no need to change my moniker, Joseph1013, after I realize that my Christian beliefs were misguided. To your other comments, well...what can I say...what convinces you that Jesus died? |
| Christianity Etc › Re: My Thoughts And Questions About Religion by joseph1013(op): 2:59pm On Jan 21, 2018 |
Olayinka Ayinde Imagine that someone meets you on the way and drags you to one corner, accuses you of offences you have absolutely no idea of and declares that Shakamundi hit his foot against the rock of Askamandu for these strange offences. You're still reeling from all these when he declares that for this reason, you must kneel to Shakamundi everyday at 6am and pay him 10% of all you earn every month. And you can only see Shakamundi when you die! How would that sound to you? 4 Likes 1 Share |
| Christianity Etc › Re: My Thoughts And Questions About Religion by joseph1013(op): 6:26am On Jan 21, 2018*. Modified: 3:34pm On Jan 21, 2018 |
A man had an auto crash and loses both legs. One day, he comes across the following words from the Bible: "And whatsoever ye shall ask in my name, that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son. If ye shall ask any thing in my name, I will do." John 14:13-14 Then he fervently and humbly asks that God send him new pair of legs. Two years later, still in his wheelchair, he keeps reminding God of His word. One day, during a Bible study service, a Minister teaches from that same scripture. "And whatsoever ye shall ask in my name, that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son. If ye shall ask any thing in my name, I will do." During the Q&A session, he raises his hand and asks if that scripture is really true. He tells the church God has failed to keep His word. Immediately there are three school of thoughts as the church ministers interpret the Bible verse to him: 1. The Lord is testing your faith. For He cannot give you more than you can bear. The Verdict: that scripture is 100% correct but you are going through a test. 2. That scripture says “according to your faith, if you ask anything in my name it shall be done.” Your faith is not enough. The Verdict: it’s your fault. The Bible is 100% true. The error is with you. 3. Have you added fasting and effectual prayers? Some things demand special prayers. Extraordinary gift. Remember that there’s a gift of doing miracles. The Verdict: find a higher spiritual power. You are not qualified. There are men and women of God anointed to carry out such special requests. When all is said and done, the man rolls his wheelchair down the road with more questions in his head. Then, one more teacher walks up to him and says: you should give thanks to God that you can use a wheelchair. What if you had died during that fatal accident. The man is angry and says: no, you should give thanks to the man who made this wheelchair. He doesn’t believe in God nor does he read all that stuff we read. Yet this sinner man made something that works. No promises. No long prayers. Just nuts and bolts, and common sense. 10 Likes 2 Shares |
| Christianity Etc › Re: My Thoughts And Questions About Religion by joseph1013(op): 6:21am On Jan 21, 2018 |
Why should you believe a God who killed his son would love you? |
| Christianity Etc › Re: My Thoughts And Questions About Religion by joseph1013(op): 8:24pm On Jan 20, 2018 |
THE BIBLE'S BIG MISTAKE If God created life on Earth, I think I know how he did it. He started by making a simple, single-celled creature. His first shot at life were cells that didn't even have a nucleus but they could utilise external sources of energy and could replicate. God tinkered with these cells for the next two billion years making hundreds of tiny improvements. During this time, one of the important ideas he had was to provide a mechanism for photosynthesis (obtaining energy from sunlight). Then he had a brainwave. Reproduction would be much more efficient if the genetic material was enclosed in a membrane within the cell--he invented the nucleus. He tinkered again for over 500 million years. During that time he created many different versions of his creatures but they were all fundamentally similar. But one innovation would prove critical--he introduced sexual reproduction. This greatly increased diversity which made life more resilient and increased the rate at which life forms changed. Four hundred million years later, he came up with the idea of combining several single-celled creatures to form one multi-celled creature. This was a very important idea--ultimately it allowed humans to exist. That's probably why God took 3.3 billion years to figure out how to do it--he didn't want to make any mistakes. That innovation 800 million years ago was decisive. And it seemed to give God renewed creative energy. Diversity and complexity accelerated rapidly. He created animals with bi-lateral symmetry, legs, a central nervous system, a spine, a brain, eyes and more. This orgy of creation continued and just over a million years ago he came up with us, homo sapiens. It all worked out in the end but it was a very inefficient process, probably more than 95% of the species God created were flops and became extinct. The process was a bit like a child with a chemistry set using trial and error to see what useful chemicals he could make. It's a pity the Bible didn't describe the process like this. But it didn't, it said God made all species in a single day. It's hard to imagine how it could have been more wrong. If the Bible had described it as I have, it would have been consistent with the mountain of evidence we've uncovered and we would probably all believe God is real by now. Instead, only the young, the undereducated and the delusional believe God is real, the rest of us rely on hard evidence to determine how life evolved. And that shows the Bible to be a book of fiction and not of fact. 2 Likes 1 Share |
| Sports › Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2027, 2028 And 2030 World Cup by joseph1013: 4:04pm On Jan 16, 2018 |
TheSuperNerd:I have lost count of the number of times this guy has been said to be on the verge of the first team. He used to be so promising. Wondering what is happening to him. 1 Like |
| Christianity Etc › Re: My Thoughts And Questions About Religion by joseph1013(op): 6:18am On Jan 16, 2018 |
CHECKMATE CHRISTIANITY The first people to adopt Yahweh as their god were the 12 tribes of Israel around 1,000 BCE or before. Apparently, Yahweh spoke to prophets among these tribesmen and inspired them to write about how He created the universe, the Earth and all life on the planet. They also wrote how they were guided and helped by Yahweh and they documented the laws said to have come from Yahweh. These stories can be found in the Tanakh and are the foundation of the Jewish religion. About 1,000 years later a Messiah, now known as Jesus, is said to have been born. He was sent by Yahweh and a second religion grew up around him--Christianity. Christians referred to the old stories as the Old Testament and wrote new stories about Jesus which they called the New testament. Together these testaments form the Bible. So we have one god and two religions. Let's think about this. If the Israelites made up their stories about God, both religions must be made up. But, let's assume for now, the Israelites more or less faithfully recorded what they learned from God. If so, Judaism is a true religion worshipping a real god. What about Christianity? If Judaism is true can Christianity also be true? I don't think it can. Central to Christian theology is the idea of original sin. It is the reason Jesus was sent to us. If there was no original sin, there is no role for Jesus. However, Judaism rejects the notion of original sin. Equally important to Christianity is the idea of salvation through Jesus. Only by accepting Jesus as your Lord and saviour can sin be forgiven so you may enter heaven. Judaism does not accept this. Judaism says atonement for sin is achieved by seeking forgiveness from God through prayer and repentance. Indeed, Judaism sets aside a day each year for repentance known as Yom Kippur. In order to accomplish his mission to forgive sin, Christianity says Jesus is divine and a part of a triune God (God, Jesus & The Holy Spirit). Judaism does not accept that Jesus was divine nor that God has a triune nature. There are many other differences between Judaism and Christianity but, these three fundamental theological differences alone are enough for us to conclude, if Judaism is true, Christianity cannot be. This then is the quandary for Christians, if Judaism is made up, Christianity cannot be true but, if Judaism is true, Christianity still cannot be true. Where does this leave Christianity? Read that last sentence again. Take all the time you need. I would say this is "Checkmate Christianity", wouldn't you? 3 Likes 2 Shares |
| Christianity Etc › Re: My Thoughts And Questions About Religion by joseph1013(op): 6:07am On Jan 16, 2018 |
Mujtahida:Ingersoll! I so mocked him during my proselyting days. 1 Like 1 Share |
| Sports › Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2027, 2028 And 2030 World Cup by joseph1013: 1:48pm On Jan 15, 2018 |
Michael Bailey BREAKING | Full-back Tyronne Ebuehi has joined Benfica, with a loan back to Dan Haag. Norwich City's interest was as strong as you can get - but a bit tricky when you're competing with a club like Benfica. #ncfc #otbc 4 Likes 1 Share |
| Sports › Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2027, 2028 And 2030 World Cup by joseph1013: 12:53am On Jan 14, 2018*. Modified: 6:51am On Jan 14, 2018 |
Wilfred Ndidi vs Chelsea: 56 passes 82 touches - 2nd to only Azpilicueta 86% pass completion 5 tackles - most on the pitch 4 interceptions - most on the pitch 2 dribbles @WhoScored rating: 7.9/10 - 2nd to Leicester goalkeeper. 16 Likes 2 Shares |
| Christianity Etc › Re: My Thoughts And Questions About Religion by joseph1013(op): 12:46pm On Jan 13, 2018 |
Olufunke Philips 3 years ago the #CharlieHebdo shooting happened in France and led to a lot of couched pro-terrorism comments and statements. I wrote this then and it is still relevant now. This week we mourn for our brothers and sisters lost in the Benue incidents, it grieves my heart to see human life reduced to a tussle about land, cows or even religious sanctity. When I was in Coventry, I had a housemate that was a British Muslim. His name was Tariq. This guy gave me the first Dan Brown book I read 'The Da Vinci Code'. I read it and thoroughly enjoyed it. I couldn't wait to read the next book. After I read it, Tariq asked for my thoughts. I told him I enjoyed the book. He wanted to know if that was all I had to say about the book. I smiled and shrugged. He then went into a lengthy and one sided conversation about how messed up Christianity was. Jesus was a plonker, a self-servicer, blah, blah, blah. Did I not see how Dan Brown exposed all the lies the church brainwash their followers with? The Pope was occultic. Jesus was a mere mortal. I mean, dude was even shacking up with a hooker. After this diatribe, he asked me how I could still claim to be a christian after reading the book. I smiled and told him "It was a lovely book. Very vivid." And that was it. Fast forward to some weeks later. A group of us,Tariq inclusive were having a conversation about race and religion. My friend Dele made a remark about radical Muslims bombing people and the promise of virgins in paradise and Tariq flipped out. When I say flipped out, I actually mean went crazy. He got so upset and started cursing and swearing at us. He said we were animals. Infidels. Stupid. How could we dare talk about Islam. We didn't understand anything. We deserved to die for being so stupid. That's why the bombings won't stop. Until people learn to respect Islam, attacks won't stop. We were all fuckers and pigs etc etc etc. And he went up to his room slamming the door. For about five minutes after he left, nobody had moved an inch. That's how shocking the tirade was. You see, this was not a random person. This was our friend. Going crazy because someone said something about Muslim terrorists. ---------------------------------------------------------------- This is for the people that say "I'm not justifying the killings in France but they shouldn't have published......." Sorry to inform you but you ARE justifying it already with that 'BUT' in your statement. Nothing justifies it. Nothing. It's not like I wasn't pained when Tariq was ranting about Jesus and Christianity. I was. Very annoyed in fact. I just didn't let it show. But at no time did the thought cross my mind that he needed to be killed because he called Jesus a love-vendor. I didn't think of getting a gun and blowing his head off because he blasphemed about Christianity. Why didn't I? Because apart from being a Christian then,I am also a RATIONAL THINKING human being and my common sense trumps my feelings of attachment to a religion. You are not a normal person if at the back of your mind you think the Charlie Hebdo staff got what was coming to them. Check yourself, you might be a latent terrorist just waiting to explode. You have a right to your religion. They have freedom of speech. But above all, the right to live trumps all your religious bullshit. Especially in a country where it isn't a crime to blaspheme. There are countries where blasphemy is a crime. Relocate there and knock yourself out. Let normal people reside with normal people. Go and look for your kind. If you have zero chill and can't tolerate people talking smack about your god that you need to go to the extent of getting a gun and blowing their heads off, you need help. You are no different from Boko Haram. 18 Likes 11 Shares |
| Christianity Etc › Re: My Thoughts And Questions About Religion by joseph1013(op): 9:14am On Jan 11, 2018 |
It's January again. Don't pay a dime to anyone in the name of first fruit offering. Take your money to the bank, open a savings account with it, and start saving. Every month, don't take your tithe to church, save it in that account. At the end of the year, if you so wish, collect your money. That's your capital for a new business venture. That's how "god blesses" people to start their own businesses. Receive freedom from bondage. Begin your journey to financial freedom and a chance to create your own wealth. Don't pay for another person's extravagant lifestyle, private jet, side chic allowance... Don't grow someone else's business. Start yours. Beautifully written by Olatunde Olayinka Ayinde 6 Likes 2 Shares |
| Christianity Etc › Re: My Thoughts And Questions About Religion by joseph1013(op): 5:00am On Jan 11, 2018 |
HOW CAN ANYONE TAKE CHRISTIANITY SERIOUSLY? It boggles the mind. Christianity relies upon two bodies of scripture. The Old Testament and the New. Look at the Old Testament and you find God apparently orders raped virgin girls to marry their rapists. And God demands that unruly children, gay people and brides who do not bleed on their wedding night should be stoned to death. Move on to the New Testament and you find God promising that believers can drink poison without being harmed and can heal sick people just by laying their hands on them. It says whatever you pray for will be done for you and it tells us that long dead people got out of their graves and walked through the city... Really, how can grown men and women take this seriously? How can anyone read nonsense like this and say, "Yep, that's me. I'm a Christian"? Why is it not excruciatingly embarrassing to admit that? Please tell us. 1 Like 1 Share |
| Christianity Etc › Re: My Thoughts And Questions About Religion by joseph1013(op): 12:01pm On Jan 09, 2018 |
Nwobodo Fortune Chukwuemeka Of humans and common ancestors... The chimpanzee and man share a common ancestor from about 6 million years ago. The earliest ancestor for man that we have found fossil evidence of is called Ardi. Ardipithecus ramidus in full. Evidence shows she existed about 4 million years ago. Ardi is someway between a transition from ancient apes to modern man. The pelvis is better suited to tree climbing than walking, the cranium (brain) size is smaller (300ml vs 1500ml now) and the arm to body length is increased (for climbing). It also had a more ape like jaw (prognathism) than modern man. Over time, these features evolved and Ardi gave rise to Australopithecus afarensis, which we have fossil evidence of one called Lucy (fossil dated at 3 million years ago). Lucy is similar to Ardi in terms of features, just a bit closer in features to man than ape. (eg cranium / brain size of about 450g) Then after Lucy, we have hundreds of fossil bones we have found. So many different species of ancient man. The younger the fossils were, the less they looked like ancient apes and the more they looked like modern man. Like a gradual seamless transition. As recently as a million years ago, Homo habilis gave rise to Homo erectus and 200,000 years ago, Homo erectus gave rise to Homo sapiens (modern man), Denisovans, Neanderthalensis, Floresiensis and maybe even other species that we don't know existed yet because we simply haven't found fossil evidence of their existence yet. As recently as 50,000 years ago, at least 4 human species lived on earth. All other human species are extinct now though and all we have left of them are their bones in the form of fossils to tell us that they once lived on earth and parts of their DNA (especially neanderthals) infused in ours to show that they still live, somehow through us. It's beautiful to think that 1-4% of human DNA is Neanderthal DNA remains intertwined with ours, a souvenir we carry on from an extinct sub specie. When selection pressures create the urgent need, Homo sapiens may yet become another species. Until then, all we can do is sit back, relax and enjoy the wonder that is the diversity of evolution. 3 Likes 1 Share |
| Christianity Etc › Re: My Thoughts And Questions About Religion by joseph1013(op): 7:10pm On Jan 07, 2018 |
Nwobodo Fortune Chukwuemeka There's something to be said for an Omniscient God credited with the words "And God regretted" twice. There's something to be said for a God who made man with freewill only to regret that freewill didn't make them do his will and then allegedly end that world to restart another one that seems very much like the one he ended all those years ago. Is this his third regret? Does the one who knows the end from the beginning still make mistakes and regret it subsequently like mortal men? What then is omniscience because right now, it doesn't sound so special... 6 Likes 2 Shares |
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