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Christianity Etc › Re: My Thoughts And Questions About Religion by joseph1013(op): 10:10am On Aug 03, 2016

Jack65:
Your second paragraph is so true. At a point my Christian and very religious fiancé who was lying next to me was so disgusted and begged me to turn it off but I listened to the end because I wanted to see how Nigerians will react to this story. Well true to type, people started calling to say they've had similar experience or know someone who has had similar experience. Nobody condemned what they just heard.

I think HARDSHIPS is the reasons why this is so endemic in Nigeria and pastors and MOGs are taking advantage of that to cash in. Once people believe that their situation is not ordinary they tend to run from one church to the other instead of trying to find a way to solve their own problems.

[b]Absolutely, I was telling someone just this morning how the rise of Pentecostalism started during the great 'depression' of the late 80s and the early 90s. The gap between the Rich and Poor was so much that the middle class was wiped off. It was essentially the Very Rich and the Poor. (By the way, I believe with the directionless administration Buhari has convinced us he is skilled at leading, we might be going that path again.)

So back in those years, people in their despair turned to God for hope. It was a simple message, "God can take your sorrow away". Very effective! Ministeries sprang up overnight and fanaticism grew.

Once, my girl, interestingly an agnostic, jokingly told me to go into Christian ministry and make some cool cash for ourselves. We know the way these things work. The tricks used, we know. The fakeness utilized, we are aware. Whatever is left, Youtube can help us with, including the mannerisms to use on the gullible and get us to have enough 'hope' to give to the masses in exchange for filthy lucre. But to what end?

That's why when religious bigots accuse us of obsession with God, I can only laugh. I have no need to be obsessed with their imaginary figure, I am a patriot who among other things want a better country for my kids and people I would never meet.

"Bi ara ile eni ba nje kokoro buburu, bi a ko ba so fun, huru-here re ko ni jeki a sun loru."

"If a member of one's household is eating a poisonous food, it is better to warn him/her; otherwise the repercussion might be sleepless nights for everyone."[/b]

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Christianity Etc › Re: My Thoughts And Questions About Religion by joseph1013(op): 6:43am On Aug 03, 2016

STOP LIVING IN FEAR

Religious people live their lives in fear and that's what I dislike the most.

Fear is what I dislike because it limits us and our curiosity.

A religious person threatening me with death makes no difference because to be honest, I am sincerely looking forward to dying.

I am not afraid of anything after that; even if I was in heaven, I'd still want to go see what happens in hell and nobody can stop me from being curious.

I see pastors threaten religious people that's why they pay tithes like slaves; dare your pulpit hustler, don't pay tithes and nothing will happen.

I repeat: nothing will happen. Try it!

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Christianity Etc › Re: My Thoughts And Questions About Religion by joseph1013(op): 5:29am On Aug 03, 2016*

Jack65:
Joseph I have followed this thread from the beginning to this page and want to say I admire you and what you've done with this thread. This is why I have chosen to contribute here.

Well I don't know your location but if you live in Abuja then you probably have heard of a program called "Lean on me" broadcast by Kapital FM every Monday by 10:30 pm. This program is for people with problems and difficulties or just life stories to come and share with Nigerians who will afterwards offer financial, moral or spiritual support.

Well, yesterday I had the misfortune of listening to one of the most horrible and the most tragic episode ever aired. A woman brought her 8 year old son to the studio because accusing him of being a wizard. From her story, her husband with whom she had three kids left her and the children four years ago and IMO, from the way she speaks you will notice immediately why any man will run away from this woman. She was literally violent with her tongue. Anyway this woman who is a lawyer by profession, claimed that her pastor told her during service one day that her son is a wizard and the reason why things have been difficult for her. She also said her son caused her own mother who is staying with her to go blind through his wizardry, among so many other accusation. Since then she has taken the boy to more than thirty places according to her, for deliverance and nothing has worked.

When she finished they brought in the boy to come and speak. That's when the whole episode became tragic. The boy accepted everything the mother claimed saying he was initiated into it by his father when he was two years old. Asked how, he said his father gave him beans to eat and after that gave him bread too and that's how he got initiated. He said at night the father will turn into a bird and he too will turn into a bird and they will fly together to their coven where six other elders and his grand mother (father's mother) meets. The small boy claims they suck her mothers blood, eats her flesh and SO many other BS. He even claimed he took her mother's credentials to their coven spiritually, which means that the physical ones she still has is now worthless and that's the reason why she's not getting any work to do as a lawyer.

It's just not possible for me to write everything the boy said or to correctly illustrate the WAY he said it (imagine an 8 years old). But from listening to boy any objective person will notice that everything the boy said was suggested to him probably by several of the pastors and prophets the mother took him to. Even the presenter asking him questions was guilty of this. Also any kid that watches AfricaMagic will easily know many of the things the boy said.

It was very sad indeed. What the woman was going through was hardship just like millions of Nigerians now, especially with her husband on AWOL leaving her to take care of three children without a job. Yet pastors and prophets are callously taking advantage of this to destroy this poor family and especially this kids life. The mother even said she has even considered killing this boy. Can this happen in a civilized society?

This is beyond sad. The suggestion part is so true. A guy with the username HardMirror mentioned somewhere how he was very effective in the art of suggestion and how he used it in his proselytizing days.

One of the unfortunate implication is how it will add to the resolve of thousands of listeners in the belief that power to change their lives lies outside of themselves. I did my NYSC in Abuja, so yes I know how popular that programme is.

Thanks for sharing buddy, and hopefully the little we are doing in our little circle of influence will one day reach a tipping point and change things in the psyche of people in this country.

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Christianity Etc › Re: My Thoughts And Questions About Religion by joseph1013(op): 1:37pm On Aug 02, 2016*

OUR AWESOME PLANET

There are many things in this world that fill me with awe. Things that are so extraordinary, so difficult to comprehend, that they seem unbelievable. For example, the Apollo missions that sent 12 men to walk on the moon using less computer power than I have in my washing machine.

Or the Airbus A380 that can carry 850 passengers, 8,500 miles at 85% of the speed of sound.

Or contemplating the size and age of the universe and the incredible number of galaxies and stars.

Or the fact that billions of my fellow human beings, by far the most intelligent species on the planet, sincerely believe they talk with an invisible being who watches everything they do; who created the entire universe and life on Earth in a matter or days and is preoccupied with the need for men to excise their foreskins.

That could be the most awesome thing of all.

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Christianity Etc › Re: My Thoughts And Questions About Religion by joseph1013(op): 8:22am On Aug 01, 2016

Sometimes we kill out of hate.
Sometimes we kill out of love.
But only God kills millions he loves,
out of disappointment.

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Christianity Etc › Re: My Greatest Misconception Of Atheism/Skepticism Or Freedom From Religion by joseph1013: 11:30pm On Jul 30, 2016

stephenmorris:
it seems you just woke up from sleep and rushed all the way to nairaland first,in case you didn't wake up did you read were i included joseph 1013 name here on this topic and you are the one that can't think for yourself bro,after copying memes here and there just to prove your delusional views .make the mods no ban me o.jospeh1013 is someone i respect very much so its no offence i copied his logic.***** i think thats enough for you you can now go back to sleep

Dude is infuriated you used a logic that is visible to the blind. LOL. We all use people's examples all the time, no big deal.

When someone continues to hack at such insignificant things, you can be sure he is no longer looking within himself to refute a claim, it's all about obfuscation for them from thereon.

Great job, bro.

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Sports › Re: All The News About The Olympic Eagles (U-23) HERE! by joseph1013(op): 11:27am On Jul 29, 2016

Ovie Ejaria vs Chelsea

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=paKxuzruZxo

cc: tbaba1234, thegoodjoe

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Christianity Etc › Re: My Thoughts And Questions About Religion by joseph1013(op): 3:46pm On Jul 28, 2016*

[b]ONWARD CHRISTIAN SOLDIERS, FORWARD MUSLIM ARMY
By Professor Pius Adesanmi

I always wonder why, of all the faiths through which humanity has expressed spirituality across the ages, Christianity and Islam have always offered the worst ambassadors of the two prophets whose holy names they purport to profess.

Last week, in America, legions of earthly ambassadors of Jesus Christ, who profess guns, the American flag, Fox News, and Jesus Christ in that order of importance, descended on Cleveland. This category of ambassadors of Christ tends to disturb the peace of the rest of us with high-decibel proclamation of family values and other ingredients of fundamentalist Christianity - especially if such Christianity allows for white racial supremacy.

Then we hear news that the moment these fundamentalist ambassadors of Christ checked into their hotel rooms in Cleveland, there was a noticeable spike in pay-per-view demands for pornographic films. Porn channels experienced a boom in Cleveland last week and are now lamenting the departure of the family values Christians...

These American fundamentalist Christians also regularly invade places like Uganda, Nigeria, Zimbabwe and other countries in Africa where the persecution of gays is rife. They pump money into such countries to strengthen the heavy hand of Christianity in the persecution of gays. The only problem is that, often, their Pastors in America get tired of living a double life. Then, they come out of the closet... Only God knows how many fundamentalist American Pastors secretly rejoice whenever another state legalizes marijuana.

In Nigeria, the Muslim kinsmen of American Christian fundamentalists are some of the worst ambassadors of the Holy Prophet that Islam has to offer, especially those in public office. They steal public money all the time to go to Mecca. Then they return and hide from the Muslim ummah. They waste public funds in breaking beer bottles because they don't like alcohol. Yet a significant part of the allocation they collect from the centre is from VAT on alcohol. None of them has ever been able to reject the percentage of their revenue which comes from tax on alcohol. The irony is that part of the money they steal to go to Mecca comes from tax on alcohol.

Now we hear that in Kano, they have successfully killed the establishment of a film village because of the "moral laxity" of Nollywood and film in general. In the mammy markets of the north - zones where alcohol and prostitutes are allowed - the open secret is that those who really keep the businesses going are not Igbo and Yoruba infidels. For much of my undergraduate years, I spent my vacations with my Uncle in Sokoto. Every saturday, we would hit mammy market to drink beer and peppersoup. Between 6pm and 11 pm, the customers would mostly be southerners - Igbo, Yoruba, and other infidels from the south.

After midnight, well, the shons of the shoil would start to arrive in disguise. Alhajis coming to drink alcohol and check on the well-being of prostitutes... Some of them would pour the beer into plastic kettles.

If you could be a fly on the wall of those who shot down the film village idea in Kano, you'd find clerics who become something else after midnight. You'd find puritanical Hisbah officers who return as midnight customers to the same beer parlours they hound during the day.

Why are Christianity and Islam so adept at attracting these kinds of ambassadors?[/b]

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Christianity Etc › Re: My Thoughts And Questions About Religion by joseph1013(op): 7:28am On Jul 28, 2016*

[b]YES, SOME PORTIONS OF SCRIPTURE INSPIRES ME

A good friend of mine challenged me to declare what portions of scripture inspire me.

I am pleased to inform him that I subscribe to the christian philosophy that preaches that each man or woman be judged by their own conscience. Winner01, this is a good time to take notes. tongue

What would Jesus have said to a man caught sleeping with his lover?

What would Christ have said to the farmer who dared to disobey the law to rescue a lost sheep on the Sabbath day?

What would Jesus have said to medical tests requiring semen obtained by masturbation?

What would Jesus have said about family planning and population control in a continent brimming with poverty, hunger and starvation?

You will remember the story of the woman taken in adultery and brought to Jesus by the scribes and Pharisees, who may be likened to the Christians and Christian leaders of today.

They said to the teacher, "Master, this woman was taken in adultery, in the very act. Now Moses in the law commanded us, that such should be stoned: but what sayest thou?"

The gospel of John notes that, "they said this, to tempt him, that they might have to accuse him. But Jesus stooped down, and with his finger wrote on the ground, as though he heard them not."

The following verses portray an aspect of Jesus' teachings that is often ignored by religious people:

So when they continued asking him, he lifted up himself, and said unto them, "He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her".

And again he stooped down, and wrote on the ground.

And they which heard it, being convicted by their own conscience, went out one by one, beginning at the eldest, even unto the last: and Jesus was left alone, and the woman standing in the midst.

When Jesus had lifted up himself, and saw none but the woman, he said unto her, Woman, where are those thine accusers? Hath no man condemned thee? She said, No man, Lord.

And Jesus said unto her, "Neither do I condemn thee: go, and sin no more."

The summary of it all is that no human being is perfect. The struggle to become a better person, a more loving son or daughter, a more compassionate husband or wife, a more conscientious public servant or politician, is an enduring lifetime goal.

Those who spend all their days shaming women for "dressing like whores", and condemning gay people and prostitutes, aren't decent humans but sanctimonious hypocrites like the notorious scribes and Pharisees.

If they spent a little more time minding their own business, their conscience would certainly judge them, and they would have found themselves unworthy of the company of those they call fornicators and adulterers.

So there you have it. Folks should watch their own lane lest they strike a foot against a stone, and as they do that, they may yet learn that the log in their eyes might yet need some attention.

I like the Igbo saying, "Egbe bere, ugo bere. Nke si ibe ya ebela,nku kuu kwaa ya!"

"Let the Kite fly, let the Eagle fly,
The one that says the other shouldn't fly, should lose its wings."

This aptly captures this principle of tolerance and fairness, in line with the old code of equity law which commands that every wrong be remedied, and as St Thomas wrote, the firm and constant will to give each one his due, is the definition of justice. This is Humanism at its finest![/b]

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Sports › Re: All The News About The Olympic Eagles (U-23) HERE! by joseph1013(op): 10:11am On Jul 27, 2016

[b][size=14pt]SIASIA: WE ARE SUFFERING IN BRAZIL[/size]

https://africanfootball.com/bp_images/2016/07/siasia_pondering_2_1.jpg

Nigeria Olympic team coach Samson Siasia has raised alarm from the team’s training camp in Atlanta, Georgia, that he has not been paid for the past five months and his team are yet to receive any allowances leading up to the Rio Olympics.

“We are suffering in Atlanta. We have not received any money since we arrived this training camp. I have not been paid for the past five months,” lamented Siasia.

“We will not hold the country to ransom by threatening not to play our matches, but the government has to come to our rescue.

“I know that by the time the Olympics will be over, our monies will not be paid.”

Siasia's team have been overseas for the past one month.

The Olympic team are due to depart the United States of America for Brazil on Friday.

http://africanfootball.com/news/634407/Siasia-I-have-not-been-paid-for-5-months[/b]

Christianity Etc › Re: My Thoughts And Questions About Religion by joseph1013(op): 9:07am On Jul 27, 2016

[b]THE BACKWARD RELIGIONS OF ABRAHAM

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights confers more than 27 fundamental and inalienable rights on every individual, regardless of race, colour, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, property, birth or other status.

This declaration represents a consolidation of everything our species has learned in, perhaps, 200,000 years to protect humans from oppression and guarantee the freedoms necessary for a safe, fair and fulfilled life.

Article 18 of the Declaration grants freedom of thought--the freedom to believe anything you wish and to change your beliefs without coercion. I sometimes wonder how Christians reconcile their religion with these inalienable human rights. After all, the single biggest sin in Christianity, the sin that could result in eternal torture, is not a heinous act of cruelty but a simple thought-crime--the crime of NOT believing that Jesus is your Lord and master.

According to Christianity, a person can be forgiven the genocide of a nation but cannot be forgiven having the wrong beliefs.

At least, a Christian is free to leave Christianity but a Muslim has no such luck. In most Muslim countries, leaving Islam is a serious crime, in some cases punishable by death. This is in direct contravention of Article 18 of the declaration.

We have learned a lot since the Abrahamic religions were forged in the Middle East more than 1,500 years ago. Unfortunately, the Iron Age god of Abraham has no capacity to learn, so followers of these religions are forced to adhere to a view of human rights that we have long discarded, and now looks grotesquely backward.
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Christianity Etc › Re: My Thoughts And Questions About Religion by joseph1013(op): 7:17pm On Jul 25, 2016

ALLAH NOW HATES MOVIES?

Our religiosity has reached to a level that whenever a business or developmental plan is raised, we bring out our "holy book" to check whether it contravenes "God's" law.

A proposal by FG to build movie village in Kano has been scrapped due to public outcry against it, not because it's a bad business idea, but because Allah is not happy with it.

The debate was not about the revenue to be generated, employment to be created or the cultural value it would add.

It was all about Religion. Movie promotes "immorality". A people is hopelessly backward when all aspects of their life are dictated by religion.

Now I suppose God is happy with us. He will surely bless us with more unemployment and poverty just like he's been doing.

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Christianity Etc › Re: My Thoughts And Questions About Religion by joseph1013(op): 8:28am On Jul 25, 2016

"All the martyrs in the history of the world are not sufficient to establish the correctness of an opinion. Martyrdom, as a rule, establishes the sincerity of the martyr, — never the correctness of his thought. Things are true or false in themselves. Truth cannot be affected by opinions; it cannot be changed, established, or affected by martyrdom. An error cannot be believed sincerely enough to make it a truth."
~ Robert Green Ingersoll.

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Sports › Re: Flying Eagles Of Nigeria Thread: U-20 World Cup (South Korea 2017) by joseph1013(op): 10:07am On Jul 24, 2016

safarigirl:
and the money oga Buhari was using to travel to irrelevant places couldn't have been used?

Accusing GEJ of wasting funds and thinking Buhari didn't do same at a worse period is paying lip-service. Is it only the football that is failing? When did you ever hear that our Olympics representatives are sourcing for funds by themselves? Is that also GEJ's fault? The fact that people have not been paid salaries in 6 months, is that also GEJ's fault? That NOTHING, absolutely NOTHING has been working in Nigeria since that animal took over, is that also GEJ's fault?

Nobody is even asking for much, but if you can't make other sectors work, for the love of God! Make the sports sector work instead of running around aimlessly to countries that are better prepared in case of a recession.

All this talk of fallen oil prices means nothing to the average man. Fallen oil prices that have not reflected in the prices of fuel and scarce kerosene, the sooner we all drop the "it's GEJ's fault" mantra, the faster we can insist on accountability from this administration.

For now, most of you are giving them this false idea that they're still in honeymoon period. Buhari has done absolutely NOTHING to show that he's better than GEJ and the rot in every sector of this country is proof of that. So, why don't we all stop shouting GEJ that only ruled for 6 years of at least 40 rotten years and demand that somebody does his job while he's in power.

Cuz if you're not tired of this strain of bad luck, I am tired. If I have to buy kerosene for #230 per litre at least be nice and give me something to smile about. Somebody's one month salary could have paid those boys, but no, this country is filled with selfish bast@rds.

I can't wait to graduate snd move to Cape Verde

You killed it! What exactly has Buhari done right in this administration? Jonathan! Jonathan all the time. SMH

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Christianity Etc › Re: My Thoughts And Questions About Religion by joseph1013(op): 9:05am On Jul 24, 2016*

[b]THE 9-YEAR OLD PUT IN CHAINS

When I was a kid of around age 9 or 10, I used to be fascinated when I see local ducks swimming while their beautiful yellow ducklings convoy with their mom...

Somehow I thought all birds could swim, I caught my mom's chicken and threw it in the river to swim. Damn me! The poor thing drowned and left a heavy rock on my conscience at that time. I also received some serious beating from my dad.

I have a fragile heart, I can't watch bloody accident scenes. I hate blood perhaps that's why I opted for engineering instead of medicine. I tried one time to "murder'' a chicken for Christmas rice, that Christmas was the worst ever.

I woke up to a story of a 9-year old kid put in chains accused of wizardry, I couldn't go past the headline. The image of the boy on the headline won't make me open the news, I felt so guilty. I wished I wasn't a homo sapien, I wish I never shared this planet with these humans. It is 2016 for f**k sake.

And people wonder why I'm so keen on writing and condemning religions. Have you no eyes?

Have you not seen the harm it has caused from its conception till date?

I won't say a word more about this boy. I'll only ask to borrow me your heart if you can look that kid in the eye for two minutes and not feel sad. [/b]

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Sports › Re: Flying Eagles Of Nigeria Thread: U-20 World Cup (South Korea 2017) by joseph1013(op): 8:47pm On Jul 23, 2016

Most of these boys have destroyed their future. Their football career is now flushed into the toilet. They better go back to school and concentrate on their studies.

Amuneke has soiled his reputation. His pedigree is now under the mat.

Shame on all of them, and the useless Amaju Pinnick. Dude is a disgrace and disappointment to the country. SMH. Useless man!

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Christianity Etc › Re: My Thoughts And Questions About Religion by joseph1013(op): 9:00pm On Jul 22, 2016

SILLY THOUGHTS AND PRAYERS

Thoughts and Prayers after Orlando attack.

Thoughts and Prayers after Nice attack.

Thought and Prayers after Germany train axe attack.

Thoughts and Prayers now just after this Munich attack!

"Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results"
- Albert Einstein.

***Y'all Thoughts and Prayers folks are truly insane. SMH.

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Politics › Re: 12 Things Buhari Govt Is Putting In Place To Revive Nigerian Economy - Adeosun by joseph1013: 4:53pm On Jul 22, 2016

After one year, all we hear are promises. This is a most disappointing government.

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Christianity Etc › Re: My Thoughts And Questions About Religion by joseph1013(op): 7:47am On Jul 22, 2016

WHY THE OBSESSION?

Okay, someone who from this thread has been interfacing with me outside Nairaland told me about this thread https://www.nairaland.com/3232251/what-exactly-atheism-done-humanity and wants to know my opinion about winner01 accusation of atheists' obsession with religion. So I thought to use an analogy to answer the enquiry.

Oncologists are doctors who specialise in tumours and cancers. They're always reading about and studying cancers. Looking for ways to treat it.

In casual conversations with other colleagues, cancer always comes up. They go to conferences about cancer. They write in medical journals about cancer. They seem obsessed about a disease they claim is bad. I mean, there are other diseases too, but they always talk about cancer. What could be the reason?

I think they secretly admire cancer and want to have it. I mean, what else can explain this obsession with cancer?

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Christianity Etc › Re: My Thoughts And Questions About Religion by joseph1013(op): 9:25pm On Jul 21, 2016

[b]DOES GOD SANCTION SLAVERY?

Slavery is rather an embarrassment for Christians. After all, it's hard to claim your god is the author of absolute morality and simultaneously know that he sanctioned slavery. Some try to get around this obvious contradiction by claiming that the sort of slavery practiced by the Hebrews, and sanctioned by God, was different from the slavery seen in the USA before the civil war.

They say slavery 3,000 years ago was indentured servitude--a safe refuge for people in serious debt so they could pay back what they owed. I have never seen Christians produce any evidence of this--all I have seen is assertions. So let's look at what God did sanction according to the Bible.

The Bible makes it clear that slaves are a person's property. They may be bought and sold and they may be passed on to the master's children when he dies.

If a slave has a baby, that child also becomes the master's property. If a slave couple have children and are later allowed to go free, the children remain the property of the master.

A master was permitted to beat his slaves. Indeed, according to the Bible, he may lawfully beat them to death, provided they live a fews days after the beating. And he may brand them so they can be recognised as his property.

In a clear illustration of the status of slaves, if a slave is gored by a bull, the master must be compensated--not the slave.

In addition to trading in slaves, the Bible also permits slaves to be taken forcibly by the victors after a battle.

All this closely mirrors the type of slavery seen in the USA. But, in fact, Biblical slavery was worse. Hebrews could enslave Hebrews but Americans were not permitted to enslave Americans. God even allowed men to sell their daughters as concubines, which was not permitted in the USA.

Honestly, there is more that could be said but this is enough. If God is the author of absolute morality, we are terribly wrong to have abolished slavery. But, if we are right, God is wrong.

How COULD God be wrong? Simple, the Bible was written by Iron Age men and embodied their primitive moral values. If we are right that slavery is immoral, God is ancient fiction, nothing more.[/b]

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Christianity Etc › Re: My Thoughts And Questions About Religion by joseph1013(op): 1:02pm On Jul 20, 2016

THE REPUBLIC OF ZOMBIES

Asides the hell-forsaken stories of Dino Melaye and Remi Tinubu, a meme insinuating that King David and Jonathan had a romantic relationship has remained the most trendy topic for many a Nigerian youth this past few days. This in the same week that the economy is said to have entered recession, and the military alleged to have committed genocide against a religious minority.

This meme insinuating that King David and Jonathan had a romantic relationship was shared widely on Twitter, Nairaland, Facebook and featured on blogs, with 105 percent of Nigerian youths proffering expert views on the subject, and half that number threatening to bring down the heavens in protest.

Unfortunately, this is the state of the nation: a republic of zombies. No wonder the politicians and oligarchs have failed to accept the urgency of the moment.

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Christianity Etc › Re: My Thoughts And Questions About Religion by joseph1013(op): 7:48am On Jul 20, 2016

I DON'T UNDERSTAND IT

I can understand it when people march for climate change.

I can understand it when people rally for nuclear nonproliferation.

I can understand it when people protest against raised taxes.

I can understand it when people agitate, even violently, against oppressive governments.

But I cannot understand folks who disrupt the public peace because their sacred scriptures were maligned.

Let gods fight their own battles.

If they made the universe and everything in it, they do not need men to march on their behalf to prove their mettle.

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Sports › Re: All The News About The Olympic Eagles (U-23) HERE! by joseph1013(op): 6:50pm On Jul 19, 2016

Napoleon55:
Can anyone confirm this news on super sports that Iheanacho have been left out of 32man man city squad for pre season,how true is it?

Yeah, he's been left out owing to visa issues. However, the list is still subject to changes, so we expect him to be included if he sorts out his visa problems.

That does not stop him from playing tomorrow's match against Bayern in Munich.

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Christianity Etc › Re: My Thoughts And Questions About Religion by joseph1013(op): 5:00pm On Jul 19, 2016

Darkmatter's videos should be engraved into the history hard drives of our species, so that when aliens dig out our remains, they will know higher orders of sentience existed among the pitiful masses.

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Christianity Etc › Re: My Thoughts And Questions About Religion by joseph1013(op): 4:40pm On Jul 19, 2016

THE UNEXPECTED GOD
by darkmatter2525

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jduMIUt9M3M

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Sports › Re: All The News About The Olympic Eagles (U-23) HERE! by joseph1013(op): 8:14pm On Jul 18, 2016

Okay...we have agreed that Mikel will not allow us concede goals. Please how will we score goals? With a good defense, we may be guaranteed to have three goalless draws which gives 3 points. Unfortunately, 3 points won't take us out of the group stage.

Christianity Etc › Re: My Thoughts And Questions About Religion by joseph1013(op): 3:05pm On Jul 18, 2016*

When Christians tell you to ignore the old testament saying that God has given us the grace based on the new testament, does it not sound to you like, I know this guy was a serial rapist and killer, but that's the past, we can allow him to babysit our kids.

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Sports › Re: All The News About The Olympic Eagles (U-23) HERE! by joseph1013(op): 12:19pm On Jul 18, 2016

TheGoodJoe:
Coach Siasia must do his best to avoid Brazil and give our team a chance to grow with the tournament.

Brazil has a beast player, tagged the new Ronaldinho by no other than the great Ronaldo De Lima coming to the Olympics. Manchester City is fighting hard to secure the signature of this Wonderkid.

The Wonder kid is Skillful and is a goo finisher.

Palmeiras FC of Brazil have already rejected a bid from Barcelona and Real Madrid is preparing a better bid for him.

With Neymar and Renato Augusto, I hate to see us take a whooping in front of Millions of fans.

I hope we do our best to top our group.

LOL. I hope we do our best to qualify from the group.

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Sports › Re: All The News About The Olympic Eagles (U-23) HERE! by joseph1013(op): 11:53am On Jul 18, 2016

TheGoodJoe:
[b]jon stakes:

F%&^ me!!!

Watch the highlights from yesterday's game vs Molde.
http://www.ikstart.no/

Nwakali with two splendid assists:

First one he wins the ball twice in one fluid move, dribbles it into the penalty area, then squares off the ball for basically a tap-in without even looking.

Second one is a counterattack, Nwakali get a ball off a corner, runs half the field then does a perfect through ball between two defenders for a one-on-one and a goal.

He also had one great play, where he won the ball, dribbled through two players and then made a through ball pass between three players to create a one-on-one opportunity, only for the striker to mess up a one of one.

Honestly... Haven't seen such a talented box-to-box midfielder since Essien. But Essien's passing was never this good.

Sure... maybe a lucky game... but I've seen a few highlights and he seems the real deal. 6 MOTM performances in 16 games for the youngster...

You guys and the club really need to take more interest in Nwakali. He may just turn out to be you best on-loan player.[/b]
http://forums.bluemoon-mcfc.co.uk/threads/chidi-nwakali.322725/

I don't know, but this makes my heart leap. I want Chidi to come good. I have always thought him a good player.

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Sports › Re: All The News About The Olympic Eagles (U-23) HERE! by joseph1013(op): 11:17am On Jul 18, 2016

TheGoodJoe:

Sad that at the end, we would not get to see Popoola at the Olympics. Wish the young man Goodluck and the best in his future.

Do you know the reason Popoola and Saviour were dropped?

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Christianity Etc › Re: My Thoughts And Questions About Religion by joseph1013(op): 4:45pm On Jul 17, 2016*

[b]winner01 has a persecution complex.

I have said this here before: The reason most posts are directed at Christianity is because most of us are ex-christians or are the kind of people with whom Christianity is more familiar than Islam.

There are several people who constantly talk against Islam in other online places. They are ex-muslims. There is Mubarak Bala, the atheist whose parents locked up in a psychiatry home for questioning Islam in Kano and whom BBC broadcast his story. There is Ali Rizvi an ex-muslim from Pakistan.

Therefore, if winners01 thinks people talk mostly about Christianity, he should venture beyond Nairaland and visit ex-islamists forums.

Atheism does not improve lives because it is not an ideology. But humanism does. Most atheists are humanists.

humanism /ˈhjuːmənɪz(ə)m/
noun
a rationalist outlook or system of thought
attaching prime importance to human rather
than divine or supernatural matters.

So unless you're trying to be mischievous, you will agree with me that I discuss it alot on this thread.

I conclude by saying that winner01 is a pseudo-intellectual whose arguments do not stand up to rigorous scrutiny. His thoughts about religion are infantile. [/b]

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Christianity Etc › Re: My Thoughts And Questions About Religion by joseph1013(op): 1:08pm On Jul 16, 2016

THEY WANT THE FREEDOM TO INSULT

When Charlie Hebdo attack happened in France, many Christians argued that it was wrong to offend Muslims by drawing cartoons. They thought the cartoonists were reckless. The murders seemed justified.

A Christian woman was beheaded in Kano and the same people who excused violence in France couldn't stomach it.

I hear they are planning to hold a proselytising session at the spot where a preacher was murdered, near a mosque in the outskirts of Abuja.

It appears finally we have a religious bloc fiercely in favour of the freedom to insult. I hope they don't come out, guns blazing, when their own beliefs are ridiculed.

Glory to Zeus.

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