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judewrites:
Tattoos isn't a sin per SE, but tattoos are not natural, they are man made.

God wants us natural as He made us.

Why would I put marks on my body to glorify God??

It sounds strange.

And please don't speak on behalf of the Holy Spirit.

Let the Holy Spirit speak Himself, don't make opinions for Him.

I love how you people get to pick and choose. The same verses that spoke of cutting and marks on the body [for the dead] also spoke about cutting the sides of your hair (v 27). Why is one OK, but not the other?

judewrites:
This is indeed sad

I have always respected pastor Kingsley, but this tattooing is a big NO.

People who wear tattoos often wrestle with painful and negative emotions and use it as a cover up.

But besides that, it's offensive against his body as the temple of the Holy Spirit.

The holy spirit has no problem with this; it's just hypothetical Christians trying to force their personal preferences on scripture.
Nowhere in the bible is tattoos forbidden. And O don't see how this dishonours anyone, while cutting of hair is okay.

Lukuluku69:
Really really?

Leviticus 19:28 (KJV) Ye shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor print any marks upon you: I am the LORD.

You should have even used the one in Leviticus 21.
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Either ways, the Bible did not forbid tattoos. Here it says, " Ye shall not make any cuttings on your flesh FOR THE DEAD".
First of all he's talking to the High Priest of the old testament only
Secondly, he's saying you should never mourn so bad for the dead that you have to cut yourself, just like some Arabs and Indians still do to this day.
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You people are just forcing your own personal preferences on Scripture.

dangermouse:
I'm

More reasons Nigeria should let them go if what you are saying is true.

They have said they don't want to be part of Nigeria again, why still hold them back?

They should be let go instead of all these toxic hate from people like you. It is disgusting!

Nobody is holding them back. When they are really serious about Biafra, they will get it.
Believe me, the average Nigerian man does not care about the breakup of Nigeria. Freedom is not given; it is taken. The Igbos are not serious about Biafra; they are more concerned about picking fights with all their neighbours than about putting their house in order.
Let them elect people who will push that agenda in the National Assembly. Those ones will push for a plebiscite, and a date will be set for peaceful division.
The average Yoruba man knows he will flourish with, or without Nigeria as country. The average Northerner does not even care.
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Why the 'Biafrans' love pushing this false narrative of " sidelining" and "persecution" is best known to them. They will rather tarnish the image of the country in general and push an agenda of hate.
Of the three major ethnicities, I love the Igbos the most; they are enterprising and smart. They are a beautiful people, and always push for a good development; but their single-minded drive for money at all cost and this agenda of hate they are pushing is something I hate. And, like many other Nigerians, I can't wait for the day they will have their Biafra.
I am sure that having a country of their own will help make them committed to building a good global image. These people are the best of us and I can't wait for the World to see how exceptionally great the Igbos are. But I don't support this your agenda of hate.

This one wey Jesus just dey do am left, right and centre for people, him no dey see me ne? When my own go show?
Abi Jesus no dey look broke people side?

sholikay:
Wawuu....looks like sugar mummy things, or perhaps the groom sibling or relative representing him in absentia..

'Sibling or relative representing' the groom and they are kissing on the lips?
Don't be shocked to later discover he's way older than the bride.

In the Western World, all adultery is the same.

In Nigeria, where the man "pays" for the woman, it is not the same.

In Nigeria, the man is supposed to pay a bride price, and fulfill some cultural obligations. This is to signify that he's the head, and "lord" over the woman. So imagine "paying for something" and having someone else use it.

And as the head, the man can still choose to go for as many women as he can afford, because a man's worth is only measured by how much he can afford.

Even after the wedding, the man is expected to be the one taking all the responsibilities. You cannot talk about equality when only one person is expected to carry all the load.

This idea of "paying" Bride price and paying off some list will have to go first before we can talk about men and women being equal in a marriage, because it indirectly places the man over the woman, and patriarchy is what equality is trying to do away with.

I dislike patriarchy as much as I despise feminism.

We are all Equal, but we are NOT the same!

I always laugh when I see people saying America is not the Greatest superpower.

Truth is, no nation comes close to the vicinity.
People only talk because America is the one country they can talk about. And America, as the top dog, does not need to respond to any false narrative or explain itself.

If not for America, una for see shege for all these superpower-wannabes hands.

It's why I will always choose America over Russia or China; colonist masters or not.
Thank God for America.

Ororo! The Billionaire Footballer!
He'll surely bounce back, but I doubt it will end in a trophy for Al Nassr.

O boy if na sexual temptation, me I dey fall o.

meobizy:
Many possible reasons. Since they’re northerners, I will give the possibility of a drug overdose. Either that or eventual damage from doing drugs.

Please you guys should stop all these labelling nonsense. What has being a Northerner got to do with drugs. You do not need to always bring negativity into this abeg.
Besides, Southerners are even the ones known internationally for drugs. They even gave Nigeria a drug baron as president and a drunkard as minister.

idreesjigo:
PS: I wrote Revert instead of Convert because based on a Hadith everyone is a born Muslim

I never make any comments on Islam posts, because I know my comments will always be negative.
But, saying we are all born Muslims is the most pathetic crap I've heard in a long while.

The Hadith must be the funniest book ever written.
I hate Islam with every fibre of my being.

Goo0dHardDick:
Dude Regina was 18 and not 15.

A man of 35 getting married to a little girl of 15 screams pido

Yeah!. Still see no difference.

Goo0dHardDick:
How can a 35years old man marry a 15yrs old girl? 😳

Well, ask Ned Nwoko?

Goo0dHardDick:
You must be a notherner?

Not really.
And my parents are not muslims either

We4all:
Because compared to other black men, their archaic mentality sucks.

Oh.
I was hoping to hear some reasonable explanation.

Sorry!

My dad was 35, mum was 15
I came about three years later, closely after my older brother

Kaczynski:
my mom went against societal norms by marrying a man younger than her

worst she went for black man


Even more worse, a nigerian man


no be juju be that

I will love to understand what makes Nigerians worse even among blacks.

CodeTemplarr:
66+46 = 112

Thats more than 104 total. Propaganda keee you there.

Thank you. This was the first thing I noticed.
This people are just shameless.

WizardOfNG:
This is why the North is finished. Tragic news of mass killings everyday in the region to include murder of police and Army staff.

Yet their prominent leader like Atiku, El Rufai, Sule Lamido, Bala Mohammed, Tambuwal etal are only concerned about the presidency returning to the North.

When will all these guys, because they know the dynamics of issues and players involved, convene a security conference where Northern leaders will brainstorm an immediate way forward towards securing the North and thus Nigeria?

Never is the answer because they prefer their people dying if that can be used cynically to gaslight the current President out of office so a Fulani can be President. Do leaders like Atkku need the Presidency before they move to find solutions to improve security in the North?

Did Yorubas have the Presidency when their Governors, along with their cultural leaders and elite, stood together to form Amotekun?

Did Yorubas wait on Buhari or even waste time blaming him before seeking solutions for their people and region?

Why is the North incapable of doing similar and only interested in gaslighting a Southern President whereas Yorubas under Buhari, acted rather than deflect and indict alone?


Yet the North wonders why many Southerners now want nothing to do with them? This is a region with leaders who revel in doing evil and treating the lives of their people as worthless same way no one cares when exterminators fumigate their residence to kill Cockroaches etal.

Yet they never give Southern President (from OBJ to GEJ and now Tinubu) peace in office. Really tragic and Southerners really need to open their eyes and think because it is obvious political, cultural and religious leaders in the North know their region is gone.

Obvious too, with how they are not seeking solutions, they have now embraced the idea of taking the South down with them. This is why their house is burning and they are doing everything else aside searching for the extinguisher to put out the fire.

The truth you people fail to tell yourselves is that Northern Nigeria is not Homogenuous like other parts of the country.

The term "The North" is a big sham, and it is misleading.

I can say "South-East" and everybody knows I am talking about "Igbo"
I can say "South-West" and everybody knows I am talking about "Yoruba"
The South-South (Niger-Delta) region may not be homogenous, but they are mostly of the same religious affiliation.

With "the North" It is never true in any part of it.
Northern Nigeria is a melting pot of not only different ethnicities, but also religions.
And we are more sharply divided than the Southerners are.

Ethnic and religious interest is more pronounced in the North.

So for this reason, no single body, individual or voice can truly say they represent the North.
The battle the Southerners always wail about fighting; it is us in the North who are knee deep in it.
Most minorities in the North fight the authorities more than you people in the South can ever know.

We are the one getting killed the most. And we are the one fighting for our lives.
We are the ones getting more discrimination both from the North and the South. In the North, Christians have to conform or risk offending the Muslim political powerhouses. Other minority tribes have to "Hausanize" or "Islamize" their people just so they will be accepted or they risk being discriminated upon (Silently, of course: the people in the north are north as loud and vocal as the people from the south). And in the South, they see everybody in the north as Hausa or Muslim, which couldn't be farther from the truth.
But we are too segmented into many different ethnicities in one space with different affiliations and loyalties.

All I am just saying is that only the Fulanis in the North truly enjoy the power and privileges you people in the south associate with the North.

Codepain:
Let him be your martyr but he need to go
He killed lot of people

As I said, I don't give a sh about him.
Just let the FG bring all these prolonged stuff to an end.
Leaving him in a cell is making the guy to get some unnecessary attention.
Let him be prosecuted and executed, if found guilty, or acquitted and vindicated, if innocent.
The noise around him is getting out of hand.

I don't care for Nnamdi Kanu or IPOB or even Biafra. They can all go to the loos for all I care.

... but I care for justice.

Kanu should either be charged or released.

That much he, at least deserve.

Either ways, he will either be a hero or a martyr or even both.

Wow! Why?
We are waiting for details.
There must be a reason.

I am no supporter of Israel, but I know a lie, a propaganda when I see one.

Iran is just trying to cover its shame.

Let there be peace though!

Scarrr:
Why should I run away when I hear a group of people shouting Allahu Akbar or In Jesus’ name? If it’s in an area where extremism is common and religious extremists are known to operate, it’s understandable to be cautious. But for example,in places like the South-West, South-East, South-South, and most parts of Northern Nigeria, why should I run?

This fear is still part of labeling. Muslims have been so heavily stereotyped that people like you automatically tremble at the sound of Allahu Akbar, no matter the location.

You also said:

“If you cannot see that the fundamentals of most religions, ESPECIALLY Islam, inspire the will to kill and harm others for a fairy-tale cause.”



Quit living in denial. There’s nothing like “especially in Islam.” The undiluted version of the Bible encouraged many of those same things as well.

I am not even christian, so I don't really care much about their teaching. But from every day experience (I live my whole life in Northern Nigeria), you are more likely to die after hearing a "allahu akbar" than a "halleluyah."
More people die having the last word they hear on this earth as "allahu akbar" as someone either bombs, cuts, stabs, stones or sprays them with bullets for a religious cause.
That's all I am saying.

Christians too kill, but mostly never for a religious cause.

So what is it about islam that makes more of its adherents willing to kill others for it. That's the fundamentals of islam that I was talking about. There seem to be doctrines or teachings, or whatever you might call it that seem to make muslims more willing to kill others FOR THEIR RELIGION.

And I love how you finally admit that there is something about islamic fundamentals that is wrong (Quit living in denial. There’s nothing like “especially in Islam.” The undiluted version of the Bible encouraged many of those same things as well.)
What same things, if I may ask?

Whatever it is though, it seems the christian "dilution" as you put it helps curb down the "same things" you spoke about that is found in islam. Why can't islam do the same as long as those same things will stop.

Besides, having those "same things" in the bible still does not excuse them in the qur'an. What is evil is evil. And if these two books and their religions encourage those same evil: it doesn't excuse them, but condemns them as evil.

I know we should be trying to encourage tolerance and unity, but that doesn't mean we should also turn a blind eye.

This is not stereotype; it's real life.
But, of course, you are trained (indoctrinated) to always defend them because you can't live without finding a narrative to force things to fit into your own idea of "god" and religion.
This is what makes all religions "especially" dangerous.

Scarrr:
stop labeling evil....there's no lesser evil, the person that beheaded someone in the name of God is not different from the one that beheaded someone for ritual purpose..... You lots reeks of hypocrisy

Yo!
No offence intended, but I think your denial makes you the hypocrite here.

As you rightly stated: there is already enough killings going on without the addition of a killer religion.

Normal people kill for various reasons; whether they are christians, muslims or whatever religion.
But add to that number, a particular set of religious doctrines and teachings that condones and even promotes (subtly or overtly) violence against others. What do you get

It's a rhetorical question. If it isn't all too obvious to you already, then you are definitely a hypocrite.

You are not just a hypocrite, you are also a fool (sorry, still no offence intended: I am just being straight with you) if you cannot see that the fundamentals of most religions, ESPECIALLY, Islam is one that that inspires the will to kill and harm others for a fairy tale cause.

People have their own problems, but Islam in itself is a problem: a virus, and it demoralize me so much to see that people are defending and promoting it.

I don't hate muslims. NO! People are just being people. But I hate the virus of Islam that turns people into zombies.

If you still want to argue, just answer this:
Which will most likely make you want to run away; A group of people shouting "Allahu akbar?" or a group of people shouting "In Jesus' name?"

Scarrr:
the crusaders that killed millions in the name of Christ says hi....stop the hypocrisy

Yeah! The crusaders were soldiers fighting a war. Granted, it was a stupid war, but it was still a war.

What war are the suicide bombers of today fighting?

Hypocrite!! You will be the first to defend the Jihad of Usmanu Danfodiyo as holy war, but will also condemn the crusaders.

I don't get it. What are these older women marrying for?
Definitely for someone to take care of them in their old age.

They can't bear children.
Do they even have sex? (Serious question, do women 45 years and above still crave sex?)

Why are they marrying younger [African] men

Scarrr:
funfact: there as been 11 school shooting incidents with multiple casualties this year alone in the Us and they are all Christians....can we agree there is bad people in every religion or we should be hypocritical about it?😏

Tell me something I don't know, how many of those shooters in the US did the shooting in the name of Jesus? How many of them shout "In Jesus' name while shooting?

Then tell me if these islamist terrorist were not shout "Allahu akbar" while they slaughter people.

Nobody kills in the name of Jesus. But most people who died from terrorism were killed by someone doing it in allah's name.

I don't hate or dislike islam or muslims, but I m wary of them because it seems islam itself promotes and encourages terrorism.

I 100% support the capital punishment for drug peddlers!!!!
These people are heartless.

Go Malasyia! Go Vietnam!! Go Thailand!!!

These people are very much like terrorists!!