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Ptolomeus: Dear friend, is a pleasure to exchange knowledge with you. Thank you for your appreciation and consideration.
I do not doubt the sacrifices that you named, and neither do the justify. I only that they go back a long time ago. I find a contradiction between those who "abandon" the Yoruba deities because at one time performed these sacrifices, and embrace other religions whose god demanded human sacrifices also.
I also note that the abandonment of traditional culture (in general) African and embrace Western culture has brought him to Africa a substantial improvement in the quality of life, on the contrary ... from the "Berlin Agreement "I think (very respectfully) to Africa fell into a deep crisis of historical identity.
It is possible that the priests themselves IFA submit to whites ... but understand that doing nothing different from most other people.

I ask for clarification (help) on this point: the name "Ifatoyinbo" according to the term "Oyin" mean honey ...
the word "white" would not be funfun?
Thank you very much for your consideration and attention.
I respect very much.
An affectionate greeting!

What??

How come you understand Yoruba?

fred2265: All good points.

Cheers

dorox: Islam is a whaked up terror inspiring religion that should have no place in a modern secular society unless it reforms to be more tollerant of other cultures and believes, embrace the universal principle of human rights and most importanly, leave the killing to the almighty allah.

Well, not all muslims are terrorists. My main problem is the division sometimes religion creates between believers and unbelivers

solidbroda: their is nothing as spiritually nourishing than donating to the needy. churches should apply for charity if they need money instead of fraudulently brainwashing people to part away with their money.

Amen brotha!

Say no to tithe thieves!

alexleo: You said you dont believe somebody exists then you are now told what to do to prove wether he exists and you are shying away from it and still claim he doesnt exist. is that not foolishness? Must you see God physically to agree that he exists? Do you see the air yet you believe there is air because you feel it. Do you see your conscience yet you believe because you feel the presence. Its not everything that exists that are seen. Some are felt. Go and do what i told you and come and tell us your findings. If you cant do it that means you are LAZY and foolish in your claim.

I just told you that there is no physical evidence for God. Isnt that a fact?

Sane people will realise that the burden of proof lies on the claimant

This is part 2 of my other thread; Things they wont tell you about Islam
https://www.nairaland.com/943454/things-they-wont-tell-you

These are all facts;

1) Christianity is a foreign religion to Nigeria and it came through the enslavement of Nigerian tribes and colonization of Nigeria.

2) Christianity by far has been the religion with the most amount of blood on it's hands from war to slavery to torture of heretics and crusades/inquisition.

3) The bible is sexist and clearly states that women must be silent in church and must be in submission (1 Corinthians 14:34-35).

4) The bible never condemns slavery. Never. The bible regulates slavery. However, some people in recent times (2000 to present) have tried to remix the bible to condemn slavery in the bible. Plese read the different translations of 1 Timothy 1;10 http://bible.cc/1_timothy/1-10.htm and see how people have tried to remix the bible.

5) The catholic church is the oldest christian denomination of churches to exist. The catholic compiled the bible that Christians use today. Yet, protestants try to distance themselves from the evils of the catholic church (eg cover-ups of pedophilia) while using the bible compiled by catholics.

6) The bible contradicts itself with morals (Sermon on the mount, 10 commandments) while condoning immorality eg regulation of slavery, God ordering Hebrews to commit genocide against Canaanites, sexist statements in the bible etc. Some of these still occurred in the New Testament.

7) The bible promotes bigotry against atheists by claiming that atheists are fools and corrupt. Psalm 14;1. Atheophobia

Jesus treated the Canaanite woman who came for help in a way that could be described as racist/xenophobic- using "dog" as a metaphor for her and telling her that He (Jesus) came for the lost sheep of Isreal. Matthew 15:22-26

9) Many churches in Nigeria have Jesus painted as white. Nigeria is a country that is majorly black. Jesus has little probability of being white considering his heritage and environemnt.

10) Judaism and Christianity were not the first religions on earth. There were Atenism and Zoroastrianism before Judaism.


Bonus; I didnt mention science or evolution or big b.ang.

alexleo: unfortunately i dont have time for your response. The little i could go through i saw only foolisness in them. Those who care can read but not me because i have nothing to learn from such a crap u wasted your effort to post. There are atheists here that i read their response, definitely not your dirty type. Whatever your response is i dont care, all i know is go and prove God yourself and stop being lazy and waiting for someone to prove God for you simple.

You are a real ignoramus. There is no physical proof of God. For you to call atheists lazy for not proving God shows a lack of knowledge

martinseme: MAY 27 is penticost sunday .it is strongly believed that the lord Jesus christ is coming to take is people who are ready up with him to his father in heaven for the feast of the bride groom,only those with garment which are white without spot or wrinckle would be taken .alot of christians the world over are in tensed mood awaiting the day which was fore told ages ago.the big question is how prepared are you to go up with our lord and escape the tribulations which are to follow.as for me am prepared as best as i can.i hope you are for the sound of the trumpet.

Why does christianity have to rely on fear?

Deep Sight: ^^^ Hey there, I actually also hate definition games and I criticise people alot for it. But in this instance I honestly need to know what you consider spiritual, so that i dont end up giving examples whuch you will consider merely physical. For example I may cite "love" as a spiritual thing and you may counter by saying that it is merely physical and arises from hormones, neurons etc.

If you dont feel like telling me what the word means to you, then at least answer my other question: Are you a strict materialist?

What is a simple materialist? I am tired of these word games.

There is no spirituality.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQzuFrMRA3M

Deep Sight: ^ Please first tell me what you would consider to be a spiritual thing.

I need to know first if you are a strict materialist: i.e: you believe that only physical things exist?

I really dislike it when people answer questions with questions.

You made the claim, now explain the spiritual things in my life with your definition of spiritual

vedaxcool: Well thanks for your opinion so you admit you were bantering?, Dude I only bothered replying you to[b] save the public[/b] from poo shit lol , though I can't recall spending up to 5 minutes discussing anything with you talk less of even 48 hrs. possibly you may be confusing me with somebody who tried reasoning with you, in any case don't commit a harakiri due to the frustration we all take being an atheist bring.

Keep trolling. You movie atheist theory has been debunked.

Deep Sight: On reflection, this is a very funny statement. Actually even contradictory and absurd.

I will tell you why. You live your entire life based on con-physical concepts and notions. Everything that you are and everything that your life is, are agglomerations of non-physical things. And yet you cavalierly make this sort of statement. Its so funnyy. Pause and think carefully about it.

Before responding, as you are ever quick to do, I want you to review this thread -

https://www.nairaland.com/357796/kag-atheism-dialectics-spirituality

You sound like one fake guru. Give me one spiritual thing that my life is made up of.

jmoore: Really? who are you? an "all rounder" messenger? Your own gospel is from where? If you are quoting Jesus, quote all the verses that relates to eternal salvation and not one verse to suit your own agenda.

Why so angry? Are you really unhappy that people are saying that atheists will go to heaven? Is that how much of a bigot you are against atheist that you can not even give them a piece of imaginary everlasting life?

Deep Sight: ^^^ It doesnt matter whether the atheist believes in such. Read the teachings above. All that matters is that he believes in and practices love to all men, and keeps a clear conscience. Finito. If he does this, he will beat a million so called christians and muslims to the finish line.

Gba.

Thank you, but I dont believe in heavan or hell

jmoore: lol, atheist want to go to heaven. What happened to no afterlife?

Hey Mr Troll-moore often, I never said that I want to go to heaven. Please, try and quote where I said so.

I dont believe in anything spiritual

Deep Sight: Of course many atheists will go to "heaven" whilst many so called Theists will burn in hell. Jesus himself said so!

Matthew 7:23 - Jesus made it clear that there would be many who believed in his name even to the extent of successfully working miracles and casting out demons in his name. Yet he states that of these people he would say "epart from me, i never knew ye". . . What this connotes is that their acknowledgment of his name, acceptance of him as lord, and even investiture with miraculous powers from his name, were all empty and dead in his view if these people could not practice love.

This simply shows that the practice of love is what is far more important and relevant as opposed to merely acknowledging his name, however fervently believed or acknowledged.

Again, here is another scripture which i believe hammers home the point -

Matthew 25:35 - In this scripture Jesus specifically said that even people who did not know him but did loving deeds to other humans were actually doing those deeds to him! Thus this affirms my view that one loves God by loving one's fellow man, for how else will you explain this quote from that scripture -

". . .For i was hungry, and you gave me something to eat, i was thirstily, and you gave me something to drink, i was a stranger, and you invited me in, unclothed and you clothed me, i was sick and you visited me, i was in prison, and you came to me. Then the righteous will answer him and when did we do these things. . . And he responded " truly, to the extent that you did these for even the least of my brothers, you did it for me. . ."

Wow. Thanks for the info!

Pakistan banned twitter as a reaction to draw muhammad day which is now an annual event on the 20th of may. However, Pakistan has now restored.


https://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/files/2012/05/twitter2_1986415b-460x288.jpg
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/robcrilly/100159298/twitter-row-reveals-the-trouble-with-pakistan/


The question of censorship arises whenever things like this happen;

a) Is censorship a good strategy of stopping dissent or blasphemy in this modern era of the internet and the digital world?

-The internet has become a global place where taboos can now be discussed with anonymity
-In Pakistan, the internet users quickly switched from twitter to other private networks to complain about the ban.
-Since the ban was a knee-jerk reaction, the ban was not even effective as people found ways to bypass it and still get on twitter
-A critic of Islam can say that it is unfortunate that Islam has to resort to desperate measures not to be insulted because censoring something can make that very thing even more popular if there is a backlash


b) Does draw Muhammad day deserve the right to exist or not? Should it be censored because of blasphemy?
-Blasphemy laws do not apply in countries that are not religious. Secular countries will only censor something if the government or courts deem it to be libelous/untrue or hate speech.
-However, in a theocracy, blasphemy laws are very active and functional.
-The issue then becomes, how do secular and theocratic countries reconcile this issue as citizens of both types of government meet on the internet?
-Furthermore, Islam has been receiving negative press on its attitude towards unbelievers and skeptics..




What do you think of all this as a muslim?

How foolish can this get?


The other christian student that died did not pray hard enough, eh?


Epic Fail

https://nicknotnikki.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/jesus-facepalm-facepalm-jesus-epic-demotivational-poster-1218659828.jpg

ijawkid: They compiled a bible they can't still stick to...
Right??

They compiled a bible that refutes many of the doctrines they hold on to....

Abeg throw way that matter for gutter.....!!!!!!!!


Catholics dnt own d bible.....
Its nt there property.....

If it was we wouldn't be using it today,I'll rather use a quaran........

They compiled the bible and therefore know more about the bible than other denominations do. The catholics have more right to go outside of the bible than you do.

I hope you realise that you sound like a hypocrite when saying that the catholics can not stick to the bible. Explain where in the bible did priests or Jesus amass wealth like the men of God today? When did speaking of tongues become part of deliverance?

harakiri: Dude,

The only reason i bothered commenting on this thread is because there are some un-independent minds that might take your BS to be fact. I am doing it for THEIR benefit. Bantering with you is not worth the time of day. I don't do dullards. Sorry.

Like I said, Vedaxcool is a troll. When hit with logical arguments, he goes around in circles repeating his debunked claims to annoy people.

[quote author=emöfine2]Why Do So Many Black People (including Nigerians) Believe In God?

Whilst I believe that everyone has a right to their belief and I respect that, there seems to be a taboo amongst the “black” community concerning unbelief/atheism from my observation.[/quote]Agreed.

Italo,

Here is what your bishop says about atheists;


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=24UOgClzvqk

It seems people are not happy that atheists are going to heaven

You prefer us to burn in hell for not paying tithes like you painfully do?

vedaxcool: I believe a "religious" propaganda movie accurately portrays the irreligious? Are u kidding or you didn't read the OP? I simply relate the tale of an ex atheist who happens to have been an atheist out of sheer frustration and anger and ask whether u NL atheist find your condition similar to the case of the guy in the movie, the response to this thread so far have been telling indeed. It reassert my initial thoughts of atheist on nl, their response have been mediocre and extremely illogical, I wonder whether they can have an honest look at their cheap writings that mimics the behavior of a Bugler who hears his crime and then act dumb . . . And ask themselves whether they have logically address the issues raised always running to talk of God that u do not believe in. When simple queries are made about your disbelief remains a source of bewilderment indeed! The emotional outpouring seen so far simply lives up to the reputation of the atheist in the film the rite, when his position no longer seem sensible he tried shouting and when shouting. Troubled souls or minds when facing monumental challenges atimes begin to express frustration against their sole liberator and in some cases it unfortunately turns up to atheism etc.

I wonder what do you guys think of the atheist in the film The Rite?

You are a troll that revels in ignorance. Every atheist here has told you in one way or the other that the atheist in that movie does not apply to many atheists.

I used Boko Haram as an example, they use islam as a justification for terrorism. Majority of muslims dont think like that

Another person has told you that a religious movie like that can not really portray the position of an atheist.



Furthermore, I repeat; asking if my atheism is out of anger is as silly as me asking you if your Islam is out of terrorism.


Stop judging real life with fairytale movies.

alexleo: yeah. Exactly, you are drowning in a sea of false knowledge that will spell your doom if u dont get out of it. May God deliver you.

Evolution is false knowledge? Accepting that there is no physical evidence for God is false knowledge?


You have problems

brainpulse: Wait and see, follow the events and happenings with the Bible, and you will never be confused.

The bible is the King of confusion. Which bible do you want me to read?


-How many versions of the bible?

-How many interpretations?

White man's Jesus

https://cache2.allpostersimages.com/p/LRG/8/897/XSPJ000Z/posters/sacred-heart-of-jesus.jpg


Korean man's Jesus

https://distilleryimage8.instagram.com/a520e8a279e811e1a87612313804ec91_6.jpg


Indian man's Jesus

https://i116.photobucket.com/albums/o22/vios999/bobicejesus.jpg



Black African's Jesus

https://cache2.allpostersimages.com/p/LRG/8/897/XSPJ000Z/posters/sacred-heart-of-jesus.jpg


Can anyone see the problem?