I was Afraid many religions had died out. But I am saying the exact the same thing GO OUT AND EDUCATE YOURSELF! RECLAIM YOUR CULTURE!

Im not lucky enough to be in Africa to get the knowledge first-hand, but I use what I can find,

there is no such thing as witch doctors, that is white peoples fantasies about African religion.

Who is that White old man anyway? Santa?

All humans comes from east-central Africa originally. People later spread out throughout Africa and later out of Africa. Ethnic groups have also been moving around within Africa. White historians wants us to believe that Egypt was in Africa but not of Africa and that Egypt in some magical way was isolated from the rest of Africa and no exchange took place between various different peoples and kingdoms on the continent.

For me the important thing is Egypt was a black African civilisation with huge interaction and exchange with other parts of Africa and the influences are evident!There is so many similarities throughout other parts of Africa and the Egyptian civilisation and that puts it all in a context. All Africans should be proud of being the people behind the greatest Civilization of all time.

Egypt, Zimbabwe, Ghana, Songhay, Mali Empire, Buganda, Kush, Nubia etc,  

Its right before your eyes, Just check out the three links!

there are friendly people of all races but when you see it on a bigger scale THE WHOLE WORLD HATES BLACK PEOPLE! THEY DO NOT WANT AFRICANS TO BE SUCCESSFUL AND THEY DO NOT WANT REAL INDEPENDENCE OF AFRICAN NATIONS AND THEY DO NOT WANT AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT! They do not see black people as their equals!

Africa can only succeed if UNITED and it has to come from the people. Enough is enough we can only rely on ourselves because its truly the world against Africa and African people.

Greetings from Sweden (btw: a damn racist country)!

Muslims are the new Jews of Europe the racism against Muslim people here is horrible. They take away the basic human rights such as equality in front of the law, right to express your religion and so on. Racism is truly on the rise here Im telling you!

The first hand victims are Muslim especially Muslim women, they get attacked on the street, people throw stones at them, insult them. Its everyday life that a stranger just grabs a Muslim womens hijab and rip it of. The majority of Muslims here are black people and it goes hand in hand, black people in general also becomes the victims. Black people are the people cleaning the metro, cleaning McDonald's and and taking care of the old people. If you are lucky you can drive taxi and it does not matter if you majored in engineering or economics.  

In Europe its clear, we must unite! Religion comes second RACE COMES FIRST These whites do not give a shlT they will give another white man the job before you regardless if you are Muslim or Christian as long as you are a black man.

It does require God to make life happen from lifeless matter. Molecule to man might not be necessary but that does not mean its not possible. God could have developed life on earth through such a process. How else do we explain the gradually changing of species over long periods in time, how do we explain the gradual change in appearance in humans as we go further and further back in time. And the Neanderthals?? That's not apes and but its not exactly like modern humans or "Homo sapiens"

But what is it called then if I believe in God and also believe in natural selection and that all life on earth evolved trough time into different species?I believe God started everything and is the force behind the whole process and how humans and all life came to be

Because I do believe in Eledumare

I am worried to see my own brothers or sisters argue whether or not the ancient Egyptians where black!!!

The only people who have ever said differently are the white people trying to claim Egyptian civilisation! There is no doubt that the Egyptians where black, it was not until later Egypt got invaded by the Greeks the Romans and Assyrian that the demographics radically changed.
How dark or light- skinned they ever were does not change the fact that they were Black Negroid Africans.

They say themselves that "we came from the south" and south of Egypt was Nubia and rest of black Africa. One cannot either neglect the many similarities between the languages of the old Egyptians and Yoruba, Akan, Wolof among others. There are many words in common.

In fact old Egypt was not only in Africa but OF Africa too. White people think Egypt was too great to be built and ruled by Africans so they have aggressively tried to claim it themselves. Not only do Ancient Egypt have similarities in laguage with other black African cultures but also in parts of their mythology about the creation and also many symbols, tools etc.

The reason why Egypt is so important is that its the base of even western civilization. The Greeks did not come up with very much themselves most everything they copied from Egypt like from the mythology and Gods to science, philosophy, and art even hieroglyphs! The Greeks travelled to Egypt to study their sciences and knowledge. A famous copycat of Egyptian knowledge and mythology was Plato. He was the one that translated the story of "Atlantis" into Greek After Greece there was the Romans and so on,

For Christians who play dumb and reduce African religion to superstition:

- Jesus is the ultimate example of sacrifice in Christianity
- To say that we worship a stone is funny because exactly the same thing can be said about you if you put it that way. Do you worship a piece of wooden figure of a white man?
- How can you think you are better than your own cultural heritage for adopting someone else's?
- You are an insult to our ancestors and their fight to protect their land culture and faith, and their fight against the Christian white colonizers, slave traders, rapists and killers by adopting their religion
- You who look down on African belief or civilization are enemies in our struggle for freedom against the chains of dependence and slavery to the white nations.

A bunch of sell-outs, uncle toms, a bunch of Goodluck Jonathan. Youre the cause why Africans are killed by thousands each and every second. Imperialisms little helpers. You have sold your soul, ashamed of your own kind and your own ancestors.

Its interesting some Christians say white people and others are our sisters and brothers when they are in fact our offspring!

That's why racism is so ironic, because it is like shunning your own mother! They came out of us and so did their civilisations.

You do not have to be atheist to believe in evolution and you do not have to agree with Darwin's racists beliefs or the racist aspects in the young years of the theory of evolution. We are not all fundamentalists. We know humans do not even have [b]biological[/b]races to be divided by, so there falls Darwins racist theory about black people vs. white people. flat!

I believe in evolution in itself and I also think Darwin was a sick racist scum of humankind for thing that he said and thought about black people.

New upcoming documentary about African belief and religion! 

http://acrossthekingsriver.com/

They even changed Jesus so that he would look like them and you accept that. The racism is obvious in that Jesus is portrayed as a white man in every single church. They enslave our very faith and mind, who told us our original religion and culture was not good enough?- It was the white rats who came to "Civilize" the Africans which they regarded as just a little more than monkeys.

I bet go down and pray to the white man, White Jesus. Its an insult to your ancestors and your heritage, nothing to be proud of to adopt the oppressors religion.

You cannot let the cases you have seen represent a whole religion neither can you let media portraying of Muslims represent Islam as a whole.
Also you mention Arabs, but I was talking about Muslims in general. Arabs do only make up a small portion of the Muslims, in fact only 20% of the worlds Muslims speak Arabic.

I never said Arabs can't be racist, however its racist to state that Arabs enjoy violence because putting it like that makes it seem you say all Arabs or Arabs in general are violent by nature. If some enjoy violence its natural because some people are just violent no matter what religion.

The violence and armed conflicts around the world including the Arab world is a consequence of western occupation, exploitation and colonization of the world. The "terrorists" are a product of foreign policy of the western world powers ant their big multi billion corporations.

The very Jesus that you pray to was introduced to us by the same damn people who burnt down our villages, raped the women, forced us to abandon our own religion and culture, dragging about half of Africa's population over seas to work to death.

These people came to Nigeria with Jesus and its all racist poison!

In the first biblical creation account (Genesis 1:1-2:4a), God made man (both male and female) together at the same time - there was no evident priority.

See: http://bible.oremus.org/?ql=175534276

The idea that Muslims are by default violent is a very racist propaganda propagated by the white power elite in the world to oppress the other races in the world through their "war on terror"

Recognise the real "terrorist", The nations of USA, Europe and their allies. Recognise the real enemy, and don't be a bloody aHSS licker for western interests.


"Divide and rule" - does that say anything to u?

"There was one time the house N---- and the Field N----"

Sweetnecta, Yoruba sister, since you are Yoruba, you truly belong to Yoruba faith and Orisha! That's the true faith for Yorubas. You should be proud of your heritage and claim the original faith of your ancestors. If you practice Islam, don't let in take the focus out of your Yoruba culture and honouring of your ancestors. Your ancestors are there for you, ask them for guidance. Eledumare will reward you!

"The one who makes a pact with the ancestors becomes immortal"
Ase!

Evolution should not be reduced to that low life Darwin himself, or how it in the beginning was corrupted by racism. When you talk about evolution today, and believe in the theory does certainly not mean you think like Darwin. Today we know there are no human races in any biological sense, but that was what scientists(whites) tried to prove at that time of course with support from the state and public opinion.

Of course Darwin was one of the biggest racists in the world, no sensible person has said different. Darwin actually believed that humans where divided in real BIOLOGICAL races! just as many animals. And to that he applied his theory of "survival of the fittest" very very disturbing.

Evolution theory now is one thing, and Darwin's racist ideas and inaccurate applying of it among humans as races is another.
it can be applied between Humans and monkeys as races/species.

Even if evolution theory is rational and believable, it does not make Darwin a hero because he was not only a successful scientist but also rather a sick racist bastard!

Other examples of those historical individuals that white people look up to and glorify:
Carl Von Linné (father of racism)
Emmanuel Kan[/b]t (Sick racist)
[b]Voltaire (Sick racist)

BTW, the modern Bible is false because crucial things in it has been changed by people from its original form.

Interesting facts!
in the more original bible there is:
No resurrection to heaven for Jesus

No where that Jesus says "father forgive them because they know not what they do"

the Jews are to blame for the death of Jesus according to the old bible.

I mean the latter    and by: "according to "his" will" I mean that God is a force behind the evolution process itself and decided that it would be humans etc,

Everything was created and everything is still in control of the divine creator until infinity. Scientists who have simulated the conditions when the first life on earth started trying to make life happen have always failed, they only find themselves with a green lifeless soup lol. God is behind life its the force/energy that rules the universe. That's my view

I think the idea of natural selection is very logic, everybody is different, some happen to be better suited for the environment they are born into, and those who are lucky enough manage pass on their offspring. Its a never ending process in nature.

I think my truth-values are not subjective, but there might be a difference if we talk about a true religion for all humans (if there is any such religion), and if we talk about a true religion for People of African heritage and culture.

Uyi Iredia,

But evolution is about the life on earth, the creator is supposed to have existed before that and even before the whole universe. Also the power of Eledumare could be described as a kind of energy that we cannot see. I believe The creator made the universe happen, then made life happen and then life evolved into different life forms according to the will of God.

documentary on African religion http://acrossthekingsriver.com/

Info on Yoruba culture and religion: http://www.tamarindyears.com/tribute_afolabi_epega.htm

Kay 17, when I was talking about true religion I meant a true religion first and for all for black Africans. A true religion might not be true for everybody. But a true religion for anyone should fill those criteria I mentioned earlier.

But also I think you are wrong, actually African indigenous religions are truly available and appeal to different people of vastly different races. In fact people already come from all aver the world to Nigeria to practice this faith. This is the case at least with Yoruba religion. Also slaves managed to hold on to their religion in Latin America so we have at least three prominent religions there that comes out of Yoruba religion. No one is stopping anyone from practising African religion. It might even become a world religion.

To say it only appeals to Africans is to say that Islam only appeals to Arabs, yet its a growing religion in all parts of the world.

Folaski, you are absolutely right. Those who can see into the spirit world are called Babalawos. When you die its only your body that dies not your soul, you become an ancestor, the ancestors live closer to the orishas, closer to Eledumare. The ancestors do still have significance here in our lives and they can guide you. Its very important to remember and honour you ancestors.

ase!

Are you mad! Jesus is what the white colonizers came with to Nigeria! Don't adopt their religion and listen to their preaching, they have wicked intentions. They want you to kneel and pray to A WHITE JESUS. Do not become like your oppressor, do not let go of your own religion. Wake up and get rid of mental slavery anf start to follow Your reel African belief.

Orisha is truly the answer, Yoruba must not let go of our own religion and culture. Christianity and Islam came from outside its alien religions that swallow up other cultures and religions. Do not let go of your own religion! Do not feel ashamed and let people put you down! They are confused people who has adopted foreign mindset, brainwashed into feel ashamed of their traditional beliefs.

Its just like the languages, half of the languages of the world have disappeared.

And the push to abandon your culture is especially strong and aggressive against Africans.

It would be very nice if there could be subgroups within this section so that its easier to find what u search, like one subgroup "Islam" one "Christianity" one "African traditional belief", maybe more. Its very difficult to if you want to find threads about other faiths than Islam and Christianity,