₦airaland Forum

Rossikk:
Err...I wouldn't have raised this thread if 2% of Nigerians where Christian, as is the case in the countries you named where the overwhelming majority practise their indigenous faith, with a tiny few involved in foreign religions. In Africa it's the other way round. Oh..and Christianity is not a middle Eastern religion, but a European religion. The Vatican is in Rome, not in Teheran. There's a reason for that.

Christianity is not 'indigenous' to Europe. Christianity is based on texts written by authors in the Middle East, in Middle Eastern languages.

The Catholic Church is a branch of Christianity based in Rome, just as RCCG is based in Lagos - that does not change the facts that the religion is rooted in Middle Eastern folklore. Why do you say 'Amen' after prayer? Amen is neither Latin, nor Greek. What language did the mythical Jesus speak? Does anyone even allege that he set foot in Europe? How about Abraham, David, Noah, Moses? Which of them visited Europe?

Brazil is the biggest Catholic nation on the earth (where coincidentally many of the people there adhere to Yoruba traditional religion), followed by other Latin American nations such as Mexico. Those nations are not in Africa.

Islam is not indigenous to Pakistan, Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Malaysia, Indonesia, Bangladesh or the majority of Muslim nations. Those nations have far more than 2% of Muslim practitioners. Again, Mohammed did not step foot in any of these nations.

Buddhism is indigenous to India yet the nation with the largest number of Buddhists is Japan, followed by Thailand. Far more than 2% Japanese and Thais are Buddhists.

Religions are spread by force and cultural peer pressure. Very few nations have a majority population that adhere to 'traditional religions'. Your initial premise is based on a falsehood.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QgWatqA6GtM

There are millions of Chinese, Korean, Indian and Pakistani Christians and their numbers are growing.

Islam is indigenous to the Middle East but not Pakistan, India or Bangladesh where there are more Muslims than in the Arabian peninsula

There are European Buddhists and Hare Krishnas even though Buddha is said to have come from India, where there are more Hindus.

Christianity is an Abrahamic, Middle Eastern religion, yet it spread to Europe.

OP, your question is completely invalid.

What I hate most about religion is the spread of misinformation and lies instead of the truth. This thread is predicated on a lie.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0VJimvJyjjQ

Aaronzy:
nigeria army under Ihejirika wer not actually fighting boko haram, dey wer killing innocent northerners

The Northerners who are crying that Boko Haram were not being dealt with were, for a long time, sheltering Boko Haram fighters.

It is only when they began killing schoolboys and kidnapping schoolgirls that many of them realized Boko Haram were not fighting for their interests.

refiner:
We should look out for competent hands. whether from the East, West, North or south.

who ever that will deliver is welcomed on board!

Do you honestly believe that the North, the way that it is now, is the home of the majority of these so called 'competent hands'?

You do realize that Northern Nigeria has some of the worst human indices on earth.

bakynes:
Oil is not a major yardstick for development in the USA. Human resource is their biggest resource for development. California is not even known for oil, a city that houses the biggest film and music industry in the world doesnt get large chunk of its money from oil. So oil cannot be a major resource for development.

California is a state, not a city.

The oil found there was used to power local industries - which should be the case in Nigeria.

bakynes:
Is Texas more developed than Newyork or California? Take your time oh! Oil money is one of the lowest paying resource in the USA.

California produces oil as well.

Bad comparison.

Good to see PMB keeping to his word and cutting down on government waste.

I hope they plan on putting lane markings on that road and that Lastma will do its job and enforce lane discipline.

sorepco:
No one can get a heart attack if lagos..abuja or calabar are developing. These are the areas that define define who we are as a nation. I remember in 2006 how lagos international airport was used to disgrace me overseas. Do u think its pleasant when a foreigner says these things about lagos with pics as facts?? So for me these 3 cities shud be special zoned.
Therefore if u r happy with bad roads in lagos u r a fool as lagos is what foreigners define us by....now if it were kafanchan ..then you can talk of haters!!
I hope not only u get my drift!!

You forgot Uyo.

www.nairaland.com/attachments/3869973_godisgoodmotorinaccident5die_jpege1a7717ed3ebc36247d18e0403614c34

So, what happened?

dotG:
This is the reason white people hate black skin...the black man is dubious and evil and can never be trusted...imagine the difference.

There are two black people involved.

And white people have been guilty of much worse than just bribery - entire peoples have been killed off by Europeans; unimaginable environmental degradation; and all manner of abuse towards humans and animals.

Having (too many) children is what keeps many people broke in Nigeria.

They will be your greatest expense.

analice107:
Am sure you feel fulfilled now that you have succeeded in letting us know the kind of mind you have.
If you believed in God in the first place, then you should asked yourself, whose prerogative it is to do as he pleases, when he please with what belongs to him. Did God create man for Himself or for his children? When God wants to take what belongs to him, will he consult with his family members seeking their permission to do his will? BTW, how did you know the death came from God?
If you use death to judge God, then you are the best fool ever. For us Christians, death is nothing bad, it's a passage to eternity. They same eternity giving you atheists constipation.

Where is the 'judgement' in my statement? I asked questions.

If death does not come from 'god' then he/she/it is not all powerful.

If he/she/it acts in an arbitrary manner without due consideration as to how it effects the living then he/she/it is not 'all loving'.

winner01:
Give the names of those books please, i'm interested.

The Republic by Plato deals with 'forms of good'.

Aristotle dealt with what it means to be 'good'.

Aesop's Fables are a collection of tales with moral maxims, they predate the Jesus myth by at least 500 years.

Those authors based their theories on ideas that were already around at the time - several hundred years prior to the myth of Christ.

The Zororastrians also dealt with the matter of 'good' and 'evil' in their primary religious text - the Avesta, a book that is dated several hundred years prior to the earliest books of the Bible.

In the 20th century we had authors such as Betrand Russell who dwelt on the matter, amongst many others. I'm sure that you if you look in a book store or decent library you will find sufficient texts on philosophy that tackle the topic with far greater finesse and depth than the Bible.

I suggest that you broaden your reading, the Bible is far from the only or even the oldest text to raise the matter of morality. There were several before it and many after it. Most of the religions that came before Judaism and Christianity dealt with the matter in a non-linear, non-simplified manner.

Most of mankind's fables and fairy-tales deal with philosophical issues, the Bible is simply a continuation of that tradition. Sadly, some people have chosen to take children's tales literally.

winner01:
Thank you Sir, you just confirmed my claims; How else can you fight God, but to pretend He does not exist..
We see death as a transition to glory. Death is painful no doubt and at times one may not understand why. But to conclude that God does not exist because people die is not rational. The Bible is the only book that gives a rational explanation on the origin and existence of evil. No other book on philosophy carefully takes care of this. If the Bible was really written by mere humans, then i'm willing to know what kind of superhuman intelligence they possessed.

Where did I say that 'god' doesn't exist?

I asked why an all knowing/loving being would take a father away from his daughter?

There are plenty of philosophical books that deal with good and evil, many of them proceed the Bible. Others came after.

Who wrote the Bible, if not 'mere humans'?

I'm guessing that Paul Kalanithi prayed for healing and that his family prayed that he would be able to see his daughter grow up.

Every child needs a father so why would an 'all loving', 'all knowing' god take a father away from his daughter?

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"Point of sale machines are used for collections during a service"


Hilarious.

mbatuku2:
If I can clean it up on my own, why is God necessary? That means he's of no use.

Christian logic:

Man is responsible for evil.

Man works to make things better.

But their god gets all the credit for the good.

mrvitalis:
This is the type of gifts the church should reject

He was a public servant and his salary and gratuities can't build something like this.. ... This is bad...
We should never celebrate things like this.. . In fact the EFCC needs to invite him to explain the source of the money

And this is the young generation of PDP? ??

Nigeria my country

The church has always been a part of financial corruption. They know people steal public resources to pay tithes, offerings and do their silly 'Thanksgiving' services but never say anything because the church has nothing to do with morality.

Atheism is the absence of belief in the theory of god(s).

It is not a group of people claiming to have all the answers.

If you wish to know about science then there are scientists who spend their every last waking minute discovering the world/universe that we inhabit.

Maybe it's the fact that many of you have been deceived into accepting that one book has all the answers that you cannot comprehend that no one human being has a complete knowledge of everything. That would explain this thread.

bitchcrafts:
Lagos is taking care of itself for sure for sure

Lagos is much improved from what it was 17 years ago.

fiizznation:
The thing is, northerners don't go to other people's country to live there.So far, I don't even think any northerner has applied for asylum to any country. We normally travel out because of these three main reasons;

1. vacation
2. Business
3. Education

I bet you, finding a single northerner in your country for the sole purpose of living there will be almost impossible. And am very sure of this. You see even the northerners that are affected by this boko haram madness rarely travel out of the north, the places they might decide to settle down for the meantime might be neighbouring countries like Cameroon, Niger and Chad. And they usually come back to their homes when peace have finally returned.

There are Northerners who have taken residence all over the world including Saudi, Malaysia, UK, US and Germany.

They don't leave in the vast numbers that southerners but those that are educated have no qualms about leaving.

fiizznation:
The thing is, northerners don't go to other people's country to live there.So far, I don't even think any northerner has applied for asylum to any country. We normally travel out because of these three main reasons;

1. vacation
2. Business
3. Education

I bet you, finding a single northerner in your country for the sole purpose of living there will be almost impossible. And am very sure of this. You see even the northerners that are affected by this boko haram madness rarely travel out of the north, the places they might decide to settle down for the meantime might be neighbouring countries like Cameroon, Niger and Chad. And they usually come back to their homes when peace have finally returned.

There are Northerners who have taken residence all over the world including Saudi, Malaysia, UK, US and Germany.

They don't exit in the vast numbers that southerners do (because relatively few have either the means or the opportunity) but those that are educated have no qualms about leaving.

Isn't this the same nonsense that the lecturers were crying about a couple of years back - their 'allowances'.

Yet another of Buhari's experiments ends in failure.

People have told him to do this for a year.

Lol.

No shame.

italo:
You assume that I'm enraged.

Because you're looking for straws to cling to.

Keep asking foolish questions.

Why is it a 'foolish question'?

Is the Bible wrong? Is the Catholic Church wrong?

What you've described happens across the board in churches. It's not particular to the Catholic Church.

faites:
Worshipping in dat stagnant water is very unhealthy. If this picture is true, the pastor should have found an alternative location.

They must not stay in a flooded church for God to hear them or for them to prove their faith. God is everywhere.

With all the water borne diseases that abound in tropical countries like the Philippines the responsible thing would be to vacate to a dry area or postpone the service, not have them sit in dirty water.

This is disgraceful behavior.

italo:
"Nonsense" that you're addicted to.

Day and night, you're occupied with this "nonsense."

I read something, I asked a question - why does that enrage you?

What happened to your 'Christian compassion'?

Is 'God' no longer love, patient, kind and true? Do you not claim to have 'God' in your heart?