₦airaland Forum

Emmanystone:
How is this hidden if it's not from satan? Only satan hides and shrouds things which are not suppose to be mystery look mysterious.

The Holy Spirit is open and whoever is used by the Holy Spirit hides nothing.

Prayer is done openly and whatever happens happens openly.

So, if you insist that TBJ uses hidden powers you must be saying he draws his powers from satan.

tuoyoojo:
one more

R2bees:
She still has the gut to defend her self.. what a fool

fidalgo19:
But say the truth
You know you are going to hell despite preaching for us

CROWNWEALTH019:
God of arsenal no let them laugh us

Nbote:
I'm glad U brought dis up... A council compiled and adopted it to UNITE d church ryt? Even most of Paul's teachings talked about d division in d church becos d early Christians would rather align demselves with an Apostle and his teachings. Jus like U know and have said, it was adopted and compiled and wasn't imposed on anyone. D Catholic church still has books of Sirach, Maccabees and d rest which d Pentecostals don't see as part of d Bible.. So what's d point of d argument?

Sarassin:
But then Einstein did state that “God does not play dice with the universe” he understood better than most that there was an order to the nature of things.

I do not necessarily believe in a creator God after-all we observe new worlds being formed everyday but I believe in a consciousness, let us call it a super-consciousness that permeates all fathomable existence, this is evidenced by mundane phenomena such as the gravitational effects of the moon for instance on our lives.

Rationalisation being Man’s only inherent genius, our attempts at understanding our reason to be and Man’s relationship to the universe in the grand scheme of things, in my view is what gave rise to religion. I believe religion in turn is what has led to the personification of what I refer to as the Divine consciousness….. as God.

Nbote:
Dis is what happens wen U're still undecided on whether u're a christian or not.. What exactly do u need those books for? Have u finished reading d Bible itself to start looking for other supposed removed part of it.. U ppl like to claim conspiracies here and there and claim certain books were removed. Lemme u ask u, who compiled it in d first place and who removed it later?

Inova:
EXTREMELY BRILLIANT POST!!!!!!!!. I Duff my hat for you.

Hofbrauhaus:
They are already been branded hoodlums..

It reminds me of a certain people that said Nigeria have tire them, and they are now been called terrorists.

Dino abeg continue using their money to buy cars and buy clothes...na your God do for you..

ikennaf1:
While I liked your comment because you share my view of the reasons why atheists like you and I, should leave religious people alone:. People who depend on an imaginary being in order to act right, I must emphasize to you that what daddy freeze is fighting isn't religion itself but tithing and enrichment of pastors. He calls them sheeple because most people that do that are extremely gullible.

It's a pity that many people, especially in 3rd world countries haven't evolved beyond superstition. And they also need that superstition to keep them from acting like wild animals.

ivolt:
Unfortunately, you don't understand reality nor the genesis of morality.
Most people don't murder and rape because it isn't necessary, it is against their self-interest
and they have been raised with the belief that those actions are wrong.
Believing in a god won't stop a robber from plying his trade.
Conscience is a product of upbringing and societal value.

In the Caucasus, bride kidnapping is normal but I doubt if many
Nigerian men will kidnap a girl and force her into marriage due to the
negative consequences of doing so(legal and societal).

There was a highly religious Indian tribe called the "thugees", from where
the word thug was derived. Guess what their occupation was?
Theft and murder, it is estimated that they killed at least a million people,
mostly travelers, dispossessing them of their wealth. It was the strong arm
of the british law, not god or religion(they are already religious) that dissuaded and
destroyed their criminal ways of life.


Conscience is not a rigid set of rules found in a book, it is acquired through
societal interactions.



I see this statement as coming from a supremacist and arrogant stance,
unless someone is mentally retarded and is a psychopath(there are very
few of them and religion can't improve their condition), they have stable minds
and have the ability to act right and possess good moral standards.

Religion doesn't make people act right, upbringing and teachings do.
If you are born into an ISIS family, you will believe that beheading
infidel is the right thing to do.

Some of the most anarchist country in the present world have almost
a 100% religiosity, think Somalia and Yemen. Their religion didn't give
them order because it can't. Strong government with good economies creates
societal order, not religion.


Most people need the above to make sense of their situation, solicit prayers and
feel lucky that a god cares about them, not morality. Deeper "truths" is a meaningless
concept and have no bearing on the behavior of most humans.



Of course you are free to air your opinion. Religion doesn't maintain order,
security forces, fear and self-interest does.

Religious leaders lie all the time about the effectiveness of religion on societal
morality and order when it is glaring to anyone who cares that such claims
are bogus.
There are some fringe percentage group of people who won't turn to crime because
their god say so, it is the same set of people that would also kill you because their
god say so. They aren't necessarily moral afterall.

I propose that proper education and good parenting is sufficient and more
effective means of raising a balanced, moral and upright society.

clefstone:
How can u be a theist without being religious? Once you believe in God you will certainly find a way to reach him, that finding him is what religion is

aribisala0:
I think there are several assertions you make that are just as ignorant and baseless as many religions or doctrines. And your understanding of "REALITY" is very superficial. Everybdy is different and your reality is not the same as that of the next guy. It is night right now and at the same time morning somewhere else.
Religion and the associated "fables" as you call them have great utility just like watching a film or a play. The extent to which we believe "fables" or films etc varies with our development

A man sees a woman and she is "beautiful" ditto for a lion and lioness . Is beauty a fable? Everything is useful at some time for a little time even if only to better understand reality.
So when you tell your self you know the raw truths about life and reality you are only indulging yourself.
Yes organized relligion has many things wrong with it but it is useful for its subscribers at whatever level of evolveent they find themselves.
There is nothing like an abolute reality

What is shitt for one animal is food fo another

Faraidi:
you are the fool that man is taking about. Oga go and develop your STATE

GoldNiagara:
So what does Lagos has to do with a boy at idp camp without a father, yet this one wants to be a president, can't even talk coherently.

AishaBuhari:
From the very first poster to the very last before me; Are all Keyboard Warriors

Do you guys think that constant complains on Nairaland solves any problem in Nigeria?

#Issokay

Rotimik:
Lagos will not collapse. The growing population are already spilling into Ogun State.

magoo10:

He lambasted the Buhari government for showing more interest in politics than economics. “And if you don’t get the economics right, then governance cannot work.

What does buhari know about economics kwanu,how does cattle rearing relate to economics in governance, somebody that have not written a book nor given intellectual lecture.
It really amaze me how zombies think the man can do magic in making Nigeria prosper economically.

Former Cross River State Governor, Donald Duke, has warned that the economic pressure on Lagos may make the state collapse. He gave the warning at the official launch of the National Competitiveness Report and Sub National Index held in Lagos.

“We are living in a fool’s paradise. We here in Lagos are cocooned from the realities of Nigeria. Take a trip to Borno State; go to parts of the north and the Niger-Delta”. Duke recalled that he was discussing with Aigboje Aig-Imoukhuede and Aliko Dangote, when the latter told the story of a boy whom he found at an Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) Camp and asked for his father.

“The chap looked at him (Dangote) but did not understand the concept of fatherhood. He is in the IDP Camp. There are thousands of them in those camps; there is no hope for them; all they do there is just breathing.”

He lambasted the Buhari government for showing more interest in politics than economics. “And if you don’t get the economics right, then governance cannot work. You cannot be competitive when you are not productive. The first thing is how do we get productive?”

Duke also criticised the way states in Nigeria have been set up. “And there is no master-plan to make each one of them an economic entity. So, we have a country, where a blessing (exponential population growth) is turning into a curse, because in the next three years, our population will be 200 million, yet all the productive indices are going down. “Lagos may be crowded out. Every year, 750,000 new people come to Lagos to reside, the economy cannot support that. So if you don’t get the rest of the country working, Lagos itself will collapse.”