This is my comment to one of many unfriendly and unkind commentators on a blog regarding the deaf Keke driver:



Ogechi,

Let me tell you a little about myself. I am hard-of-hearing (a variant of deafness, in that mine is mild wearing hearing aids. Nevertheless, in general parlance, it is still categorised as deafness). I drive a Golf 4 plying major roads inter-and intra-states. I drive from Lagos to Abuja safely by God's grace without any rancour or problem. I even picked up passengers who flagged me down traveling the same route I was. I made them understand my hearing status, they all showed understanding and confidence when they saw the skillful and smooth way I drove. Getting to our destination safely and in time, most of them praised and thanked me.

I have been driving since 2006 and I have undergone driving tests and all other tests there are to obtaining driver's license and I met no opposition because I demonstrated convincingly my ability to drive. The only issue they had was my eye-sight clarity which was considered as important prerequisite to safe driving. I wear eyeglasses and was asked to remove it during eye test. Didn't see clearly, then was asked to wear it, and I saw and read out all the minutest letters in the microscope-like instrument. After all said and done, I was given my license and have been driving ever since without constituting dangers to fellow road users.

Now, in your scathing remarks above, you made an allegation that deaf drivers constitute dangers to other road users, I want to ask you to please state , unbiasely, and clearly, with evidence, what dangers deaf drivers constitute to others. He e you seen any such case of your allegation before all of the years of life you've lived in this world. Awaiting your response.

http://www.lailasblog.com/2016/02/is-this-keke-driver-inspiration-or.html?showComment=1454413293437&m=1

In driving, what matter most is focused attention, good eye sight and an adequate understanding of traffic rules and signs. Hearing is subordinate to it.

For goodness sake, all you naysayers casting aspersions and derogatory comments on your fellow compatriots who you ought to encourage for overcoming the odds of hearing to to achieving the feat of riding (motorcycle etc) and driving (cars etc),what is wrong in a deaf driver or rider driving and riding especially when he/she doesn't constitute any form of danger to other road users?

DuchessLily:


It is not abt being righteous, but the grace and mercy of God.

Job was righteous to the extent that God was proud of him and boasting with him

The way God works miraculously. See how He used the children to save the family from untimely death. Glory in the highest to God, the Highest. Amen.

Not new

standd:

...How do you love God but hate your neighbour?


I remember that as a Moslem child, the first thing I learned was 'decent dressing' and how I must study my Quran, recite my Tira at the Quranic school and basically learn the techniques of evading my Imam's long whip. I remember how mum got a lot of long trousers and head-covers for me as a child. Up till my formative years, I was never comfortable with wearing cloths that bare my body. It was a good start (minus that scary Quranic teacher)


I am a Christian now and I really wonder why Christians think they are actually better than people of other faiths.
Are we not all the same?
Born to thread the paths of our parents (and believe in Gods before we had a chance to make our own choices). Holding on to the faith of our parents and believing in their Gods.

Did we ever question them as to why they chose to follow 'Jesus' or 'Mohammed' or 'Buddha'
Do we really have a choice?

It's like 'Tag and follow', bound under traditions to obey our parents and do their biddings.



Well, it wasn't funny as I was practically jostled from raising my bum up in the air and hitting my head on the floor in Mosques to shouting hallelujah and dancing shokii in churches.

A young gal who swapped 'Gods' and 'faiths'


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The transition albeit was a relief, I ultimately hated the rigours of going to the mosque everyday and having to pee in my pant at the thoughts of Imam's whips...
Ramadan was a war of wits, I learned at a very young age to eat my fill, drink a basin of water and then rub my lips vigorously against the coarse walls of the sitting-room, so my lips can become dry and chaffed; as expected, if one had not eaten all day.
The day my mother caught me, she couldn't help but burst into laughter ( of course, she did the same as a kid and told us about it)
I learned very fast


Religion makes us cocky and confident. After all, we have the promises of a higher deity. We can not be wrong, and if we are wrong, our Gods have got our back.
A typical Christian who has not prayed in 50 years will quickly shout Blood-of-Jesus' at the sight of danger.
Of course, Jesus is supposed to be the sit-in spiritual Nanny who has nothing else to do but run in different directions in his eternal duty of attending to every Christian that screams his blood.



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I once heard of a man who screamed 'Temitope Joshua' when he was attacked by armed robbers.
Bikonu, is TB Joshua an angel or a god? Or is there 'blood of Joshua' too?
The audacity of 'faith' and the diverse constrictions of the human mind.



I prefer being a Christian not cos I feel assured that the heaven they talk about is meant for Christians- mbanu!
But because I will no longer allow myself be 'pushed' into believing in anything else.
If the Bible is literature- I have found succour in it.
If Jesus Christ is a figment of someone's imaginations- then I want such an awesome 'character' to be my Lord and Savior.

If believing in God is a laughable and stupid thing to do- trust me, I have made worse decisions. This single one will not kill me.


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I simply refuse to swap 'Gods' again.


But then, the simplest and purest minds I have met are those who don't believe at all. They do not have the cockiness and confidence of those with 'Gods', so they live each day conscious of their every action and kind to people they meet on their journey through life.

I read of Tai Solarin and I wonder if there is a separate heaven for people like him who do not need any God to be human and moral. People who have so much empathy and kindness, plus an intense urge to do good.
The people who do not scream 'Blood of Jesus' but give their own life-blood just to help a neighbour.
They make Christians and Moslems alike seem like nonentities.
Through their acts, we see that humans do not really need any God to help them choose between good and bad.

Being created with a working brain means we can be whatever we want to be when we choose to be. CHOICE NOT RELIGION.


People are who they are not because of their religions but because of their individuality. And what they choose to do with their beliefs.


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Three years ago, I met a dude who says there's no God. He lives and breathes kindness.
And puts all my religious friends to shame cos he is a better man than they can ever dream to be.
He lives, fully aware of the consequences of his actions. He feels there's no God to safe him or wash his sins away, hence decides to live- ever ready to take full responsibilities for his actions. Lacking the misplaced cockiness of spiritual people- Touching lives with kindness and showing love that stems from knowing that he can't deceive himself about loving God when he can't even love his friends or the man-next-door.
I am glad I met him.


I can't not talk about the Christians seeing that the ones with the 'biggest bibles' are the ones with the deepest-hatred.

Some have booked space in heaven, conveniently pulling down others on their way up there. Please do not remind me that some Christians even hold the key to hell.( I shiver)

The hell-fire supervisors are the ones with the 'divine-gift' of marking some people for hell. They seem to have gotten their own visa from heaven embassy, plus Angel Michael gave them a peek into the book of life.
So, they constantly tell others-
'you will end up in hell'


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My moslem brothers have been promised 72 virgins. (And a bountiful harvest at every slash of their holy swords) No wonder virgins are now scarce on earth.
I always try to read the Quran and its various translations...but i can't just deal.
Come-on, we are not that daft, we just don't want to question our 'faith'.
For fear of having our soul-threads unravelled and blown away.


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The people who can think will always question their faith.
And I do NOT believe that I am better than the next man, worshipping a ram- as long as he keeps his ram out of my face and doesn't expect me to do anything with a ram asides slaughtering and cooking it (for chowing)


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Some of my Christian friends feel I'm not 'born-again' if I don't go to church. Church to them is the building and the random show they put up every Sunday. Shioooor!

I should say I am not comfortable with Christianity...People have conveniently divided their hearts into compartments, they know how to slander and praise God with the same lips. They can bend for a doggy or to take communion on the same knees
They sing sweet melodies to the glory of God and then later wag the same tongue in gossip.

My Christian 'friends' will go from speaking in tongues to Screaming Jesu! as their boyfriends ram them from behind.

Oh yes! God is a merciful God.

But, pls Shut the fu*k up with all the pretence and stop making others feel you have a right to judge them or make them feel inadequate with the choices they have made!


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Before you scream the 'blood-of-Jesus'..kindly wipe the cum and slander hanging on your lips.

Yes- he can not behold iniquity. Yet we feel so cocky that we think we have a right to feel so special despite our iniquities.


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And you, when you shed blood, you must seriously think that virgins await you.
See, only spirits attain eternity- how do you intend fu*king a spirit poosie with your spirit dick!
I know konji to be a bastard- but konji bastardizes humans not spirits.


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If you are Christian, what exactly separates you from people of other faiths!
God himself must be tired by now- since he has to create different heavens for different denominations.
Of course, I am not a Catholic- I do not wish to bow down to any thing 'Mary-like'
And I am not JW, those ones have a list of people making heaven already.

The Deeper lifers don't even expect you all to make heaven, heaven is not for people who wore trousers and fixed weaves on earth!
So, I wonder the kinda heaven that the Christian God will fit you all into.


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Hahahaha
Funny humans! We claim to love God, yet our neighbours do not deserve our love.
I wonder why we can so easily love a God that we do not see yet hate the people that we see everyday.


I can not even pretend to like religion.
But as long as I do not downgrade to being an agnostic.. I still declare and confess Jesus Christ as my Lord and Personal Savior


I walk a path everyday to discover the essence of my humanity.
I yearn to be a better person.
To overcome hate. To love more.
To do the things that would uplift my soul.
So I can reach out to others in every way I can.

My creed is to love the people around me regardless of their religion or beliefs, before I can claim to love God..

How do you hate your neighbours so much and get divided along tribal and religion lines, yet you claim to love God...why do you cut other people down with your mouths and swords, all because you want to fight for God! My dear, use your head...If you keep fighting for the almighty, then you only prove that your brand of God is a dummy who can not fight for himself.

Love your neighbour as yourself...How dare you claim to love God when you you can not love those around you. How?


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God bless you indeed lady! You've spoken the truth courageously. Don't mind your attackers and haters here who are imprisoned in their darkened and warped minds speaking against you. Keep speaking the truth.

richol:
First class child abuse she should be punished adequately

She should be made to have similar taste of the treatment she meted out to the child. Her mouth taped, her hands and legs tied behind unclad and in full public glare for a month. The psychological effect of her punishment would serve an a deterrent forever to her and her ilks out there when they're contemplating bewickeding others. Wicked demonic woman.

DaZion:
Some Youths nowadays are so lazy to go to church because they do quote the bible that "God is everywhere"..
Though, I believed that God is everywhere but Is it important for Christians to go to Church before one's prayer be answer?

Please Brethren, let's discuss, what's your views about this?

@OP, if you and everyone reading this really really what to know and live by the truth of your question, read these links provided below:


http://www.thepathoftruth.com/falsehoodexposed/diabolical-doctrines/you-must-go-to-church.htm

http://www.thepathoftruth.com/teachings/the-true-church.htm

http://www.thepathoftruth.com/teachings/counterfeit-christianity.htm

http://www.thepathoftruth.com/falsehoodexposed/diabolical-doctrines/sunday-is-the-sabbath.htm

Get back to us after reading these materials if you and everyone who reads aren't helped, which I believe you will be greatly helped as I have by the Grace of God and enjoying His peace and blessings.

Majority of professing "Christians" in organised and institutional "churches" are in great and strong deception and delusion as well as in HELL(Just don't argue yet. The true Scriptural meaning of Hell is a great gulf different from what's been commonly taught in mainstream Christianity nowadays that have held billions of people in and plagued them with tormenting fear. Read : http://www.thepathoftruth.com/teachings/state-and-fate-of-hell.htm http://www.thepathoftruth.com/teachings/restitution/meaningforever.htm)

May God mercifully help us all.

Olufemi is my first name.

Very sure! No doubt, the writer will tell it to the Creator on His Judgment Day and account for all misled by his God-disregarding and -disrespecting article.

ArchEnemy:
You ll explain that to God on judgement day

Me think you can think of hooking her up with one of your unmarried friends who you believe would make a great husband for her. Please don't rubbish your own marriage which you reported as going smoothly. Also, don't take advantage of her by sleeping with her and let your friend have her. That's most unfair and wicked thing to do. Just my opinion.