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winner01:
You dont leave a place youve never been.

Anthony Pinn. Anthony Pinn is a professor of religious studies at Rice University and an outspoken expert on African-American humanism. As he explained in a recent speech at Skepticon, he began preaching at the ripe old age of 12, and was ordained at age of 18. His doubts started immediately after he started working as a youth pastor in Bed-Stuy in Brooklyn. Now he has a Ph.D. in religious studies from Harvard and a professorship in Houston, and he’s a blunt and outspoken critic of religion, focusing specifically on religion’s inability to address the concerns of the black community.

Depending on your point of view, Pinn’s acerbic wit and no-holds-barred approach to the discussion of belief versus non-belief is either delightful or offensive. In a recent interview with the Root, Pinn summed up his critique of religion by saying, “I think African Americans are worse off because of their allegiance to theism. The belief in God and gods has not been particularly useful or productive for them. It has lessened their appeal to their own creativity and ingenuity, and in most cases has resulted in a kind of bizarre understanding of suffering as a marker of closeness to God and a mark of divine favor. Nothing good can come out of that.”

johnydon22:


Are you in any form of competition with anybody on who deconverted to this or who converted to that?

The position of being atheistic is not a religious position but rather a position of unbelief in God(s) so equating that position with converting to a certain religion is totally uncool and uncalled for.

This is not a competition, people find FAITH people loose it to subscribe to honest skepticism and intellectual honesty and curiosity people also find Faith even after being atheistic, it is a matter of psychological tilt of the subject..

It is not a competition, so i would say this thread was totally unnecessary..

Richirich713:
No u can distinguished according to ur views but it's only going to be ur opinion.

johnydon22:
Seriously whats the meaning of this thread?

Richirich713:
And then wat should we judge man's actions on?

How do we know what is good and what is not?

Richirich713:
Honestly I never even knew he was a atheist, It just shows people don't care wat he believe or thinks, they just watch his movies.

Richirich713:
and after they converted no none care what they thought anymore, for just like all atheists, they will be forgotten.

But jesus will remain the most influential person to ever live.

5 Religious Leaders Who Gave Up the Faith and Became Outspoken Atheists and Agnostics

ernesty20:
of course northaners were united to an extent that nobody came out openly to speak against boko haram





now see your miserable life, castigating your brothers just cos they are fighting to better your life.

People can reason through their anus shaa

ernesty20:
u are a bad blood to igbo nation.

U are one of the few ass lickers who give yoruba people a reason to think that igbos are not united.

Your father!!!!!!

ernesty20:
mumu.. Can u say all this when u meet those protesters? Let them castrate u.

Useless bastard!!!

paramakina202:
Sometimes I wonder if you are a human or Chinese toy.

Truckpusher:
We won't shoot you - We will simply tell your slave masters up North that their subject is at it again and of course you know the outcome.

pazienza:
I see, you have recovered from the punches you received here:https://www.nairaland.com/2734861/exposed-fellow-igbo-man-claiming

Why are you ashamed of your ethnic group? It can't be that bad, even Somalis are proud of Somalia. Nawao!

pazienza:
Lol! The thread is a joke.

A Yoruba man too ashamed of his Yoruba ethnic group, do we blame him? I would do the same, and an Ijaw man too ashamed of his Ijaw ethnic group( though this one is beyond me, no need to deny being Ijaw, I understand denying being an Oduanistan) famzing each other, while hiding under anonymous ethnic group venner.

Truckpusher:
Na who get this Nkita Bayelsa?

wisdomguy4u:
What is the truth?

Truckpusher:
Hehe....I'm just here to witness an all Igbo civil war while playing the mercenary to keep them off our borders considering their expansionist tendencies.

DFemaleBoss:
All the brownies claiming Igbo will be "masturbating" on this silly thread tonight.
Baboons and monkeys in the zoo. Lmao

wisdomguy4u:
Seriously, bro, how old are you?

Your thinking faculty is damn low.

You want to quench the agitation completely with what? Your intestine?

Rose2014:
Why not focus on the problems plaguing your home state?
What's your business with Biafra?

Truckpusher:
That guy runs with a caveman's ethnocentric mentality that can only be cured with one fine shot to the forehead.

And of course, clean up anything that reminds the world of his existence - He's an Adolph Hitler inside his head and should be nipped in the bud.

Rose2014:
See this Benue guy again claiming "our region"
It's official, You have no shame

Henry22:
osu mia gi onu ebahu......is ur type that they easily bribe with dirty money, so all this things that they are doing to the ibo nation and its brothers down SS is ok by u right.........is only a slow poke that the way you are acting right now.

anigbogukelvin:
History suggest our lineage to Isreal. No wonder only Christianity most suits our being.

sinkhole:
A Syrian passport found by police at
the scene of the mass shooting in a
Paris concert hall belonged to an
asylum seeker who registered on a
Greek island in October, a Greek
minister said Saturday.
“We confirm that the Syrian passport
holder came through the Greek island
of Leros on October 3 where he was
registered under EU rules,” said a
statement issued by Nikos Toskas, the
minister for citizen protection.
French police said the document was
found “near the body of one of the
attackers” in the investigation into the
main attack of Friday’s carnage, at the
Bataclan concert hall, where 82
people were killed.
The authenticity of the passport was
being checked, but its discovery
indicates a possible Syrian connection
which was a working hypothesis for
investigators after assailants hit six
separate locations in Paris.

www.linkis.com/www.vanguardngr.com/yoIut

carnegiefan:
Most spiritually illiterate people can't understand who God is, and how he sees this earth.
To understand God better, you need to study the character of DAVID whom God called a "man after my own heart".
God is not human.
David was once a rebel running from cave to cave, fleeing from Buhari Saul.
Well, we know how the story ended.

carnegiefan:
The reason is simple: Nnamdi Kanu has aligned Biafra with the interest of the greatest power in the universe -THE Most High/Master Creator.

Kanu wakes up every day (some times twice daily) to invoke, worship, thank, exalt, and generally pray to the Most High, to the hearing of millions of people worldwide via radio Biafra. In doing so, he aligned Biafra with God (for the first time I must say), and makes Biafra's emancipation God's business.

In all his broadcasts, he often said that no human can make Biafra's actualization possible, that only God can do it. He says that is why he is not approaching anybody to help Biafra, because he does not want any human being to take the glory after God had performed his wonders.

He specifically rejects any glory for himself, because he said it would be tantamount to a grave sin against the would-be savior of Biafra when Biafra emerges free. Kanu states repeatedly that the Biafra struggle is not for everybody in Eastern Nigeria; that the struggle is for those who were born for it - "Those born to do this". Kanu stated that God specifically asked him to do what he is doing or he will run mad. According to Kanu, God asked whether he could do the following: (1) Speak truth at all times (2) Be fearless before enemies.
He accepted the challenge only after he took time to examine himself.

Now, I am a child of God who has had the privilege of seeing God in action on the global stage just from a prayer of a righteous man.
For the Christians among us, I would refer you to James 5:16, part b (The effectual Prayer of a righteous man availeth much).
By "righteousness", God means obedient to his will and command. Won't go further with the Bible here.

Israel is a feared country, not because of her military might, but because of the forces that lines up to defend Israel whenever necessary.
Russia is in Syria today, but the Russians have had to severally assure and reassure Israel that Russia will not tilt the strategic balance in the middle east against Israel. Why is Russia mindful of antagonizing Israel?? The simple reason is that the Russians are spiritually literate, and know who the real defender of Israel is. They don't want to antagonize that power, because that power is NOT human.

I already see the hand of God descending on Nigeria like a tonne of bricks for the unlawful detention of a man who worships him DAILY to the hearing of millions of people worldwide. An ordinary rich human being would make life hell for anybody who victimizes his servant (or even his praise-singer). Now imagine what God will do to anybody who is stopping Kanu from his daily worships.

Already, leading countries of the world who BTW are spiritually discerning, are already baulking at the idea of selling Nigeria arms, knowing fully well that those arms will be used against Biafrans later. No one wants to attract God's anger to his nation.

Only the spiritually literate will understand what I'm saying here.

Ojukwu's Biafra failed mainly because Ojukwu was almost agnostic.

Kanu will succeed because he is spiritually discerning and has cleverly aligned Biafra with the interest of THE Most High.

Watch events from now on and be marveled.

xtrorse:
And that's the more reason why you and your people need to go back to Agriculture and concentrate in this area of strength.
In so doing you make your region cum Nation the food basket of the world.

So be proud to seek a separate existence.