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mariahAngel:
Delusions as a result of too much fasting.

bayelsaowei:

Iyaebe:
Tevbra

bayelsaowei:
emi ooo...I dey oo...

Newton85:
Not worse than how a certain bunch of credulous and deluded people believe that some mythical virgin-born dude took a flight into the sky without the aid of an aircraft - and also that this dude is still coming back to take them into the sky by floating on the sky with a trumpet in his hand.

Newton85:
The same pea-brained religious sheeple who believe in the existence of a mythical virgin-born character who flew into the sky on an invisible aircraft, are also mocking Cele people's messianic pareidolia of their founder? The irony.

Iyaebe:
So funny, cele na church?

Iyaebe:
So funny, cele na church?

KnownUnknown:
Before you criticize Cele, keep in mind that Christianity gained legitimacy through a similar episode.

After the death of the Western Emperor Constantius, there was a struggle for succession. Constantine was one of Constantius’ sons, and his father’s troops proclaimed him Emperor. But the rules of succession at the time were not clear. But, while Constantine was in Gaul with his father’s troops, there were other contenders for the throne in other parts of the empire. One of them was Maxentius, who had set himself up as ruler in Rome.

Constantine avoided an open challenge to Maxentius, but after repeated attempts by Maxentius to provoke Constantine, the latter marched toward Rome, defeating Maxentius in two battles on the plains of Italy. Finally, the two squared off on the banks of the Tiber River at the Battle of the Milvian Bridge. It is here, according to Eusebius of Caesarea and Lactantius, that Constantine had his vision.

Before this, Constantine was considering converting to Christianity, but was undecided. Here is the account for students in Memoria Press’ Famous Men of Rome:

One day, while he was in front of his tent with his offi cers and troops around him, he had a vision of an enormous cross of fire in the heavens. On one side of the cross were the words, in the Greek language: “By this, conquer.” The words are sometimes given in the Latin form In hoc signo vinces, the translation of which is “By this sign thou shalt conquer.”

Constantine was astonished at the wonderful vision, and he gazed at it until it faded away. He could not understand what it meant and was greatly troubled. But that night he dreamed that Christ appeared to him in robes of dazzling white, bearing a cross in his hands and that he promised Constantine victory over his enemies if he would make the cross his standard.

Constantine now declared himself a Christian and had a standard made in the form of a cross with a banner attached to it bearing the initial letters of the name of Christ. This banner was called the Labarum, and it was afterwards the standard of the Roman emperors.

https://classicallatin.org/exordium/constantines-vision-of-the-cross-this-day-in-312-a-d/

BABANGBALI:
Cele Na church? Modernised babalawo centres, na him you dey call church. Nonsense

lokho:
Well you can't speak beyond your intelligence quotient. So I need not to talk much. People that are relevant in the society said more than you and they leaked the sand right in presence of Celestial church altar and now they're flourishing. So you're minor.

BestRicePlug28:
the day you have an encounter with Christ, is the day you will encounter truth, and mercy.. untill then, I understand your ignorance ( no offense)

mariahAngel:
If something as huge and heavy as a plane could fly, anything is possible.

Newton85:
Yeah, same way it's very possible for Cele people to see their founder in the sky, since anything is possible.

mariahAngel:
Touché!

Newton85:
Touche? Why then did you condemn them in the first place for seeing their founder in the sky?

mariahAngel:
Don't pretend you care. It is of no use, neither does it matter to you.
It is a spiritual matter, which you don't believe in, neither would you understand.

Only fight for causes you believe in.
Don't stir up argument for nothing. It is a waste of energy.

Newton85:
You're right that I don't give a hoot about your religion. But Cele people are right that they saw their founder in the cloud. You don't like it, then go jump into the River Thames.

OShepherd:
whether the world likes it or not, the truth though sounds bitter to some denominational fanatics remains that Pa SBJ Oshoffa was truely GOD sent" only if adherents follow the originally laid down "Christianity" which he preached.....

mariahAngel:
No, I won't.

Why are you guys(atheists) always angry so though? Especially over matters you claim not to "give a hoot" about?