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John Chukwuemeka Agbaeze @johnysky22

I once entered a bus from Enugu to Abuja, as always as the journey began, Christians in the bus asked the driver to turn down the music that they wanted to pray, he obliged. The prayers began in earnest, singing, praises, casting and binding etc, afterwards the journey continued.

I for one felt it was unfair for every passenger to be subjected to an involuntary not minding whether they were Christians or not. I decided to pay them back in their own coin.

We got to Flyer Over where these boys stand to hawk kola, I bought a piece then called out to the driver to tune down the music that I wanted to pray. He did and the whole bus fell silent. I began by invoking the ancestors, invoking ezechitoke, eze bu na agu, pouring out traditional prayers and supplications the best I could all the while breaking the kola

Gradually mood inside the bus began to change, hisses here and there, some audibly mumbling and I could swear some where countering the prayers with holy ghost fire. I did not flinch despite the disapproval, a guy behind me was more than happy to be responding, "Iseee!" to my prayers.

I spent nearly 10 minutes praying, stretching it for as long as I could afford and not break down laughing. After the prayers, the hisses and mumbles came like an applause. I gave kola to the guy behind me, offered to everyone around and they summarily ignored me. Some women even behaved like we were quarrelling, another man at the back of the bus clearly amused also took the kola.

After there was an awkward silence for minutes, only the sound of kola being chewed was heard. A woman broke the silence

"Bia nna a kedu ụdị nonsense bụ ihe a imere?" she asked.

"exactly ụdị nonsense gi wa mere too" I responded.

"How did you do this here knowing we don't practice this fetish nonsense with you?" she asked again.

"Exactly the same way you did yours without minding that not all of us practice the same fetish delusional nonsense with you" I replied.

The whole bus mumbled, the guy behind laughed so hard, he was enjoying the exchange.

I ended up spending the next 10 minutes preaching about a lesson in hypocrisy, the usual bible preaching evangelical session we get in buses just me preaching about hypocrisy and how even Jesus abhorred hypocrisy.

Goes without saying that we had a rather awkward journey until after Lokoja before people started to unwind more. Though the woman beside me rolled her eyes a lot at me and made sure there was at no point that her body would touch mine which I greatly appreciated.

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Hahahaha........... I just imagine the Drama and Scenes that must have played out on this day

In it all the Bus Driver is the MVP, the guy just focus and mind his business

Well Christians and Muslims in Nigeria and bigoted against traditionalists, it is how theu are built

It is so bad that they have convinced themselves that they are right in their bigotry that they have no inch of shane about it. Same way white supremacists don't see themselves as wrong.

I would have also joined in to say "Isee" Btw, most women don't just joke with or take lightly any competition or perceived affront to their "God". They can hardly compromise, unlike some men who'd still
care to honour and pray to God or gods in the ol' traditional way.

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You are hardly criticized by people doing more than you. You are almost always criticized by people doing less than you.

Hate comes from beneath.

Religious hypocrites!!!

If they can hold a prayer session in a bus not minding the religious inclinations of others, You too can do yours. After all we have freedom of religion.

I for deck you

Lol nice one

Hmm

lol

You wan turn Nigerians to yam?

That guy must b a real comedian

Ok

Lol, I would have laughed so hard.

I always felt awkward not participating in those bus prayers. This exchange would have been entertaining.

Lol
How U will think u re right and d other guy is wrong baffled d heck out of mua

Can't stop laughing.

You just made my day wit this amusing post.

Whatever a man believes and is not injurious to another, so be it.

Religious tolerant is key

Good of you.........You can only believe in what you believe. Barman, I need water please.

I would've eaten the colanut.

Nice

A very amusing situation I wish I was in that bus to see their hypocritical faces..And the height of the hypocrisy is a good number of them are regular callers at herbalist homes

See that charlatan calling himself a pastor,many would have continue using him as a prayer point if he was not caught with cocaine on his way to kenya,

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John Chukwuemeka Agbaeze @johnysky22




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Odogwu Nwoke! Nalum Azú Aka!

I know it's hypocrisy but I for tear am better knock. I don't care make fight start. We welcome vayolens anywhere.

WiszyFraud:
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You are hardly criticized by people doing more than you. You are almost always criticized by people doing less than you.

Hate comes from beneath.

This is a very shallow understanding and is certainly not expected of an intellectual. Criticism is not hate. There are constructive and destructive criticism. Criticism is a fertiliser to development and growth.

Let me use your post as an example.

1st reply: oga shut up there, what do you even know, criticism is different from hate (destructive)

2nd reply: this your point is actually shallow, a deep research should point out the difference (constructive)

1st reply will make you want to attack the person if you are one that easily gets excited

2nd reply will most likely push you into research of the subject matter

More people should be doing this. So those Abrahamic religion clowns will get a taste of their own medicine.