₦airaland Forum

Sergio101:
Very wonderful write up.

Let's accept our fate.

Any how it comes out

Philgafauto:
What foreknowledge are you talking about? Your God never acts but sits up there and expects worship and reverence from his subjects. You religious ones continue to demand perpetual obeisance from humans while evil and practical men continue to kill and destroy his so called children.

maestroferddi:
Now you are coming close...

No objective person will tell you that it is not a serious concern when something like what we are experiencing happens...

While the knee-jerk reaction might be to blame God and wallow in potentially disastrous disillusionment, wisdom dictates that we take a moment to reflect on things and understand from how God does His things...

My brother I can tell you with the highest degree of certitude that God WILL NEVER forsake their cries and petitions of His for the enthronement of justice and righteousness.

It is certainly a trying time but it will pass away and my prayer is that God will keep all of us alive to see the ULTIMATE WILL of God prevail and see the end of the wicked...

If I cite David now, you may accuse me of being religious but what of the nation of Israel?

A nation of less than 6 million (then) with less than 10 years of nationhood humiliating more than 20 countries...

Metaverse:
How exactly does it sound to you that a so called omnipotent god, sat down and watched Hitler and his soldiers destroy millions of women and children and men, and then decided to stop him at the last minute?

And you really rely on this your nursery rhymes story as proof of so called god's existence?

The quality of the dark skinned "homo sapien" species inhabiting Africa is something of a serious concern.

What a mess!

Philgafauto:
Becoming an atheist has imbued me with renewed vigor to explore all ways to conquer in this world, including consulting evil mediums to move ahead in life. Only the pragmatic and evil succeed in this physical world.

I just penned this write up to perhaps rile up sleeping religious people. Humans are gods and they have the power to chart the course of their destiny.

No God helps anybody.

maestroferddi:
What is success?

Philgafauto:
Good health and material success and leaving a legacy for my offspring is success to me.

maestroferddi:
But you will someday die and assuming that you doubt an afterlife...

What happens if there is indeed an afterlife?

Let's not even consider the high possibility that the sources which precipitated your "success" will exact some recompense now or in the future?

My brother, I don't want to be arguing with you but riches acquired at the expense of neglecting God will prove ultimately futile...

You can make the point that practicality and hard work are fundamental to success but this argument about God is such that you cannot win...

It is not like some of the people you readily brand religious were not once in your present state of mind....

It is that most of them eventually came to the realization - after serious reflection - contending with God is an exercise in futility...

FahBuLous:
Only a fool says 'THERE IS NO GOD'

Philgafauto:
I am pained and woke as f*uck. I just hope millions of Nigerians wake up. Especially the Christians.

Prayers and prophecies will destroy us. Its time to develop a defensive posture. and start building a just society right from our families. No God will save anybody.

As for the muslims, i cant advice or speak for them because i believe they have been planning since according to their worldwide annexation plans. its the christians in this country i pity. Time to wake up and foster unity and development in their family and extend same to the country.

It is either we have a country or we dont. If we were a serious country, this inauguration will not be happening. Most young educated Nigerians are unhappy because they have utopian dreams, while the society as a corrosive and endemic corrupt underbelly.

zelnababa:
eyaa sorry bro, did you know what killed Obi president ambition? Religion bigotry, you think going from one church to another can make him a president, Nigeria is multi ethics and Religion country, he even said election is war against Christianity, and you wanted to Rule both Christian, Muslim and traditionalist, Obi can never and will never rule Nigeria, after ASIWAJU power is going back to north.

Philgafauto:
Which God? Abeg park well jareee. God that sits down and allows evil people prosper while the righteous die and wallow in penury?

Spare me with that afterlife bull shit. If i die, i die be that. Most Africans are just existing anyways, they are not living and thriving.

maestroferddi:
Try and make peace with God starting from today so that you will be triumphant ultimately...

Life has many questions but it shouldn't lead to attempting to fight God..


You are alive today because God allowed it.

Many people never had the privilege that you and me are enjoying....

Let's shun this sense of entitlement.. If you or me die today, life will continue and nothing will happen so it is only reasonable that we be thankful while bringing our questions before him...


We are all scarred by the developments in Nigeria...It is looking like God has abandoned His people but it cannot be true because God exercises sovereignty over all things...

He will do it...

Philgafauto:
I am not scared of death brother. Most Nigerians are dead already.

Do not scare me with the power of your God to kill me.

dejol88:
To be honest people like you are one of the problems we have . You are castigating obi but okay with a Muslim Muslim ticket.
Can this country have a Christian Christian ticket and not have religious crisis? People like you hate inclusion Infact I hate that we live together as country because you are too selfish.

dejol88:
To be honest people like you are one of the problems we have . You are castigating obi but okay with a Muslim Muslim ticket.
Can this country have a Christian Christian ticket and not have religious crisis? People like you hate inclusion Infact I hate that we live together as country because you are too selfish.

zelnababa:
am from West part of d country we see religion as nothing but choice, I have both Muslim and christian in my family,we do everything together both on Xmas and sallah day, family and society first before Religion, na una put religion matter for head

zelnababa:
am from West part of d country we see religion as nothing but choice, I have both Muslim and christian in my family,we do everything together both on Xmas and sallah day, family and society first before Religion, na una put religion matter for head

dejol88:
Why I accused you of being selfish is because you are utilizing your ideology to infiltrate national politics without adequately considering the repercussions of your actions. We have observed instances in the past where a particular group has been marginalized due to this narrow-minded reasoning. Previously, we had both Muslim and Christian candidates participating in elections in Niger state. However, currently, no Christian is able to run for office, and we have also witnessed recent incidents in Kaduna that reinforce this trend of favoring a single faith. It is imperative for you to educate yourself on the principles of fairness, inclusion, and justice, and understand how they contribute to the promotion of unity and stability. Many individuals like yourself exhibit extreme self-centeredness while claiming to desire stability for Nigeria, yet your actions actually serve to further divide us.

Considering the actions of the All Progressives Congress (APC), it begs the question: can a Christian from the northern region ever aspire to become the President of Nigeria

maestroferddi:
ok..

Nobody is scaring you...

I am only sensitizing you to certain realities...

God still loves you inspire of your seeming rebellion...

Take a chill pill...You are not the only person who cannot make sense of this chaos BUT God still rules even in the midst of apparent hopelessness...

patoski39:
u Christians write like u are sure candidates of ur heaven.
One of ur biggest prayers should be for heaven not to exist, because u and I know NONE of Y'ALL will make it there according to what's written in 'ur' bible

dejol88:
Why I accused you of being selfish is because you are utilizing your ideology to infiltrate national politics without adequately considering the repercussions of your actions. We have observed instances in the past where a particular group has been marginalized due to this narrow-minded reasoning. Previously, we had both Muslim and Christian candidates participating in elections in Niger state. However, currently, no Christian is able to run for office, and we have also witnessed recent incidents in Kaduna that reinforce this trend of favoring a single faith. It is imperative for you to educate yourself on the principles of fairness, inclusion, and justice, and understand how they contribute to the promotion of unity and stability. Many individuals like yourself exhibit extreme self-centeredness while claiming to desire stability for Nigeria, yet your actions actually serve to further divide us.

Considering the actions of the All Progressives Congress (APC), it begs the question: can a Christian from the northern region ever aspire to become the President of Nigeria

maestroferddi:
This is the bone of contention..

Igbos are certainly not saints but the major point if divergence between an Igboman and others is in the perception of justice.

Certain people are acculturated move about without any qualms amidst grievous injustice and lack of fair play.

The Igbo worldview frowns seriously at injustice and inequity because of the realization that progress, development and peace cannot succeed under the superstructure of injustice and arbitrariness...

Philgafauto:
Nigerians and Christians, I hope you are sitting down. I am going to blow your mind. I am going to share with you the secret of life. Ready? Good. THERE IS NO GOD. Your success or failure is all dependent on you so wishing and praying does not further anything for you. Life is like a casino and you can never hit 7 every time. You win some, you lose some. The only thing you can do is prepare yourself for when you hit 7 and take full advantage of it.

Bringing the foregoing within the context of Nigerian politics, i will say that the reason many young people and Christians are hurt is because we have a simplistic view of this life. Because western civilization is built on Judeo-Christian values, we have clung so much to religion (Christianity) that we believe there is a divine being that solves our problems and will come down to dispense justice according to our notion of good and evil. This misconception has made so many christians complacent, while forgetting that humans are basically higher animals who will go to any length to acquire power and wealth. Bola Ahmed Tinubu is the personification of all Nigerian Christians have come to acknowledge is wrong and evil. He has nebulous origins, his shadowy educational background, long history of drug smuggling, connections with the criminal underworld in Nigeria and so many other vices too many to comprehend. But the man is a genius at understanding that the African societies in general and Nigeria in particular is not yet fully evolved in the sense that our institutions are weak and corrupt. His presidential ambitions date back to the 90s when he was an acolyte to late Bashorun MKO Abiola and he began his network his then. I will come back to this later in the write up.

You see Nigerians and fellow Christians, evil rules in this world and if you are not ready to play within the evolutionary boundaries of your society, you will continue to fail in your endeavors. The rot in Nigeria is fundamental and systemic but it came to a head for me personally in the early 2000s when our young men began indulging in cybercrime and they made headway and have continued to thrive above and beyond clean and legit citizens. This rot has now permeated our political, judicial and military system. I am a lawyer by profession and i remember the question asked by late Justice Chukwudifo Oputa (of blessed memory) that if the judiciary is corrupt, where should the people go? If the executive is corrupt, you go to the judiciary for redress, if the legislature is corrupt, you find your way to the judiciary for relief, but when the judiciary is corrupt, where do you go? This poser aptly captures the predicament of Nigeria today. As a lawyer and a Nigerian, it pains me that we have to go through this mess to realize how royally f*cked we are. If we had as a society relegated religion and elevated practical nation building, with strong critical state institutions, there is no way Bola Ahmed Tinubu would have been able to defeat all our institutions no matter how much billions he had. If we had strong institutions, he would not even had been a Governor in Lagos State. Anyways, that is water under under the bridge and in a few hours time he would be sworn in as President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. And for the record, no non-existent God or sky daddy will do shit about it. We got ourselves into this situation because we are blindly religious, not fully evolved as human beings and we have millions of illiterates all over the country.

When the white man says blacks cannot build a functional society, it is not racism but the fact. A strong virile society is built on the bedrock of the rule of law, not prayers and prophecies. That is why the Americans say "so that we have a society of laws and not of men". Even the US, the bastion of democracy and Christianity are still not totally free from the frailties of human nature. Corruption and executive overreach still rears its ugly head in that model society. That is why the founding fathers of America took many months to craft the American constitution and the Bill of Rights in the commonwealth of Pennsylvania, ensured that the guiding document had inbuilt structures to guard against rampant corruption and state capture. That is why the 2nd amendment (gun rights) was built into the constitution-- because the founding fathers, even though christians, knew that the citizens must have the right to defend themselves against their government. Enough of the American histrionics.

As for Nigeria, we should know that our supreme court derives its authority from the compliance of every strata of society to its rulings and dictates. Put simply, that institution is only as strong as we make it. Same goes for the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. Section 1(2) of Nigeria's Constitution says the government shall derive its authority and legitimacy from the people of Nigeria. There are salient provisions which stipulates the requirements for any individual to be sworn in as the President but a few strong men have ignored that and want to swear in Bola Ahmed Tinubu in a few hours from now. Like i said earlier, no God will intervene because societies are built by human beings. Even in our individual lives, it is our hardwork and efforts that pay off and not any prayer. This election should teach Christians to be practical with their lives, plan, educate yourself and your families, know thy enemies/adversaries and adopt the can do spirit. Do not allow any Man of God or GO to deceive you that one sky daddy will bless you without hard work and enterprise. Do not allow them to feed you with fake prophecies going forward. If you have the means, you can emigrate and raise your families in advanced countries. Nigeria is not getting any better soon because the foundation of the country is faulty.

On an individual level, do all it takes to make it and depend less on prayer. Plan for the long haul like our incoming President who saw that Nigeria is corrupt and was savvy enough to build a crony capitalist system in Lagos State that enabled him pilfer trillions of naira from of the coffers Lagos State to buy our critical institutions and the Presidency. Though corrupt, we cannot deny his organizational and tactical acumen. He, being the robber baron that he is, knows that, other than the few western nations, most of the countries in the world are still backward, with weak institutional and legal frameworks to guard against state capture. While you absorb the pain of seeing Tinubu being sworn in in a few hours' time, don't dwell on it too much, but let it be a realization that good most times never prevails against evil in the real world as opposed to what your religious leaders tell you.

Philgafauto:
Nigerians and Christians, I hope you are sitting down. I am going to blow your mind. I am going to share with you the secret of life. Ready? Good. THERE IS NO GOD. Your success or failure is all dependent on you so wishing and praying does not further anything for you. Life is like a casino and you can never hit 7 every time. You win some, you lose some. The only thing you can do is prepare yourself for when you hit 7 and take full advantage of it.

Bringing the foregoing within the context of Nigerian politics, i will say that the reason many young people and Christians are hurt is because we have a simplistic view of this life. Because western civilization is built on Judeo-Christian values, we have clung so much to religion (Christianity) that we believe there is a divine being that solves our problems and will come down to dispense justice according to our notion of good and evil. This misconception has made so many christians complacent, while forgetting that humans are basically higher animals who will go to any length to acquire power and wealth. Bola Ahmed Tinubu is the personification of all Nigerian Christians have come to acknowledge is wrong and evil. He has nebulous origins, his shadowy educational background, long history of drug smuggling, connections with the criminal underworld in Nigeria and so many other vices too many to comprehend. But the man is a genius at understanding that the African societies in general and Nigeria in particular is not yet fully evolved in the sense that our institutions are weak and corrupt. His presidential ambitions date back to the 90s when he was an acolyte to late Bashorun MKO Abiola and he began his network his then. I will come back to this later in the write up.

You see Nigerians and fellow Christians, evil rules in this world and if you are not ready to play within the evolutionary boundaries of your society, you will continue to fail in your endeavors. The rot in Nigeria is fundamental and systemic but it came to a head for me personally in the early 2000s when our young men began indulging in cybercrime and they made headway and have continued to thrive above and beyond clean and legit citizens. This rot has now permeated our political, judicial and military system. I am a lawyer by profession and i remember the question asked by late Justice Chukwudifo Oputa (of blessed memory) that if the judiciary is corrupt, where should the people go? If the executive is corrupt, you go to the judiciary for redress, if the legislature is corrupt, you find your way to the judiciary for relief, but when the judiciary is corrupt, where do you go? This poser aptly captures the predicament of Nigeria today. As a lawyer and a Nigerian, it pains me that we have to go through this mess to realize how royally f*cked we are. If we had as a society relegated religion and elevated practical nation building, with strong critical state institutions, there is no way Bola Ahmed Tinubu would have been able to defeat all our institutions no matter how much billions he had. If we had strong institutions, he would not even had been a Governor in Lagos State. Anyways, that is water under under the bridge and in a few hours time he would be sworn in as President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. And for the record, no non-existent God or sky daddy will do shit about it. We got ourselves into this situation because we are blindly religious, not fully evolved as human beings and we have millions of illiterates all over the country.

When the white man says blacks cannot build a functional society, it is not racism but the fact. A strong virile society is built on the bedrock of the rule of law, not prayers and prophecies. That is why the Americans say "so that we have a society of laws and not of men". Even the US, the bastion of democracy and Christianity are still not totally free from the frailties of human nature. Corruption and executive overreach still rears its ugly head in that model society. That is why the founding fathers of America took many months to craft the American constitution and the Bill of Rights in the commonwealth of Pennsylvania, ensured that the guiding document had inbuilt structures to guard against rampant corruption and state capture. That is why the 2nd amendment (gun rights) was built into the constitution-- because the founding fathers, even though christians, knew that the citizens must have the right to defend themselves against their government. Enough of the American histrionics.

As for Nigeria, we should know that our supreme court derives its authority from the compliance of every strata of society to its rulings and dictates. Put simply, that institution is only as strong as we make it. Same goes for the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. Section 1(2) of Nigeria's Constitution says the government shall derive its authority and legitimacy from the people of Nigeria. There are salient provisions which stipulates the requirements for any individual to be sworn in as the President but a few strong men have ignored that and want to swear in Bola Ahmed Tinubu in a few hours from now. Like i said earlier, no God will intervene because societies are built by human beings. Even in our individual lives, it is our hardwork and efforts that pay off and not any prayer. This election should teach Christians to be practical with their lives, plan, educate yourself and your families, know thy enemies/adversaries and adopt the can do spirit. Do not allow any Man of God or GO to deceive you that one sky daddy will bless you without hard work and enterprise. Do not allow them to feed you with fake prophecies going forward. If you have the means, you can emigrate and raise your families in advanced countries. Nigeria is not getting any better soon because the foundation of the country is faulty.

On an individual level, do all it takes to make it and depend less on prayer. Plan for the long haul like our incoming President who saw that Nigeria is corrupt and was savvy enough to build a crony capitalist system in Lagos State that enabled him pilfer trillions of naira from of the coffers Lagos State to buy our critical institutions and the Presidency. Though corrupt, we cannot deny his organizational and tactical acumen. He, being the robber baron that he is, knows that, other than the few western nations, most of the countries in the world are still backward, with weak institutional and legal frameworks to guard against state capture. While you absorb the pain of seeing Tinubu being sworn in in a few hours' time, don't dwell on it too much, but let it be a realization that good most times never prevails against evil in the real world as opposed to what your religious leaders tell you.

Pwettylinda:
Na ona way when it favours your tribe nothing is wrong.

Tribalist

Houseontherock1:
Please don't mislead people because you feel pained- God answers prayers! We can't blame him for not praying aright! I prayed for Tinubu's victory and I got it! I had to pray for Tinubu's victory because at a point I couldn't stand the rudeness and obnoxious attitude of the so-called disobedients! I hope they learn from this