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Re: Thought Provoking Analysis On Non Traditional Religion by NumberOne2(m): 12:36pm On Jul 21, 2015
Blaming Christianity for the poverty and lack of development seen in Africa. This is also FALSE.
The largest economy in the World (USA) is still very religious. We also know about German technological might.

Wikipedia:
USA: According to a 2014 study by the Pew Research Center, 70.6% of the American population identified themselves as Christians.
GERMANY: Christianity is the largest religion in Germany with 62% of the total population.


Religious beliefs have NOTHING to do with Poverty. There are poor Christians, and rich Atheist and vice versa. Even for muslims. There are rich Arab nations like Saudi and Qatar.

That ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust. - Matt 5:45

Until Africans stop blaming SLAVE TRADE, COLONIALISM etc for their backwardness, we will NEVER move forward. Hausa blame Igbo, Yoruba blame Ijaw. Is this the WHITE MAN's doing? Look at our House of Assembly. Please... undecided

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Re: Thought Provoking Analysis On Non Traditional Religion by Nobody: 12:36pm On Jul 21, 2015
kingstylo01:
You call Jesus a false white God?


*Walks out of thread!* angry

Your average christian. You've been programmed to just shut down once your belief is questioned

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Re: Thought Provoking Analysis On Non Traditional Religion by An2elect2(f): 12:36pm On Jul 21, 2015
You guys need to get your heads out of your pants, and face reality: Religion is not and has never been the drawback of any nation enough of this stupid reasoning.

And calling Jesus the whiteman god makes you look more stupi.d! undecided undecided
Re: Thought Provoking Analysis On Non Traditional Religion by Nobody: 12:38pm On Jul 21, 2015
I asked God for bicycle when i was a teenager but he never listened, so i went and stole a bicycle and ask God for forgiveness..

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Re: Thought Provoking Analysis On Non Traditional Religion by Beanscake: 12:38pm On Jul 21, 2015
chiedu7:
African gods are nothing but idols made with the hands of men.
True. White Jesus and Arabic Allah are not idols.

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Re: Thought Provoking Analysis On Non Traditional Religion by UrbanMystique: 12:38pm On Jul 21, 2015
franconian:
"like we once was the greatest nation on the planet"

OP, when was that?


egypt was once the greatest country on earth. They became great without jesus or mahamad.

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Re: Thought Provoking Analysis On Non Traditional Religion by Nobody: 12:39pm On Jul 21, 2015
x9ja1960:



This is the part I find so pathetic!

On a lighter note, please encourage any religious 'suffer-head' you know to avail themselves of some earthly pleasures, lest they suffer a massive shock from an unaccustomed luxury in heaven. grin grin grin

grin grin hahah. I'm starting to think that lazy people are heaven believers. I'll feel very weird to just sit there for eternity doing absolutely nothing but 'enjoying' ..

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Re: Thought Provoking Analysis On Non Traditional Religion by freecocoa(f): 12:39pm On Jul 21, 2015
Will they listen?

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Re: Thought Provoking Analysis On Non Traditional Religion by johnydon22(m): 12:41pm On Jul 21, 2015
hahn:


Booking space, are we? tongue
Hahahaha check that space again, it has been developed!!! grin
Re: Thought Provoking Analysis On Non Traditional Religion by davien(m): 12:41pm On Jul 21, 2015
Bianda24:
i think the writer is the one who does not reason. Thank God he is educated, i supposed. The Christian God as being used by him is the God who loves us. Traditional religion is evil, its tenets are not in conformity with Christianity. i think he is the one to think deeply to know which one is confusing and convincing. I cant imagine in all honesty that someone at this age and time debunk or speak ill of Christianity.
Please explain the bolded...must something conform with christianity to be good?

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Re: Thought Provoking Analysis On Non Traditional Religion by hahn(m): 12:42pm On Jul 21, 2015
johnydon22:
Hahahaha check that space again, it has been developed!!! grin

I had a feeling it was under construction grin
Re: Thought Provoking Analysis On Non Traditional Religion by lomprico(m): 12:43pm On Jul 21, 2015
Come to think of it, even the jews dont practice the white mans christianity. They still follow their religion of old.

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Re: Thought Provoking Analysis On Non Traditional Religion by kritikali(m): 12:43pm On Jul 21, 2015
Thank GOD,op is just recovering from hangover..that explains alot.
Re: Thought Provoking Analysis On Non Traditional Religion by An2elect2(f): 12:45pm On Jul 21, 2015
NumberOne2:
Blaming Christianity for the poverty and lack of development seen in Africa. This is also FALSE.
The largest economy in the World (USA) is still very religious. We also know about German technological might.

Wikipedia:
USA: According to a 2014 study by the Pew Research Center, 70.6% of the American population identified themselves as Christians.
GERMANY: Christianity is the largest religion in Germany with 62% of the total population.


Religious beliefs have NOTHING to do with Poverty. There are poor Christians, and rich Atheist and vice versa.

That ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust. - Matt 5:45

Even for muslims. There are rich Arab nations like Saudi and Qatar.

Until Africans stop blaming SLAVE TRADE, COLONIALISM etc for their backwardness, we will NEVER move forward. Hausa blame Igbo, Yoruba blame Ijaw. Is this the WHITE MAN's doing?


Cosign to some of the things you have said. Others are Btw for now.

Let me add that those who are blaming religion for our "slowness" should show us what they have done so far without religion. Bunch of...n undecided undecided

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Re: Thought Provoking Analysis On Non Traditional Religion by hahn(m): 12:46pm On Jul 21, 2015
franconian:
"like we once was the greatest nation on the planet"

OP, when was that?



Good question!

Some people will like to refer to the moors. My question is, why didn't the moors ever think it neccessary to teach other 0africans their secrets instead of leaving to another continent to teach THEM.

E don tey wey dem dey ja from Africa

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Re: Thought Provoking Analysis On Non Traditional Religion by SOUPF: 12:49pm On Jul 21, 2015
davien:
Aren't you contradicting yourself here?......If people believe in whatever they want how can they recognise objectively good deeds?.....If the action is done or justified by a belief in a reward and/or punishment scheme(like heaven/hell/re-incarnation/karma,etc) instead of because it's the right thing to do what happens when the rewards are promised for wicked or evil acts like boko haram and ISIS are doing? undecided
No sir,i ain't contradicting myself...when I say "believe in what you want to believe in",it simply means, you as an individual should do what is right, or should I say what your conscience tells you is right,not what another person tells you is right or wrong,because there are so many interpretations to verses in all holy books..

if you believe there's a God somewhere then you should know you alone will stand for judgement, nobody else will be there to defend you... ,but if you don't believe there a God,just live by your conscience...

You have a point in your post though...

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Re: Thought Provoking Analysis On Non Traditional Religion by franconian: 12:50pm On Jul 21, 2015
UrbanMystique:
egypt was once the greatest country on earth. They became great without jesus or mahamad.

If he was referring to Egypt, fine. But Egypt is not Africa... It's just one of the numerous Africa nations.
Re: Thought Provoking Analysis On Non Traditional Religion by davien(m): 12:51pm On Jul 21, 2015
An2elect2:
You guys need to get your heads out of your pants, and face reality: Religion is not and has never been the drawback of any nation enough of this stupid reasoning.

And calling Jesus the whiteman god makes you look more stupi.d! undecided undecided
Okay....then please tell us why secular nations are light-years ahead in education,way of living,health,economic progress,etc while africans wallow in the mud and keep saying god would solve their problems? undecided

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Re: Thought Provoking Analysis On Non Traditional Religion by lolaxavier(m): 12:54pm On Jul 21, 2015
kingstylo01:
You call Jesus a false white God?


*Walks out of thread!* angry

Part of your inability to think.

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Re: Thought Provoking Analysis On Non Traditional Religion by Atlantian: 12:55pm On Jul 21, 2015
The one I find funniest is telling someone that Hellfire will burn him for eternity. And I ask, CAN FIRE BURN SPIRIT ? Total ignorance.

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Re: Thought Provoking Analysis On Non Traditional Religion by pimplucious: 12:55pm On Jul 21, 2015
kingstylo01:
You call Jesus a false white God?


*Walks out of thread!* angry

This quote below is a perfect description of u

"Self appointed guardian of the status quo. A sheep which no longer need a sheep dog to control them, instead they control each other by ostracizing those who dared stand out from the norm"

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Re: Thought Provoking Analysis On Non Traditional Religion by davien(m): 12:55pm On Jul 21, 2015
SOUPF:
No sir,i ain't contradicting myself...when I say "believe in what you want to believe in",it simply means, you as an individual should do what is right, or should I say what your conscience tells you is right,not what another person tells you is right or wrong,because there are so many interpretations to verses in all holy books..
Okay

if you believe there's a God somewhere then you should know you alone will stand for judgement, nobody else will be there to defend you... ,but if you don't believe there a God,just live by your conscience...

You have a point in your post though...
what i'm trying to pass to you is that belief influences actions....why do you think anyone would bother joining boko haram if they don't believe(forced or voluntary) in the cause?...belief in god/gods influences actions and behaviour to correspond to what the belief dictates...whether killing,raping,etc..

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Re: Thought Provoking Analysis On Non Traditional Religion by UrbanMystique: 1:01pm On Jul 21, 2015
franconian:


If he was referring to Egypt, fine. But Egypt is not Africa... It's just one of the numerous Africa nations.
there was no other country in africa before modernization .. just tribes. only egypt and probably ethopia can be called country at a time.

and each tribes are doing great on their before invasion

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Re: Thought Provoking Analysis On Non Traditional Religion by delishpot: 1:02pm On Jul 21, 2015
I dey follow una
Re: Thought Provoking Analysis On Non Traditional Religion by pucci(m): 1:05pm On Jul 21, 2015
datalossvictim1:
Hello everyone, Whilst recovering from a hangover I decided to scroll through Facebook and found this interesting piece by Chukwuka Igbomor.


-Thanks for this great documentary Nigeria used to be a great nation with its different regions until the Europeans came and robbed us naked they used RELIGION to kill our spirituality by giving us a fasle white god called jesus and they used politics to posses our teritory, and today Nigeria is like a nonetity of a nation.

While they use bad leaders who are sellouts and traitors to steal our resources and put us in darkness so that we will forever be dependent on them and their false teachings and ideologies... we Africans are so used to folding our hands and looking while our heads are beign cut off. most of us are content with foolishness, a lot of weak and ignorant minds who prefer to live in slavery than to die for freedom, we need brave hearts to stand up against foolishness and speak against this evil that is beign perpetuated in our own soil. We need to curb out this mentality of suffer suffer for world to enjoy for imaginery heaven. Our people accept suffering on earth thinking they will enjoy in heaven. Also we need to curb out this turn the other cheek mentality. Which Europeans used to rob us naked. We need to push out the evil African leaders who are in position of power only to sell us out to foreigners for their own selfish individual gains.

It can only be done by Us Africans standing up for the truth and against bad leadership and oppression. Education is the key to unlocking the doors to greatness like we once was the greatest nation on the planet now we are beign reduced to foolish people who sit and look while everything around us is in disarray. Our people have lost the ability to think critically for when u can believe snake spoke to eve and gave her apple to eat and give adam, once you can believe this fable as truth u can never be able to think critically and reasonably. They use such stories to see how gullible we can be so when they do their evil deeds we cant even reason to see its wrong.

When we are still calling Abraham, isaac and jacob our ancestors how can we have sense.
The problem with the African people who refuse to see reality of their situation cos their brains have been conditioned to accept suffering as normal, evil as normal and thus the Evil men of the world are having a laugh feeding on the ignorance of our people.-

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Re: Thought Provoking Analysis On Non Traditional Religion by Nobody: 1:05pm On Jul 21, 2015
kingstylo01:
You call Jesus a false white God?


*Walks out of thread!* angry

Lol, am shocked cuz u don't kno. Jesus they sold to u is a European man. Ask urself n investigate as well, can someone who was born in d middle east be white

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Re: Thought Provoking Analysis On Non Traditional Religion by franconian: 1:11pm On Jul 21, 2015
UrbanMystique:
there was no other country in africa before modernization .. just tribes. only egypt and probably ethopia can be called country at a time.

and each tribes are doing great on their before invasion

They were doing great, Africa as a whole was doing great before they came with Bible, Quran, Gun, and democracy. But saying Africa was the best nation at some point in history is pure exaggeration!!!

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Re: Thought Provoking Analysis On Non Traditional Religion by An2elect2(f): 1:12pm On Jul 21, 2015
davien:
Okay....then please tell us why secular nations are light-years ahead in education,way of living,health,economic progress,etc while africans wallow in the mud and keep saying god would solve their problems? undecided

If men sit comfortably on a seat without problems, do we blame the seat if a weakling sits on it and slips off?
undecided

When will you do away with the internet, English language and others, dont they make you feel inferior and do great harm to your psyche as a "progressive":man. undecided undecided
Re: Thought Provoking Analysis On Non Traditional Religion by Nobody: 1:13pm On Jul 21, 2015
So, according to op, the day we all revert back to worshipping obatala, shango, ahmadioha, etc, our problems are over?

Black race get big issues. Seriously.

If we are not blaming white man for our problems, we are blaming religion.

Alright, let's keep playing the blame game and victim card while other races who have experienced colonialism have moved on.


For God sake, its time to move on!!! angry

Whatever you choose to worship is your personal business.

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