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Martinez19:
Hmm. Africa isn't ready for radical outspoken atheism. Go to Egypt and be outspoken about you being an atheist, you will know hell and harassment. Some parts of Nigeria are like that. Unlike you christians, we don't have an afterlife and a reward from a divine being if we die or suffer for being atheists. This life is it, we only live once and we won't to enjoy life and avoid troubles that aren't worth it.

bloodofthelamb:
Smh!

Deception is the garmet of the devil.

Butterflyleo:
In a nutshell, atheism IS HOPELESS!

Butterflyleo:
And the devil wears atheism in XXXXXXL size

Martinez19:
I know but some people do deprive others of their right and get away with it. I such a case, there is nothing one can do eg. If a lecturer purposely fail you here in Nigeria, there is nothing you can do.

CAPSLOCKED:

HOW HAVE YOU MANAGED TO KEEP ALL THESE PEOPLE CLOSE?
I MEAN, THEY ALL START TO THINK YOU'RE ABNORMAL THE MINUTE THEY DISCOVER YOU'RE DIFFERENT.
HOW HAVE YOU MANAGED TO LET THEM KNOW THAT FREETHINKING IS NOT INSANITY?

Martinez19:
It's a lose-lose situation. The girl had a device that caught the lecturer soliciting for sex. In the exam hall, there are no telephone devices allowed that will enable you to compare what you wrote in the examination and the script they will release if you sue them. Even if you did, they could suspend you for bringing phone to the examination hall. If you nailed the lecturer successfully, his friends will frustrate you.

bloodofthelamb:
Atheism and hypocrisy are five and six. If you can't die for what you believe in, you ain't living.

Martinez19:
Hope is not the basis of truth. Imagine(if you have any imaginative power) a man is in a man eater lion's cage and he believes that the green divine dragon will save him. The fact that his belief gives him hope doesn't mean it's true and the lion won't kill him. The truth, though hopeless, is that the lion will kill him. So my fellow atheist (who went morally astray), hope is not the basis of truth.

gabe:
Abeg don't cause unnecessary problems for yourself. Religion makes rational people irrational. Someone once said 'good people do good deeds and evil people do evil deeds but for a good person to do evil? That takes religion'.A good normal lecturer might think he/she is doing the Lord's work by victimizing you, so as to change your mind and free you from 'demonic possession'. Atheism is not religion that mandates you to evangelize.

bloodofthelamb:
Smh!

Deception is the garmet of the devil.

johnydon22:
Amazingly they don't automatically assume I was insane. The first hint I notice is curiosity.

You don't believe in God? Wow. How come?

Why?

What do you believe in?

I take time to explain, try to sate their curiosity the best way I can.

They don't lose their respect or love for me. They somehow develop a different kind of admiration and respect.


Maybe because no one really have any leverage on me.

CAPSLOCKED:

MAYBE THAT'S WHY THEY'VE NOT BEEN TELLING YOU ALL THE TRASH THEY HAVE IN THEIR MINDS ABOUT YOU.

superhumanist:
Martinez19,

IF YOU ARE IN NIGERIA, KEEP YOUR ATHEISM CLOSE TO YOURSELF.

The only exception to this rule is when you are financially independent. You have money to support yourself and so, no religious fool can touch you.


Please, do not listen to Johnydon22. Even though the guy makes sense most of the time, he likes to behave like Martin Luther King thinking that his oppressors will change if you are nice and open with them.

The average Nigerian is religiously crazy. You are in a nation of crazy religious people and you think they will act normally to your rejection of their religion?


Oga, quietly study and make your money. Forget exposing yourself to dangerous people.


I have experience working in different companies across southern Nigeria and soon I will open a diary on it so that people will know where I am coming from

superhumanist:
Martinez19,

IF YOU ARE IN NIGERIA, KEEP YOUR ATHEISM CLOSE TO YOURSELF.

The only exception to this rule is when you are financially independent. You have money to support yourself and so, no religious fool can touch you.


Please, do not listen to Johnydon22. Even though the guy makes sense most of the time, he likes to behave like Martin Luther King thinking that his oppressors will change if you are nice and open with them.

The average Nigerian is religiously crazy. You are in a nation of crazy religious people and you think they will act normally to your rejection of their religion?


Oga, quietly study and make your money. Forget exposing yourself to dangerous people.


I have experience working in different companies across southern Nigeria and soon I will open a diary on it so that people will know where I am coming from

johnydon22:
Aren't the bolded exactly what I said bro?

johnydon22:
Amazingly they don't automatically assume I was insane. The first hint I notice is curiosity.

You don't believe in God? Wow. How come?

Why?

What do you believe in?

I take time to explain, try to sate their curiosity the best way I can.

They don't lose their respect or love for me. They somehow develop a different kind of admiration and respect.

Maybe because no one really have any leverage on me.

superhumanist:
Yes. But you like talking with two sides of your mouth. Let me analyse your comment below



Either you are delusional with your success or you are lying.

Bro, I am independent as well. However, religion is a madness of its own. There are people who will beg you for money and still advice you to stop your satanic ways so that you can give your life to Christ.

Even at work, people will use style to bring you to their church. Virtually every office on Nigeria has at least two "Deeply born agains" that will worry for your soul.


I remember one of my bosses who chopped blasting from the managing partner because he was unavailable due to Friday prayers at the mosque.

Obama was called an anti-christ just because he wasn't a serious Christian (or they suspected him to be a secret atheist)


In short, most Nigerian Christians do not respond with curiousity when they face an atheist (especially for the first time). This means that I am saying that you are lying when you claim that your family and friends respond with curiousity to your atheism.

The initial response is that they think

-you are joking
-you are mad
-you don join cult
-you don become Satanist.


The above is far more popular as responses than curiousity. Or maybe you are thinking that their questions are not sarcastic.

frank317:
Hi I must let u know that I am facing almost the same situation with Johnny. I agree that it's OK to b financially independent before u let ur atheism come to the open.

But it's not the only reason why I am not being persecuted as an atheist.

I have a very domineering personality. I don't give people the opportunity to talk down on me. Even my bosses can't. But some how and luckily my past two bosses are really against churches and are closet atheists as far as I am concerned.

But my colleagues feel very intimidated when ever they are around me. I make them look like fools so they avoid religious discussions with them.

Most times I force them to talk and make a fool of them... Then never born the person that will persecute me because of my believe.. I will shut u down.

However I have a very interesting personality... I am easily likeable and people easily think I am smart, perhaps because I am bold. People like me for always being honest and outspoken and are ready to forget about my religious status when dealing with me... Therefore in the bid not to hate me they rather we don't talk religion despite my always itching to.

My family just tire for me... They really cannot do anything... They just say they are praying for me and we are all good.

I think in my case the situation is the other way round... I persecute religious folks instead

bloodofthelamb:
Smh!

Deception is the garmet of the devil.

Martinez19:
I know but some people do deprive others of their right and get away with it. I such a case, there is nothing one can do eg. If a lecturer purposely fail you here in Nigeria, there is nothing you can do.

superhumanist:
Two questions then

1. Are you based in Nigeria?

2. Are you saying that you have not had incidents with your coworkers?

ScienceWatch:
The secret is that Atheists have agreed to violently attack and curse a God they claim can never exist.They have made a pact to beat up this non-existent God and his Son JESUS CHRIST.

It is well known that inmates in a Mental Asylum exhibit such behavior constantly.
I am aware that Sonofthunder finds this hilarious. Atheist behaviour is like a script out of a horror movie.

Be careful, this is not a genuine Religious forum, Christians get banned for countering the insults and mockery of resident atheists.

The foundations of Atheism has collapsed like the Berlin wall.

superhumanist:
In short, most Nigerian Christians do not respond with curiousity when they face an atheist (especially for the first time). This means that I am saying that you are lying when you claim that your family and friends respond with curiousity to your atheism.

ScienceWatch:
For every action there is a reaction equal and opposite, this is also UNBREAKABLE spiritual law.
You as a Satanic atheist have mocked and insulted millions of innocent people and worked hard to deprive them of their spiritual rights.

Now your cruel actions will turn and bite you.

superhumanist:
Yes. But you like talking with two sides of your mouth. Let me analyse your comment below



Either you are delusional with your success or you are lying.

Bro, I am independent as well. However, religion is a madness of its own. There are people who will beg you for money and still advice you to stop your satanic ways so that you can give your life to Christ.

Even at work, people will use style to bring you to their church. Virtually every office on Nigeria has at least two "Deeply born agains" that will worry for your soul.


I remember one of my bosses who chopped blasting from the managing partner because he was unavailable due to Friday prayers at the mosque.

Obama was called an anti-christ just because he wasn't a serious Christian (or they suspected him to be a secret atheist)


In short, most Nigerian Christians do not respond with curiousity when they face an atheist (especially for the first time). This means that I am saying that you are lying when you claim that your family and friends respond with curiousity to your atheism.

The initial response is that they think

-you are joking
-you are mad
-you don join cult
-you don become Satanist.


The above is far more popular as responses than curiousity. Or maybe you are thinking that their questions are not sarcastic.

budaatum:
That's a rather bold statement Super. Doesn't it depend on the sort of Christians one meets, and the way one exhibits one's atheism?

Martinez19:
@ johnydon22, let's not fault superhumanist, he might have had many consistent experiences with christians to come to that conclusion.

Nevertheless, to be safe I would follow the advice of superhumanist.

johnydon22:
If you feel your revelation might be detrimental to your progress or welfare in school or prospective job.

I don't see the importance of such revelation

johnydon22:
Why exactly is it important for the lecturer to know you are an atheist?

johnydon22:
Sometimes I feel that some outspokenness are misplaced and unnecessary.

If there is ethnic tension in Nigeria and I'm Igbo living in the North, I won't be so quick to let anyone know I'm Igbo

johnydon22:
So in other words, your experience must mirror mine or else i am lying or delusional?

great.