If you are in Nairaland and you don't know that the owner is an atheist, then you probably just joined very newly.
I have been on nairaland for a long time, and the one thing i can say for certain about Nairaland is that Seun is a religious apologist, and helps propagate religious beliefs; something he should be helping people who don't know better to be free of.

Why do i say that Seun is a religious apologist and propagandist?
Seun has one of the biggest social media platform in Africa, not just Nigeria. He lives in a country where Religious freedom is deeply entrenched in the country's constitution, something that even allowed him follow his non-religious path of atheism.
As part of attending to the Religious needs of his platforms members and guests alike, he added the Religious section to Nairaland. One would applaud such as a wonderful move because there is nothing bad with people of like/similar faith/minds congregating online to discuss and share their religious beliefs(or non-belief), convictions and practices.

However, the usual pettiness that has kept Nigeria and Africa down set in. The same pettiness that has made snake threads a constant feature in the front-page.

1) First there is the swearing that you believe in Allah before you can comment on a Muslim thread. Like seriously? People are forced to comment with a silly religious tag before commenting on a free website; a reverse psychological way of making people avoid such threads since they wouldn't want to be tagged with that religious nonsense. This is because after commenting, the tag follows you everywhere else on the site like a permanent tag.
I cannot comment on a Muslim thread because I am forced to accept something i don't believe in. This is tantamount to the physical religious jihad/wars in which you either convert or die.
You have no right to enforce such rule on anybody Seun Osewa, as you are contravening Section 39(1) of the 1999 constitution of Nigeria as Amended:
"Every person shall be entitled to freedom of expression, including freedom to hold opinions and to receive and impart ideas and information without interference".
It doesn't matter if you own Nairaland. Nairaland is a business entity registered under the Laws of Nigeria and therefore subject to the constitution of the land.

Furthermore, you are also expressly disobeying Section 42 of the constitution with this vicious discriminatory policy Viz:
"S.42(1) A citizen of Nigeria of a particular community, ethnic group, place of origin, sex, religion or political opinion shall not, by reason only that he is such a person:-
(a) be subjected either expressly by, or in the practical application of, any law in force in Nigeria [/b]or any executive or administrative action of the government, to disabilities or restrictions to which citizens of Nigeria of other communities, ethnic groups, places of origin, sex, religions or political opinions are not made subject; or
(b) be accorded either expressly by, or in the practical application of, [b]any law in force in Nigeria or any such executive or administrative action, any privilege or advantage that is not accorded to citizens of Nigeria of other communities, ethnic groups, places of origin, sex, religions or political opinions."
Note the bolded @"...any law in Nigeria..."

You are forthwith adviced to fall in line with the law of the land or apply a general rule about posting in the religious section.
A Muslim cannot be free to comment on a christian thread or atheist thread or any other non-muslim thread without swearing to anything, whereas other non-muslims are forced to do so on Muslim threads. That's the highest point of discrimination and suffocation of freedom of religion and expression. It is a coded religious propagation and exactly what an apologist will do; unless you are a closet atheist and a Muslim in real life.

2) Every Friday, Muslim threads are pushed to the front-page, flooding the front page of Nairaland with at least 5+ Muslim threads.
Also, every Sunday, christian threads flood the front-page with at least 5+ threads.
@Seun Osewa has chosen the two days to push religious beliefs to other Nairalanders face without caring about anything.
However, does he accord the same privilege to other people who are not Muslims and Christians? No!

@Seun Osewa, why are you afraid to push the following threads from religion section to front page?
- Freethinkers thread,
- Atheists threads,
- Traditionalists thread,
- Agnostics threads,
- Humanists threads and other threads that are not Muslim or Christian related.
Why do you still discriminate despite having the platform to bridge the silly discrimination that has pervaded the entire Nigeria in our physical world?
You move and push religious propagation, but are afraid to push non-muslim/christian doctrines of christians and Muslims. Yet, you want us to believe you are not religious.

The last time i checked, all the christian and Muslim threads contravenes Rule 8 Of Nairaland, making them unfit to even be existing to begin with.
For emphasis, Rule number 8 of Nairaland Rules states:
"Don't post false information on Nairaland."
All muslim and christian threads on Nairaland are false threads ab initio seeing as they are not facts and have never been proved. They are all simple opinions to begin with, but they're being pushed to the front page nonetheless.

You @Seun Osewa should address this issues immediately. I am not the first to complain, and i am not sure i am even the first person to call you out publicly about this. You can ban me if you want, but stop being a religious apologist and propagandist.

Whatever is good for the goose is good for the gander.
The same way christian and muslim threads are pushed to the front page is also the same way non-muslim/christian threads should be pushed to the front page at given days of the week. I cannot tell you not to push christian/muslim threads to the front-page because they're a big demographics for your site. However, justice, equity and fairness demands that what is good for the goose is good for the gander. Non-muslim/christian threads will hit higher demographics outside the religious section which a lot of people don't enter. But, you are deliberately restricting it because you are an apologist and religious propagandist.
There are a lot of non-believers who visit Nairaland front-page daily. Such threads on the front-page will also tell them about people of similar beliefs, seeing as most people prefer to keep their non-religious beliefs and affiliation to themselves because of the society we are in.
Do what is right, and prove me wrong that you are not a religious apologist and propagandist.

Regards!

Yass!

I will never understand all of these shaaa.... Nairaland is a free to use platform and is not binding that users must remain if dissatisfied its operations wonder why we keep on whining about how it is run

Nawa ohhh

Pls shout it louder so he will hear.


Not having enough courage to stand for the truth and what is right is somewhat a variant of cowardice.

Yes I complained the same , I believe seun sold Nairaland a long time ago , because really important topics don't even make it to new , talkless of trending topics.
Tacha , snakes, Buhari's posture , ipob talks , davido new clothes , naira marly, Girl twerks topless these are the nonsense hitting fp

Yeah right, so what? Go get your own platform and set things straight

obinna58:
Yeah right, so what? Go get your own platform and set things straight

no shouldn't say that , he (the op) has his right to his opinion, if you cannot help , then STFU.

Also Meatheads and racists tribalistic fellows like this child should be frequently removed no matter how many times they create alternate monikers

Shame Seun is aalso an Atheist , and acts so much like a Muslim , telling us to swear to comment bs. I've never seen a logical Atheistic thread make fp before , don't you want them to think?

IamMichael:


If you are in Nairaland and you don't know that the owner is an atheist, then you probably just joined very newly.
I have been on nairaland for a long time, and the one thing i can say for certain about Nairaland is that Seun is a religious apologist, and helps propagate religious beliefs; something he should be helping people who don't know better to be free of.

Why do i say that Seun is a religious apologist and propagandist?
Seun has one of the biggest social media platform in Africa, not just Nigeria. He lives in a country where Religious freedom is deeply entrenched in the country's constitution, something that even allowed him follow his non-religious path of atheism.
As part of attending to the Religious needs of his platforms members and guests alike, he added the Religious section to Nairaland. One would applaud such as a wonderful move because there is nothing bad with people of like/similar faith/minds congregating online to discuss and share their religious beliefs(or non-belief), convictions and practices.

However, the usual pettiness that has kept Nigeria and Africa down set in. The same pettiness that has made snake threads a constant feature in the front-page.

1) First there is the swearing that you believe in Allah before you can comment on a Muslim thread. Like seriously? People are forced to comment with a silly religious tag before commenting on a free website; a reverse psychological way of making people avoid such threads since they wouldn't want to be tagged with that religious nonsense. This is because after commenting, the tag follows you everywhere else on the site like a permanent tag.
I cannot comment on a Muslim thread because I am forced to accept something i don't believe in. This is tantamount to the physical religious jihad/wars in which you either convert or die.
You have no right to enforce such rule on anybody Seun Osewa, as you are contravening Section 39(1) of the 1999 constitution of Nigeria as Amended:
"Every person shall be entitled to freedom of expression, including freedom to hold opinions and to receive and impart ideas and information without interference".
It doesn't matter if you own Nairaland. Nairaland is a business entity registered under the Laws of Nigeria and therefore subject to the constitution of the land.

Furthermore, you are also expressly disobeying Section 42 of the constitution with this vicious discriminatory policy Viz:
"S.42(1) A citizen of Nigeria of a particular community, ethnic group, place of origin, sex, religion or political opinion shall not, by reason only that he is such a person:-
(a) be subjected either expressly by, or in the practical application of, any law in force in Nigeria [/b]or any executive or administrative action of the government, to disabilities or restrictions to which citizens of Nigeria of other communities, ethnic groups, places of origin, sex, religions or political opinions are not made subject; or
(b) be accorded either expressly by, or in the practical application of, [b]any law in force in Nigeria or any such executive or administrative action, any privilege or advantage that is not accorded to citizens of Nigeria of other communities, ethnic groups, places of origin, sex, religions or political opinions."
Note the bolded @"...any law in Nigeria..."

You are forthwith adviced to fall in line with the law of the land or apply a general rule about posting in the religious section.
A Muslim cannot be free to comment on a christian thread or atheist thread or any other non-muslim thread without swearing to anything, whereas other non-muslims are forced to do so on Muslim threads. That's the highest point of discrimination and suffocation of freedom of religion and expression. It is a coded religious propagation and exactly what an apologist will do; unless you are a closet atheist and a Muslim in real life.

2) Every Friday, Muslim threads are pushed to the front-page, flooding the front page of Nairaland with at least 5+ Muslim threads.
Also, every Sunday, christian threads flood the front-page with at least 5+ threads.
@Seun Osewa has chosen the two days to push religious beliefs to other Nairalanders face without caring about anything.
However, does he accord the same privilege to other people who are not Muslims and Christians? No!

@Seun Osewa, why are you afraid to push the following threads from religion section to front page?
- Freethinkers thread,
- Atheists threads,
- Traditionalists thread,
- Agnostics threads,
- Humanists threads and other threads that are not Muslim or Christian related.
Why do you still discriminate despite having the platform to bridge the silly discrimination that has pervaded the entire Nigeria in our physical world?
You move and push religious propagation, but are afraid to push non-muslim/christian doctrines of christians and Muslims. Yet, you want us to believe you are not religious.

The last time i checked, all the christian and Muslim threads contravenes Rule 8 Of Nairaland, making them unfit to even be existing to begin with.
For emphasis, Rule number 8 of Nairaland Rules states:
"Don't post false information on Nairaland."
All muslim and christian threads on Nairaland are false threads ab initio seeing as they are not facts and have never been proved. They are all simple opinions to begin with, but they're being pushed to the front page nonetheless.

You @Seun Osewa should address this issues immediately. I am not the first to complain, and i am not sure i am even the first person to call you out publicly about this. You can ban me if you want, but stop being a religious apologist and propagandist.

Whatever is good for the goose is good for the gander.
The same way christian and muslim threads are pushed to the front page is also the same way non-muslim/christian threads should be pushed to the front page at given days of the week. I cannot tell you not to push christian/muslim threads to the front-page because they're a big demographics for your site. However, justice, equity and fairness demands that what is good for the goose is good for the gander. Non-muslim/christian threads will hit higher demographics outside the religious section which a lot of people don't enter. But, you are deliberately restricting it because you are an apologist and religious propagandist.
There are a lot of non-believers who visit Nairaland front-page daily. Such threads on the front-page will also tell them about people of similar beliefs, seeing as most people prefer to keep their non-religious beliefs and affiliation to themselves because of the society we are in.
Do what is right, and prove me wrong that you are not a religious apologist and propagandist.

Regards!

This should be on the front page,although I am not optimistic!

dat is becos most post by atheist tend to attack other people,s religion and insult their God...you hardly see a christian post attacking Mohamed or Muslim post attacking Jesus...neither do they attack thier respective books

IamMichael:


If you are in Nairaland and you don't know that the owner is an atheist, then you probably just joined very newly.
I have been on nairaland for a long time, and the one thing i can say for certain about Nairaland is that Seun is a religious apologist, and helps propagate religious beliefs; something he should be helping people who don't know better to be free of.

Why do i say that Seun is a religious apologist and propagandist?
Seun has one of the biggest social media platform in Africa, not just Nigeria. He lives in a country where Religious freedom is deeply entrenched in the country's constitution, something that even allowed him follow his non-religious path of atheism.
As part of attending to the Religious needs of his platforms members and guests alike, he added the Religious section to Nairaland. One would applaud such as a wonderful move because there is nothing bad with people of like/similar faith/minds congregating online to discuss and share their religious beliefs(or non-belief), convictions and practices.

However, the usual pettiness that has kept Nigeria and Africa down set in. The same pettiness that has made snake threads a constant feature in the front-page.

1) First there is the swearing that you believe in Allah before you can comment on a Muslim thread. Like seriously? People are forced to comment with a silly religious tag before commenting on a free website; a reverse psychological way of making people avoid such threads since they wouldn't want to be tagged with that religious nonsense. This is because after commenting, the tag follows you everywhere else on the site like a permanent tag.
I cannot comment on a Muslim thread because I am forced to accept something i don't believe in. This is tantamount to the physical religious jihad/wars in which you either convert or die.
You have no right to enforce such rule on anybody Seun Osewa, as you are contravening Section 39(1) of the 1999 constitution of Nigeria as Amended:
"Every person shall be entitled to freedom of expression, including freedom to hold opinions and to receive and impart ideas and information without interference".
It doesn't matter if you own Nairaland. Nairaland is a business entity registered under the Laws of Nigeria and therefore subject to the constitution of the land.

Furthermore, you are also expressly disobeying Section 42 of the constitution with this vicious discriminatory policy Viz:
"S.42(1) A citizen of Nigeria of a particular community, ethnic group, place of origin, sex, religion or political opinion shall not, by reason only that he is such a person:-
(a) be subjected either expressly by, or in the practical application of, any law in force in Nigeria [/b]or any executive or administrative action of the government, to disabilities or restrictions to which citizens of Nigeria of other communities, ethnic groups, places of origin, sex, religions or political opinions are not made subject; or
(b) be accorded either expressly by, or in the practical application of, [b]any law in force in Nigeria or any such executive or administrative action, any privilege or advantage that is not accorded to citizens of Nigeria of other communities, ethnic groups, places of origin, sex, religions or political opinions."
Note the bolded @"...any law in Nigeria..."

You are forthwith adviced to fall in line with the law of the land or apply a general rule about posting in the religious section.
A Muslim cannot be free to comment on a christian thread or atheist thread or any other non-muslim thread without swearing to anything, whereas other non-muslims are forced to do so on Muslim threads. That's the highest point of discrimination and suffocation of freedom of religion and expression. It is a coded religious propagation and exactly what an apologist will do; unless you are a closet atheist and a Muslim in real life.

2) Every Friday, Muslim threads are pushed to the front-page, flooding the front page of Nairaland with at least 5+ Muslim threads.
Also, every Sunday, christian threads flood the front-page with at least 5+ threads.
@Seun Osewa has chosen the two days to push religious beliefs to other Nairalanders face without caring about anything.
However, does he accord the same privilege to other people who are not Muslims and Christians? No!

@Seun Osewa, why are you afraid to push the following threads from religion section to front page?
- Freethinkers thread,
- Atheists threads,
- Traditionalists thread,
- Agnostics threads,
- Humanists threads and other threads that are not Muslim or Christian related.
Why do you still discriminate despite having the platform to bridge the silly discrimination that has pervaded the entire Nigeria in our physical world?
You move and push religious propagation, but are afraid to push non-muslim/christian doctrines of christians and Muslims. Yet, you want us to believe you are not religious.

The last time i checked, all the christian and Muslim threads contravenes Rule 8 Of Nairaland, making them unfit to even be existing to begin with.
For emphasis, Rule number 8 of Nairaland Rules states:
"Don't post false information on Nairaland."
All muslim and christian threads on Nairaland are false threads ab initio seeing as they are not facts and have never been proved. They are all simple opinions to begin with, but they're being pushed to the front page nonetheless.

You @Seun Osewa should address this issues immediately. I am not the first to complain, and i am not sure i am even the first person to call you out publicly about this. You can ban me if you want, but stop being a religious apologist and propagandist.

Whatever is good for the goose is good for the gander.
The same way christian and muslim threads are pushed to the front page is also the same way non-muslim/christian threads should be pushed to the front page at given days of the week. I cannot tell you not to push christian/muslim threads to the front-page because they're a big demographics for your site. However, justice, equity and fairness demands that what is good for the goose is good for the gander. Non-muslim/christian threads will hit higher demographics outside the religious section which a lot of people don't enter. But, you are deliberately restricting it because you are an apologist and religious propagandist.
There are a lot of non-believers who visit Nairaland front-page daily. Such threads on the front-page will also tell them about people of similar beliefs, seeing as most people prefer to keep their non-religious beliefs and affiliation to themselves because of the society we are in.
Do what is right, and prove me wrong that you are not a religious apologist and propagandist.

Regards!

I concur with your brilliant write up, hopefully the powers that be will act in a judicious manner.

bigname23:
dat is becos most post by atheist tend to attack other people,s religion and insult their God...you hardly see a christian post attacking Mohamed or Muslim post attacking Jesus...neither do they attack thier respective books

If constructive argument is what you refer to as attack, then I don't know what to tell you.
No one does anything when these same Christians tell people to repent or burn in hell in non-religious threads.
Everyone should be free to express their opinion.

He doesn't care! He might even delete this thread and ban you(Op)

Use other platforms....twitter, Facebook, Instagram.

If people starts avoiding this platform maybe his head will reset

kingxsamz:


If constructive argument is what you refer to as attack, then I don't know what to tell you.
No one does anything when these same Christians tell people to repent or burn in hell in non-religious threads.
Everyone should be free to express their opinion.

u know dat is d same line a lot of racist use to express their racism...freedom of expression...have u ever seen christain topic insulting allah or Mohamed make front page? ...nigerian atheist go de behave like say na dem start atheism...see ur fellow Western atheist they preach love and tolerance rather go about insulting other people,s belief

TheSourcerer:
no shouldn't say that , he (the op) has his right to his opinion, if you cannot help , then STFU.

Also Meatheads and racists tribalistic fellows like this child should be frequently removed no matter how many times they create alternate monikers

Meathead, racist, tribalistic, a child. Yet you said something about opinion?

kingxsamz:


If constructive argument is what you refer to as attack, then I don't know what to tell you.
No one does anything when these same Christians tell people to repent or burn in hell in non-religious threads.
Everyone should be free to express their opinion.

when dey say repent or burn in hell do they cum and start insulting other people's religion ...abi dem dey preach deir own..seun is an enlightened athiest who understand how to respect other people's believe...dat is d true definition of a humanist

bigname23:
u know dat is d same line a lot of racist use to express their racism...freedom of expression...have u ever seen christain topic insulting allah or Mohamed make front page? ...nigerian atheist go de behave like say na dem start atheism...see ur fellow Western atheist they preach love and tolerance rather go about insulting other people,s belief

And what would you say about Christians insulting atheists?

bigname23:
when dey say repent or burn in hell do they cum and start insulting other people's religion ...abi dem dey preach deir own..seun is an enlightened athiest who understand how to respect other people's believe...dat is d true definition of a humanist

Same way atheists are expressing their unbelief...
Besides, most atheists on this forum don't throw insults unless the Christian folk started it.
Atheists usually come at religious folks with good logical points, that's why they appear aggressive to you. Go on any thread and say god doesn't exist, and you'll see how theists would insult and lay curses on you. What do you have to say about that?

kingxsamz:


And what would you say about Christians insulting atheists?

I will never support dat ...neither do I think seun will push dat to front page either

bigname23:
u know dat is d same line a lot of racist use to express their racism...freedom of expression...have u ever seen christain topic insulting allah or Mohamed make front page? ...nigerian atheist go de behave like say na dem start atheism...see ur fellow Western atheist they preach love and tolerance rather go about insulting other people,s belief

bigname23 I've not been on this forum for long (at least not as long as some names I've been seeing) but most of the atheist threads I see do not insult others religion, they may find faults in th holy books and question the things preached by them, some engage in constructive argument and even criticism, but most of them don't insult.
Guaranteed there will be those eggs that can't pass points across without insults,but most atheists on forum make insults the last resort ( and mostly in self defense too ). Compared to most religious threads that threaten, insult and even throw curses around at others who do not have the same opinion as them.
Just saying

kingxsamz:


Same way atheists are expressing their unbelief...
Besides, most atheists on this forum don't throw insults unless the Christian folk started it.
Atheists usually come at religious folks with good logical points, that's why they appear aggressive to you. Go on any thread and say god doesn't exist, and you'll see how theists would insult and lay curses on you. What do you have to say about that?

wen u see direct attack on d Bible or quaran or people calling Jesus names nko ...bros go and check most of ur atheist post with an unbiased mind u will see it's either an attack on Jesus or Mohamed ...one was even asking if God was masturbating during uwa,s rape.... imagine dat

bigtt76:
I will never understand all of these shaaa.... Nairaland is a free to use platform and is not binding that users must remain if dissatisfied its operations wonder why we keep on whining about how it is run

That's one way of thinking it dear.

Here is another. Will you stop using Facebook as a media page for your corporation/Company with its huge advantage just because they told you not to insult other brands on their platform?

bright007:
Pls shout it louder so he will hear.


Not having enough courage to stand for the truth and what is right is somewhat a variant of cowardice.

100%

Ghostrye:

bigname23 I've not been on this forum for long (at least not as long as some names I've been seeing) but most of the atheist threads I see do not insult others religion, they may find faults in th holy books and question the things preached by them, some engage in constructive argument and even criticism, but most of them don't insult.
Guaranteed there will be those eggs that can't pass points across without insults,but most atheists on forum make insults the last resort ( and mostly in self defense too ). Compared to most religious threads that threaten, insult and even throw curses around at others who do not have the same opinion as them.
Just saying

try and go online to attack the quaran online in America first or call Muslims fools for believe in it....u know wat a lot of people in America including athiest will call it ...islamophobia..dat is discrimating against muslems ..if u were an actor or politician and u don't apologize..get ready for ur career to take dig...dat is how a civilized world works

bigname23:
I will never support dat ...neither do I think seun will push dat to front page either

But still, we don't see you complaining about it.

bigname23:
dat is becos most post by atheist tend to attack other people,s religion and insult their God...you hardly see a christian post attacking Mohamed or Muslim post attacking Jesus...neither do they attack thier respective books

I doubt that.

I believe it's the christians that insult others unnecessarily. I even opened a thread about it. "Why does Religion pervert/twist the intellect of christians".
I was insulted in the thread too by every christian that entered thread. You should see the thread for yourself in my topics and decide.

bigname23:
wen u see direct attack on d Bible or quaran or people calling Jesus names nko ...bros go and check most of ur atheist post with an unbiased mind u will see it's either an attack on Jesus or Mohamed ...one was even asking if God was masturbating during uwa,s rape.... imagine dat

What's your definition of an attack?
Most non religious folks ask vital questions rather than trade insults. We all know you religious folks are intolerant when other people's views differ from yours.

feedthenation:



I concur with your brilliant write up, hopefully the powers that be will act in a judicious manner.

Thank you.

kingxsamz:


But still, we don't see you complaining about it.

how many times u don see me comment..and I will never like a post or support a post dat tries to insult other people's beleif ...I belief u can preach Jesus or Allah or express ur atheism without taking a dig at others for dier believes

This op and his liberation mantra chant again.
Why can't you do you and let others do what they believe in?
If you believe you've been liberated, let others to be liberated in their own ways.
Even trying to liberate people like you assume is going against what you always preach.
What if you are wrong and others (religious people) are right which I know they are!!! Have you thought about that?