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There’s nothing wrong with girls wearing rugged sneakers or blue (which was seen as feminine and unmanly 100 years ago, whereas pink was the opposite, like I said); there’s nothing wrong with Igbo/south-south men wearing half-shimi underneath their wrappers (it just makes more sense than wearing trousers underneath and defeating the purpose of putting on a traditional wrapper in the first place, doesn’t it?) or Muslim men doing the same with their thobes; there’s absolutely nothing wrong with women wearing Snap-back/caps (on the contrary, I actually love a woman in a cap) and so-on. The men of the Bible didn’t wear trousers, nor did the women dress up in frilly pink. These things are social constructs, not biological realities. That’s why (as much as I don’t mind Deeper Life is an overall church) I laugh at all these confused post-colonial man-made doctrines about how women shouldn’t wear trousers and should basically dress like underpaid Akwa Ibom housemates just so the men can have one less thing by to w*nk over. I understand the thing about hair-covering in the church but the rest is utter nonsense.

Flamemignon1:
The only sensible comment on this thread

Thank you.

Clothes have literally no gender, and there was a time when pink was considered masculine and blue feminine. Do whatever you want, OP.

GOFRONT:
Abi na another skit

How much do you know about madness-skits?

Richwallet:
The Illuminati headquarters is in Africa, did you know this?


Of course I have issue with pagan religion it goes against the laws of God. Your religion is being pushed on us by many Illuminati pastors, politicians, banks, miliataries, etc All intended to make us bear the ugly image of the pagan religion. The rise of LGBT, the West is not the catalyst we are the scapegoats! Africa is the birthplace of LGBT.

Fam, I don’t think you truly understand the concept of the illuminati. Circa 2011 Rihanna was soaking in it according to the likes of pastor G. Craige Lewis (who makes good points but also talks a lot of crap and is very ignorant about t’reality of mental illness and conflates depression for grief, schizophrenia for just being paranoid and lacking in the spirit of anti-fear and bipolar for violent mood swings and how the black/akata community can just snap out of these illnesses, which he clearly knows absolutely nothing about, if they pray more and tone down on a li’l. of the ghetto) and the lady’s pregnant for a man 12 years later. She might’ve dabbled in same-sex. experimentation when she was younger (and she might not have) but at the end of the day and as far as we know she’s pretty straight. There’s hardly any connection between the illuminati-triangle and L.G.B.T. at all. You’re more likely to see illuminati symbols in some dude’s dodgy hairline (not helped by a tapped barber, or whatever t’case may be).

tiswell:
seun,mynd44,Dominique, nlfpm,lalasticlala



rule 2

Do your worst. It won’t work for you.

Hapu Moroccan football for now. More important things are happening.

She mustn’t be well. Bless her, little lamb.

chuose:
APShit has turned Nija into a place of evil

But apparently Tinubu’s destined to be a better leader than Obi. Just what Nigeria needs right now (as if it wasn’t overly chaotic enough), right?

oz4real83:
They know the culprits to be Nigerians but still failed to get their names, I'm suspecting that their names were deliberately omitted in an attempt to prevent online tribal attacks

Yeah, well, crime knows NO nationality, clan or race.

tiswell:

You dey craze?

Very little. I don’t come from a toxic family, luckily. My issue’s with other people out there.

Richwallet:
Yes, we didn't force our Christian religion upon West Africa the White colonizers and traitors among your ancestors or other groups were responsible. I don't care what you worship although I pray it was God but it's none of my business.


The White Jewish French forced Catholicism on Haitian slaves it was not my ancestors.

So if you have so much beef with European colonialism’s alleged hand in black African religion what is it about paganism and traditional syncretism what irks you so much? Do you not think it’s wise to redirect some of that religious frustration more to con-artist pastors who make a living out of exploiting the church or to gossiping, judgemental aunties who judge people they know very little about based on rumours that they’ve run away from God?

Re. your last point: Catholics are far from born-again so if your brand of judgemental holy-holy ain’t vibing with Virgin Mary, fair enough. I appreciate aspects of the rosary and I have attended mass for various social reasons over the decades but it is what it is. The denomination itself is more-or-less idol-worship under the rubric of nominal Christianity. Eating rice and egusi soup post-mass on occasional third Sunday of the month and showing face at certain weddings and certain Igbo christenings (not that the vast majority of Igbos have Catholic roots but there’s no doubting that a lot are or at least have one foot in Catholic/Anglican/Methodist churches even if they’re predominantly Pentecostal). The sub-religion itself is meh. I don’t particularly like it.

Richwallet:
My family in the Frankish created the church before the denominational split.

Learn the truth and why I am upset about syncreticism.

https://www.nairaland.com/7609169/brown-skin-anti-christ

Ah. I see where this is going.

What religion/denomination are you? Straight question.

How do you think Igbo would be if serial verb-construction was more of a thang?

She’s an eloquent genius who tells the truth. If you don’t like it, you’re just going to have to rim your mama’s pussy and deal with it. You just deal with it.

Floxyijeoma:
That's what we'll do

To tell you the truth, Ije., it doesn’t sound like you can wait until October. Do you have alternative living arrangements?

jdilight:
Everywhere I turn, it is either this sin or that sin that is being discussed. Are people so sin conscious that they have nothing to do with righteousness or that they no nothing about righteousness itself?

People prefer to focus more on what’s wrong with someone or something than what’s right with them/it. That’s part of it. It’s just that with religion people can direct their negativity to something which gives them a moral guise of superiority, while everyone who doesn’t follow in the direction they thought they would (as if they’re the maker of heaven and earth and everything and everyone in it) is a professional sinner who’s doomed.

Heathen777:
When white supremacist were killing black people left and righ, where was his outrage.

This is not a trans problem. America has a gun problem and people like Ben Shapiro won't want the govt to restrict gun access, but will rather blame trans people while ignoring the bigger problem.

Cry more.

Thank you.

Sha, there was outrage by people who actually get racial nuances and know what racism is. The average Nigerian sees anyone who’s not African-African and supposedly undiluted as oyinbo/aku-bekee (basically a coconut/an Oreo or some other non-white so-and-so). People who haven’t left Nigeria and had to experience racial hardship just do not understand racism. That’s why they get more wound up by all this LGBT stuff.

Richwallet:
Sodomy is pagan religion and all pagans are sodomites. Your priest and priestess performed sex worship to fertility gods to cause rain, bless crops and war magick. Your male priests dressed as women and performed sex with men and women joined them, some involved children and animals in the sex act. Blood sacrifices of animals and slaves and even small children. How are you adding this foundational Satanism with the religion of Christ? Colonialism was wrong to force religion upon you and make your ancestors give up your spiritual traditions and make you disguise them. I am not those men. Give to Christ what is Christ and that is obedience and loyalty. Or go to your tribal god and stay forever there.

What are you even talking about?

Richwallet:
I don't compromise. The LORD doesn't either and His law is what counts not mines or yours.

It’s better to be honest with yourself and know where you stand with yourself spiritually and/or your God than be everything but a child of God Monday to Saturday and live a holy life just once a week, thinking you’re superior to people who happen to add a bit of cultural syncretism to their religion (which virtually every Nigerian Christian does on some level). Fair enough about cultists but Igbo Jews, Yoruba Chrislims and Edo oba-aligned Christians can do whatever the hell they want. Everyone else does. It’s about how you know you align with your religion/spiritual ideology-practice, not how other people (who may or may not even know you that well to begin with) think (think, not know) you do.

Homosexual business is no more a sin than 419 or going home to self-service over someone you’re not married to (if you’re about the spousal life) but over-Hot (h*rny; come on, Nairaland, man) thieves are everywhere in the church. Why does LGBT stuff bother you so much?

Richwallet:
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I prefer to try and respect cultural syncretism (within reason) and be swifter to point out what’s right with those systems than what’s wrong. It’s always about what’s (gone) wrong and not what’s right and that’s … wrong.

Detention wetin?

All I can advise and say is to leave a church if you don’t feel comfortable there. Whether it’s because of “syncretic paganism;” you find the R.C.C.G. pastor too cold, aloof and disrespectful or something or you’d rather do Pentecostal than Catholic, you do you. Let other individual churches do what they think is right. I don’t have an issue with places like Deeper Life (other than the stupid man-made doctrines, which even Kumuyi low-key shuns),but I have quit other churches and been accused of being a big-time backslider (almost to the point of paganism) by people who didn’t know me like that anymore (assuming they ever really did in the first place) just because I left without giving a reason and stuff like that can make you feel bad. Real bad. So your presence or absence in a particular church or the way you approach spirituality doesn’t exist so that other people have something to gossip about (unless they actually sort of know you on a level beyond being an acquaintance, an auntie or a pagan villager who’s come to your umu-ada to eat jollof rice and sip Fanta). You’ve just got to do what’s right for you and everyone’s just got to make that call for themselves. Crapping all over someone’s spiritual life just because their approach seems a bit distastefully niche or just different to how you thought they’d end up based on the little you knew of them in 2005 is not the one. As far as they’re not doing anyone any harm, mind your own business and just shut up about it. They’re not you and you’re not them. What we’re not going to do (whether we be on the streets of Onitsha, Toxteth, New York, Lewisham, Ikoyi or Rochdale) or is pretend that everyone’s the same and that everybody doesn’t have a spiritual path which is unique to them. No, no, no. We ain’t doing that, Mr ego.

AishaDant:
I don't support him but imagine hating someone who doesn't even know you exist? How lame can you possibly be?

It is what it is. He’s annoying and in this life you’re not going to like everyone. I don’t need or even want him to acknowledge and validate my existence before I deem it okay for me to dislike his persona. It’s hard to defend him.

I actually hate Bobrisky.

Luckily I’m nearly ten inches long naturally so I’m not the one to be worrying about these things.

Hia.

The man’s grieving. This business with his second wife is irrelevant.

I think we’ve all been there with annoying flatmates (sometimes once you have a bit of a vibe but huge issues with, some who you don’t like altogether). There often isn’t a lot you can do but grin and bear it if you can’t afford to move out. Don’t ever report them for ‘illegal’ drugs (drugs, whether that’s paracetamol, cannabis, insulin, MDMA, tobacco, alcohol or tramadol) are just a normal part of life and while some of them can be problematic if done too much or in the wrong way no adult should have to held to legal ransom or eviction just because they use certain substances/you don’t like the smell of tobacco (as long as they try to be discreet if the legality’s questionable). So don’t be that sort of snitch but excessive noise/overall disruption and over-tout behaviour doesn’t have to be tolerated after a normal hour so I wouldn’t advise against complaining about that if it gets a bit much. With any luck that’ll get them evicted.

If you feel threatened in any way or actually worried about your safety leave immediately.

pdppower:
You claimed you were prepared to accept the results. Why then the long epistle to Biden?

Only on the basis that they were fair.