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Having sharp objects pulled out from your body must have been really painful. Did you feel any pain when the guy was sucking out the pins?

Nogodye:
Hahahaha Seun! check your background.

what background?

analice107:
And Baptism. I hope you know they hold services in Europe? They gather and listen to sermons like we do.

I think atheists should come together from time to provide for each other the community and social bonding that religion provides. We can sing, not to a God, but to each other. Prayer is completely useless so we will skip that, and replace the sermons with special guest Q&As.

Personally, I like it. Don't you?

Did you get logged out recently?

When Tim Minchin, an outspoken comedian, atheist and musician, asked his friend Sam for evidence of the existence of God, he was not prepared for a good answer. To the atheist's shame, Sam told him the story of his mom who was diagnosed with an irreversible eye condition which required surgery. She told her church about it, and after they prayed, she went back to the doctors and they could not find any evidence that she ever had the condition she was diagnosed of earlier. Tim Minchin was really moved by Sam's testimony, so he wrote this song:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3yqGSwE7uNk (Read The Lyrics)

Gombs:
Seun, but I personally invited you to the program, you didn't reply.
If you'd been in that auditorium, you'd have believed and confessed the that "Jesus is Lord"
There's another session today and final.. Tomorrow.

Pastors falling down under the spell of music and a hypnotist shouting "touch!" isn't going to convince any rational person that Jesus is Lord.

Image123:
Lol, so atheists eye praise and worship too.

I don't see how Dan Barker's music qualifies as praise and worship, but I think atheists need music that has a similar emotional impact.

i wonder when they'd start communion.

I have some ideas for an atheist communion that will totally blow the holy communion out of the water in terms of the body parts consumed.

Acidosis:
Your obsession with Chris and Benny Hinn is worrisome.
..always searching for men of questionable characters to draw inferences and a hasty generalization about Christianity.

I am very glad that you have realised that Pastor Chris and Benny Hinn are men of questionable character.

Don't you ever see the likes of Pastor Kumuyi? Evangelist Reinhard Bonnke?

Isn't Pastor Kumuyi the guy who forces his followers to wear ugly clothes to their weddings, yet wears a very nice suit when he's preaching?
Isn't Reinhard Bonnke the one whose crusades are so poorly organized that attendees are more likely to be trampled to death than "healed"?

babyfaceafrica:
Lolz...you forgot Iya moria,huskies and underground

Tell us about those words.

ijebubabe:
Please what section of the three clips does he sing "then sings my soul"? Thanks

the first one.

Sorry for being insensitive to those without data.

Nogodye:
Seun can now see the sweetness in Christianity.

My favourite musical is Les Miserables, which is a Christian musical. The idea of having someone up there looking out for you is very attractive. It can motivate people to do good things. But it's a fantasy; to be enjoyed but not believed.

Benny Hinn spoke and ministered a special pastors conference hosted by his African BFF, Chris Oyakhilome. Check out the videos below:

1.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eD1fo7JVmWA
Benny Hinn's rendering of "then sings my soul", "the anointing of the Lord" gave me goosebumps.

2.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSXsIfDYYdo

3.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMp8MugRdSM

The acting president of Nigeria was a pastor of RCCG. This shows that Christians are already very active in politics. What more do you want?

AfroSamurai:
Wrong! How many people have your threads freed? Instead, you reinforce your faith and give them zeal to counter you with more horseshit.

Many nairalanders have testified that they dropped religion to become deists or atheists because of the activities of atheists on Nairaland.

Then you don't you open threads condemning the violence, like you do condemning christianity?

I don't condemn Christianity. I just try to demonstrate that its claims are not true. I don't want people to believe things that are false, because false beliefs have bad consequences. If you believe you can fly, you might jump off a skyscraper and fall to your death. I wish to prevent that.

AfroSamurai:
I'm saying all your negative thread directed at christianity is one-sided.

Negative? My threads are meant to free people from the heavy burden of religion so they can be happier and more successful. That's positive!

So you attack Christianity all the time and ignore Islam, aren't they Siamese twin?

I don't think anyone honestly believes that Islam is the true religion. If muslims could defend their faith logically, they wouldn't need violence.

AfroSamurai:
I'm still curious to know why all you hate is usually vented at christianity.

Hate? What hate? What is this person saying?

No picture, no husband!

Flexherbal:
Let us all, just work hard to make the world a better place.

That won't happen if people truly believe they are "in the world but not of the world"; that the world will be destroyed when their lord returns.

birdman:
Only the first video by Barker even comes close to anything serious.

I'm glad that you saw some merit in Dan Barker's argument. In this video, he tells the story of his deconversion from Christianity.

I can point you to peer reviewed papers from astronomers to brain scientists that are literally re-writing scientific knowledge in favor of the bible.

Please go ahead and do that, but you should know that Sam Harris is a "brain scientist" himself.

The problem Dan Barker raises can be generalized to the popular issue of a good God allowing evil.

The problem of evil is a strong point that has never been refuted, but Dan Barker actually tackled a completely different issue in the first video, which is that God deserves no credit for saving us from himself. It's like a person who wants to be praised for not murdering someone.

jonbellion:
Ummm. Is this really necessary

You don't like the music?

felixomor:
And they said atheism is not a religion.....?

Religion doesn't have a monopoly on using music to promote itself. Music can be used by any group of people who have something to say.

lepasharon:
Yh, let them grow up and decide for themselves if what the songs are telling them is true. Same with this atheist songs

My children would be allowed and encouraged to question anything that doesn't make sense, including the lyrics of the songs I teach them.

bennyann:
Anyways when they find out they can't depend on themselves totally, they will look for answers then. You couldn't stay then and now you think you're doing everything on your own? Like totally on your own? I shake my head

Atheists don't depend on themselves entirely. We depend on our fellow human beings who are real, e.g. family & friends, staff, mentors, etc.

Seun wanted God to spoon-feed him throughout but God said no son, now it's time to feed you with bones and seun ran away...

Your hypothesis is incorrect, but if it were correct, then God should have known that "feeding me bones" would make me an atheist.

The tune is nice and the instrumentation.... I like it. Seun if I find myself humming the song, I'll come for you.

What would really make my day is to listen to a recording of little kids singing "beware of dogma, it has a bite ... there's no excuse for ignorance anymore!" and "use your mind, and you will find, that nothing fails like prayer!" When this finally happens, it will be awesome.

Don't you guys like Dan's music? His songs were well received by the adult audience, but I see them as being much more suitable for kids.

balash:
lol Didn't know atheist also promotes kids too or even promotes families as well, this is so interesting

Families are a human social construct that came long before religion. Men and women formed stable mating pairs to raise kids, just like birds.

donefezy:
Hmm... Why not let your child decide for himself or herself instead of training em to be an atheist just like you. Ehn Mr Seun ?

Atheists don't need to force their children to be atheists. They can just teach their kids to think critically, which makes them immune to religion.

Richirich713:
Indoctrinate them with music...

If it's ok for religious parents to teach their kids religious songs, I fail to see why atheists should not teach their kids anti-religious songs. It is appropriate for little children to be taught to have a skeptical attitude towards things that cannot be proven or demonstrated to be true.

Any updates on the smoke that came up from the ground and down from the sky, enveloped the auditorium and healed every sick person?

Surely someone on Nairaland knows someone who knows someone who actually saw the blessed healing smoke as it enveloped the hall?

She should hire a professional debt collector. They have all sorts of tricks such as planting "charms" to scare the debtors into paying up.

Dan Barker exposes the "gospel" of Christianity:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5lyxL2nx5cw

Sam Harris dismantles Christianity's foundation:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g6e17TflrHY

Christopher Hitchens knocks out Abrahamic religions:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQox1hQrABQ

On a lighter note ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZ8hefESt7c

Baddchristy, sorry to hear about your experience and what happened to your sister. Are you hoping to return to religion? It won't be easy!

Written and performed by Dan Barker, a former Christian music minister:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YTm65oBBWBQ

1) You can't win with original sin.

2) Beware of dogma.

3) Nothing fails like prayer, my favourite, which is separately recorded below:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPZPGlBgXUY

Do you like these songs?

You should provide a procedure for paying the school directly.

Give us your price list!

I became an atheist because I was abused by my dad who is a theist and because I also wanted to sin without feeling guilt, not because I lack the convincing evidence to believe in God's existence.

All right, please go ahead and share your "convincing evidence" of God's existence with us, so that we can all surrender our lives to God!

Also, if your mum's connection to God is so wonderful, why did God choose to make her a powerless witness to the physical abuse of her son?

simplex2:
Dude has already deactivated his account within 2hrs of interacting with the real atheists.

Too bad; I got here too late. Thanks for dealing with the situation, guys!