₦airaland Forum

OLAADEGBU:
I am obsessed with the gospel truth, can you please answer the question? Is the Roman Catholic the only true church?

plaetton:
Dyslexia is an ocular disease where images are not perfectly vertical or horizontal, therefore letters usually appear jumbled in no perfect order.
But I was merely joking, of course.

Uyi, for example is suffering from acute literary Dyslexia . He cobbles and jumbles some words together, and then, viola!, convinces himself that it means something.
And I am guessing that he tries to imitate his master, DEEEPsight, a master cobbler , who cobbles fancy and superlative words together to create god, who then creates the universe.

Reading from these guys is like going to an art museum ,and then having to put your head upside down, in a futile attempt to get a visual appreciation of an image.

plaetton:
LOL.


Maybe he has E-dyslexia.

rationalmind:
THE DISCRIMINATION AGAINST ATHEISTS IN NIGERIA IS REAL- A MESSAGE TO ALL ATHEISTS.

I would have opened a separate thread for this but anyone who remotely knows me can easily connect the dots.

Those who follow me will know I'm just fresh out of NYSC, job hunting. I do have a job but all I get is a five figure salary and I'm seriously looking for something better (a six, seven or eight figure salary ).

The search for something better made me apply for the recently advertised Nigerian Navy DSS 23 recruitment. While filling the form, as is usual of jobs of this nature, we were asked to fill in our religion. There were three options. Christianity, Islam, Atheist. I initially wanted to fill in christianity but on second thought, I felt there's really no need to lie about being a christian since I'm not. More so, as at that time of application, I couldn't see any direct consequence of being honest.

I woke up on Tuesday to receive news that applicants who will write the aptitude test have been shortlisted. I rushed to the portal, filled in my S/N and pin and thankfully, I was shortlisted.

The next step was to get my forms signed. One will be signed by the secretary to the local government, another by a Divisional Police Officer from my State of Origin.

Dad claims to know a DPO who can sign for me and helped take it to him while I went to the local government to sign the other one. I never bothered to tell him I claimed to be an atheist in the form since I didn't feel it was necessary and he never bothered to go through the form.

Few hours later, I received his call and he asked me why I filled in Atheist as my "religion". This time around, I couldn't get myself to tell him the truth and had to lie. I told him it was a mistake I made when I was filling the form and he ended the call.

Eventually when he got home at night,he called me to his room to have a discussion. I expected it. What I didn't expect was how angry he was. He told me he has never been embarrassed the way he was today. His DPO friend saw what I filled and asked him his religion. On telling him he's a christian, the next thing he heard was, how can you be a christian and your child is an atheist. He didn't even know what was happening and requested for the form only to see what I filled in. It was then he called me.

Well, to cut the long story short, the DPO told him he's never going to sign for an atheist. He humbly took the form and went to two other police stations and to his surprise, all of them, after going through the form, told him they can't sign for an atheist.

What I don't understand is the fact that, these DPOs weren't asked to stand as my guarantor. All they had to do was to state if I have ever committed a crime or not. I couldn't just see what that has gotten to do with being an Atheist.

To cap it off, I'm in a fix right now. I don't know if to walk into police stations myself and see if I can have the forms signed or just forget about it since I'm pissed off already and I've lost interest.

I hope this will serve as a lesson to other atheists or agnostics as the case may be. For those who are closet atheists, it's better to remain that way. Nigeria obviously hasn't gotten to a stage where one can openly admit to being an atheist.

CC: Plaetton, wiegraf, davidylan, urheme, mikedimeji, thehomer, muskeeto, macof, Chrisbenogor e.t.c

Ubenedictus:
mr urheme,

i dey vex, hope that is not my username you just murdered in cold blood?

rationalmind:
Lol, rationalmind btw is a male. Glad you did learn something from a post of mine.

Ranchhoddas:
Nope.That was AlfaSeltzer's thread.

Great0:
Its just a matter of time, you will testify. I have your likes with me.

joywendy:
Why do you term them religious? Aren't you also religious by believing that conscience is your god?

joywendy:
I understand the concept of human beings being their own god,but this here is wow!

Mmm....so what of those who don't have a conscience like you say, are you saying that they have lost their god? We have armed robbers who believe in God? What are you gonna call them?

Like johndon has said I think your are mixing morality with belief in a deity. Anyways I m not attacking you,just trying to understand where your stance is

sonOfLucifer:
The greatest lesson you will learn is sonoflucifer is muskeeto.

johnydon22:
Being moral is not synonymous to belief in a god, it seems you are mistaking that

joywendy:
You know there is something called agnostic theism,I think that is where you fall in

Mmmm....good conscience has in how please try to explain to me. Want to learn

sonOfLucifer:
i feel loved.

cactuscee:
When a man dies his eternal body is destroyed and decayed and when the trumpet sound he resurrect with Christ with heavenly body .

sonOfLucifer:
Ave Satanas.

joywendy:
Lolz so you are agnostic?

johnydon22:
So you are more of agnostic now huh?

joywendy:
Lol...you are free

*hands him some popcorn*

Not cokacola abeg chapman hehe

tpiander:
@ topic

muslim section, why is this here?

jcross19:
islam is for womaniser if not mohamMAD won't promise you 72 horus.

joywendy:
Kay17 is female wow that babe get sense die!

So many stories of people turning athiest hehe...mmm

* continues to chew popcorn*

italo:
I thank God that you gained something good from me, even though I have my flaws.

davidylan:
Describing the American christian culture as mercantilism is just wrong... it seems to me that you have no clue what that word even means.

Mercantilism - belief in the benefits of profitable trading; commercialism.

If anything, it is the AFRICAN/NIGERIAN form of christianity that exhibits mercantilism. We are the ones who basically have turned "God" into a tool for making profit. In the US, christianity, especially in the South, is more a culture, and is mostly associated with patriotism and a deep sense of national pride. Most people describe the American christianity as cultural christianity... certainly nothing to do with profit.

On the other hand... religion is indeed on the decline in the US but i'm not sure anyone has figured out exactly why. More often than not this is largely due to the huge influx of communist Europeans after world war II, the feminist/s exual revolution of the 60s and the fact that the US constitution explicitly forbids the adoption of a national religion. One thing is certain - its not because they have someone developed a significantly higher IQ than us... which i think is what people like you try to insinuate... much to your shame really.

plaetton:
As we can all witness, in the civilized world, the very people that sold Christianity to Africa no longer see any use for it. As a social engineering program, Christianity has run it's full course, and there is little utility left in it for the people of Europe, unless and if necessary, to keep puppeteering the primitive animist peoples of Africa.

All over Europe and America, churches are being converted and reused for factories, warehouses, libraries, research centres, community centres, pubs, museums, and even houses and condominiums. It has become a sort of recycling program where a redundant asset is reused for productive purposes for the overall benefit of the society.

Now, other hand , across the oceans and deserts to subsahara Africa, the opposite trend seems to be the norm.
It is like two alternate worlds co-existing at the same time.

In Nigerian, for example, Africa's most populous and most influential nation, factories and warehouses, libraries, hotels, homes, etc, once the industrial and economic backbones of this poor nation, have long been , and are still daily being converted and remodelled to churches and places of worship.
In Nigeria, churches have nearly taken up all the industrial spaces and warehouses in urban centres.
A businessman, a job creator, looking for a factory or warehouse in the city of Lagos will always be humiliated by church organisations who will outbid him by far in any real estate transaction.

What accounts for this gross and obvious dichotomy between the worlds ?


I mean, what have Africans found in churches that the Europeans seem to have missed or are missing ?

What secret divine knowledge or wisdom or riches did we inherit that the avante guarde Europeans are hopelessly oblivious to ?

OLAADEGBU:
Jesus is my Rock, all other grounds are sinking sand.

OLAADEGBU:
Jesus is my Rock, all other grounds are sinking sand.

OLAADEGBU:
And whose doctrine is that, yours?

OLAADEGBU:
What are you standing on, the Rock or on sinking sand?

OLAADEGBU:
Religion does not and cannot save only Jesus saves.