₦airaland Forum

plaetton:
Yes, but customs and traditions are amenable to education and englightenment.
Customs and traditions are dynamic.

But religion, especially in Nigeria, seem almost impervious to education, our educational system .

plaetton:
lol.

I am an example that all the above is false.

The perceived problems that you talk about are all in your head.
That itself, is the problem.

No wonder, though, that we cannot build a nation that everyone can be safe and proud of , simply because of our perceived differences in tribe and religion.

Can you see why we think religion is a disease of the mind ?

chommyAngela:
A man in my area is an atheist,and he wants to marry now and no woman wants to accept him because he is an atheist and he said he will not do church wedding.does that mean we dont have women who are atheist? But personal me as a girl will not marry an atheist because i love God. Share ur view.

macof:
Off topic - what's it with women and white wedding?
I still don't understand

menesheh:
Devil is a police man (policing arm of God's government) that punish human that refuse to obey his totalitarian regime (north Korea regime).

plaetton:
No no no

plaetton:
No no no

ROSSIKE:
You reason like a dunce.

Kay17:
And God in his infinite wisdom decided to place this "sucking child" over the full woman. I can only guess the results.

sonmvayina:
they are 3 things that define you as a man..your culture, traditions and your religion..if anybody can take these away from you, that person will control you for the rest of your lives. the white men know these things..

let me see if i can go to the very beginning as make a few point..there primary purpose of coming to africa and the new world was to colonise new teritory for their kings with the backing of the pope..these where the portuguese and the spanish kings..

before they came we had our system of government..the ibos as i heard where mainly republicans, the edos had the oba and the yoruba the same thing..had the oba and maintain peace. then in acient edo if your orange cost 5 cowries, all u had to do was put 5 stones and when u come back in the evening your money go correct.

they had a chief preist who lead the community in all the spiritual ceremonies...and was present in coronations..we had a good society and developing at our own pace, we had some not too good practices which i know with time we would have down away with.

enter the white man:..he came seeking land and resources..what better way to pacify the locals then to use religion..those locals who resisted where killed cos they had a better fire power..well they where also enticed with gifts, for the kids..what do you expect with time people started to for get their culture and heritage and then the demonizing of our gods and goddess started and we lost our way..

if they wanted the best for us, why did they not use economics, teach us how to make and invent things so we can also proper economically.
now we just watch them develope and grow, all we do is to pray earnestly.
they have really done more harm than good.

while they plunder our resources...one by one..ogun and sango go fire them.

plaetton:
Thanks again.
But let repeat that cultural assimilation is common, and even quite natural.
Cultural genocide is quite different.
It would involve a plan, a conspiracy.

plaetton:
We know meaning of genocide.
Genocides are hardly accidental.

Is there such a thing as cultural genocide?


Have we been culturally genocided?

If so, are we now cultural zombies (walking dead)?
If so, how does cultural zombification affect our current worldviews, attitudes and realities?

How do we come to terms with this, address and redress it?

buchibrand:
Good cheap talks. Please take a trip to the Counseling department of your church (if you are a christian) and see what is happening there. Most men are suffering in marriage, they practically have had to apologise almost all the time to their wife, just for the marriage to succeed.

buchibrand:
I was only defining Peace in context. The spirit of this post is very clear. Its a SUGGESTION and you must get that clear.

Ubenedictus:
they certainly were the "true religion" at the time with the manifest presence of God.

In the wildest sense posible I may define Christian as one who attained salvation through Christ or whose sins were passed over in view of Christ sacrifice. So yeah, in that sense they were the true religion and the sacrifice of Christ did spill over both forward into history and backward into the past. Justifying the old testament saints and bringing salvation to us in the new t.

That is why I am not suprised that even the early Christian practiced exactly the same thing moses did. When a christians was killed in persecution, the early Christians made a point of translating the remains from where ever the pagan put it and reverent bury that temple where the holyspirit was dwelt in hope of the resurrection, but unfortunately d so called modern christians are not taught Church history.

truthislight:
Where is my bull let me go carry out animal sacrifice. It is biblical! ASAP.
Aaahhhhh!

btoks:
. E.g. is the consecrated bread and wine really the body & blood of Jesus or not.

buchibrand:
Let me use GoodLuck Jonathan to define the Peace am referring to here...even when its obvious there were lots of irregularities, the power still with him to order the arm forces and plunge Nigeria into Chaos, he conceded defeat just for Peace to reign(some said he had no choice, but I tell you, just one negative word from him would have been enough to set Nigeria ablaze). The truth remains that Nigeria has not EXPLODED and will not IMPLODE later rather we are good for it.

EnlightenedSoul:
The OP actually refers to them as "exalted babies", which I find interesting among other things.

buchibrand:
You are wise on your own opinion. Oppressive? Come alive bro, a man is always a man including you. A woman must learn to be cool when the man is hot... If you marry an arrogant man you must adapt to live with him Till Death Do You Part

EnlightenedSoul:
Erm, how about utilizing those phrases properly/accordingly?

"I'm sorry" implies that you've erred in some way/shape/form. It is not the domain of the presumably 'wronged' to apologize. If you're wrong you're wrong. Own up and learn from your mistakes. Grow as a person.

Kay17:
Wouldn't that be dishonest? You place a thread about furthering dishonesty in the Religion section.
What religion do you think endorses this sort of dishonesty?

plaetton:
If you read the precepts of Ptah-hotep, you would be marveled at the very deep levels of commitment to moral and ethical justice enshrined in Egyptian religious philosophy thousands of years before moses's 10 commandments, and Jesus's injunction to love thy neighbor as thyself.

In fact, the 10 commandments itself is copied and plagerized verbatim from the laws of Maat, the Egyptian God of truth and equity.

The religions of today cannot uphold any genuinely high moral and ethical standards, because they are fake, and contrived on selfish ambitions.

malvisguy212:
first, it was Sarah that encourage Abraham to commit the acts, secondly solomon was obedient to God until pride and riches make him to sin, the time solomon was having affairs with women, by then he was worshipping other gods.

Roman 10:13-21
13
for, “EVERYONE who calls on the name of
the LORD WILL BE SAVED .”[ f]
14 How, then, can they call on the one
they have not believed in? And how can
they believe in the one of whom they
have not heard? And how can they hear
without someone preaching to them? 15
And how can anyone preach unless they
are sent? As it is written: “How beautiful
are the feet of those who bring good
news!”[ g]
16 But not all the Israelites accepted the
good news. For Isaiah says, “Lord, who
has believed our message?”[ h] 17
Consequently, faith comes from hearing
the message, and the message is heard
through the word about Christ. 18 But I
ask: Did they not hear? Of course they
did:
“Their voice has gone out into all the
earth,
their words to the ends of the world.”[i]
19 Again I ask: Did Israel not
understand? First, Moses says,
“I will make you envious by those who
are not a nation;
I will make you angry by a nation that
has no understanding.”[ j]
20 And Isaiah boldly says,
“I was found by those who did not seek
me;
I revealed myself to those who did not
ask for me.”[ k]
21 But concerning Israel he says,
“All day long I have held out my hands
to a disobedient and obstinate people.”[l]

I believe this book of roman answer your question, verse 13 say everyone who called on the LORD will be saved.

plaetton:
Ehhm, correction sir. Solomon didn't author anything.
The entire book of proverbs was plagerized, no, stolen from an ancient Egyptian book called The Precepts Of Ptah-Hotep, the high priest of Ptah, that predates King Solomon by thousands of years.

Ptah was the father of Egyptian gods, The Heavenly father, Their supreme god.






Quite insightful sir,

You are a good reader, some cultures are worse than religion, if anything does not support equity justice and good conscience, i don't support it.

Whether a religion is stolen or not, its practices must be fair for all, but it seems religion has failed us from all ramification








Ptah is likely the root word for Ju-piter, the formost of the heavens, and also from whence we get the name Peter, a name of a disciple who is believed to have founded the church of the Roman fathers, priests of the heavenly father, whose headquarters was built, and today still standing atop the ancient temple of Ju-Piter.
All roads lead back to Egypt.

The ancient hebrew scribes were master plagerists who copied and plagerized every ancient scriptures from every culture they came into contact with.
They just simply substituted their tribal deity, Yahweh, in place of the deities of their cultural and religious benefactors.

malvisguy212:
read the book of Hebrew, they were saved by FAITH.

tpiadotcom:
No other way except through Christ Jesus.

barcanista:
@OP: The Revenue Mobilisation Allocation and Fiscal Commission determines the remuneration of Public office holders. However, the commission is guided by law of the Parliament (NAsS). The allocation cannot be modified or reviewed by the President except the law establishing it is amended by members of National Assembly. In other words, they still have the key. The best a President can do is to persuade members of NASS to amend the law guiding RMAFC. Otherwise, he can only make empty rant. He can't even change what his VP, Ministers, SAs, SSAs or even himself earn. He can only decide to forfeit a percentage of his income. As for the NASS, I bet you that any bill to amend the law guiding RMAFC will be killed upon arrival.

coolcharm:
If the banks like, let them enter oblivion for all I care

They don't help small businesses and startups with loans;
their corporate social responsibility is is almost zero;
They don't assist in mortgage;
Infact, they don't do nothing other than collect our monies and charge COT on our accounts.

They only give mega loans to the Dangote's and Adenuga's.

So if it becomes a bad debt, that's their fvucking business

ramdris:
I love this Sanusi like..... I just wish he is not an emir. It would av been wonderful to have him in GMB government. But all the same, rankadede YRH.

cnario:
I can't say I'm impressed, looks like the regular hospitals we know.

DProDG:
...sent his boy boy to wreak havoc on earth
...drowned his children
...caused confusion and separated the human race
...revealed his existence to just a few illitrates in the desert 3k years ago
...murdered humself to appease himself
...gave us Patience Jonathan

Ubenedictus:
hehehehe, we venerate(profundly respect) people and even the remains of Christians are treated with respect because they were once temples of the holyspirit, we do not "worship" them in the sense you mean.

The bible has examples of great men whose graves are dug and their remain translated to a different location, it is biblical.

Ex 13:19
And Moses took the bones of Joseph with him; for Joseph had solemnly sworn "God will visit you; then you must carry my bones from here"

here is an example of the biblical practice of translating the remains of the dead. Catholics sometimes translate the remains of the dead if necessary from their previous graves to consecrated grounds.

There is nothing sinful about translating the remains of the dead.

Have a nice day.

tobtap:
june 12 was an injustice to MKO... buhari victory cant erase that