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 Christianity Etc › Re: Moyosore Opposes Daddy Freeze And Reno Omokri On The Trinity In This Rap Song by VBCampaign(op): 1:16pm On Sep 03, 2021 |
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| Christianity Etc › Re: Afghanistan And The Triumph Of World Ideologies By Deji Yesufu by VBCampaign(op): 9:19pm On Aug 21, 2021 |
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| Christianity Etc › Re: Afghanistan And The Triumph Of World Ideologies By Deji Yesufu by VBCampaign(op): 3:00pm On Aug 20, 2021 |
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| Christianity Etc › Afghanistan And The Triumph Of World Ideologies By Deji Yesufu by VBCampaign(op): 8:55am On Aug 20, 2021 |
Afghanistan and the Triumph of World Ideologies When I wrote my final thesis at seminary, I stumbled on a piece of information in my research that was a little troubling. Till this moment, I have not been able to reconcile the facts around my discovery; although I must confess that the recent fall of the Afghan government to Taliban forces has helped shaped my thoughts better around those discoveries. My conclusion now is this: ideas rule the world but no idea can be preserved without some military force. Here is what I found: Christianity came to Nigeria in the 1840s. The leading indigenous Christian minister in Nigeria in those days was Bishop Samuel Ajayi Crowther. He was a minister with the Anglican Church and his first mission base was in South-West Nigeria. He often transverse Lagos and Abeokuta, preaching the gospel and establishing mission bases in various villages and towns. The first major towns that opened their doors to Christian missionaries were Badagry and Abeokuta. Lagos, as of that time, had a king that was impervious to the gospel message. His name was Oba Kosoko. This king’s major grouse was not with the gospel itself; since even the natives could tell that imbibing the White Man’s religion made life better for the devotees. It was the fact that if Lagos became Christian, the king will loose his major source of income – which was slave trade. At this time in British national life, slave trade had been abolished and the British were leading efforts around the world to end slavery. When Ajayi Crowther and his fellow missionaries saw that Lagos will not receive the gospel, the Bishop was sent to England to see the Prime Minister and to talk with leading British politicians. His argument essentially was that Britain should come to Nigeria to help end the evil of slave trade and the only way to do this was to depose that king. But the side reward for removing such an evil ruler was that Christian missionary efforts will thrive in Lagos and the town will be won over to Christ. The British agreed. One day in December 1851, British ships invaded the coasts of Lagos, firing canons into the town. The sleepy town was awoken to the military might of the English. The king, Oba Kosoko, was deposed and a new king, Oba Akintoye, was installed – an individual who would do the bidding of the British. The missionaries entered the city of Lagos and established the gospel there. Slavery ended. The British planted a detachment of their army on our soil. Subsequently the new king traded the rights of governing the town of Lagos to the Royal Niger Company – who themselves will hand over the governing of the colony of Lagos to the British in 1900. The formal colonization of Nigeria had begun. I tell this story to explain to us that the crisis in Afghanistan is a crisis over the clash of ideologies. The root ideology of the Western world, now led by the United States, used to be Christianity. Today the leading idea in the West is liberalism. While liberalism may be defined by many from a political point of view, I continue to insist that religious liberalism is at the root of America’s ideologies today. Religious liberalism is basically a belief that one can maintain a Christian worldview without submitting to the laws of God that birth those worldview today. The Christian worldview birth the concept of a democracy: an idea that says that the governing of a people should exhume from the collective will of majority of those people. The idea is that a society that is ruled by God’s law is likely to birth a people who will mostly make the right decision. This idea is against the feudalist system that once operated in Europe and had been the basis of the monarchical system that most of the world operated in. The idea of a monarchy was that a few persons are born so special that God had ordained such people to be rulers over others. What happens then is that even after these people die, their children are still installed rulers because they have their blood. The Christian worldview changed all of that. Stating that man is created in the image of God and any man can aspire to the position of leadership, as long as he possesses the wisdom and charisma to lead a people. And such leaders are installed to power to a tenured period via democratic means. The Taliban, on the other hand, reject this idea. They hold that society must be governed by Islamic laws. Islamic jurisprudence is still essentially feudalist at it root. The Taliban are doubly against the liberal ideologies of Western societies today because while America led Afghanistan in the last twenty years, they have not only succeeded at birthing freedom and education among the Afghan people; they have also begun to plant their liberal ideas of homosexuality and infanticide (abortion) among the people there. The Taliban see all these as the corruption of Christianity on their land and were basically emboldened to take their society back through the force of arms. Another thing that has led to the rise of the Taliban in the Afghan government has been the kid glove commitment that the Democrat led government of the United States brings to the manner of military force. Christian societies have learnt over the years that God has given government the power of the sword (Romans 13), to punish evil and to reward good. It is this idea, that is still prevalent in the Republican Party of the USA, that constrains them to pay attention to the matter of national security through the empowering of their military. A Republican Party government will not only invest in the military, they will also take proactive steps at curtailing movements all around the world that pose as security threats to the United States. The USA discovered that Afghanistan was the hotbed for terrorist activities. They realized that Osama Bin Laden had used that country to train his men to build up the terrorist group that attacked New York in September 11, 2001. The US immediately moved into Afghanistan, overthrew the Taliban government there and installed a democratic government. Unfortunately for America, they succeeded in planting a government without a corresponding ideology to preserve that government. The idea that has preserved the USA and other Western countries till now has been a Christian one. Everywhere you discard the Christian ideology, you open yourselves to others – including Islam. My argument in this essay is simply this: no idea is sustained in our world without the might of the military. Islam conquered much of the world where their religion exist today by the force of arms. Christianity, as we saw in the story of Nigeria earlier, has also employed the military for its mission works sometimes. Does this mean that there are no fundamental differences between Islam and Christianity? I believe there are. In every conflict in our world, certain images emerge that depict perfectly the principles and spirit propelling that conflict. For the Syrian war, it was the image of the body of a three year old Syrian boy washed up the shores of the seas. That boy’s death was a pointer to the collective failure of the world to preserve peace on the world stage. For Afghanistan, it is the sight of young Afghan men – climbing to the wings of flying jet, seeking to escape the Taliban that had just entered their country. Those boys fell off that plane and seven of them perished in the process. Here is the thing: the people running away from the Taliban are Afghans and they are Muslims. But they would rather be led by a Western government than by people of their own religion. It is not a secret that the Taliban lead by Islamic laws and these laws have curtailed not just the freedom of the people; it has also ensured that the girl child gets no education. Girls are already being traded off for marriage as early as age twelve. Many Muslims in the West and in developed societies will disagree with the position that the Talibans are simply trying to be as faithful to the message of the Quran and the Hadiths around the life and times of their Prophet. Unfortunately no one debates these issues with the Talibans. They are now in power and their feudalistic approach to government is all that they know. What is the lesson to the Christian Church? First, we must remember that our God is still the sovereign ruler of all the world. He is in charge. For this reason, we plead with him in prayers for his will to be done and for lasting peace to exist in the nations so that the gospel can be preached in all the earth. The Christian ideology must reach all the nations because even Muslims, who have benefited greatly from the Christian worldview, will prefer to be ruled by Christian ideas than by their repressive Islamic ideologies. Second, we must continue to preach the gospel and trust that Christ will change the hearts of sinners. The blessing of Christianity is that even where person may not be converted, a Christian worldview is a lot better than any idea that this world has birth. Lastly, Christians must continue to speak and champion for a just society anywhere they live. Christianity leaves the world a better place than it met it. In the 18th century, a Muslim scholar by the name of Uthman Dan Fodio, instigated an Islamic crusade throughout Northern Nigeria. By the end of his jihad, the whole of the north was Muslim and had come under his reign. It was this campaign, more than anything else that motivated Christian missionaries to come to Southern Nigeria through the sea and to work up mission efforts to Northern Nigeria. Till today most of the north is Muslim and much of the south is Christian. My point in this essay is this: ideas rule our world. The Christian worldview is worlds apart from the Islamic worldview and recent happenings in Afghanistan is proof of this. In the mean time, pray for Afghanistan. © Deji Yesufu Source: https://textandpublishing.com/afghanistan-and-the-triumph-of-world-ideologies/ 3 Likes 1 Share
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| Christianity Etc › Re: Moyosore Opposes Daddy Freeze And Reno Omokri On The Trinity In This Rap Song by VBCampaign(op): 8:21pm On Aug 16, 2021 |
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| Christianity Etc › Moyosore Opposes Daddy Freeze And Reno Omokri On The Trinity In This Rap Song by VBCampaign(op): 11:59am On Aug 16, 2021*. Modified: 8:21pm On Aug 16, 2021 |
Moyosore Olaoba rap song on the Trinity, opposing Freeze and Reno on the subject: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4mxdcl56ZI |
| Sports › Re: Why Nigeria Should Celebrate Giannis Adetokunbo’s Championship At The NBA by VBCampaign(op): 5:07am On Jul 23, 2021 |
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| Sports › Re: Why Nigeria Should Celebrate Giannis Adetokunbo’s Championship At The NBA by VBCampaign(op): 1:29pm On Jul 22, 2021 |
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| Sports › Why Nigeria Should Celebrate Giannis Adetokunbo’s Championship At The NBA by VBCampaign(op): 10:20am On Jul 21, 2021 |
Why Nigeria Should Celebrate Giannis Adetokunbo’s Championship at the NBA By: Deji Yesufu Those who know something of playing basketball in the National Basketball Association (NBA) know two things: that because of the resources the Americans put into the game, the best basketballers come to the NBA from all around the world. The second thing they know is that to win a Championship in the NBA, there is always that huddle to cross. For Giannis Adetokunbo and the Milwaukee Bucks (the team he plays for), that huddle was the Brooklyn Nets. The reason was because Brooklyn had acquired the services of James Harden, a former MVP, and one of the greatest guards the game had ever seen. Hadden was frustrated that despite his individual brilliance at the Houston Rockets, he still had not won a championship. So he came to Brooklyn when the season begun to win. During the 2020/21 regular season, the Nets did very well and came second in the Eastern Conference listing. Bucks were third. Along with Kevin Durant the Nets were running all over everyone. The Bucks met the Nets in the Eastern Conference semi finals and everyone knew there was going to be fireworks. Nets had game 7 advantage (this means that three games will be played at Bucks and 4 at Nets). When the series started, Bucks went down by two games (0-2). Everyone thought it was over for Giannis and his team mates. Bucks still had the opportunity to play three games at home. Bucks fought back and won their first two games at home. In game 5, playing away at Brooklyn, Bucks went up by 16 points in the second half. Brooklyn erased that massive lead and won game 5 at home. Bucks returned to Milwaukee and clinched a win. The series were tied at 3-3. Then the finale was to be at Brooklyn, since they had the advantage. Bucks gave it all that they got and clinched a vital away win to win the series (4-3). After that win, most basketball pundits tipped Bucks to win the NBA finals. They simply had beaten the best team in the league. In the Eastern Conference Finals, the Bucks walloped the Atlanta Hawks (4-2). Giannis was injured in game 4 but his team mates saw the series through. He returned for game 1 of the NBA finals itself, which was going to be against the Phoenix Suns. You will appreciate the Sun’s better when you discover that the Sun’s had beaten the defending Champions, LA Lakers, with Lebron James, at the Quarter Finals of the Western Conference. This morning, the Buck beat the Suns (4-2) to clinch the 2020/21 NBA Championship. Bucks had gone two games down at first but returned to win four games in a row. Their game 5 away win at Phoenix being the most pivotal. Giannis Adetokunbo scores 50 points in game 6 this morning, becoming the only player to score that high in an NBA finals since 1958. Why then should Nigeria and Nigerians celebrate Giannis Adetokunbo’s win? How does that reduce the cost of Garri in our markets? To answer that question, I’ll humbly request you read my first article on Giannis: The Story of Giannis Adetokunbo. I discovered this phenomenonal person by accident. For those who do not have the patience to read that rather lengthy piece, here is a quick recap. Giannis Adetokunbo was born in Greece by Nigerian parents. His father had gone to Greece to pursue a career in professional football, like hundreds of other Nigerians were doing in the 1990s. He couldn’t land a club in Athens and he didn’t want to return to Nigeria. So himself and his wife decided to slug it out in Greece. Giannis, the third of their five sons, was born in 1994. Their parent did not have work permits and thus had to work menial jobs to provide for their sons. The Adetokunbo boys however took up their father’s build and athleticism, and after a short stint with football, someone suggested to them to try out Basketball. They never looked back. In 2011/12, scouts began to pay attention to the young and gaggling Giannis. In 2013 the Milwaukee Bucks drafted him into their team. He was the 15th pick. He was only 18 years old. Giannis parents and siblings soon joined him in the USA and their fortune changed. This is where Nigeria lost out. Up till 2013, Greece had still not given the Adetokunbos citizenship. When that country saw Giannis’ potential, they gave the whole family citizenship and then corrupted their name to “Antetokounpo”. In spite of these Giannis has continued to keep his connection with Nigeria – even mentioning our dear country in his post match comments this morning, where he celebrated his championship win at age 26 and his finals MVP status too. Nigeria must learn to celebrate their own or else the world will see the good in them and steal their glories from us. The story of how Greece stole the Adetokunbos from Nigeria remains another sad tale in the annals of our nation. Here are however a few reasons why Nigeria and Nigerians should celebrate Giannis Adetokunbo’s win. First, I have long pushed the narrative that it is ordinary Nigerians that will fix this country; not our leaders. For long we have trusted the wrong set of people to save this nation. It is time we begin to look elsewhere. If we examine the Giannis Adetokunbo story you see this reality: that imbedded in all Nigerians are gifts that can not only propel an individual forward but at the same time send his community and nation forward. Nigeria has always had great sport people. Now we are building a community of entertainers. Recently I met a young man who is exporting his expertise in coding and earning foreign exchange into the country. Nigerians have within themselves something they can give the world. We only need to trust ourselves and make the leap. This will not happen overnight but it will happen gradually. The hope of this nation is in a new breed taking over from an old guard that have been worn out by their greed. If you are a Nigerian anywhere in the world doing legitimate work, continue in it. One day you will be found. Second, few people know something about the blessings that adversities bring. We all seek comfort; we all want things to be easy for us in life. But adversity builds character; it strengthens hope; it builds personal discipline, especially with money; and it trains an individual in obscurity for the time of limelight. The Adetokunbos were sure that remaining in Greece will bring its share of difficulty but they faced it and came out on top. Watching Giannis play, you can see the same determination to overcome adversity in him. Giannis was ridiculed for his inability to shoot free throws. For this his opponents fouled him and got away with it. This morning, Giannis scored 12 of the 14 free throws he was given to take. His jump shots were excellent and he characteristic attack on the rim earned him his 50 points – highest score in the finals since 1958. Giannis saw adversity as a stepping stone and we all can. Nigeria is going through difficult days. Our country people can learn a few character and discipline that will help us when this nation’s prosperity comes. Third. There is a world of diasporan Nigerians that we have simply refused to glean or learn from. Many Nigerians, who once lived in this country, still have their hearts and minds on the shores of this nation. Many of them are willing to help. I was recently acquainted with a medical doctor gentleman working in Canada – a Nigerian, Dr. Motunrayo Adetola. Dr. Adetola was President of Nigerian Physicians in Canada. Besides helping each other, they seek to benefit medical practice in Nigeria. While he was leading the group, they had completed plans to come to Nigeria to equip some of our hospitals and also train our doctors. Unfortunately with the coming of a new government and a new leadership to the Ministry of Health, the whole thing was scuttled. You may read more on the story here. The Giannis Adetokunbo story tells us that there is an army of Nigerians in the diaspora that can help every sector of this country thrive. Fourth. Nigerians can learn from the American dream. Here is what the American dream is: any person can come to the USA, take advantage of the opportunities there and succeed in life. You don’t have to know anyone. The system there functions on merit. The moment people know you have certain gifts, they can tap into it and develop it for greater productivity. The attitude of knowing somebody before you get a job, or the idea of bribing your way through institutions can cease in Nigeria. We must be able to appreciate our individual humanity and celebrate our gifts, and then channel those gifts to great good. Someone saw Giannis playing in Greece through amateur video footages, then travelled to Greece to bring him to the USA. We all must recognize merit and stop this attitude of competition. Everyone has a gift and a place were he can excel. Find such an individual and promote him. In the process, you also will be promoted and the whole community will benefit from it. Finally, we cannot loose our hope in God. The blessings of adversity is that it compels people to look up to God in hope. This is the reason atheism does not thrive in Nigeria. We must continue to thrust God both individually and as a community of people. We must continue to look for hope where there seem to be none. We cannot stop praying. When the final whistle was blown this morning, Giannis went immediately to find his mother and gave her a bear hug. His Dad had Died in 2018 of a massive heart attack. Giannis continues to credit God and his family for his successes. He has been two time MVP (2019, 2020) and is likely to win both the MVP and the most defensive player again this year, 2021. There are a lot more to learn from Giannis Adetokunbo. Read up on him, beginning with my blog posts, and I’m positive you will gain something from his story. Source: https://textandpublishing.com/why-nigeria-should-celebrate-giannis-adetokunbos-championship-at-the-nba/ 1 Like
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| Politics › Re: The Ghost Of Biafra Still Hunts Nigeria By Deji Yesufu by VBCampaign(op): 11:09am On Jul 18, 2021 |
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| Politics › The Ghost Of Biafra Still Hunts Nigeria By Deji Yesufu by VBCampaign(op): 10:32am On Jul 18, 2021 |
The Ghost of Biafra Still Hunts Nigeria By: Deji Yesufu When Chinua Achebe wrote his memoirs “There was a Country”, most literary observers knew that the sage was giving Nigeria his parting words. Achebe had served in the broadcasting arm of the defunct Biafra and for almost forty years after the last bullet was shot at that war, the man who naturally is prodigious with words will not write much on the war until his final end. The book is arguably Achebe’s most controversial work. Achebe published the book while he was safely resident in the United States of America, where he could not be constrained by the Nigerian government’s penchant to stifle free remarks on the subject of Biafra. Many people disagreed with Achebe’s conclusions but one quote that is usually attributed to him and that many people do not disagree with is a statement he made which is not even in that book. It is the remark that the fundamental problem of Nigeria is leadership. Achebe made that statement sometimes in 1981 and it is a statement that has rung true all through the history of this country. When I was growing up, my siblings and I were often told stories about ghosts. My belief in ghosts was hinged on my absolute dread of the phenomenon. These were my first encounters with the world of the supernatural. I read somewhere that the manner a man dies dictates how events will pan out around the environment where he died. If a man dies peacefully, peace surges through his family life and envelopes circumstances after him. People will say in his memory that he is blessed indeed. If a man dies horribly, horrors follow circumstances after him. It appears his ghost never rests; it goes from place to place, disrupting events – as if calling for justice for the manner he died. On the 15th of January, 1970, the Nigerian Civil War came to an end. In a sense Biafra died that day but events that have followed the burial of this ill fated Republic shows that the ghost of that nation has not rested but has instead returned to hunt Nigeria. When I wrote my book VICTOR BANJO, I was reacting to events around the call for cessation by the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), led by Mazi Nnamdi Kanu. Kanu was barely three years old when the Nigerian Civil War ended, yet he grew up with the ghost of Biafra inhabiting his spirit and compelling him to take actions against the Nigerian state. Today Kanu has successfully sold the secession story to many Ibos, especially those living outside the shores of the country. Leaving Nigeria is now an idea increasingly gaining traction in Eastern Nigeria today. Those who are familiar with events that led up to the Nigerian Civil War, and the secession call by Col. Ojukwu then, know that Igbo land does not have up to 5% of the reasons Ojukwu led Eastern Nigeria out in those days. Yet, even back in 1967, many people warned Ojukwu against leaving Nigeria. Victor Banjo, his friend, and the subject of my book, made the point that Eastern Nigeria was not militarily equipped enough to face the war arsenals of Nigeria. While Western Nigeria were not happy being “occupied” by troops from Northern Nigeria (in the 1960s the seat of power was in Lagos and Gowon needed Northern soldiers to protect him. Thus Western Nigeria was seen as “occupied” by northern troops), and was willing to leave the Nigerian union, she was not militarily capable to venture out. If Ojukwu had delayed seceding by a few months, it would have become clear to him that the war was not practical. Ojukwu however had the best trained officers in the Nigerian military of that time and he was confident that what he lacked in military armament, he could make up for in personals. By the end of July 1967, after the first engagement with Nigerian forces at a town close to Nsukka, in the North of Biafra, more than half of these brilliant and capable men that Ojukwu was counting on had been killed at war. The war had barely commenced and Ojukwu had lost almost all his boys. Back in Enugu, at the Biafra Supreme Headquarters, tempers were frail and Ojukwu was almost removed from office as a number of Senior officers contemplated passing a vote of no confidence on his leadership. It was Major Emmanuel Ifeajuna that stood up at a meeting and gave a resounding word in support of Ojukwu’s leadership. Subsequently Ojukwu’s job was saved but Ifeajuna would loose his life; along with Victor Banjo – a story I have documented in my book (so grab a copy if you want know how Ifeajuna became Ojukwu’s enemy in a little over a month from that time). My point in this essay is that the ghost of Biafra is hunting Nigeria and the country lacks the requisite leadership skills to temper this evil spirit that has refused to rest more than half a century after the nation of Biafra was subjugated. Nigeria entered into a thirty month war because she lacked a leadership that could help her avoid such a conflict. While granting an interview on his book “THE AGONY OF VICTORY”, retired Brigadier Alabi Isama, said that if Nigeria had had a functioning Parliament we might have avoided the conflict entirely. He said that everything that was fought out with guns, bombs and bullets at the theater of war, could easily have been debated at Parliament. But the country had no Parliament and the two countries at war were led by young men that lacked experience but where high on emotion and rhetoric. In fact I will add that the whole conflict that led to the end of the first republic was premised on the fact that Nigeria had a leadership in the persons of Sarduana and Balewa, that were unable to handle the brilliant arguments that Awolowo and his party, the Action Group, brought to the Nigerian Parliament. Awolowo was soon clamped in jail and the nation degenerated to chaos. Nigeria has still not found the kind of leadership to exorcise her of the ghost of Biafra that continues to hunt her. Nnamdi Kanu has assumed a messianic posture in Eastern Nigeria because the country’s present leadership has no ideas on how to handle him. His present predicament of being captured and returned to Nigeria “Barau Dikko” style has only increased his cult following in Eastern Nigeria. It has not diminished it. As Nigeria battles a ghost of her past sins, we sometimes forget as a people that real human beings perished during the Biafran War. I had a Pastor who told me in 2004 that his family are still trusting God that his elder brother will return alive from the war. That man was in his mid fifties when he told me that. No one in church dare tell him his brother was long dead. I wrote the book “VICTOR BANJO” because of the emotional attachment I got from researching the story. I sat in the office of one Banjo’s children as this dear woman told me that since there has been no official word from the Nigerian military that Victor Banjo was killed at the war, it could be that her father was still alive somewhere. She also said that even if he had been killed, it will be such a comfort to know where he was buried and to have his bones given a proper burial. Dare Babanrisa, in a recent article, also reiterated this call to find Banjo’s bones and give this great son of Yoruba land a proper burial. A call I had made in my book on him. The fact is that the ghost of Biafra continues to hunt all of us in this country and this nation needs a kind of leadership that will pacify this ghost and give it a proper rest – an eternal one. Until this happens, the agitation for a nation of Biafra will continue. It was a nation that perished at infancy, yet its ghost will not allow a fully grown country have any peace. Source: https://textandpublishing.com/the-ghost-of-biafra-still-hunts-nigeria/
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| Politics › Re: How Agbowo Became A Den Of Thieves by VBCampaign: 10:24pm On Jul 02, 2021 |
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| Christianity Etc › Re: How To Be A Successful Man And Then Be Killed By A 21 Year Old Girl by VBCampaign(op): 1:11pm On Jun 26, 2021 |
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| Christianity Etc › Re: How To Be A Successful Man And Then Be Killed By A 21 Year Old Girl by VBCampaign(op): 5:08pm On Jun 25, 2021 |
Eviana:Incidentally the writer criticized the dead man. Very little was said of the motive behind the murder or the murderer herself.. |
| Christianity Etc › Re: How To Be A Successful Man And Then Be Killed By A 21 Year Old Girl by VBCampaign(op): 11:18am On Jun 25, 2021 |
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| Christianity Etc › How To Be A Successful Man And Then Be Killed By A 21 Year Old Girl by VBCampaign(op): 7:51am On Jun 25, 2021 |
How to be a Successful Man and then be Killed by a 21 Year Old Girl By: Deji Yesufu Life can throw up different strokes and men can die very easily. One day in the year 2014, my family and I had just returned from church and it had rained lightly. I had opened the gate to the house, parked the car and was about closing it, when I was electrocuted. I was held to that gate for about a second before, for reasons I still cannot tell till tomorrow, the gate let me go. Electricity comes with magnetic fields around it. Nothing, naturally speaking, should have allowed that gate to let me off since power was still on it. But it did. Two days ago, in the neighborhood I live in, a teenage girl was electrocuted while putting off the generator. The girl died. I lived. God is merciful and sovereign. So men die easily and nothing guarantees our seeing tomorrow. But how do you go from being a successful business man in Nigeria and then perishing at the feet of a twenty one year old girl in Lagos? One understand that life is ephemeral but should one loose one’s life that easily? For those still in the dark regarding what I am talking about, you can read up a breaking news in Nigeria here. For others, kindly follow my conjectures around the possible scenery around a middle aged successful man, who suddenly dies on the laps of the very woman he had employed to satisfy his libido. Here are a few ways to achieve this uncanny, if you like, fit. Make the pursuit of money, not the development of personal character, an ambition in life: Money is good. When you have money, life becomes really easy. Recently I rode a Hyundai Santa-Fe for a two week period, as I had been given the vehicle for travel purposes. The air conditioning was a killer. The absorber was incredible. Beautiful vehicle; a lot unlike my 2008 Toyota Corolla. After the experience, I concluded that this is why many do anything to get money. Unfortunately money is not everything. Along with the pursuit of a successful life, one should also build personal character. It means creating boundaries for oneself. These days when I see young ladies walk the road, flaunting all they have, I simply compare them to my baby sister. Someday I’ll be comparing them to my daughter and then my grandchildren, etc. That way you know certain boundaries cannot be exceeded. It is deliberately choosing not to think some thoughts. It is knowing where to go and where not to go to. It knowing the kinds of company you keep. It is preserving your self respect and not allowing the lust of your heart ruin you. A lot of people are not religious but they are disciplined. Such persons will certainly not end up with young girls the age of their daughters, talk less having fights with knife with them and ending up being killed. Despise your marriage bed: One thing scares the wits out of me. What if my wife ends up falling for a guy who is either flirting with her or toasting her – in the same manner I am flirting with another woman or toasting her. In such a case, I’ll not be able to blame her but myself. Marriage is a spiritual bond that I believe only a man has powers to keep together. Before a woman steps out once to sleep with another man, I suspect that the man would have been doing it many more times. It is an edge that must not be broken or else the serpent will bite. The Old Testament biblical scripture talks about a spirit of jealousy. A spouse commits adultery and the other spouse just knows it, even when they cannot prove it. This is not like the incessant jealous suspicion many women have of their husbands. This is a spiritual nudge in their hearts. The person just knows the other person is cheating and there the foundation of their home begins to crumble. Men, you have the duty to zip up. Respect your wives; respect your marriage bed. Or, die like an idiot in the hands of someone the age of your child. Make little of religion: Here I will speak of the Christian religion. For some reason most of the religion that I imbibed I got from my university days. It was there I was born again. It was there I learnt to walk through female hostels with my head bowed to the ground. It was there I learnt to train my infatuation and lust, and bring my body under. I was single for a long time and when I married, I got all my satisfaction in the one woman. I do not know how the laps of another woman taste like. I do not know variety. May our young men imbibe religion early. Learn the gospel. Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ. Let his Spirit possess your heart. Then wait, wait and wait for your own. Those who wait for God will not be put to shame. Let this Christian ethic grip you. Learn to possess your vessel in sanctification and honor. After you are married, you will realize that there is nothing shaking outside there that is not in your home. And you will enjoy the bosom of your wife till old age. The other option is to learn to devour varieties until one of them snuff out your life. There are many other things you can do to become successful and then be killed like a goat in the hands of the adulterer. Only that many people deceive themselves to think that they have lived like this all their lives and they can been spared. It is true. Just that there is always a day of reckoning for the wicked. I sat before a man once as he lay dying from full blown AIDS. He had lived a lascivious life all his days, despite having two wives. I prayed for him, told him about the gospel and hope he imbibed the Christian message that could sage his soul. He died in the middle of the night that day. I also visited another woman who had lived a similar life. She also lay dying from AIDS. She used to be plumb and fair and beautiful. Here she was, gaunt and wasting away. I was told when she died, she had trickles of tears on her eyes – regret. Life can be better lived. We do not have to live a life of hedonism. You can be successful. You can have a healthy marriage and raise godly children, and never for once be linked with a sex scandal. Talk less one that leads to a knife trust through your throat. Source: https://textandpublishing.com/how-to-be-a-successful-man-and-then-be-killed-by-a-21-year-girl/ 1 Like
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| Politics › What A Nigerian Soldier Told Me By Deji Yesufu by VBCampaign(op): 1:23pm On Jun 08, 2021*. Modified: 7:53pm On Jun 08, 2021 |
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| Christianity Etc › Re: Your Experience Working For A Pastor by VBCampaign(op): 1:42pm On May 26, 2021 |
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| Christianity Etc › Your Experience Working For A Pastor by VBCampaign(op): 1:00pm On May 26, 2021*. Modified: 1:20pm On May 26, 2021 |
Your Experience Working for a Pastor There is a thread on Nairaland titled “What Has Been Your Experience Working for a Pastor?” (https://www.nairaland.com/6568976/whats-experience-working-company-owned) I knew immediately that it was going to be an interesting discussion and so I browsed through the first page of the thread. I was not surprised by the comments I saw there: most people have had bad experiences working with pastors. Let me share a comment by one “Pissfulprotester”: “Many years ago during my NYSC, I was unfortunate to be posted to work with an NGO run by a “Pastor”. As at the time of my posting, he was expecting independent and international bodies to come for their annual Audit. This purely has to do with how he spent all the funds he received for one humanitarian project or the other… To make this story short, this man had no supporting documents for virtually all the transactions he did with the funds. He only had different empty receipt booklets with him which he printed to perfect his fraudulent deals… "My posting brought smiles to his face as he believed I had the training to perfect records from school. Damn! I saw things!!… I pissfulprotester said to myself as the going got tougher. I won’t start this profession with fraud..Mba! I won’t…Had to look for a way to reach my LGI..told him everything to make him see why I must leave that place. Within a week or so, I was posted out of that hell of a place… Don’t know how I forgot to mention that the man’s office was situated in the same building where he had his church…If God no gentle, aswearugad, that man would have been consumed by mother earth long ago.” That story is sad indeed and there were a couple of other comments like that. A few people came to the thread to explain that pastors are human beings also and that you should not expect to meet an angel when you go and work for them. I do not necessarily agree with this caveat but it is one that we must make do with in the light of how things have really degenerated in the name of religion, Christianity and pastoral work especially in our clime. My own experience working for a pastor was a good one. From 2008 to 2010 I was employed to teach at an educational facility run by a pastor and his wife. The experienced I gained there was and still is invaluable. The couple were not perfect but they opened my eyes to how business can be run in a country where the environment can be quite harsh on business owners. This was all happening when we, employees of this school, were hearing unsavory reports coming from another sister educational facility also run by a pastor and his wife in our city. I learnt very quickly that there was such a thing called contentment and an attitude of waiting on Providence. It was while working there that I developed a love for teaching and then went on to get a Master degree in Physics instead of Electrical Engineering which is my first degree. If not that teachers are so poorly paid in this country, I would still have been working at that place till now. Yet, the overall report about pastors owning businesses in this clime is bad. I hold the opinion that pastors have no business owning businesses. A few days ago a brother who shares some theological agreement with me, suggested on Facebook that seminary training was overhyped. He said that all that a person needs is a calling and a commitment to obeying that calling. I disputed this position and suggested to him that he was in error. While it is true that seminary training can be done without by a person called by God, seminary training will always add to a Christian ministry; it will never subtract. I understand that there are many seminaries that have followed the devil into perdition; but there are also many other seminaries that are doing very well. One thing that a good seminary will teach is the whole business of caring for the spiritual souls of men and winning the lost sheep of Christ to God. May I suggest to us that that business is full time work and anyone truly involved in it cannot have the time for anything else besides. Whatever else such a person does will suffer. Therefore, the reason why many pastors are unable to run their businesses properly is because they were never supposed to be in the business in the first place. There are many of such pastors who bear the name in an honorary manner and are simply assisting another pastor – who himself is full time. There are others who became pastors because they have been long standing members of a congregation and in a bid to retain their membership and reward their faithfulness, the General Overseer opens up a branch for them to pastor. They are incidental ministers; they were never called by God into pastoral work. Pastoral work will not leave room for business venturing because the two callings have two different goals. Businesses seek to make profit, while pastoral work ends up loosing resources in the bid to gain souls for God’s kingdom. The two cannot mix. A true pastor must fail in business except he employs pragmatic measures of the world, which will quite naturally run counterproductive to his calling as a pastor. In Nigeria today the word “pastor” has become a honorary title and not a spiritual responsibility. Somebody told me that in the neighborhood where he lives, 90% of the adult Christian men there are all pastors. The title “pastor” has become so ubiquitous that the most immoral person will bear the name for simply being a member of a Church and when the person does something wrong, everyone bearing the title must share in the blame. Perhaps I should end this essay by stating that in the ideal sense a pastor should not be employing anyone to work for him. Rather a congregation should be employing a pastor to come and shepherd them in the word and life of Christ. The pastor is God’s servant sent to shepherd a people spiritually. He is one that should be given mainly to the word and to prayer. A pastor spends six days of the week waiting on God for a word for his congregation – a word that he would deliver on Sunday, the Lord’s Day. A pastor is one whom church members must be able to seek out for counsel when they are going through life challenges. A pastor’s shoulder is one that a young mother must be able to lie upon after a miscarriage. A pastor is the one that offers a young couple counsel on how to manage their early marital crisis. A pastor buries the dead in his congregation; he names the new-born; he counsels the couple seeking to be married; he joins the couple in holy matrimony; and he must manage his own home too. He does all this as he continues to come up with new ideas on how to reach the community around him with the gospel of Christ. The pastor’s work is a full-time business and he has no business running a profit generating enterprise. Church members should run those businesses and bring their profit to the church for the church to lead outreaches to the world. In an ideal setting, none of us should have experiences working for pastors. Unfortunately our clime is not the ideal one and this is the reason for the evil reports we keep getting about pastors leading businesses in our world. © Deji Yesufu Source: https://textandpublishing.com/your-experience-working-for-a-pastor/
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| Health › Re: What Can I Do To Gain Weight? by VBCampaign: 7:19pm On May 13, 2021 |
Do nothing. Thank God for the gift of life. Many will kill to have your size. Resist any insecurity. Gain confidence. Your are well made by God. 2 Likes |
| Christianity Etc › Re: Concerning Paul Adefarasin’s Escape Route By Deji Yesufu by VBCampaign(op): 10:57am On May 11, 2021 |
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| Christianity Etc › Concerning Paul Adefarasin’s Escape Route By Deji Yesufu by VBCampaign(op): 8:29am On May 11, 2021*. Modified: 11:21am On May 11, 2021 |
Concerning Paul Adefarasin's Escape Route By: Deji Yesufu One of the easiest jobs to do in Nigeria is that of a public commentator. There are no want of topics to talk about at any given time in this country. In fact in recent times and to pay closer attention to my calling as a minister of Jesus Christ I have cut down on my commentaries on national issues. I’ll rather look at matters that concern the Christian faith and that is why Paul Adefarasi’s statement, in a recent sermon, caught my attention. Punch online quotes Pastor Adefarasin as saying: “I bring you greetings from Pastor Ifeanyi who is busy taking care of the frontier of our world and preparing our escape route… If you don’t have a plan B… I know you have faith, I have faith too but I have a plan B… With technology, I can speak to you from anywhere in the world… Get yourself a plan B. Whether that’s an Okada to Cameroon or a flying boat to Seme Border. A hole in the ground, a bunker as we call it. Just get yourself a plan B. Because these people are crazy. They are nuts. The whole bunch of them. And watch the signs because it can happen, just like this (snaps fingers).” If you missed the gist, this is what Adefarasin is saying: I have just returned from a trip abroad where I went visiting my wife, Ifeanyi, and family. She sends her greetings. Her living abroad with the children is my family’s plan to finally relocate from Nigeria. I will still be pastoring the Church from there since basically all that pastoral work consist of is preaching. I will speak to you via satellite. I advise you also to have an escape route too: seek a way to get out of Nigeria. The insecurity is creeping on everyone and no one knows who’s next. That, in a nutshell, is Adefarasin message to his congregation. In 1994, in a space of 100 days, close to a million Hutus were murdered by their Tutsi neighbors in Rwanda, East Africa. That incident is regarded as the Rwandan Genocide and it remains a stain on the conscience of the world, while at the same time causing a turn around for that country. Rwanda has since gone past that tragedy. Many people were killed but one occasion during the genocide depicts the heart of true religion: all the white people were being evacuated by UN soldiers. A Reverend father was called upon to join the expatriates. He turns to his people, one of them had asked him earlier “… where is God in all these…?” The father said he had just realized that God was with the suffering Hutus. He stayed behind and was killed a few minutes after the UN soldiers left. A few years to the end of the second world war, a German theologian and Pastor, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, decided he must return to war torn Germany from the USA where he had gone to seek refuge. When he was asked why he was returning he explained that he could not partake of the rebuilding of Germany if he was not part of her liberation. He stole into Germany but was soon roped into a fathom coup by Hitler’s men. He was put in a consecration camp and would have gained his freedom but some fleeing German officers executed him just after Hitler had killed himself. If anyone is in doubt of the falsehood that pervades much of Christendom today and that is ably represented by Adefarasin, here it is: behold modern Pentecostalism and its penchant for self preservation. Adefarasin forgets that the foreign country his family has fled to was built by the blood and sweat of the children of those countries. Does Adefarasin know anything about history? Does he know the story of the invasion of Normandy where thousands of young Allied soldiers walked into their deaths as they sought to liberate France in World War 2. Many of those boys were barely 20 years old and they were killed in their thousands. They were literal human shields for the other soldiers who later invaded the beach and won the battle, and took France from Germany. That single battle was the beginning of the end of Adolf Hitler. Here’s the point of my rant: the world is today a global village and everyone has a right to live anywhere they choose. However, the people who are the leaders of thoughts in Nigeria should not be the one championing the mass exit of Nigerians from this country. Yes there is insecurity in the land but is Nigeria at war? Even if we are at war, is it not fellow Nigerians that will fight this war? Leaders of thoughts, particularly religious teachers, should be championing a spirit of patriotism – a heart to help build Nigeria and not one that seeks at fleeing the country. And the way human nature is; it is those who are least benefiting society; those who are parasite on the system that seek to flee when there is nothing left for them to feast on. After years of enjoying the largesse of ministry in Lekki Lagos, Adefarasin sees that the next port of call is to live abroad while overseeing his ministry from a foreign country. If you still go to such a church, your mumu neva do you. Again this is not a call to Nigerians to stay in the country. If you wish to leave, go. But such gaffes should not be coming from a pastor in the Christian religion. Christians do not think like that. One of the things that preserved Igbo land during the civil war was the myriads of Christian organizations that remained in the East to nurture the people physically and spiritually. When a so called Pastor is championing escape routes out of a country because of insecurity in the land, know that such a person is not a shepherd but a hireling. Source: https://textandpublishing.com/paul-adefarasis-escape-route/ 3 Likes 1 Share
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| Romance › Re: The Big Curses She Laid On My Head. Did I Do Anything Wrong? by VBCampaign: 10:36pm On Apr 19, 2021 |
You did nothing wrong. Ignore the girl and maybe move somewhere else. A lady like that can kill. 1 Like |
| Christianity Etc › Re: Casual Sex And Moral Boundaries by Deji Yesufu by VBCampaign(op): 8:37pm On Apr 18, 2021 |
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| Christianity Etc › Casual Sex And Moral Boundaries by Deji Yesufu by VBCampaign(op): 11:05am On Apr 18, 2021 |
Casual Sex and Moral Boundaries This year will be my twelfth year in marriage. A few months after we were married my pastor’s wife remarked that she was really pleased at the fact that many young people she had counseled came into matrimony as virgins. I knew she was making this remark in reference to a similar question she asked my then fiancé and I at counselling before we were married. She went further to encourage young people in the congregation to continue to be chaste. That was twelve years ago – I am not sure this woman pastor can say the same of young people today. The manner sex is casualized today is distressing. One wonders if we can ever recover healthy moral boundaries ever again.Source: https://textandpublishing.com/casual-sex-and-moral-boundaries/ 1 Like
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| Romance › Re: 3 Weeks To Our Wedding, I Feel Like Calling It Off by VBCampaign: 10:28pm On Apr 03, 2021 |
First, you write very well. You should consider writing a book even on a story like this. Second, tell Grace all that happened btw you and her younger sister, Abigail. The worst that could happen is that the marriage will not hold but you will have your peace and you'll not be in a situation where Abigail can blackmail you. All the best. 3 Likes |
| Christianity Etc › Re: Why The Coronavirus Has Not Killed You By Deji Yesufu by VBCampaign(op): 1:16pm On Mar 25, 2021 |
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| Christianity Etc › Why The Coronavirus Has Not Killed You By Deji Yesufu by VBCampaign(op): 9:20am On Mar 25, 2021 |
Why the Coronavirus Has not Killed You By: Deji Yesufu A few days ago I came across an article I wrote last year just about the time the lockdown was beginning to happen all around the world. The stories we were hearing about the Coronavirus then was not pretty and many people were certain that the end had come. I had also caught the apocalyptic bug and thus I penned a piece calling on everyone to prepare to die. I appealed to health workers especially to play the man and treat the pandemic as warfare. And I made it clear that if need be, some of us non medical personals, will be joining medical workers to forestall the tide of the killer disease. One year after, while the pandemic is not officially over – life has returned to near normal in most places. The doom that we expected will come with the disease did not happen. Streets in Africa has not been lined with dead bodies – in fact Africa, with our near zero medical infrastructure, has been the least hit by the disease. Most of us are not dead yet. I have thus asked myself why I have not caught the bug. I thought I should ask you too: why have you not contracted the Coronavirus, yet. In the heat of the pandemic last year, a friend got in touch with me from Maryland, USA, and narrated how the Coronavirus nearly killed her. She had been working as a baby sitter for a doctor in the hospital. One day her boss informed my friend that she had tested positive. My friend eventually took the test and the result returned positive. She immediately got quarantined at home, only for her symptoms to emerge that same night. Headaches, shortness of breath, sweat and so on introduced her to the disease. Living alone with her two young daughters, she immediately informed the health services and she was advised to remain at home and ride the virus out. “Only call the hospital when you have extreme difficulty of breathing…” she was told. She said she understood what that meant: call when you are ready to die. My friend got in touch with relatives in Nigeria and she was inundated with recommendations on how to deal with the disease. She eventually found one that worked and gradually, over a space of two weeks, she found her health back. Something else that might have helped her was that a year before, her doctors had placed her on a daily medication of Vitamin D. In the end her immunity won the battle. What baffled my friend the most was her children. While they didn’t take the test, they never came down with the disease. After hearing her story I began to realize that this disease appears to have a mind of its own. Another friend told me recently that he contracted the disease a few days after getting vaccinated! As the world celebrates one year contending with this disease, I would suggest that scientists should take sometimes and come to Ibadan and see how the Coronavirus has been fairing here. When Lagos State took the decision to shut down their state last year, Governor Seyi Makinde – Governor of Oyo State – said that it was not practical to shut down Oyo State. He made the point that most of the people living here are persons who earn their living daily. No matter the palliative offered, the State will be plunged into hunger if he shuts down. While Coronavirus will not kill the people outside, they will starve in their homes. Oyo State was not shut down. In fact our biggest market here in Ibadan, continued to operate at full capacity, with less than 1% of the traders and customers using face masks. Up till today Ibadan folks do not use face masks and we are yet to see the public health crisis that we were warned against. It is important that scientists tell us why Ibadan streets are not being lined with dead bodies from an outbreak of Coronavirus in this State. If they cannot offer this answer, we may need to return to the drawing board again and conclude that most of what was forecasted about this disease was not true. Let us come down to this matter of face masking. Who has face mask helped? I use face masks religiously but I can assure whoever wishes to hear that since the face mask culture began, I have discovered that no one uses them correctly. On a lighter note: when schools resumed and our children returned to classes with their face masks, I arrived one day to pick them and saw my seven year old chewing his face masks. It was at that point I knew that the whole ordeal was a waste of everyone’s time. But even those of us who do not chew our mask, do not use them properly. Most of the mask sold do not have proper lining. Most of who use these mask use them beyond the 3 hour period recommended to be used. One day I saw a woman in the hospital, lost in thoughts: her two hands were clapped on the mask. Going by the manner people use the masks, we should have had more disease breaking out from those than even without the mask. Yet, we are still here: we are not dead yet. A month ago University campuses opened up for classes. At the University of Ibadan, my own neighbors, students have been told not to come to the campus. Lectures are being held on zoom, while the students stay in their various abodes. That is what is on paper but that is not what is happening. The very week the school opened, students who were already tired of staying at home returned to Ibadan in droves. Without accommodation on campus, most of them have had to rent places in Agbowo – a small residential settlement opposite UI. I’m told that to cut cost, as many as six students stay in a room meant for one person. Students crowd around one laptop to attend zoom classes. Cost of accommodation has risen by about 100%. The whole thing is a mess. In keeping covid-19 guidelines, the school has inadvertently opened up these young people to contracting the disease. I will be suggest to UI to consider giving 100 and final year students accommodation on campus, while others work from home. This will reduce the stress that these young people are going through. Indeed our academic institutions should reevaluate everything they have been told about the Coronavirus. Let me conclude this essay by suggesting three reasons why you have not contracted the Coronavirus, yet. No One Knows for Sure How the Virus Works: In fact at some point I came to the conclusion that the people most fearful and most careful about evading the disease are the ones that get it. No one knows how this thing works. Yes, we know a few things. We know that people with comorbidities have greater likelihood of being killed when they get the disease. We know that overweight folks have greater battles with the disease. But we do not know how the disease spread. Masks and social distancing has been made nonsense of in places like Ibadan! Those who imposed the initial covid-19 guidelines need to return and reevaluate the while thing. Your Health is Yours: While we do not know how this disease works, we have seen that many of its victims are the high and the mighty. Those who are comfortable. There seem to be a direct coloration between this disease and how we handle our health. Ladies and gentlemen it is time to cut down on the weight. Many years ago Prof. Otegbayo, who is the present Chief Medical Director of University College Hospital, Ibadan, told us a few of us at a health talk in a church this secret. He said we should use every opportunity of our day to exercise. Instead of driving that one kilometer to buy something, walk. Rather than use the elevator, take a jug up the stairs. Many people, particularly our ladies, are morbidly obsessed and thus making themselves mince meat for a disease like the Coronavirus. We can also cut down on our eating. Most adults don’t need more than two meals a day. Others can do with one meal in the morning and a feast of fruits at night. If you have not been killed by the Coronavirus it more likely that you have an immunity that has beaten the disease and not because masking has worked. God Has Been Merciful: It is John MacArthur that said that the Coronavirus will not kill any more than God will permit it to. In other words you and I are still alive because God has been merciful to us. This does not mean that we should now take our health for granted. It only means that we are not dead yet not because we are wise and careful enough but because God has been merciful and thus we should thank him. When this pandemic hit, we religious thinker began to call on the world to think more of eternity and not just the here and now. There is more to life than acquiring certificates, getting a job, getting married, having children and growing old comfortably. There is an eternity to live in. And I appeal to you my readers to thus consider Jesus Christ who died to redeem all men from their sins and save them from God’s coming wrath. Believe on him and you will be saved. Coronavirus is not God’s judgement on the world. It is only a foretaste of it. Disclaimer: Deji Yesufu is not a health professional and what is written here is an opinion not a recommendation. Source: https://textandpublishing.com/why-the-coronavirus-has-not-killed-you/
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