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ijawkid: We are talking about worship here...

If people bow down before the images or carvings of there parents both at home and @ church in other to get to GOD then that will be blatant idolatry....

And you know that is exactly what you guys do......

Bowing before a white womans image or moulding and praying through her,hoping she will convey your prayers to God...

I wonder which god sef.....

Foxflames: I believe it is mainly out of ignorance that protestants and non-Catholics say that, Catholics worship idols.
Since the protestants like quoting the bible, let me quote one too...
Remember when God told Moses to place in the Temple in the very presence of God, the Holy of Holies:
"...2 ANGELS of hammered gold …their wings spread upward..The angels are to face each other..-Ex. 25:18-20
So, God Himself wanted a couple of images of “things in Heaven” in the Tabernacle

And then we have the incident where the children of Israel were bitten by fiery serpents and …
Numbers 21:8 The LORD said to Moses, “Make a snake and put it up on a pole; anyone who is bitten can look at it and live.”
Obviously, God has not forbidden art because He commanded specific kinds of art to decorate the Temple and to save the Israelites from snakebites.
He just didn’t want us to Worship these things
“You must not bow down to them or worship them”

Why does the Catholic Church have Art in Churches? I can think of 5 reasons.
1. Pictures and statues are like family photos in our houses of worship only we have images of the Family of God.
Doesn’t every house have family pictures?

2. As an aid to prayer and to keep us focused.

3. To remind us of those who set an example of heroic Christian living.

4. As reminders of Stories of Faith; to teach our children when a child asks, “Who is that?”

5. To tell the stories of our Faith to all the generations in the last 2000 years when Bibles were too expensive for individuals to own and most people could not read anyway. Did you know, even today 20% of the world population cannot read? But everyone can understand art.

source: This is from a protestant turned Catholic
http://bfhu./2011/10/19/another-protestant-tradition-catholics-worship-idols/

Upright750: You have not even go to church but ur here quoting bible. Do you guys think u will understand bible without the spirit of God in you. Please go to church or are u guys running away from church cuz of boko haram and their bomb.

enesy4u: Omg so i should pay 1500 for a small paluto radio i bought for 200naira

ojubi: I know a girl who is currently refusing a marriage proposal from a very promising, God fearing, ambitious, and nice young rich man cos accoding to her d dude does not satisfy her in bed.
I was speachless when she told me about it some days ago.
Until that day i use to think sex as d women make us pay for it, is only important to men.
Obviously i was wrong.

9jacrip: Correction: '....apply AS..' or '....apply for the office/post of...' - thank you

younglad007: While were are still battling with boko haram,some people who have nothing to do are busy clamouring for the independence of biafra.Despite our challenges i believe we will not breakup but instead emerge as one united and very peaceful country.

Agrika: Hmmm what i cant really understand, is what the problem of other nigerian tribes, you people constantly complain of these igbos, and now they want to go you guyz are still complaining, if they want to go, let them go, best of luck..

Qrisful: Thank you my brother by telling that fool GCRS87 that the only development in his state was by the IGBOs, without the IGBOs, Nigeria is be like Somalia

salafiyy: hm b like sai ur papa never experence waitin dem dey war...

engineerd: Detention....bloody stark illiterate!!! BIAFRA will be full of OLODOS like you!

veraponpo: So if u are tired, this is how to secede. You need to go to school and read political science or law. Any sovereign state can only ppart by referendum duely signed by all the stakeholders. The same mistake your grandfather made that wasted over 2million people is what you are embarking on. Dont you have true leaders in the East but deceivers that want to make money and power out of you people. Between 1999 and 2007,u produced about 5 senate presidents but David Mark has been there now for the past 5 yrs. Oil subsidy problem you people account for 80 percent of the thieves and you want Biafra. The whole Eastern states voted for Jonathan and have started clamouring for his continuity in 2015 yet u want to be the president too and u still want Biafgra,ahahahah. Igbo people think now. You cant eat your cake and have it. I like Yoruba, if we want to secede, so easy for us. We are in the opposition and have our brothers in Bening Republic and Togo.Let me keep the rest.

vislabraye: My brother, that's a good point you just raised. The Nigerian govt has failed us. And I pity the Ibos and xtians who are killed in the north.
But this Biafra mission should be burried. It would rather spoil business for a lot of Igbos.
Just imagine an Ibo who has spent most part of his life doing business in Lagos or Kaduna and suddenly he needs a passport. He may face deportation. There are also a lot of Igbos enjoying this govt as bad as it is. I pity the common Igbo man.

afam4eva: Is that a court

remark D: roflmao! i am still on page 1... or should i say page 0 and just had to reply this comment because now e don pass page 9 and i am sure its still soaring. I will definately not be surprised that its going to be alot of "mouth-running" ("finger-running"?) for most of the pages on thhis thread... Naija is a funny country.
btw... 4 more years! (not that i'm a merican lol)