It is sad to see Nigeria going up in flames. Very disheartening to see
how religion is destroying Nigeria. My question is, can one live a
moral life with religion? If yes, why the ongoing chaos around the world
in name of religion? If no, why bother with it. In my opinion morality
has nothing to do with religion. In the civilized world today the peace
they enjoy comes from law and order as against the religion that we
embrace in the developing world.
These days its embarrassing that when you meet people after few lines of
introduction, the next question that pops up usually is 'where do you
worship?' Woe unto you if you do not give good answer to this question.
You are turned to devil instantly with a serious warning of calamities
that would befall you unless you chose one. At worst you will be bundled
to a 'man of God' for deliverance. Is God that wicked and mean?
What has religion done for Nigeria? Well, some will say if not for
religion there would have been Armageddon in Nigeria. I disagree with
that; religion breeds hatred, pitched neighbours against each.
Religion has caused us many pains than good. You can trace the
genesis of Nigeria/Biafra war, countless of mayhems in Jos and other
Northern part of Nigeria to religion. Is it not time for us to revalue
our inclination to this cult (religion)? Is it not time for us to stop
hiding under the veil of religion to commit heinous crime? Is it not
time we embrace the honest truth that religion brings sorrow than peace
to our land.
All religions are evil; they never offer the world their promises
(Peace). Let us imagine a Nigeria without 'I'm a Christian, Muslim, Sango and Amadi-oha worshiper. A Nigeria with no religion segregation,
there will be great peace in the land. Religion does not bring the
morality we hoped for. Most conflicts in world today are caused by
religion in the name of soul winning. It creates division among people
even within the Muslims and Christian communities. I subscribe to the
quote of Thomas Paine "My Country is my World, my religion is to do
good" Let us embrace this mantra and make Nigeria great. Let us see
Nigeria as our world and let doing good to our fellow Nigerians be our
religion. Let us stop killing one another in the name of God that is
based on imported ideologies.
My greatest fear is that we are busy passing these crazy ideologies
to our young minds. How do we justify showing kids horror movie or
enticing them with sexual gratification at early age. But these are what
both the Christians and Muslims do, covertly or overtly. At very early
age, Christians will start terrorizing young minds with horror picture
of hell fire while their Muslim counterparts are also busy promising
young minds virgin. But in real world these events are most like to
cause uproar and at best classified 18 and above. Where is the morality?
We should allow the young minds to flourish with no fear rather than
compelling them to embrace these crazy ideologies. Let us do away with
religion all together, being Christian, Muslim or whatever, and practice
godliness and live as good neighbours. We can attain this without
attaching any sentiment to any prophet or deity.
Religion is a man made event, which was concocted out of greed based
on mind control (stopping us from being free). Government all the world
love this. It sedates people with false hope. Let us see ourselves as
Nigeria and not as Christians and Muslims, and build a great nation and
make a better place to be proud of. Let us channel this energy for the
development of Nigeria. Let us become Nigeria Development Fanatics. We
should not allow this monster (religion) to derail Nigeria and destroy
us. It is never late to rescue our beloved country from the clutches of
this monster. Let me rephrase Gandhi here "Be The Change You Want To See
In Nigeria.
By Chika Odunze
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