RELIGION POISONS EVERYTHING ON ITS WAY- PART 2

Slackness started in Africa when Africans let imported religions crept into our lives and continent to stifle the lives out of our native Gods and ways of life. In most countries earth-wide where they kept European and their religion out, they’ve been blessed in full measures. The Japanese knew from outset not to trifle with foreign evangelists. They did everything humanly possible fighting tooth and nail to make sure that foreign religions and ideologies doesn’t superimpose upon theirs. The first twenty-six Christian missionaries that came to Japan were murdered in cold blood in the year 1597. This was an attempt to signal Caucasians that they weren’t welcomed with their faith into Japan. And it worked. They went one step further when in 1614 they began to torture and execute Christian missionaries and those of their converts who refused to disavow their religion. The Japanese and co. knew from onset that Christian religion and its cousin of Islam were poisonous to progress
of native peoples: hence they moved double quick to stifle them before foreign faiths addict their countrymen into unthinking and impractical sky-hookers like it’s the case in Nigeria.
In part one of this article, I criticised Nigerian Christians who claim with all masculinity, that their pastors and religion are above criticism. Some of the Christians who rejoined my write-up called me all sorts of nasty names. They had a field day badmouthing me to their heart desires. A guy called me gay atheist. Others thought that I’m not better than the guttersnipes in Ajegunle and the caste people of Indian. And I wish to thank all Christians who cursed me solid for their efforts. You guys are wonderful. No man-mountain of Christian cursers can dim the sincere wish of most freethinkers and plenty other groups who’re open to all options and believe that all areas should be accessed when it comes to criticism. God and Devil; man and woman; creation and evolution, love and hate &co.&co. should all open up for criticism.
My second motive and core reason in writing this piece is to counter the spread of indignities poured on African Traditional Religion. Most Christian who responded to part one of my articles passed African religion as pure Luciferianism: full with devilment of sins. Too many ritual; better to serve a foreign God and religion than worship the African sort, they chanted with dutiful religious orgasm. I’ll state here two instances that narcissistic Christians should ponder about next time when bashing or cursing our native religions or others as a matter of fact.
To star with: Christian religion is not without its own Lucifer effect. Fingerprints of the Devil hovers around Christian religion like it does the African one. God of Abraham that today’s Christians are so beloved of, once told his convert Abraham to kill his son Isaac to appease Him. This is ritual murder solicitation by the Biblical God! Later on, He told Abraham it was a joke after all. A playful God of April Fool type defiling the baby-innocence of Abraham’s son and playing on the psychology of his subservient Abraham convert. What in today’s world could pass proper for child abuse and attempted murder in the law court. I’ve never stopped listening to the 'sweetest taboo' song of the Nigerian-born singer, Sade Adu. There’re certainly those who love to celebrate taboos, mostly foreign ones. And this brings me to Christian religion’s next taboo.
Jesus their Christ was born via the birth of a human woman Mary mating with spirit male. In English language, spirit sexing with humans is called 'incubus.' Human being mating with spirit in Nigeria and most societies is taboo. Incubus birth is also worth the while to worship by Nigerian Christians because everything foreign is good and the one African, is damaging. They may as well argue that old things have passed away with Abraham’s era even when their by-now New Testament lives aren’t different from the old one. I’m not interested to annoy faithist here. I’m only trying to keep the record straight with those who worship imported religion and swear the reason is because African ones are so naughty by nature. The ritual sacrifice taboo occurring in Nigerian religion is bad enough that the ones in the Bible call for celebration. Misnomer. Christians and Muslims in Nigeria should look inward before they criticise our native religions because if they point one accusing finger
as per ritual and bane to the direction of African religion four remaining fingers point to their imported religions and Gods. All religions are bedevilled back and front in like manners. There’s no doubt that religion gives hopes to the down and out in society, plus it helps to console people when they lost loved ones. All the same, that’s not to say that religion is as sure as egg is egg or truly a cure-all reality. The fact that doctors use "PLACEBO" to cure their patients via playing upon their faiths and psychology doesn’t mean that placebo is real or has medicinal content. Doctors must’ve taken cue from God of Abraham in faith-playing their patients, same way today’s publicist are making superstars from ordinary people after emperor Constantine made a world superstar out of human Jesus. Placebo is the medical answer to the Biblical ‘your faith has made thee whole.’ This not to say that non-religious people have no equivalents in soothing their loses.
Christians and Muslims in Nigeria have no problem cursing other people’s religion as if they have visas from 'Christ Embassy’ and 'Muhammad’s Consulate' to do so. They are the children of the Living God by their acclaim while those outside their faiths are sons of a gun. It’s out of the fact that Muslim feel their faith and God are above criticism hence they put a bounty on the head of Salma Rushdie who wrote the 'Satanic Verses,' whence he trashed Muslim religion and Muhammad together. A religion that gives away nine-year old girls for marriage is a shameful one. The concept that Christians and Muslims allow themselves the legroom to lampoon other faiths with narcissism of a big difference while disallowing them to swipe at theirs is as vexing as it’s a major irritant. There’s always the Satanic verses in all religion.
The madness for imported whatever in Nigeria is already cutting the edge sadly. This brings to mind the sorry episode in Bright Chimeze´s music some time ago where according him, he went to a disco party and requested for African sound/music and the people called him 'Okoro junior.' Okoro Jr. is a degrading name or word to mean a 'country cousin' or a bushman. African music is bad, African Gods and religions are bad. What is it our own that we are so proud of? Native intelligence and conventional wisdom would tell you that it’s better to serve a native God than a borrowed one. That’s if you’re a God addict. Left for me, I put my faith in the positive content of people’s character, a promotion of humanism to superimpose upon all Gods and religions. I’ll use Japanese and Chinese adherence to their native religion to explain why I’m of the mindset that Native religions should be preferred in case one is a faith-head and God addict and can’t let go. All addiction is
fatal: whether it is alcohol, drug, God addiction, cigarette, womanising, rigging election, looting commonwealth.
God of Israel! When shall we’ve God of Nigeria? The booming chants about the God of Israel from across Nigeria is deafening. It’s time we start shouting God of Nigeria in place of that of Israel. In each bend and corner today in Nigeria, one is insulted with the singsongs of God of Israel. Information minister Dora should start by re-branding African religions and Gods for international consumption and to compete with Muslim and Christian Gods and religions as per foreign visitors that’d drove in with tourist and pilgrimage resources money to better Nigeria. Israel and Saudi Arabia should stop monopolizing the God industry. We need to re-brand our native Gods into shape so as to compete internationally.
The Chinese people, like their Japanese counterpart went via hell of hassles to keep their native Confucian belief system. Apart from when Chairman Mao Tse-Tung launched the 'cultural revolution' where he was bent on pooh-poohing Confucianism. Mao hated Confucius belief because it challenged leaders to take good care of their citizens. Mao’s motto was: 'do unto others as you’d not want them do unto you.' As leader of China, he was mean to his citizens plus those capitalist who’d not share his world-view of communist supremacy.
Japanese and China developed along their native system, God and religion and with these are now in the forefront of scoring modern goals in the global world. While Nigeria with Her preponderance of imported religions is lagging behind amid nations and civilisation and still pretend not to be aware. God of Abraham and Muhammad are a drawback to Nigeria and Africa. We could choose what is beneficial with foreign influence and do away with the burdensome ones. Imported religions should be chucked away from Nigeria and thrown into the trashcan.
It’s all sham the antics of Muslims and Christians in Nigeria to claim and believe that our amazing grace lies in foreign Gods. Their acting and talking to the gallery that we owe our total existence and forward march as individuals and a nation to Jesus and Muhammad are all junk posturing that have no iota of empirical truth. Their lies are seen in the development of Japan and China. Japan developed as the second richest nation not because they have or believe in Jesus and Muhammad. China is pacing ahead via its native belief systems and military tenacity. Europe and the U.S. had to separate religion from state and embraced 'Science and Technology' as their modern God. In Europe for example, their churches are unattended and nobody gives a flying hell about God, while at the same time, their lives are progressing economically with life expectancy hitting the rooftop. While in reverse, the Nigerian churches are doing roaring trade packed to the brim while our lives get misbegotten
by the day. The world at large is aware that bygone is the era of religion, aside from Nigeria that’s living in the past in the 21st century.
The futuristic Japanese people knew from word go that: religion poisons everything on its way. They thwarted it.  Ask the Chinese and native Indians of the Americas of all histories to educate you better.

S. Njokede writes from The European Union.
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