Religion is a mere construct, a Disneyland of fantasy. Taking
religion to a higher level in Nigeria is like Emperor Constantine taking
Jesus Christ from mere human mortal and skyrocketing him into divinity.
Jesus followers and tribesmen had known and addressed Him as human son
of Marry and Joseph. It was Constantine and his Council of Elders in
Rome in about 325 A.D. who divined Christ into God-character and
Godhead. Contemporary TV shows have taken cue from emperor Constantine
in making ordinary people into superstars in 'who wants to be a star?'
worldwide. Most musical and film superstars of today are product of:
‘who wants to be a star?’ A throwback to how the Pagan emperor
Constantine made a superstar out of ordinary human Jesus. It’s well
historised that He was recognised as no more and no less the son of man
by his followers and townsmen contemporary of that bygone era.
Nigerian Christians are so God delusional that you wonder what
magic wand their pastors used in turning adult men and women into
amenable and unthinking zombies. Is it the brainwash of coercive
persuasion, the Moses rod employed by pastors to charm their converts
into closed mindset people as if they’ve been churned out of a robot
factory from some where in communist Russia where people must ply by set
down rules with no option to think for themselves? It’s way too vexing
to contend with the arrogant idiocy of Christians who maintain that
pastor Enoch Adeboye and his co-pastors are above criticism just by the
say-so of the Christian Bible. What differentiate these kinds of
Christians from homosexuals who claim that their deviant behaviour is
their manifest destiny allowed by God and therefore they should be left
alone? What stops us from allowing those who kill others for money
ritual make their case why they and their God of Money should not be
criticised? And why wouldn’t we believe Rastafarians who contend that
their religion allow them to smoke marijuana and get high as the only
way to get close to their God Jah Haile Selassie? Why’d we not let
president Yar´Adua be, after he rigged election and claim God made him
president? Who’s the rightful person to say who should be criticised and
whom not, and why?
This kind of herd mentality of keeping up with the Joneses led a
bunch of over eight hundred American Christians belonging to the
‘Peoples Temple’ agree to commit mass suicide in Guyana in 1978. While
their pastor Jim Jones made his followers to take the poison Cyanide to
kill them, pastor Jones chose to die by gunshot. Poison death is slower
and painful with all the convulsion and whatnot before dying, while gun
shot death is quicker and less painful. Even in death, pastor Jim Jones
cheated his amenable believers by choosing a more speedy and less
painful way to die while his followers had to go through hell of poison
to die for the sake of a manipulative Christian religion. His converts
just went with the flow of Christian paranormal lies of the existence of
omnipotent sky God, to end their own lives without asking questions as
to why. Should most followers of pastor Jim Jones wake up today to the
news that they, the converts, died as per poison while their pastor died
the easy way out via gun death, they’d have felt done in, and their
pastor, a letdown.
In the event that those pastors in Nigeria call their sheepish
followers out to commit mass suicide to appease their Christian God or
the ego of the pastor himself, I assume most believers would kill
themselves for nothing sake, judging by the senseless fanaticism with
which they spit fire and brimstone to consume those who criticise
Adeboye and other pastors. Should that happen, Nigerian pastors would
choose the easy way to die while they’d sadistically make their converts
die painful deaths like the believers of Peoples Temple Christians of
America did in Jones Town, Guyana in 1978.
Nigerian pastors live swell lives of spending church thrift for their
earthly personal enjoyment while their converts who donate the tithes
live ghetto lives. Pastors live in apartness from the brunt of squalor
their converts bear each day. It´d not be surprising whence pastor
choose a more comfortable death as their pliable converts would clap to
Amen songs and praises to their miserable deaths. There’s no Jupiter
that can stop Christian and Moslem converts in Nigeria from committing
religious hara-kiri when their pastors call them to die for their
tithe-money and total obedience-demanding Gods. Boko Harem is modern
pointer in this direction of senseless obedience to foreign Gods of
Christian and Muslim fraternities. It´d be a form of hypocrisy to be
seen only to lampoon those who criticise their pastors without dying
howsoever-weird pastors dictates are. Most pliable believers across
religion in Nigeria are doggone and still don’t know it yet. They’re
endangered species.
The Guyana Christian mass suicide is enough warning for believers to
desist from being fantasist who’d not question issues before they
swallow hook, line and sinker under they’re brainwashed to subservient
yes-men and women.
There’s this wisecrack: 'sex sells.' But I tell you; religion sells more that sex in Nigeria.
When the Israelites set up to formulate Christian religion in the
manner resembling Christ’s activities and the local tradition of his
countrymen then, they hadn’t Nigerians in mind. Nigerians and
non-Israelites membering the Christian faith are gatecrashers. 'Amebo'
and 'tafia' people. Israeli, Jewish worldview is narrowly restricted to
the Jews alone. They hardly marry strangers and likewise, their
socialisation is parochially restricted amid themselves. It’s out of
misconception, ignorance, and low self-worth that Nigerians would
abandon their native Gods and religions to become partakers of the scam
of monotheism that came out of the Middle East.
For Christians of Israeli nativity, all non-Israelites are
uncircumcised pagans not minding whether you co-profess Christian faith
as they do. Jesus and Israelites of his time had never intended to
include non-natives in their religious worldview, how much more today’s
Nigerians. It was emperor Constantine that rigged early Christian
scriptures, manuscripts and writings to make it seem as if
non-Israelites are included, when he collated the Bible. Constantine
himself a Pagan, was unaware that his scam of political brinkmanship to
unite every one of his then citizens under one religious fold for
political expediency would blaze this far in 21st century Nigeria.
Religion is the hottest currency in Nigeria where pastors have hijacked
emperor Constantine universal Christianity for their personal egos and
pockets.
Nigerian believers, who’re hooked to the sky and can’t divorce their
sky-Gods omnipotent, should at least look before they leap. They
shouldn’t agree to all their pastors and Holy book tell them. There are
many pastors in Nigeria like Jim Jones who’d coercively persuade their
converts to mass deaths just for their personal egos and self-inflicted
palavers. Most Nigerian pastors, like Jim Jones, wouldn’t want to be the
last man standing, they’d confuse their believers with threat of hell
damnation to go with whatever flow are their fancies and fantasies.
Since we lampoon everything under the sun on this earth, pastor
Adeboye and other top faith-workers in Nigeria shouldn’t be made loners.
It’s arrant make-believe to think that there are those who are more
sacred than others based on the dictate of an imported religion. The
culture of sacred cow belongs to Indian and not Nigeria. To see things
before one believes them make for more rational sense of purpose.
By S. Njokede writes from The European Union
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