Blinded by religions

Aside from our political leaders, religious leaders are one of the biggest threats we have in Africa, yeah, who stone me, haha, the reason they call them a threat is because they are also the reason Africa is like this, Africa has more churches than factory. 

Before I go forward, I just want to apologize in advance because you might not like what I'm about to like if you are blinded by religion. 

I have come to realize that people listen to their religious leader more than they listen to their parents or spouse, especially the female though, they are always at watch spiritual.

I have come to realize that the people that carry religions on their heads are non-wealthy people, you will see wealthy Muslim men and a wealthy Christian man chilling in the same hotel talking about business, the non-wealthy ones will just be killing themselves because of religions, poverty is usually the cause of being blinded by regions because they haven't traveled the world, they don't even know how life is in other countries, not that I have traveled out of Nigeria too, haha, but at least I have Filipinos and India friends that talks about their country and I do learn few things from them and the fact that dating a girl doesn't mean I should handle her financial responsibilities, lol. 

You hardly see the rich fighting about religions, but you will see the poor killing themselves for it, here Nigeria, the Muslims are suffering in silence in the north all because of religions, everyday we hear story of not less than 50 people being killed daily, either from bandit or boko haram, sometimes the bandit will come and raid the a village in the north, pack a lot of youth boys as of the age of 12 upwards to train them how to carry guns and kill, the Muslims hardly talk about it in the news because we have a Muslim president, they are taught not to fight against their person, even if the person is splitting their neck, I don't even what to call it if it's being stupid or foolishness, when we were protesting about #EndSARS in 2020 fight against bad government, only few Muslims joined us in the fight while most of them was protesting against us that they should not end SARS, some of them started to chase the protesters with cutlasses was destroying properties that belongs to the protesters, while the police was just watching them handicap, we chased them and caught some which they confessed that they were given 1$ to do it.

Just last year December, the people of the northern side of Nigeria started protesting that "North is bleeding" we should come to their aid as one Nigeria, why should we join you people to protest when you people were the ones that said the government is good, I don't know how they do things there but I know they are following their religion and they don't care of they are being killed by their brothers. 

Another is Christians, Christians are the most populated religions and they are divided into different categories, all claim we save the living God, we have different beliefs on what we tag sin and normal, but at the end of the day, we still call on the same God. Some Christians don't bother to check the bible if what the pastor is saying is true cause most of them have been manipulated by their pastors, that's why you will see some arguing base on what their pastor says instead of checking the Bible to see if it is true, in some churches when one of their members is in the hospital, they will pray and pray for the person but when the pastor needs a car, they will donate money to buy a car for the pastor, can't the same prayer bring car for the pastor? Well, women do respect their pastor more than their husband, there are some things that we can do for ourselves and it works as a church to do it, the reason for me writing about this article was what happened some months back, this article has been in my daft and I never wanted to publish it, but I have to anyway, one of the biggest churches in my country branch collapse and a lot of people died, according to the residents, they said the building has been shaking but instead of them to fix it, they decided to leave it in the hands of the lord, no wonder the bible said "my people perish for lack of knowledge" how can they be praying in a building that isn't strong, the worst part is that these branches are given a target amount to send to the state headquarters every month, that shows that they are more concern about the money and not the people, the people that has died is already gone, nothing much to do. 

I hope someday we would realize the difference between serving God and being a religious person in Africa, it isn't easy for people to come out of mental slavery because they are afraid of the wrath of God upon them which the pastor will preach to them in the old testament, I have come to realize that pastors do a select verse and preach what favors them and leave the rest. I just hope we are not being misled by religious though. 

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08-02-2022