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Re: Religion Is Sweet Poison, Heaven Is A State Of Mind. by kelvinlink: 1:59pm On Sep 23, 2013 |
Is God a man or a Spirit? Why did he created only one Son? Maybe he has more Sons and daughters? Was Jesus christ the Son of God? Or just a great prophet of God? How come nobody talks about the Wife of God? Maybe Jesus has a heavenly mother? What happened to Joseph the Carpenter, the husband of Mary? Why did the compilers of the bible and the disciples intentionally didn't write anything about him? What happened between the Missing period of Jesus christ life 12-30? Will it make any difference if he actually worked as a carpenter for years under Joseph? Did he not severally said it himself that he is not GOD? Did he not severally said that all those who are led by the spirit of God are the SONS OF GOD? What Original Sin did he died for to cleanse away the Sins of the world? Haven't previous Prophets of God been misunderstood and Crucified? The Crucifixion (Nailing on the cross) was the standard way the Romans at the time crucified EVERY convicted criminal, wasn't it? Jesus christ crucifixion was not the first and the last ? Why do we bother ourselves with the narrow chronology of the Israelites..... ? Were there not diverse tribes, nations and countries at the time.....where people not already living in America, Africa, Oriental Asia? The History of the world did not start with the accounts of the Israelites as written down in their own chronology or is it? Were there not various oral unwritten traditional accounts of creation and the Kingdom of Heaven held to be sacred also by the Orients , Native India and Africans in time past? Are there not many Religions in the World, with everyone claiming to be the true one? Has it even occur to you that God is not a Christian, but simply God? Was it not Man in his search for his life source that invented the Word God? Listen to your heart and tell me you don't feel deeply that GOD is greater than the God man has invented? The word Christian is not an heavenly name or is it now? Wasn't it humans who describe the disciples of Jesus as Christ like.....Christians? Why do we christians have this subtle arrogant deep belief that we are the ones going to heaven or the ones that knows the truth about God and the rest are just ignorant ? Are we even Christians....Real Christians? Gandhi once told a british missionary he would have been a Christian if only he had met one.... ? Why do we laugh at muslims rewards of Ten virgins in Heaven...."If they do Allah's will" and yet we do not see any funny joke in our own "Mansions waiting for us in Heaven" ? Do you not know of billions of people across the world who are neither Christians or muslims, but people who just live life simply and follow no Religion, dogma or tradition? Why have we clouded our minds with Religion, and please don't tell me Christianity is not a religion or a faith based belief system, because it is or is it not? Did Jesus christ paid tithe or did he requested for it? If he wanted, could he not have embarked on some glamorous building of Temples and places of worship dedicated to his father God? Did he not strive to live simple and humble? Funny enough, those who even walked with him and later wrote about him....didn't even fully understood his teachings at the time or did they? Why have we reduced God to a man or even pinned down a Son to him? Do you know that Muslim clerics perform miracles too in the name of Allah? Buddhist masters also heal diseases and perform acts of miracles in their temples... Do you know muslims are prosperous and their Allah blesses them without Tithe payment or sowing seeds ? What seeds did you sow before the sun came up today? What seeds will you sow to God to make the moon to shine bright at night?? We have turned God into a Seed God, more like a Farmer God ?? If you had been born in Saudi Arabia or even Kano to a muslim parents, your name probably would have been Ibn saiyd mohammed and not paul, peter or esther ? Does it really matter what religious beliefs you adhere to? Think about it really hard......Does God look Religious to you? Do you think he cares about if you are Christian, Muslim or Buddhist ? Have you ever wondered if all his Spirit living within you really cares about is just "The content of your Character" the perfect harmony of your thoughts, words and actions and not religious sects beliefs , payment of tithe or accumulation of church attendance? Why is it so hard to free ourselves from this mental slavery of Religious beliefs? God is not even Religious..... The present day state of Isreal and Jewish people are not even Christians or are they? Just tune in into any tv station and you will see the effects of Religious beliefs! Stop this argument about arch angels, debating upon old documented accounts of persons long gone........... Just look at the argument surrounding the role Awolowo played in The Nigerian civil war (1967-1970) and the many controversies and interpretations of events still fresh in the memories of survivals, then why do you aimlessly argue about events thousands of years old....why ? God is not a man.... God will not do for man what he must do for himself ......... Why will God come and die for the sins of the world What sins are you even talking about What Original sin did he came to die for? God is not a man............... Which serpent crawled into the garden? Which forbidden fruit? Humans in their search for God ......created God. Their own description of God and even gave him a son with arch angels....... The best we can call him is God or Allah He, She or It........whatever it is.......is Almighty and All Powerful. God is not a christian or a muslim.....he is simply GOD! Stop trying to gain relevance by claiming to be his special people. He, She or It.......whatever it is......is for everyone one....Yea....Everyone! Even a blind man knows a face filled with Love. God is Love. Whatever represents or emboldened Love is God. Everything good, peaceful and lovely. Love......Love.......and Love! Stop these fabled stories that started within a small tribe in Asia. Africans were already living at the time and they also had there own special covenant and relationship with God Lao Tzu wrote the Tao Te ching (The way of the Tao) 500BC.......BC....not AD. Do you think God will honestly care if you are a christian or not ? Your thoughts, words and actions are what counts and not race, lineage, culture, accent or colour. There is no unity even among those who claim to be of the same christianity fold . Christians of different denominations hate each other more than even Muslims do....or is it not so? God is not a christian or Muslim Stop giving him a son Or better still....why dont you just go ahead and also attribute a wife to him? More like God, his wife and Son....ehnnnn. God lives within you Yes.....Within you and not in a heaven. He is with you always. Listen more to his voice within you. Within you....In you. Listen to your heart. Observe the dictates of your Instincts. Be still in your Self. God is with You. You are a God on Earth Yes you are. You are co-creators You create your own World Same Nature and Spirit No one can see God face to face and live or can they? People saw Jesus He bled...Cried....got angry.....got saddened God is a Spirit The Spirit is God The Spirit of God is God. You are a Spirit. Deep down you know you are. The doctrine of the Trinity started hundred of years after the death of Jesus. God is not a Trinity. Stop the Confusion Christians are not the only ones in the world Just go ahead and live a purpose driving life. Obey the rules governing your environment. Listen to your own heart. Let Love guide you in all you do. Amen. 17 Likes |
Re: Religion Is Sweet Poison, Heaven Is A State Of Mind. by rill: 2:04pm On Sep 23, 2013 |
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Re: Religion Is Sweet Poison, Heaven Is A State Of Mind. by 2HASUM(m): 2:11pm On Sep 23, 2013 |
Ajibam: AM CORRECTING HIM,. CHRISTIANITY WAS STARTED WHEN THE PEOPLE AT ANTIOCH SAW THE TRAITS OF JESUS IN THEM..THEY CALL THEM CHRISTIAN BECAUSE THEY BEHAVE LIKE HIM..SMALL CHRIST=CHRISTIAN THEY REJECTED HIM BECAUSE THEY ARE BLINDED BY THE LAW...BUT SOME WERE SAVED AND WILL STILL BE SAVED BEFORE HE WILL RETURN CHRISTIANITY NOWADAYS IS AUTONOMY, BUT THOSE WHO REALLY KNOW THIS CHRIST,ARE IN CHRIST AND HE IS THEM... THEY ARE TESTIFIERS OF HIS HOLINESS THAT IS BUILT IN THEM.THEY ARE JUSTIFIED BY HIS DEATH ON THE CROSS AND CALL TO LIVE A LIFE ACCEPTABLE TO GOD ONLY.. A CHRISTLIKE LIFE...CHRISTIANITY THAT IS THE SWEET POISON THE AUTHOR IS REFERRING TO |
Re: Religion Is Sweet Poison, Heaven Is A State Of Mind. by Hero10001: 2:12pm On Sep 23, 2013 |
MAYOWAAK: The history of the world over centuries is littered with dead religions, dead gods and dead worshipers. In some ways, we are all children of a retired god. Key events in the world always retire religions and their gods. Traumatic world events always prove the old religions inadequate. The coming of the Europeans, for instance, essentially laid to eternal rest a lot of the African gods. Other events and movements like the Enlightenment reform religion. Reformation extends the life of a religion. An irreformable religion is one that is bound to implode.
The tragedy of Africa is that it reached the information age without first passing through the industrial age. In matters temporal, Africa got to the modern age without passing through the Enlightenment. That is why some people believe that a child was born holding a mini-Koran in its hand, or that a child came out of the womb holding a cross in its hand. Why mini-Koran? Why a cross? Why something we already know? Why does this kind of phenomenon only happen in societies that wallow in superstition? If it is a message from God, as some believe, why won’t God use the opportunity to send a definitive manual of life?
The Enlightenment instituted the culture of demanding empirical proof before believing. If a woman comes into the church and gives birth to a dead horse, you don’t clean up the floor and bury the horse. You send the horse to the lab and the woman to the hospital- mental and/or medical.
Every religion that comes begets a new one. Two hundred years from now the people that will occupy this world will look at our era and our religions that we fight for and die for and call our age the Extreme Dark Ages. In another two hundred thousand years, nobody will remember what god we fought for, killed for, or died for. Just like we have no idea what god the people who were on this earth 100,000 years ago fought for, killed for or died for.
It is hard to imagine it now, but after the Third World War and after a nuclear war, a new world will emerge with new religions. The old religions left standing will go through reformation. And subtly and gradually, new religions will replace the old. Because it takes hundreds of years for this kind of transformation to be visible, it is hard for those living in that age to notice the change as it happens. We won’t wake up one day and notice that our religion is dead.
It is hard to live without the concept of God because it is hard to live without an answer to the original questions, even if it is not definitive. That is why many will stick with their religion as if it is their parents. Virtually all religions place God beyond reach- at times above the sky. Do you know why? If God is within reach, God will suffer the fate of all parents – be critiqued and be seen to have fallen short.
The trouble with religion is that for every religion to survive and gain members and fend off competitions, it has to proclaim itself to be better than the others. That my religion is better than yours is like saying that my moon is better than yours. That my God is better than yours is to say that my sun is better than yours.
To be willing to fight for your God- which is to say, kill and die for your God, is like to climb on top of each other to pull the moon until it stands still on your side of the sky. It may sound stupid but it has been done before and continues to be done.
Those who worshipped the Greek gods used to believe that they had the final answer. Those who worshipped Oduduwa used to think that their story of the creation was the ultimate. The highest level of human stupidity is the belief that our religion is the final answer to these original questions- who am I? Where did I come from? Where am I going? Who made me? The arrogance of that assumption has no equal in human folly.
Religions come and go but the earth remains the same. Until we know the definitive truth about the very beginning; and until we answer the original questions without a doubt, religion will remain attractive. But religion will continue to promise us that we find the answers only when we die. Science is the only one trying to find answers to these questions while we are still alive. And science is the only one trying to get to the very beginning and empirically show it to us for the very first time. It may take science one million years to get there. But I am rooting for science not religion. So you believe in Science?! Do you also believe in Pseudoscience?!..!! And you're still waiting for European Scientists to detect God in Pluto before you believe?? I ''SMH'' for you. Wake up bro, don't promote ignorance.. |
Re: Religion Is Sweet Poison, Heaven Is A State Of Mind. by Nobody: 2:21pm On Sep 23, 2013 |
MAYOWAAK: The history of the world over centuries is littered with dead religions, dead gods and dead worshipers. In some ways, we are all children of a retired god. Key events in the world always retire religions and their gods. Traumatic world events always prove the old religions inadequate. The coming of the Europeans, for instance, essentially laid to eternal rest a lot of the African gods. Other events and movements like the Enlightenment reform religion. Reformation extends the life of a religion. An irreformable religion is one that is bound to implode.
The tragedy of Africa is that it reached the information age without first passing through the industrial age. In matters temporal, Africa got to the modern age without passing through the Enlightenment. That is why some people believe that a child was born holding a mini-Koran in its hand, or that a child came out of the womb holding a cross in its hand. Why mini-Koran? Why a cross? Why something we already know? Why does this kind of phenomenon only happen in societies that wallow in superstition? If it is a message from God, as some believe, why won’t God use the opportunity to send a definitive manual of life?
The Enlightenment instituted the culture of demanding empirical proof before believing. If a woman comes into the church and gives birth to a dead horse, you don’t clean up the floor and bury the horse. You send the horse to the lab and the woman to the hospital- mental and/or medical.
Every religion that comes begets a new one. Two hundred years from now the people that will occupy this world will look at our era and our religions that we fight for and die for and call our age the Extreme Dark Ages. In another two hundred thousand years, nobody will remember what god we fought for, killed for, or died for. Just like we have no idea what god the people who were on this earth 100,000 years ago fought for, killed for or died for.
It is hard to imagine it now, but after the Third World War and after a nuclear war, a new world will emerge with new religions. The old religions left standing will go through reformation. And subtly and gradually, new religions will replace the old. Because it takes hundreds of years for this kind of transformation to be visible, it is hard for those living in that age to notice the change as it happens. We won’t wake up one day and notice that our religion is dead.
It is hard to live without the concept of God because it is hard to live without an answer to the original questions, even if it is not definitive. That is why many will stick with their religion as if it is their parents. Virtually all religions place God beyond reach- at times above the sky. Do you know why? If God is within reach, God will suffer the fate of all parents – be critiqued and be seen to have fallen short.
The trouble with religion is that for every religion to survive and gain members and fend off competitions, it has to proclaim itself to be better than the others. That my religion is better than yours is like saying that my moon is better than yours. That my God is better than yours is to say that my sun is better than yours.
To be willing to fight for your God- which is to say, kill and die for your God, is like to climb on top of each other to pull the moon until it stands still on your side of the sky. It may sound stupid but it has been done before and continues to be done.
Those who worshipped the Greek gods used to believe that they had the final answer. Those who worshipped Oduduwa used to think that their story of the creation was the ultimate. The highest level of human stupidity is the belief that our religion is the final answer to these original questions- who am I? Where did I come from? Where am I going? Who made me? The arrogance of that assumption has no equal in human folly.
Religions come and go but the earth remains the same. Until we know the definitive truth about the very beginning; and until we answer the original questions without a doubt, religion will remain attractive. But religion will continue to promise us that we find the answers only when we die. Science is the only one trying to find answers to these questions while we are still alive. And science is the only one trying to get to the very beginning and empirically show it to us for the very first time. It may take science one million years to get there. But I am rooting for science not religion. #word , +100000000likes probably the best write up I've read yet on NL 1 Like |
Re: Religion Is Sweet Poison, Heaven Is A State Of Mind. by Bandy10: 2:22pm On Sep 23, 2013 |
MAYOWAAK: The history of the world over centuries is littered with dead religions, dead gods and dead worshipers. In some ways, we are all children of a retired god. Key events in the world always retire religions and their gods. Traumatic world events always prove the old religions inadequate. The coming of the Europeans, for instance, essentially laid to eternal rest a lot of the African gods. Other events and movements like the Enlightenment reform religion. Reformation extends the life of a religion. An irreformable religion is one that is bound to implode.
The tragedy of Africa is that it reached the information age without first passing through the industrial age. In matters temporal, Africa got to the modern age without passing through the Enlightenment. That is why some people believe that a child was born holding a mini-Koran in its hand, or that a child came out of the womb holding a cross in its hand. Why mini-Koran? Why a cross? Why something we already know? Why does this kind of phenomenon only happen in societies that wallow in superstition? If it is a message from God, as some believe, why won’t God use the opportunity to send a definitive manual of life?
The Enlightenment instituted the culture of demanding empirical proof before believing. If a woman comes into the church and gives birth to a dead horse, you don’t clean up the floor and bury the horse. You send the horse to the lab and the woman to the hospital- mental and/or medical.
Every religion that comes begets a new one. Two hundred years from now the people that will occupy this world will look at our era and our religions that we fight for and die for and call our age the Extreme Dark Ages. In another two hundred thousand years, nobody will remember what god we fought for, killed for, or died for. Just like we have no idea what god the people who were on this earth 100,000 years ago fought for, killed for or died for.
It is hard to imagine it now, but after the Third World War and after a nuclear war, a new world will emerge with new religions. The old religions left standing will go through reformation. And subtly and gradually, new religions will replace the old. Because it takes hundreds of years for this kind of transformation to be visible, it is hard for those living in that age to notice the change as it happens. We won’t wake up one day and notice that our religion is dead.
It is hard to live without the concept of God because it is hard to live without an answer to the original questions, even if it is not definitive. That is why many will stick with their religion as if it is their parents. Virtually all religions place God beyond reach- at times above the sky. Do you know why? If God is within reach, God will suffer the fate of all parents – be critiqued and be seen to have fallen short.
The trouble with religion is that for every religion to survive and gain members and fend off competitions, it has to proclaim itself to be better than the others. That my religion is better than yours is like saying that my moon is better than yours. That my God is better than yours is to say that my sun is better than yours.
To be willing to fight for your God- which is to say, kill and die for your God, is like to climb on top of each other to pull the moon until it stands still on your side of the sky. It may sound stupid but it has been done before and continues to be done.
Those who worshipped the Greek gods used to believe that they had the final answer. Those who worshipped Oduduwa used to think that their story of the creation was the ultimate. The highest level of human stupidity is the belief that our religion is the final answer to these original questions- who am I? Where did I come from? Where am I going? Who made me? The arrogance of that assumption has no equal in human folly.
Religions come and go but the earth remains the same. Until we know the definitive truth about the very beginning; and until we answer the original questions without a doubt, religion will remain attractive. But religion will continue to promise us that we find the answers only when we die. Science is the only one trying to find answers to these questions while we are still alive. And science is the only one trying to get to the very beginning and empirically show it to us for the very first time. It may take science one million years to get there. But I am rooting for science not religion. .You really make my day with your right up.This is the first time in recent time that I read something like this.The root problem we face on earth today is religion,the crises going on in Nigeria, Somalia, Egypt, Kenya, Iraq are as a result of religion. Religion will make you dumb that you will believe in a talking snakes and donkeys.If care is not taken it is religion that will consume the world.Thanks once again for your right up. |
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Re: Religion Is Sweet Poison, Heaven Is A State Of Mind. by saved: 2:52pm On Sep 23, 2013 |
Another Hadith from a grand commander of the ROSICRUCIAN, of the isis lodge of the AMORC. Falsehood at its peak. |
Re: Religion Is Sweet Poison, Heaven Is A State Of Mind. by victorv12(m): 3:12pm On Sep 23, 2013 |
My entire existence is based on an objective standard. No one with an objective standard would come to a "biblical god" conclusion. |
Re: Religion Is Sweet Poison, Heaven Is A State Of Mind. by Oduduwaboy(m): 3:14pm On Sep 23, 2013 |
I so totally agree with the OP and i love MAYOWAAK for his lovely contribution . |
Re: Religion Is Sweet Poison, Heaven Is A State Of Mind. by LLVelly: 3:17pm On Sep 23, 2013 |
religion iz overated in africa |
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Re: Religion Is Sweet Poison, Heaven Is A State Of Mind. by deocakes(f): 3:45pm On Sep 23, 2013 |
MAYOWAAK: The history of the world over centuries is littered with dead religions, dead gods and dead worshipers. In some ways, we are all children of a retired god. Key events in the world always retire religions and their gods. Traumatic world events always prove the old religions inadequate. The coming of the Europeans, for instance, essentially laid to eternal rest a lot of the African gods. Other events and movements like the Enlightenment reform religion. Reformation extends the life of a religion. An irreformable religion is one that is bound to implode.
The tragedy of Africa is that it reached the information age without first passing through the industrial age. In matters temporal, Africa got to the modern age without passing through the Enlightenment. That is why some people believe that a child was born holding a mini-Koran in its hand, or that a child came out of the womb holding a cross in its hand. Why mini-Koran? Why a cross? Why something we already know? Why does this kind of phenomenon only happen in societies that wallow in superstition? If it is a message from God, as some believe, why won’t God use the opportunity to send a definitive manual of life?
The Enlightenment instituted the culture of demanding empirical proof before believing. If a woman comes into the church and gives birth to a dead horse, you don’t clean up the floor and bury the horse. You send the horse to the lab and the woman to the hospital- mental and/or medical.
Every religion that comes begets a new one. Two hundred years from now the people that will occupy this world will look at our era and our religions that we fight for and die for and call our age the Extreme Dark Ages. In another two hundred thousand years, nobody will remember what god we fought for, killed for, or died for. Just like we have no idea what god the people who were on this earth 100,000 years ago fought for, killed for or died for.
It is hard to imagine it now, but after the Third World War and after a nuclear war, a new world will emerge with new religions. The old religions left standing will go through reformation. And subtly and gradually, new religions will replace the old. Because it takes hundreds of years for this kind of transformation to be visible, it is hard for those living in that age to notice the change as it happens. We won’t wake up one day and notice that our religion is dead.
It is hard to live without the concept of God because it is hard to live without an answer to the original questions, even if it is not definitive. That is why many will stick with their religion as if it is their parents. Virtually all religions place God beyond reach- at times above the sky. Do you know why? If God is within reach, God will suffer the fate of all parents – be critiqued and be seen to have fallen short.
The trouble with religion is that for every religion to survive and gain members and fend off competitions, it has to proclaim itself to be better than the others. That my religion is better than yours is like saying that my moon is better than yours. That my God is better than yours is to say that my sun is better than yours.
To be willing to fight for your God- which is to say, kill and die for your God, is like to climb on top of each other to pull the moon until it stands still on your side of the sky. It may sound stupid but it has been done before and continues to be done.
Those who worshipped the Greek gods used to believe that they had the final answer. Those who worshipped Oduduwa used to think that their story of the creation was the ultimate. The highest level of human stupidity is the belief that our religion is the final answer to these original questions- who am I? Where did I come from? Where am I going? Who made me? The arrogance of that assumption has no equal in human folly.
Religions come and go but the earth remains the same. Until we know the definitive truth about the very beginning; and until we answer the original questions without a doubt, religion will remain attractive. But religion will continue to promise us that we find the answers only when we die. Science is the only one trying to find answers to these questions while we are still alive. And science is the only one trying to get to the very beginning and empirically show it to us for the very first time. It may take science one million years to get there. But I am rooting for science not religion. Your level of atheism is way too high |
Re: Religion Is Sweet Poison, Heaven Is A State Of Mind. by Birikiti: 3:52pm On Sep 23, 2013 |
For the one who will believe it, Christianity is not a religion, don't get it twisted.
Religion is man reaching out to a Supreme/Superior being. Trying to gain acceptance of this higher being by a set of codes; Dos & Don'ts!
Christianity is, on the other hand, God reaching out to man in love; letting him know that he doesn't need to suffer or try to save himself but to just believe in the truth that Jesus Christ came and died in man's stead. Also, that he didn't just die but He rose again on the 3rd day and is alive forever more. His death and resurrection was not just to save man from the devil and sin but to ultimately make any man that believes one with the Divine God i.e. have the same life (Zoe - eternal life) reside inside him.
The kind of life in a creature determines the quality of life that creature lives! Different animals have different qualities of life and this can be seen in advanced animals living a higher quality life than lower ones. Man is at the pinnacle of the pyramid and thus has the highest quality of life of all animals. But has this been enough to solve all his issues/challenges? Emphatically NO! Else why are people who have so much (money and other earthly goods) still so sad and full of so much discontentment? Many cannot understand why what they have acquired cannot bring them joy. They live life on the fast lane, acquire many spouses, plenty cars & houses, gain positions of authority yet these do not bring them contentment. Some go into alcohol and drug abuse yet the emptiness remains. It's because the quality of life in a man (though it's the highest kind among animals) doesn't have the ability to give him peace of mind and contentment.
To many who say Jesus Christ didn't rise from the dead, that Heaven is a state of mind or even that God doesn't exist, I sincerely hope and pray you don't rea;ize when it's too late. Many have the opportunity to repent as they draw nigh to death and see the vanity of man's existence but so many more die before they can even think about it!
My candid advise to everyone here is this, open your mind and pray this simple prayer: "Dear God, there is all this talk in the world about salvation, knowing You the only true God and Jesus Christ your Son; even though there are many opinions out there I want you to please, like a Master Communicator, help me realize the truth of these issues. This prayer is from a sincere heart that really wants to know the truth. Thank you Lord, in Jesus name, Amen"
Pray this prayer SINCERELY and come back to this forum to share what happened afterwards.
For those whose hearts have been opened to receive the gospel today, pease pray this prayer of salvation now:
Dear Father, I come to you today in the name of Jesus I believe Jesus is the son of God and He died for me I confess with my mouth that Jesus Christ is the Lord of my life I receive, by faith, eternal life into my spirit now Thank you Father, for I'm born again now In Jesus name, Amen.
If you prayed this prayer just now, Congratulations! I would love to share more with you. So you can send me an email at birikiti_oluba@yahoo.com to share your testimony.
The blessings of God rest with you all, Amen 2 Likes |
Re: Religion Is Sweet Poison, Heaven Is A State Of Mind. by chiwuike20: 4:06pm On Sep 23, 2013 |
ifeness:
Faith is blind and can lead a sane mind into destruction. Christianity has been used a tool of abuse,excuse for corruption,manipulation,slavery,genocide....... It's got to go!
Christianity is one of the worst religion alongside its brother( islam) Mr Ifeness, I would love u to support your claim of christianity as a tool of abuse, genocide etc with Jesus teaching. In contrast to ur claim, christ exemplary teaching makes believers gentle and peaceful in the society. I must add dat tested christian are few amongst millions of professed christians. |
Re: Religion Is Sweet Poison, Heaven Is A State Of Mind. by mazaje(m): 4:09pm On Sep 23, 2013 |
MAYOWAAK: The history of the world over centuries is littered with dead religions, dead gods and dead worshipers. In some ways, we are all children of a retired god. Key events in the world always retire religions and their gods. Traumatic world events always prove the old religions inadequate. The coming of the Europeans, for instance, essentially laid to eternal rest a lot of the African gods. Other events and movements like the Enlightenment reform religion. Reformation extends the life of a religion. An irreformable religion is one that is bound to implode.
The tragedy of Africa is that it reached the information age without first passing through the industrial age. In matters temporal, Africa got to the modern age without passing through the Enlightenment. That is why some people believe that a child was born holding a mini-Koran in its hand, or that a child came out of the womb holding a cross in its hand. Why mini-Koran? Why a cross? Why something we already know? Why does this kind of phenomenon only happen in societies that wallow in superstition? If it is a message from God, as some believe, why won’t God use the opportunity to send a definitive manual of life?
The Enlightenment instituted the culture of demanding empirical proof before believing. If a woman comes into the church and gives birth to a dead horse, you don’t clean up the floor and bury the horse. You send the horse to the lab and the woman to the hospital- mental and/or medical.
Every religion that comes begets a new one. Two hundred years from now the people that will occupy this world will look at our era and our religions that we fight for and die for and call our age the Extreme Dark Ages. In another two hundred thousand years, nobody will remember what god we fought for, killed for, or died for. Just like we have no idea what god the people who were on this earth 100,000 years ago fought for, killed for or died for.
It is hard to imagine it now, but after the Third World War and after a nuclear war, a new world will emerge with new religions. The old religions left standing will go through reformation. And subtly and gradually, new religions will replace the old. Because it takes hundreds of years for this kind of transformation to be visible, it is hard for those living in that age to notice the change as it happens. We won’t wake up one day and notice that our religion is dead.
It is hard to live without the concept of God because it is hard to live without an answer to the original questions, even if it is not definitive. That is why many will stick with their religion as if it is their parents. Virtually all religions place God beyond reach- at times above the sky. Do you know why? If God is within reach, God will suffer the fate of all parents – be critiqued and be seen to have fallen short.
The trouble with religion is that for every religion to survive and gain members and fend off competitions, it has to proclaim itself to be better than the others. That my religion is better than yours is like saying that my moon is better than yours. That my God is better than yours is to say that my sun is better than yours.
To be willing to fight for your God- which is to say, kill and die for your God, is like to climb on top of each other to pull the moon until it stands still on your side of the sky. It may sound silly but it has been done before and continues to be done.
Those who worshipped the Greek gods used to believe that they had the final answer. Those who worshipped Oduduwa used to think that their story of the creation was the ultimate. The highest level of human stupidity is the belief that our religion is the final answer to these original questions- who am I? Where did I come from? Where am I going? Who made me? The arrogance of that assumption has no equal in human folly.
Religions come and go but the earth remains the same. Until we know the definitive truth about the very beginning; and until we answer the original questions without a doubt, religion will remain attractive. But religion will continue to promise us that we find the answers only when we die. Science is the only one trying to find answers to these questions while we are still alive. And science is the only one trying to get to the very beginning and empirically show it to us for the very first time. It may take science one million years to get there. But I am rooting for science not religion. This has to be the post of the year on NL religion section. . . |
Re: Religion Is Sweet Poison, Heaven Is A State Of Mind. by chiwuike20: 4:17pm On Sep 23, 2013 |
ifeness: There is no evidence jesus rose from the dead. Christianity was formed 300 hundred years after he supposedly died on the cross( actually he died in India according to a reliable source). It takes a dull brain/mind to believe an Arab man is the saviour of the world. Jesus is a mask used my the powers that be to rule the masses. Revelation claimed jesus will come back and rule with "a rod of iron" meaning a tyrant in the making. Scoffers will come, says d scripture, so I'm not surprised. Mr ifeness, d proactiveness and forgiving capabilities of christians amidst mockery bereft human understanding and distinguishes it from other religion. Mock, scold, revile and ultimately kill christians, u'll get no retaliation in return, just like their savior, Christ Jesus |
Re: Religion Is Sweet Poison, Heaven Is A State Of Mind. by Alekhine: 4:24pm On Sep 23, 2013 |
"MAYOWAAK". Greatest write up. "RELIGION" is Poison no doubt but a poison the world still needs. Religion according to Nietzsche is a "Tombstone" on a grave it never wants u to rise. To "rise" here means Enlightenment. In Einstein's book "the world as I see it" he wrote about the birth of Religion under "Religion and Science" and the "Religiousness of Science". We always find ourselves in an endless loop of seeking who has the supremacy Man or God(the Supernatural). Gods were created by Man in desperation to answer the unever ending questions of life. Why this n Why that. Once u have a wrong foundation everything u build, in time will eventually crumble. That's why numerous Religions have come n gone. Man has worshipped stones, fire, water, moon, stars, sun .... We look back and say how foolish they were, Worshipping all those but it was just a matter of the level of consciousness and understanding they had at that time... Only the wise will be able to see that the future will also say "how foolish they were in the 21st century that they worshipped this n that". The world is ever changing but those that bring about the changes are those who dare to say that the status quo is wrong. That is why Africa is now the least developed we still have that slave mentality. I will like to end with this quote by William Drummond "He that will not reason is a bigot; he that cannot reason is a fool; and he that dares not reason is a slave." |
Re: Religion Is Sweet Poison, Heaven Is A State Of Mind. by akigbemaru: 4:31pm On Sep 23, 2013 |
Religion the opium of the extremists! |
Re: Religion Is Sweet Poison, Heaven Is A State Of Mind. by Nobody: 4:41pm On Sep 23, 2013 |
MAYOWAAK: The history of the world over centuries is littered with dead religions, dead gods and dead worshipers. In some ways, we are all children of a retired god. Key events in the world always retire religions and their gods. Traumatic world events always prove the old religions inadequate. The coming of the Europeans, for instance, essentially laid to eternal rest a lot of the African gods. Other events and movements like the Enlightenment reform religion. Reformation extends the life of a religion. An irreformable religion is one that is bound to implode.
The tragedy of Africa is that it reached the information age without first passing through the industrial age. In matters temporal, Africa got to the modern age without passing through the Enlightenment. That is why some people believe that a child was born holding a mini-Koran in its hand, or that a child came out of the womb holding a cross in its hand. Why mini-Koran? Why a cross? Why something we already know? Why does this kind of phenomenon only happen in societies that wallow in superstition? If it is a message from God, as some believe, why won’t God use the opportunity to send a definitive manual of life?
The Enlightenment instituted the culture of demanding empirical proof before believing. If a woman comes into the church and gives birth to a dead horse, you don’t clean up the floor and bury the horse. You send the horse to the lab and the woman to the hospital- mental and/or medical.
Every religion that comes begets a new one. Two hundred years from now the people that will occupy this world will look at our era and our religions that we fight for and die for and call our age the Extreme Dark Ages. In another two hundred thousand years, nobody will remember what god we fought for, killed for, or died for. Just like we have no idea what god the people who were on this earth 100,000 years ago fought for, killed for or died for.
It is hard to imagine it now, but after the Third World War and after a nuclear war, a new world will emerge with new religions. The old religions left standing will go through reformation. And subtly and gradually, new religions will replace the old. Because it takes hundreds of years for this kind of transformation to be visible, it is hard for those living in that age to notice the change as it happens. We won’t wake up one day and notice that our religion is dead.
It is hard to live without the concept of God because it is hard to live without an answer to the original questions, even if it is not definitive. That is why many will stick with their religion as if it is their parents. Virtually all religions place God beyond reach- at times above the sky. Do you know why? If God is within reach, God will suffer the fate of all parents – be critiqued and be seen to have fallen short.
The trouble with religion is that for every religion to survive and gain members and fend off competitions, it has to proclaim itself to be better than the others. That my religion is better than yours is like saying that my moon is better than yours. That my God is better than yours is to say that my sun is better than yours.
To be willing to fight for your God- which is to say, kill and die for your God, is like to climb on top of each other to pull the moon until it stands still on your side of the sky. It may sound stupid but it has been done before and continues to be done.
Those who worshipped the Greek gods used to believe that they had the final answer. Those who worshipped Oduduwa used to think that their story of the creation was the ultimate. The highest level of human stupidity is the belief that our religion is the final answer to these original questions- who am I? Where did I come from? Where am I going? Who made me? The arrogance of that assumption has no equal in human folly.
Religions come and go but the earth remains the same. Until we know the definitive truth about the very beginning; and until we answer the original questions without a doubt, religion will remain attractive. But religion will continue to promise us that we find the answers only when we die. Science is the only one trying to find answers to these questions while we are still alive. And science is the only one trying to get to the very beginning and empirically show it to us for the very first time. It may take science one million years to get there. But I am rooting for science not religion. this Is so beautiful that I had to copy it and save it 1 Like |
Re: Religion Is Sweet Poison, Heaven Is A State Of Mind. by chiwuike20: 4:48pm On Sep 23, 2013 |
kelvinlink: Is God a man or a Spirit? Why did he created only one Son? Maybe he has more Sons and daughters? Was Jesus christ the Son of God? Or just a great prophet of God? How come nobody talks about the Wife of God? Maybe Jesus has a heavenly mother? What happened to Joseph the Carpenter, the husband of Mary? Why did the compilers of the bible and the disciples intentionally didn't write anything about him? What happened between the Missing period of Jesus christ life 12-30? Will it make any difference if he actually worked as a carpenter for years under Joseph? Did he not severally said it himself that he is not GOD? Did he not severally said that all those who are led by the spirit of God are the SONS OF GOD? What Original Sin did he died for to cleanse away the Sins of the world? Haven't previous Prophets of God been misunderstood and Crucified? The Crucifixion (Nailing on the cross) was the standard way the Romans at the time crucified EVERY convicted criminal, wasn't it? Jesus christ crucifixion was not the first and the last ? Why do we bother ourselves with the narrow chronology of the Israelites..... ? Were there not diverse tribes, nations and countries at the time.....where people not already living in America, Africa, Oriental Asia? The History of the world did not start with the accounts of the Israelites as written down in their own chronology or is it? Were there not various oral unwritten traditional accounts of creation and the Kingdom of Heaven held to be sacred also by the Orients , Native India and Africans in time past? Are there not many Religions in the World, with everyone claiming to be the true one? Has it even occur to you that God is not a Christian, but simply God? Was it not Man in his search for his life source that invented the Word God? Listen to your heart and tell me you don't feel deeply that GOD is greater than the God man has invented? The word Christian is not an heavenly name or is it now? Wasn't it humans who describe the disciples of Jesus as Christ like.....Christians? Why do we christians have this subtle arrogant deep belief that we are the ones going to heaven or the ones that knows the truth about God and the rest are just ignorant ? Are we even Christians....Real Christians? Gandhi once told a british missionary he would have been a Christian if only he had met one.... ? Why do we laugh at muslims rewards of Ten virgins in Heaven...."If they do Allah's will" and yet we do not see any funny joke in our own "Mansions waiting for us in Heaven" ? Do you not know of billions of people across the world who are neither Christians or muslims, but people who just live life simply and follow no Religion, dogma or tradition? Why have we clouded our minds with Religion, and please don't tell me Christianity is not a religion or a faith based belief system, because it is or is it not? Did Jesus christ paid tithe or did he requested for it? If he wanted, could he not have embarked on some glamorous building of Temples and places of worship dedicated to his father God? Did he not strive to live simple and humble? Funny enough, those who even walked with him and later wrote about him....didn't even fully understood his teachings at the time or did they? Why have we reduced God to a man or even pinned down a Son to him? Do you know that Muslim clerics perform miracles too in the name of Allah? Buddhist masters also heal diseases and perform acts of miracles in their temples... Do you know muslims are prosperous and their Allah blesses them without Tithe payment or sowing seeds ? What seeds did you sow before the sun came up today? What seeds will you sow to God to make the moon to shine bright at night?? We have turned God into a Seed God, more like a Farmer God ?? If you had been born in Saudi Arabia or even Kano to a muslim parents, your name probably would have been Ibn saiyd mohammed and not paul, peter or esther ? Does it really matter what religious beliefs you adhere to? Think about it really hard......Does God look Religious to you? Do you think he cares about if you are Christian, Muslim or Buddhist ? Have you ever wondered if all his Spirit living within you really cares about is just "The content of your Character" the perfect harmony of your thoughts, words and actions and not religious sects beliefs , payment of tithe or accumulation of church attendance? Why is it so hard to free ourselves from this mental slavery of Religious beliefs? God is not even Religious..... The present day state of Isreal and Jewish people are not even Christians or are they? Just tune in into any tv station and you will see the effects of Religious beliefs! Stop this argument about arch angels, debating upon old documented accounts of persons long gone........... Just look at the argument surrounding the role Awolowo played in The Nigerian civil war (1967-1970) and the many controversies and interpretations of events still fresh in the memories of survivals, then why do you aimlessly argue about events thousands of years old....why ? God is not a man.... God will not do for man what he must do for himself ......... Why will God come and die for the sins of the world What sins are you even talking about What Original sin did he came to die for? God is not a man............... Which serpent crawled into the garden? Which forbidden fruit? Humans in their search for God ......created God. Their own description of God and even gave him a son with arch angels....... The best we can call him is God or Allah He, She or It........whatever it is.......is Almighty and All Powerful. God is not a christian or a muslim.....he is simply GOD! Stop trying to gain relevance by claiming to be his special people. He, She or It.......whatever it is......is for everyone one....Yea....Everyone! Even a blind man knows a face filled with Love. God is Love. Whatever represents or emboldened Love is God. Everything good, peaceful and lovely. Love......Love.......and Love! Stop these fabled stories that started within a small tribe in Asia. Africans were already living at the time and they also had there own special covenant and relationship with God Lao Tzu wrote the Tao Te ching (The way of the Tao) 500BC.......BC....not AD. Do you think God will honestly care if you are a christian or not ? Your thoughts, words and actions are what counts and not race, lineage, culture, accent or colour. There is no unity even among those who claim to be of the same christianity fold . Christians of different denominations hate each other more than even Muslims do....or is it not so? God is not a christian or Muslim Stop giving him a son Or better still....why dont you just go ahead and also attribute a wife to him? More like God, his wife and Son....ehnnnn. God lives within you Yes.....Within you and not in a heaven. He is with you always. Listen more to his voice within you. Within you....In you. Listen to your heart. Observe the dictates of your Instincts. Be still in your Self. God is with You. You are a God on Earth Yes you are. You are co-creators You create your own World Same Nature and Spirit No one can see God face to face and live or can they? People saw Jesus He bled...Cried....got angry.....got saddened God is a Spirit The Spirit is God The Spirit of God is God. You are a Spirit. Deep down you know you are. The doctrine of the Trinity started hundred of years after the death of Jesus. God is not a Trinity. Stop the Confusion Christians are not the only ones in the world Just go ahead and live a purpose driving life. Obey the rules governing your environment. Listen to your own heart. Let Love guide you in all you do. Amen. Some questions u asked were necessary 4 all christians to consider, especially dat of seed sowing, segregation, building of cathedrals etc, but u blasphemed by playing down on Christ divinity. Inasmuch as d doctrine of d trinity was d design of d catholic church, d Godhead as revealed in d scripture affirms Christ's divinity. I wud politely advise u to b careful of the things u say |
Re: Religion Is Sweet Poison, Heaven Is A State Of Mind. by chiwuike20: 4:48pm On Sep 23, 2013 |
kelvinlink: Is God a man or a Spirit? Why did he created only one Son? Maybe he has more Sons and daughters? Was Jesus christ the Son of God? Or just a great prophet of God? How come nobody talks about the Wife of God? Maybe Jesus has a heavenly mother? What happened to Joseph the Carpenter, the husband of Mary? Why did the compilers of the bible and the disciples intentionally didn't write anything about him? What happened between the Missing period of Jesus christ life 12-30? Will it make any difference if he actually worked as a carpenter for years under Joseph? Did he not severally said it himself that he is not GOD? Did he not severally said that all those who are led by the spirit of God are the SONS OF GOD? What Original Sin did he died for to cleanse away the Sins of the world? Haven't previous Prophets of God been misunderstood and Crucified? The Crucifixion (Nailing on the cross) was the standard way the Romans at the time crucified EVERY convicted criminal, wasn't it? Jesus christ crucifixion was not the first and the last ? Why do we bother ourselves with the narrow chronology of the Israelites..... ? Were there not diverse tribes, nations and countries at the time.....where people not already living in America, Africa, Oriental Asia? The History of the world did not start with the accounts of the Israelites as written down in their own chronology or is it? Were there not various oral unwritten traditional accounts of creation and the Kingdom of Heaven held to be sacred also by the Orients , Native India and Africans in time past? Are there not many Religions in the World, with everyone claiming to be the true one? Has it even occur to you that God is not a Christian, but simply God? Was it not Man in his search for his life source that invented the Word God? Listen to your heart and tell me you don't feel deeply that GOD is greater than the God man has invented? The word Christian is not an heavenly name or is it now? Wasn't it humans who describe the disciples of Jesus as Christ like.....Christians? Why do we christians have this subtle arrogant deep belief that we are the ones going to heaven or the ones that knows the truth about God and the rest are just ignorant ? Are we even Christians....Real Christians? Gandhi once told a british missionary he would have been a Christian if only he had met one.... ? Why do we laugh at muslims rewards of Ten virgins in Heaven...."If they do Allah's will" and yet we do not see any funny joke in our own "Mansions waiting for us in Heaven" ? Do you not know of billions of people across the world who are neither Christians or muslims, but people who just live life simply and follow no Religion, dogma or tradition? Why have we clouded our minds with Religion, and please don't tell me Christianity is not a religion or a faith based belief system, because it is or is it not? Did Jesus christ paid tithe or did he requested for it? If he wanted, could he not have embarked on some glamorous building of Temples and places of worship dedicated to his father God? Did he not strive to live simple and humble? Funny enough, those who even walked with him and later wrote about him....didn't even fully understood his teachings at the time or did they? Why have we reduced God to a man or even pinned down a Son to him? Do you know that Muslim clerics perform miracles too in the name of Allah? Buddhist masters also heal diseases and perform acts of miracles in their temples... Do you know muslims are prosperous and their Allah blesses them without Tithe payment or sowing seeds ? What seeds did you sow before the sun came up today? What seeds will you sow to God to make the moon to shine bright at night?? We have turned God into a Seed God, more like a Farmer God ?? If you had been born in Saudi Arabia or even Kano to a muslim parents, your name probably would have been Ibn saiyd mohammed and not paul, peter or esther ? Does it really matter what religious beliefs you adhere to? Think about it really hard......Does God look Religious to you? Do you think he cares about if you are Christian, Muslim or Buddhist ? Have you ever wondered if all his Spirit living within you really cares about is just "The content of your Character" the perfect harmony of your thoughts, words and actions and not religious sects beliefs , payment of tithe or accumulation of church attendance? Why is it so hard to free ourselves from this mental slavery of Religious beliefs? God is not even Religious..... The present day state of Isreal and Jewish people are not even Christians or are they? Just tune in into any tv station and you will see the effects of Religious beliefs! Stop this argument about arch angels, debating upon old documented accounts of persons long gone........... Just look at the argument surrounding the role Awolowo played in The Nigerian civil war (1967-1970) and the many controversies and interpretations of events still fresh in the memories of survivals, then why do you aimlessly argue about events thousands of years old....why ? God is not a man.... God will not do for man what he must do for himself ......... Why will God come and die for the sins of the world What sins are you even talking about What Original sin did he came to die for? God is not a man............... Which serpent crawled into the garden? Which forbidden fruit? Humans in their search for God ......created God. Their own description of God and even gave him a son with arch angels....... The best we can call him is God or Allah He, She or It........whatever it is.......is Almighty and All Powerful. God is not a christian or a muslim.....he is simply GOD! Stop trying to gain relevance by claiming to be his special people. He, She or It.......whatever it is......is for everyone one....Yea....Everyone! Even a blind man knows a face filled with Love. God is Love. Whatever represents or emboldened Love is God. Everything good, peaceful and lovely. Love......Love.......and Love! Stop these fabled stories that started within a small tribe in Asia. Africans were already living at the time and they also had there own special covenant and relationship with God Lao Tzu wrote the Tao Te ching (The way of the Tao) 500BC.......BC....not AD. Do you think God will honestly care if you are a christian or not ? Your thoughts, words and actions are what counts and not race, lineage, culture, accent or colour. There is no unity even among those who claim to be of the same christianity fold . Christians of different denominations hate each other more than even Muslims do....or is it not so? God is not a christian or Muslim Stop giving him a son Or better still....why dont you just go ahead and also attribute a wife to him? More like God, his wife and Son....ehnnnn. God lives within you Yes.....Within you and not in a heaven. He is with you always. Listen more to his voice within you. Within you....In you. Listen to your heart. Observe the dictates of your Instincts. Be still in your Self. God is with You. You are a God on Earth Yes you are. You are co-creators You create your own World Same Nature and Spirit No one can see God face to face and live or can they? People saw Jesus He bled...Cried....got angry.....got saddened God is a Spirit The Spirit is God The Spirit of God is God. You are a Spirit. Deep down you know you are. The doctrine of the Trinity started hundred of years after the death of Jesus. God is not a Trinity. Stop the Confusion Christians are not the only ones in the world Just go ahead and live a purpose driving life. Obey the rules governing your environment. Listen to your own heart. Let Love guide you in all you do. Amen. Some questions u asked were necessary 4 all christians to consider, especially dat of seed sowing, segregation, building of cathedrals etc, but u blasphemed by playing down on Christ divinity. Inasmuch as d doctrine of d trinity was d design of d catholic church, d Godhead as revealed in d scripture affirms Christ's divinity. I wud politely advise u to b careful of the things u say |
Re: Religion Is Sweet Poison, Heaven Is A State Of Mind. by Pukkah: 4:58pm On Sep 23, 2013 |
jmoore: Go and ask satan. He will tell you how he was kicked out from heaven. This another funny teaching of the Abrahamic religions (Judaism, Christianity and Islam). Don't you think it's rather an insult to God that He created someone that He could not control? So where is Satan now? Another funny prayer is 'God, don't forget me o'; which suggests that God could be forgetful. |
Re: Religion Is Sweet Poison, Heaven Is A State Of Mind. by Nobody: 4:59pm On Sep 23, 2013 |
MAYOWAAK: The history of the world over centuries is littered with dead religions, dead gods and dead worshipers. In some ways, we are all children of a retired god. Key events in the world always retire religions and their gods. Traumatic world events always prove the old religions inadequate. The coming of the Europeans, for instance, essentially laid to eternal rest a lot of the African gods. Other events and movements like the Enlightenment reform religion. Reformation extends the life of a religion. An irreformable religion is one that is bound to implode.
The tragedy of Africa is that it reached the information age without first passing through the industrial age. In matters temporal, Africa got to the modern age without passing through the Enlightenment. That is why some people believe that a child was born holding a mini-Koran in its hand, or that a child came out of the womb holding a cross in its hand. Why mini-Koran? Why a cross? Why something we already know? Why does this kind of phenomenon only happen in societies that wallow in superstition? If it is a message from God, as some believe, why won’t God use the opportunity to send a definitive manual of life?
The Enlightenment instituted the culture of demanding empirical proof before believing. If a woman comes into the church and gives birth to a dead horse, you don’t clean up the floor and bury the horse. You send the horse to the lab and the woman to the hospital- mental and/or medical.
Every religion that comes begets a new one. Two hundred years from now the people that will occupy this world will look at our era and our religions that we fight for and die for and call our age the Extreme Dark Ages. In another two hundred thousand years, nobody will remember what god we fought for, killed for, or died for. Just like we have no idea what god the people who were on this earth 100,000 years ago fought for, killed for or died for.
It is hard to imagine it now, but after the Third World War and after a nuclear war, a new world will emerge with new religions. The old religions left standing will go through reformation. And subtly and gradually, new religions will replace the old. Because it takes hundreds of years for this kind of transformation to be visible, it is hard for those living in that age to notice the change as it happens. We won’t wake up one day and notice that our religion is dead.
It is hard to live without the concept of God because it is hard to live without an answer to the original questions, even if it is not definitive. That is why many will stick with their religion as if it is their parents. Virtually all religions place God beyond reach- at times above the sky. Do you know why? If God is within reach, God will suffer the fate of all parents – be critiqued and be seen to have fallen short.
The trouble with religion is that for every religion to survive and gain members and fend off competitions, it has to proclaim itself to be better than the others. That my religion is better than yours is like saying that my moon is better than yours. That my God is better than yours is to say that my sun is better than yours.
To be willing to fight for your God- which is to say, kill and die for your God, is like to climb on top of each other to pull the moon until it stands still on your side of the sky. It may sound stupid but it has been done before and continues to be done.
Those who worshipped the Greek gods used to believe that they had the final answer. Those who worshipped Oduduwa used to think that their story of the creation was the ultimate. The highest level of human stupidity is the belief that our religion is the final answer to these original questions- who am I? Where did I come from? Where am I going? Who made me? The arrogance of that assumption has no equal in human folly.
Religions come and go but the earth remains the same. Until we know the definitive truth about the very beginning; and until we answer the original questions without a doubt, religion will remain attractive. But religion will continue to promise us that we find the answers only when we die. Science is the only one trying to find answers to these questions while we are still alive. And science is the only one trying to get to the very beginning and empirically show it to us for the very first time. It may take science one million years to get there. But I am rooting for science not religion. wetin b dis na novel u de write??shwoooooo..i no read again.my eyes dey turn me..lolzzz |
Re: Religion Is Sweet Poison, Heaven Is A State Of Mind. by Pukkah: 5:02pm On Sep 23, 2013 |
patrickdarlins: wetin b disna novel u de write??shwoooooo..i no read again.my eyes dey turn me..lolzzz Try and read it. It's not too long and won't take your full 3 mins. It's worth reading. |
Re: Religion Is Sweet Poison, Heaven Is A State Of Mind. by troy20(m): 5:10pm On Sep 23, 2013 |
so i would assume you knoW better since you had to subtly threating him.what ARROGANCE! |