Today, trending question on Twitter;
Is there a special romance between poverty and religion?

If you go to rich neighbourhoods like Banana Island,Maitama etc you will see very little sign of churches and mosques.

But get into poor neighbourhoods like Ajegunle,Nyanya and everywhere littered with churches.

I am a Christian but this special connection between poverty and religion has boggled my mind for a while.

Why are most preachers in public transport piss poor? Why are they usually raggedly, and survive based on the "kindness" of passengers. Mostly Religious beggars. Why?

Will the people preaching the word of God passionately in public transport and by the roadside continue if their lives are swapped with, say, that of Otedola?

Will that love of God still be there? Is their own form of love for God the purerest form is its altrusism?

And the people who scream loudest at churches, those who roll on flaws, those who "do the most".. forgive me for using that term. Why are they mostly very poor, why are they mostly the downtrodden.

Love for God or the circumstantial child of poverty and desperation?

What then does that say about religion? Is religion still meaningful to people who don't feel helpless in this world? I mean, people with good health care, financial and social security and whatnot. What is the place of religion in their lives

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Yes and no.

And those vi and banana islands and Lagos island areas,religious disturbances are not allowed that's y.

If it was allowed I'm sure churches would litter those rich neighborhood.

Isn't it on nairaland we saw a person build one billion naira church for oyedepo in vgc area which is for the rich.


Yes religion does cause poverty.

That's y im an atheist

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No doubt the Christian faith has been a tool in the hands of fraudsters marauding as "men of God" in Nigeria and their targets are the financially vulnerable people with little or no spiritual knowledge or affection for God but think being religious makes a way out of financial poverty.

There's no romance between Christianity and financial poverty but there's a relationship between them. It's harder for a rich man to be spiritually poor and it's harder for a spiritual man to be rich unless he has that special Grace.

Financial buoyancy always poses a big temptation to many Christians, that's why Jesus warned against the love of money. Poverty atimes tend to draw someone closer to Christ but it's the Holy Spirit who works in the heart of such person to truly follow Christ.

poverty and religion is like 5 & 6... a desperate/broke/hungry soul is easier to fool