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Religion / Re: Skeptics And Atheists In Nigeria: How Do You Manage? by Eibhlin: 4:25pm On Nov 12, 2008
I just got back from my first ever visit to Nigeria with my 10 year old daughter to visit her late fathers family. It was a wonderful experience and people were so kind and generous to us. I was however quite disturbed by the level of religious belief there, I come from Catholic Ireland and thought we were bad enough. What disturbed me most was all the praying and belief did not translate to helping the poor and I witnessed many so called religious people treat staff like slaves and demean them horribly.
I notice Jesus/God gets credit for everything good in both Ireland and Nigeria, when things go wrong 'God has plans we don't understand' or 'it's our fault for our sins etc etc'. Believers can never decide whether we actually have free will or whether God has the power to do everything - they just pick and choose to whatever works at the given situation. God is all powerful they say - but he can't save starving children because blah blah blah - and yet I should pray to him and ask for say a good exam result because he might decide to help me - WHY? - how could I deserve it more than a child starving to death?
I truly am gobsmacked at how delusional it all is. Ultimately I wonder why this God would decide to create a world the size of a grain of sand on a beach - in relation to our planet in  the universe. Then he decides to focus only on this tiny grain of a planet and come up with beings who are capable of unlimited evil and for what? so he can see how it all plays out like a Big Brother show? If there is a God, which I contend is a ridiculous assumption - he is really crap at creating peace and love. You can blame war and greed on everything except God but then you also contend he creates EVERYTHING. You can't have it both ways, he is either generally rubbish at what he does  - or he just does not exist.
I really did love Nigeria and we want to go back often, but I found the general attempt to drown me in religion quite oppressive and so have searched the net for Nigerians who can manage to exist there without having to go along with this religious charade.

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