NaijaCowFarm:
Good job ... monolith is EVIL and we do not celebrate evil.
Let it be asserted that ALL of South-South is for JESUS!!!

AnambraPikinSel:



That's why we real African with sense will keep trying to liberate them from jeshu madness

emapeteum:

your level of ignorance is not curable. I think you need help. So the Apostles who were Christians, documented, is not true in your world?
I pity people whose judgement is based on anger and hate toward perceived enemies. A Whiteman religion and you are using a white man device to type that nonsense. So in your ignorance, there was no water baptism, singing of psalms and hymns, holy communion by the early Church? Dont judge Christianity based on heretic practices by many Churches who call themselves Christians, but the character and practices of the apostles as written in the scripture.

AnambraPikinSel:


Your Jesus dey craze

GodisStriking:









That's the Orthodox doctrine. There are other doctrines where not only is Joseph is the father but Yesihua himself is a father. And no Yesihua is not God. The Orthodox version was the glue that held together the Empire because people need to believe in something bigger than human so Jesus became God. But there is only one God the Creator. It's what separated Monotheism from Pagan religion.

BJanta:
Bum. Which statute can be more historic than that of JESUS? You must have been born a FOOL .

Joy2dworldxyz:
I am a Christian but I don't support any thing image cos I know that the images people parade as Jesus' is that of a white man.

So there should be no image in that place at all.

NaijaCowFarm:
Good job ... monolith is EVIL and we do not celebrate evil.
Let it be asserted that ALL of South-South is for JESUS!!!

wirinet:

So because you are a Christian, people's historical heritage that had been there for centuries, even before the white man brought you Christianity should be destroyed?
Meanwhile, those that brought you the Christianity preserve their own statues and other historical heritage.

Babangidapikin:
They took your ancestral pride away . Does the Lord Jesus know you ... People always forming as if they're more religious than the Pope.

Harddiskng:
Even the bible said Proverbs 23:10a Do not remove the ancient landmark

wirinet:

So because you are a Christian, people's historical heritage that had been there for centuries, even before the white man brought you Christianity should be destroyed?
Meanwhile, those that brought you the Christianity preserve their own statues and other historical heritage.

Petrallen:


Let's even ignore the fact that it was the full moral force of Christianity that banned Christianity from the globe for a moment.
What role did your forefathers' religion played in banning slavery? You guys seem to have selective amnesia.
It is called slave TRADE for a reason. Why blame the ones who buy slaves and leave out the ones who kidnapped and sold the slaves to them? Also, every race is guilty of slavery - yes, even the blacks too.
It was Christianity that banned slavery from the globe NOT atheism, not your forefathers' religion, not the other religions - It was Christianity. If not for Christianity, you would likely be slaving away in a slave farm - being a slave to your fellow black won't offer any comfort.
The world was already a mess when the nation of Israel was formed. The Israelites themselves were slaves and God redeemed them from slavery. God explicitly forbade the Israelites from kidnapping people and selling them as slaves. The typical 'slave' you see in the Bible are just indentured servants (typical of what pertains to master-apprentice relationship here in Nigeria). For instance, Jacob serves his uncle Laban as slaves for years and expected payment in return.
The slavery that God was regulating in the Bible was nothing but indentured servitude - one party consenting to serve the other for number of time to do things like paying off debts, getting money to establish business etc. And God places a maximum number of years on this servitude - 7 years unless the slave wanted to renew the contract.
The only slaves that the Israelites are allowed to buy are foreigners - and there are laws that God made to protect these foreigners until they get integrated into the Jewish community.
Also, we have prisoners of war who are made slaves since Israel has no prison system.

Flash forward to the NT, the scriptures regarded both high and low as the equal before God's eyes. When Onesimus ran away from His master, Philemon, a crime punishable by death according to Roman law, Paul pleaded with Philemon asking him to receive and welcome Onesimus just as he would receive Paul.
In fact, one of the distinguishing feature of Christianity in early Rome was the destruction of the caste system - one of the reasons why the Roman elites are wary of Christianity and tried to persecute it.
Flash forward to about 2 centuries ago, it was Christians who laid down their lives to ensure that slavery was banned from the globe. It was the Christians in the West who started a civil war to ensure that slavery is banned once and for all.
The concept of human rights that people around the world enjoy was built upon the long centuries of Christian civilization - that's the reason why the concept of human rights was enmeshed in countries where Christianity exerts a heavy amount of influence.
Hate Christianity all you want, it's your choice but at least give credit where credit is due. Once again, it was Christianity that banned slavery from the globe NOT atheism, not your forefathers' religion which celebrated slavery. We haven't forgotten yet

Joy2dworldxyz:


What image are you talking about?
So I should keep the image of Satan because my ancestors kept and preserved it?

DeepSight:


If you see the beautiful works of antiquity that Islamists destroyed in Iran/ Iraq, you will weep.

wirinet:

Christianity and Christianity are different sides of the same coin. The only difference is that Islam is 600 years behind Christianity. All the violence and intolerance exhibited by Islam today are the same violence and intolerance exhibited by Christianity in the 1300 to 1800s

Joy2dworldxyz:


What image are you talking about?
So I should keep the image of Satan because my ancestors kept and preserved it?

No, bro.

The governor did the right thing but the only thing I don't like about that his action is replacing it with another image. There's nothing like Jesus' image anywhere.....

KnownUnknown:


Where is this image of Satan?
How did they keep the image of a mythical character they did not know of?!

Joy2dworldxyz:


What image are you talking about?
So I should keep the image of Satan because my ancestors kept and preserved it?

No, bro.

The governor did the right thing but the only thing I don't like about that his action is replacing it with another image. There's nothing like Jesus' image anywhere.....

DeepSight:


Gbam!

PS: You might want to edit the bold.

wirinet:

So you have seen the image of Satan before? And your ancestors were worshipping Satan before the white men came to enslave and colonise them?

I feel sorry for you.

wirinet:

My apologies. Was negotiating with the carpenter repairing my kitchen and at the same time typing on my phone.

Babangidapikin:

Okay thanks for the enlightenment, I suspect so too , but I am sadden that we are quick to replace our ancestral heritage with people who took us as slaves own ...and technically still enslaving us ...

wirinet:

So you have seen the image of Satan before? And your ancestors were worshipping Satan before the white men came to enslave and colonise them?

I feel sorry for you.

alpharoyalty:
I am so angry right now.
Some people have made themselves slaves to Western and Arab religion while neglecting and unappreciative of their ancestral religion.
That governor is fvck men! 🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬
Fvck that pastor governor

DeepSight:


Tell me, do you think the Greeks should destroy this ancienct site, which is a UNESCO World Heritage Site and one of the biggest tourist attractions in the world?

It is the Parthenon, and it is the Temple of the goddess Athena.

What say you - should it be mowed down?

Lithiumite:


Please check the dictionary meaning of the word servant and also slave.....Christianity had very limited bearing on the abolition of slave trade and everyone knows the manifest reason was the adoption of the industrialisation economic model.

Gistmedia10:
The Cross River Government, led by Governor Bassey Otu, has demolished a historic monolith structure.

Reports indicate that it has been replaced with a statue of Jesus Christ as a shepherd leading his flocks. Additionally, the flag of Israel has been hung on the staff of the statue.

The monolith, known as the Ikom monoliths, is part of a series of volcanic-stone monoliths from the area of Ikom. The Ejagham people are believed to have engraved the monoliths around 200 CE.

The monolith stands between 0.3 and 1.8 metres (1 and 6 feet) high and is laid out in some 30 circles located around Alok in the Ikom area of Cross River State.

This change has sparked mixed reactions on social media.