Sitting at my desk in the office some months ago, I overheard my "born again" colleague complaining about how he hates Muslims and Yorubas. I tried to ignore his ranting, but he kept going on how some Yorubas in his former office treated him like an outsider and how he can never be friends with a Muslim. Pause! Check!, I blinked twice to make sure I heard right. I am a Christian, although I don't claim to be a monk or saint like my colleague but I know that love and forgiveness is a constant sermon in church on Sundays, so you must now begin to understand my shock. So from a sinners understanding, a born again is supposed to lead by example by being Godly and doing right most of the time, if not all of it. But here was someone saying that he hates Yorubas because of how badly he was treated when he worked with "some" of them. That takes us back to ask, how do two wrongs make a right, if someone is a tribalist and doesn't want to associate with you, let him/she be, but if you let that make you turn to a tribalist too,then you are no worse than them, you are only condemning yourself in another body.

So my "born again" friend was justifying his hate for another tribe just because of how badly he had been treated some time ago, and on Sunday he would be in church preaching about love,forgiveness, and dancing joyfully. What hypocrisy!


He kept going on about how some people were going to hell and how some religions were just evil, and the next thing he's calling out another of my colleagues. The guy calls himself a free thinker, so he practically finds it hard to believe in any religion. My born again colleague moves over to him and calls him a blind man, and that resulted in a heated argument of sorts. That moment passed, and we all went back to work. Although I did not really involve myself in that argument, I've always wondered how people think they got to where they are at the moment, luck? fate? coincidence? or by sheer brilliance?. The simple question I always ask some people that I've come across with my "born again" colleagues mindset about religion and tribe is,why are you who you are? Or I rephrase, why are you a Christian?. The answer is simple, but many tend to twist the answer. An individual is mainly of a particular tribe or religion because of Geography. In simple terms, you are a Christian or Muslim because you were born into a family that practices either of the Religions, you never chose your tribe or religion from birth. So what gives you the justification of superiority.

I remember when I was about 10 years old, my dad made it a tradition for me and my younger brother to spend our school holidays in the village with our Grandparents (maternal/paternal). So during one of such holidays with my maternal granny, i joined the kids in the compound to scout around for things kids scout for, just generally everything to play with, and on one particular day we decided to go deep into the bushes to look for African bush pear or Ube as we call it in my dialect. We were doing our recognizance and making sure the adults would not dissuade us before some other kids joined us, I remembered one of them, we used to play together when we were much younger,but since my holidays were once or twice a year, we didn't see that much. We exchanged greetings and I noticed he was wearing an earring on one ear, very strange at that time and for a 10-year-old kid, I became curious but I did not ask him why instead I ran to one of my fellow bush pear hunters and asked why Obinna (not real names) was wearing an earring. The reply I got was that he was the next in line to take over his family's herbal medicine practice and so the earring was no ordinary earring rather it was was a symbolic ornament of his "office". I shrugged it off as like the kid that I was at the time, what mattered most was the bush pear, so we all ran into the bushes for our hunting expedition.


Some years later I remembered that incident and it struck me, why was that kid training to be dibia?, or a native doctor as we say in Africa, (some native doctors are said to be able to communicate with spirits) did he choose it? When he was being born, did he ask to be born into that family? Was he forced? a lot of questions kept flooding my thoughts, and I said to myself, what if this same kid was born into a Christian family or Muslim or any other religion wouldn't he be following that religion with passion and guidance from his parents as with the traditional one?


Now this takes us to review my earlier Question, Why do you practice your religion?


The only group of people that can really answer my question correctly are those that grew up in religious home and turned Atheists or those that joined other religions other that the one they were born into, because they are the ones that have made choices......



The world is a mystery, so we must learn to respect our differences, we are only here but for a while....



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Because I simply saw reality without bias. I stopped making excuses for God and Christianity. I learned about other religions and civilizations
Like the Egyptians that spent thousands of years building their pyramids, because they believed without a doubt their Gods were real. The Greeks that based their entire society on their Gods, you cannot read one thing about ancient Greece and not see a connection to one of their Gods, they believed without a doubt their Gods were real. I read about the Mayans and all the thousands of humans they sacrificed for mundane things like rainfall, simply because they believed without a doubt their Gods were real. I noticed that I and every one I knew would agree that these Gods were not real and that these civilizations wasted their time believing in fairytales. The modern day religions are no different, they all believe in the imaginary but like the Egyptians cannot fathom that their Gods are not real. Look at the world without bias, read you holy books without bias, reason without bias, and you shall see the truth.

Only the way "Christians" throw insults at "atheists" here is enough for one to see through the bs of their beliefs.

They cannot practice what they preach. Jesus, allegedly, taught his followers to turn the other cheek. How many of them can do that?

These same people are so happy that "unbelievers" will go to hell. In fact, they cannot wait till they point their fingers at you and say "told you so!" while you, and some of their family members, burn in hell.

Religion is not a basis for morality.

Empathy is

The Milky way that's Our galaxy Is 100,000 light years in diameter It is not synonymous to Any God In the Holy books(Thousands of them) That's enough reason for me to lack a belief in Those God shikena

Deicide:
The Milky way that's Our galaxy Is 100,000 light years in diameter It is not synonymous to Any God In the Holy books(Thousands of them) That's enough reason for me to lack a belief in Those God shikena

So that's the reason why you are an atheist? I guess you need to do dig deeper, honest to yourself. Atheism rejects any concept, idea, or form of a god. So to call yourself an atheist, not only are you rejecting claims of other religions, you are also giving yourself reasons why a supernatural being (in whatever form) that transcends creation cannot exist. We know the holy books include all kinds of lies, even those that are too indoctrinated to admit to themselves. But rejection of the stories of primitive men should not be the basis on which you base your atheism. An analogy, if people keep guessing at what black holes are made of, but you are a scientist with a superior intellect, it would be ridiculous for you to say that since their guesses are obviously wrong, then black holes are made of nothing.

AnonyNymous:

So that's the reason why you are an atheist? I guess you need to do dig deeper, honest to yourself. Atheism rejects any concept, idea, or form of a god.

Why must a God be Supernatural?

Deicide:

Why must a God be Supernatural?

It doesn't have to be
'Supernatural' is just a word for what we don't understand.

AnonyNymous:

It doesn't have to be
'Supernatural' is just a word for what we don't understand.

Haha and besides I only Said "That's Enough reason" for me to Lack belief in Any Holy book God. I didn't say it was the Reason And u just rushed me?