Jesse01:
and Christianity is not destroying African (Nigerian )culture

hopefulLandlord:
and Christianity is not destroying African culture? This pastor should tell me what drugs he's on

HigherEd:

And how is Christianity destroying African culture? Christianity only insist that the evil part of any culture must go.

paxonel:
African cultures is what has infected christianity negatively.
The only effect of christianity on African culture which i don't see it as a negative effect is how christians are now conditioned to prefer white man dressing of suit and tie over the local agbada and buba and wrapper, ankara, kaftan, or the Igbo traditional attire.
I think it is largely due to colonization not just only christianity.

I must say, christianity has played a better role in uniting the nigerian tribes and cultures but the wrong values and beliefs of African cultures(not the good ones) have not complicated the good values and morals found in the bible. That is the biggest problem of Africa today

hopefulLandlord:


I disagree!

Colonisation played "a role" in uniting Nigerian tribes and cultures NOT Christianity, Christianity is NEVER a tool of unity and can NEVER be a tool of unity

Gggg102:


I actually think it's both.

colonization lumped Nigerian tribes together, but most still differed. Igbo was still Igbo, Yoruba was still Yoruba.

Christianity gave a common identity to different groups. especially when those groups identity first by Christianity.
an Igbo Christian and Yoruba Christian would both be Christians first of all before any other identification means.

hopefulLandlord:


I disagree!

Colonisation played "a role" in uniting Nigerian tribes and cultures NOT Christianity, Christianity is NEVER a tool of unity and can NEVER be a tool of unity

Gggg102:


I actually think it's both.

colonization lumped Nigerian tribes together, but most still differed. Igbo was still Igbo, Yoruba was still Yoruba.

Christianity gave a common identity to different groups. especially when those groups identity first by Christianity.
an Igbo Christian and Yoruba Christian would both be Christians first of all before any other identification means.

hopefulLandlord:


Like destroying shrines and persecuting pagans? yeah

edurach:


This finding led them to believe that the cultural upbringing of the co-pilot which was a Korean thing which is to defer to one who is more elderly even when you know what is right had caused the crash. The co-pilot even though he knew what the problem was kept quiet out of respect and that cost over a hundred people the lives. It could simply have been averted if he spoke up telling the senior his opinion

HigherEd:

What do you know about African shrines and paganism. Because some missionaries have fought the fight, you simply don't how dark African religion was. This blood sucking religions took the life of many in form of sacrifices. But if you are such an advocate for African religion why don't you visit Atan Ogun state at 12 midnight. I am not sure they've found someone to sacrifice for their dead king. When you get there and the Oro people are about disloding your head from ur body you would realise how beautiful African religion are.

hopefulLandlord:


I disagree!

Colonisation played "a role" in uniting Nigerian tribes and cultures NOT Christianity, Christianity is NEVER a tool of unity and can NEVER be a tool of unity

paxonel:
I did not say colonization did not unite Africans. I say colonization bring about change of dressing mode among Africans.

If you say churches are not uniting Africans it shows you have not been attending church.

BlackAdam55:
how is it destroying our culture?

hopefulLandlord:


No! language gave us a common identity, it was in the best interest of the colonial Masters Thieves to unite us with language so they can understand us better and what better language can they give than English?

An Igbo Christian and a Yoruba Christian would be Igbos and Yorubas first, then they would be Jehovah's Witnesses and Deeper life second then they would be heretics to each other third. Christianity is NEVER a tool of unity at all and the history of Christianity shows this

Jesse01:
and u think so? haven't read or heard of Christians killing there fellow Christians?

even today self Christians do not agree among themselves . Christians are against
Jw because they didn't preach the same doctrines as others.so how will a Catholic be able to identify with jw member, since they didn't believe in the same doctrines?

HigherEd:

Stfu how easy do you think it's for a deeper life member from South East to hate Yorubas when his own general overseer is a Yoruba man.

The only connecting dot between an Igbo and a Yoruba is Christianity. If not for Christianity which sort of aligned cultural beliefs it would be virtually difficult for yorubas to do anything with Igbos.

90% of my friends from the East I met on the platform of the church so don't come here saying rubbish about what you know little about.

Gggg102:



most Christians don't identify by denomination first. once they say Jesus, they form a sense of brotherhood. it's when they go deeper that the differences in doctrines divide them. on the surface they only need to believe in Jesus. identification by Christianity is a bigger umbrella than identification by tribe. more people fit under that umbrella than when you identify by tribe.

even within tribes, there are divisions. an Igbo man could be from Anambra or from Ebonyi, they would differ at this stage. at the surface, they still remain Igbos.

a Christian from oyo would be different from one from enugu, however both would be united by belief in Yahweh and Jesus since Nigeria is very religious. at the surface, they are still Christians.

the colonialists used religion as an alternate identity to bring the different tribes together under one roof.

Jesse01:
by making it look like our culture is evil, (like it was sent from the devil )while Christianity seems like it was sent from above.

It's destorying our culture,kids this days can not even tell u about our culture, but
Can tell u the whole bible stroies from Genesis to revelation
Is that not disturbing to u?

hopefulLandlord:


Your name is HigherEd yet your words are so uncut and ladden with emotions of someone lower

Whoever you met through church you could've met at a bar or at a viewing centre or at a football pitch or recommended to by a business partner or crashed your car into each other or met just about anywhere

I've met a lot of business partners through these means but it would be foolish of me to claim these things are responsible for uniting Africans although each of these play a part. However Christianity is NEVER a tool for unity, if it did unite anyone its coincidental as Christians avoid each other and see evil in each other due to sectarianism

hopefulLandlord:


Tell us how exactly identifying as Christians unite someone from Anambra and someone in Ogbomoso who are Jehovah's Witnesses and Deeper Life respectively

hopefulLandlord:


I did not say colonisation united Africans, I said it played "a role" in it. However I insist Christianity is not and can never unite anybody. all Christianity does is go to already united civilisations and sell them Christianity

Were the Yorubas ununited before the missionaries came? Were the Igbos not united before the missionaries came? were the hausasnot united before Dan Fodio came to the area? all these tribes were already united and they conducted businesses intertribally despite not understanding their various languages. However there were still some level of misunderstanding till we adopted elementary form of English which blurred the little barrier we had left

All Christianity does is pretend to give us something we already had and then claim they did give it to us