By Adeniyi Kunnu
Twitter: @mautin777
No matter what anyone says, until we search
ourselves and question certain things, the 'Light of God ' will elude many,
especially as Individuals. I believe in the Almighty God, but when those who
claim to have a relationship with God turn out to be those who keep their flock
in bondage and impoverish them, or Stoke the embers of hatred and religious
supremacy, then it simply consolidates what colonialism achieved and still does
in these times.
All religions are
culpable...for the importance of knowledge; there are 2.3 billion Christians in
the world, making it 29% of over 7.8 billion people across the globe - many of
whom are in Europe, the USA even Africa. Sadly however, many of these nations
were the colonist nations, which continue to impoverish Africa and other
developing nations of the world. What then is the correlation between their
professed faiths and the lives they live as well their relationship with others
nations?
First is the unending
racism against but not limited to Africans and those of their ancestry. The
forced abortions and termination of lives disguised as health policies;
calculated sterilizations of women in Africa, South Korea and India; the lies
about Weapons of Mass Destruction in Iraq, support for rebels in Libya,
incursion into Syria and many atrocities, yet, these are predominantly
Christian nations.
Islam comes second after Christianity as the
most followed religion in the world. There are 1.9 billion Muslims the world
over, accounting for 24% of the world population. The irony also is, how do we
explain the evils of ISIS, ISIL, Boko Haram, ISWAP, and of course the
intolerance that we have seen emanate from the civilian population of Northern
Nigeria, Pakistan and some other places.
Not to forget that
Arabs were part of the Slave Trade, and still trade in human beings, having
supplied a lot of slaves to the traders in the West and treating non-Arabs as
less humans, yet many of them claim to be Muslims.
Agnostics and Atheists
are third in rank with respect to religious affiliation, numbering 1.1 billion
and accounting for 14% of world population. The question many people are not
asking us that, why do we have the rising number of atheist?
Many who are agnostics
or atheists who feel there is no God must have had significant turn around in
their lives at some point, and perhaps interrogating their non-conformist
stance will give a balanced perspective as to why they feel religion could be a
product of 'deceitful and subservient machinations'
Can we reconcile the
profession of religion and unending and pervasive injustice? What about the
deaths of innocent children, men and women in wars they never started, among
many other pains suffered by those who never should have been involved in these
killings in the first place.
Following closely in
4th are Hindu worshippers, who live predominantly in India, numbering up to 1.1
billion and also 14% of world population.
Buddhists are in 5th
position, with a percentage of 6% and over 506 million devotees. The Chinese
Traditional Religion follows closely in 6th, with over 394 million adherents,
making it 5% of the world population religion wise.
Looking at the
incidences of fake drugs from India and substandard good from China, one is
left to ask the question, what these religions teach these people, who
manufacture 'fakes' that often lead to the jeopardy of human lives without the
humanity and honesty expected of them.
The Chinese especially
are reputed for various levels of racketeering, especially their operations in
Africa and Nigeria particularly, whilst also not absolving India whose caste
system is the sustenance of slavery in their country and other developing
nations where they operate.
When we put atrocities
committed against fellow human beings on one side, and we look at the perpetrators
of these crimes on the other side, it simply becomes obviously alarming, that
many who profess devotion to many of these faiths are at the fore of these
crimes committed.
What we all need
therefore, especially in Africa is the rediscovery of our HUMANITY...what the
Almighty God has made us for is to see the next man as oneself, as well as
other things he has created, which includes animals and plants.
When we learn to
appreciate and treat the next man as we would want to be treated, the evils that
seem not to be abating will be choked off.
After all, who needs
any religion when God is more than enough?
Let us make the reverence and honour of the
man we see, the only true and acceptable religion to make our motherland and
the world a place worth living.
The hypocrisies of
world religions must be sieved off, because history already shows how religions
have been used to oppress, deceive, maim, destroy, ravage, impoverish, enslave
and annihilate a group of people in favour of faith-preneurs and their evolving
political allies.
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