RELIGIOUS FICTION.FRAUD AND PROFANITY IN THE NAME OF GOD

 It is a common phenomenon in Nigeria today, to see warehouses, shops, hotels reception halls, open space at every nooks and cranny being converted to Christian house of worship, with heavy microphones and loud speakers contesting for significance. The rate at which churches are springing up in Nigeria; especially in the urban areas, one would think the sentence that started the Bible;"In the beginning GOD created the heaven and the earth" and "The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all " that ends it, revolves round just Nigerians.

 

According to Karl Max, "Religion is the opium of the poor masses." This aptly applies to Nigeria and other African countries whose rulers in conjunction with Western colonial hostilities have bastardised the economy and pauperised the people hence a recourse (solace) to religion.

 

Islam and Christain religion are means applied by Leaders to bamboozle the masses,using revised text in the two holy books to subdue any discerning mind who may want to revolt. I am not contesting the existence of the Almighty Father, it is a known fact that God has nothing of equal age (Co-Eva).God is the Uncreated,Imperishable and only True God;The Ominipotent.

But today,some so called men of God have turned what ordinarily used to be a Godly fellowship; to a money making ventures with a lot of religious syncretism and abracadabra.Miracles are churned out everyday as if it were daily chores.Marriages have been distabilized,Homes; broken,friendship; strained by fake prophets all in the name of God. We have witnessed a situation where cuttlasses and other dangerous weapons were used by church members against each other, factions abounds in the churches, sexual immorality is on the rise,christainity is practised with a mixed grill of animism.
Pastors pretend to go into trance and make prophesy inorder to dupe innocent and unsuspecting people.Take the case of a man that was duped of 4million Naira all in the name of helping him to exorcise an evil spirit from his child.

The unsuspecting victims take in their lies ,hook, line and sinker,Infact most churches practise fictions and fraud, Pastors steal congregation's Offerings. In Orthodox, Pentecostal and the White Garment Churches,most Pastors are criminally minded.There was this case of a Pastor in one of the big Pentecostal Churches along the Lagos-Ibadan expressway, Ogun-State,Nigeria who stole a Lexus car belonging to another Pastor of the church.Instances abound where church Ministers have duped members.Recently,is the case of a top government official who also doubles as a big time Minister in one of the big churches in Nigeria, he is well respected and trusted even by the General Overseer.Alas! when he died in a Plane crash,it was discovered that the man was neckdip in corruption and also married to two women, outside his martrimonial home.

Churches no longer preach Salvation, their emphasis is more on prosperity.Sometime, you could hardly differentiate between a fashion show and what is supposed to be a church service;Ladies are skimpily dressed in outrageous and tempting dresses,some of them dress like prostitutes on the runway.Infact ,no matter how pious you are ,your mind is bound to derail as you open your eyes to the vainly and debased dressing of the women folk in the church.

Revivals are daily organised with the anthem POSPERITY taking the front burner, while "deep your hands into your pockets and give the Lord a wonderful offering" as if GOD is a beggar,forms the final and most important of all the messages. No revival is completed without the so called men of God asking their unfortunate congregations to part with their hard earned money, failure to comply translates to unanswered prayers.In most cases,it could be likened to a scene at a Public Auction; where the highest bidder gets the good.Many of these Prophets make use of diabolical rituals to hypnotise their victims, It is the case of "the more you look, the less you see".

The scenerio could also be likened to the popular say that "Monkey dey work, Baboon dey chop" While church members are running from pillar to post, to meet up church obligations, the so called men of G(g)od are busy feeding fat on the sweats of these ignorant souls. Some of the churches are so emershed in materialism that; they dont even have crusifix(cross) which represents Christ within their church premises.In those days,it used to be the picture of Christ in His humility that graced every christian publicity, but today, reverse is the case, it is the flamboyant pictures of Pastors and their wives, with enticing captions that are conspicously displayed in the streets. A case of men making God in their image, to swindle a fellow man of his belongings.

ENOUGH OF THIS ABRACADABRA