The introduction of Christian religion in Nigeria by the Europeans or best placed, Irish missionaries was not meant to eradicate our culture.
Meanwhile, there is already a big gap between the Christian religion brought by the Europeans and the one we practice at the moment.
I do not think that the one we were introduced to, was filmed in hate. Christian religion as it was preached, was majorly on love, and deep appreciation of others gifts and talents.
The early Christians retired to sharing many things, starting from their proceeds, landed properties and most importantly loving one another.
The birth of avarice and other forms of dangerous exercises being perpetrated by some Christian leaders and her members are not the teachings of the European missionaries.
Let me remind us, that any religion that is focused on the negative advancement of evil, is not meant to stay. It is contrary to the ethic of humanism. If you can as well understand, for those who think that Christianity as a religion brought many untold challenges, it is mainly how we carry it out, that matters, not the religion itself.
Christian religion is rooted in culture and it does allow every section to apply their own culture in the worship of the Supreme being. Especially, when the culture has an atom of Supreme ethics.
As it stands now, our mode of worship in this part of the world is different, due to the cultural undertone. It suffices to mention that our activity as a Christian begs the accommodation of culture, our culture in order to be validated.
There are many things carried out today in the guise of Christianity. Many religious pastors have replaced the teachings of faith with first and second collection and it doesn’t bother them that the spiritual culture, which supposed to be sowed basically by breaking the truth from the Bible is taking a sorrowful dismissal.
The European missionaries never taught us spiritual competition. A stage where each pastor boast of how best he performs and how many crowds he can pull from other side of the road, maybe from the content of his words, vocabulary and mastery of the Scripture.
Materialism was not one of the things they brought to us. It is evident now that a good percentage of our religious pastors are fighting tooth and nail to polish their posterity by accumulating material things. That is why you are likely to see a pastor own about ten houses in different parts of the world, drive the most executive cars and even go to the extent of procuring a private jet for his or her comfort.
The list will be endless if I continue to mention where our practice of Christianity has derailed from that of Europeans.
Moreover, it will be nice I remind us that Europeans are still going to Church and they are by far more spiritually refined than us. This is for some of us who are always coming with the logic that those who brought Christianity to us are no longer practising it. That they do not worship like us or crowd the Church building doesn’t mean that they are no longer participants. Or they are suffering from a spiritual dwarfish mentality.
One thing is very remarkable among the Europeans, there is time for everything. When you supposed to be busy in your working place, you are in the chapel praying against those who are pursuing you. The time you can use to research and develop your world, you are busy chasing rats and cockroaches in the Church. And when others who address their time very well, are progressing, you term them to be ritualists or antichrist.
Europeans understand the knowledge economy than us who are pontificating on the altar of the spiritual economy. The worship of God is not centred on faith only. Pope John Paul II who published an encyclical on Fides et Ratio, knew the advantage of reason in the economy of human salvation. So, while you speak against the Europeans for distorting our life with the Christian religion, check too if the ‘form’ of Christianity you are practising is attentive to love or something contrary.
- MORAL DECADENCE AND THE NEED FOR SEXUAL DISCIPLINEOver the last five decades, our society has been confronted with the conversation on sex, especially those done outside marital vows. However, why we decry on this unimpressed character, mostly ravaging our youngsters, there is a need we intensify equally on the ability to imbibe sexual discipline as the most interesting topic that would assist in curbing the challenges of rape, sexual harassment and biological conflicts quietly sneaking into the forearm of our society. Samuel Aun Woer strictly mentioned that; those who do not have a wife should sublimate their sexual energies with outdoor sports or long walks.
- THE BECOMING – THE PROCESSEvery dream is a form that comes into reality. For nothing becomes real without having been in the form. It is the form that gives the demo picture of how the reality will be. And for this form to turn into something tangible, it goes through a process and that is what explores the thought of becoming.
- PUT YOUR CAMERA BEHINDThere is absolutely nothing nice about video coverage in matters of charity. Nothing is appealing about it and it is because our reality differs and unnecessarily do we think that these practices could be the best approach, we succeed in ameliorating the weight and significance of giving.
- THERE IS A ROOM IN MY INNAmong every other provision, you should make, let there be a room in your inn. The room in the inn signifies your heart and your body and it is demanded of you that you have to keep it afresh always in order to accommodate many others who are searching a room to lay their heads, because it is in there, that soul of humanity resides.
- THE SMELLS OF THE THORNY ROSEThe thorns in the rose make it become so precious for touch and because every marriage is not just a bed of sweet things only iced with fun and entertainment, the realisation of the thorns should be true to guide every intending man and woman who wish to embrace such a sacred union to see first that they will be faced with challenges.
There is a big gap created in our understanding of the worship of God and we can not get it filled, unless we take a look at reason.
- MORAL DECADENCE AND THE NEED FOR SEXUAL DISCIPLINEOver the last five decades, our society has been confronted with the conversation on sex, especially those done outside marital vows. However, why we decry on this unimpressed character, mostly ravaging our youngsters, there is a need we intensify equally on the ability to imbibe sexual discipline as the most interesting topic that would assist in curbing the challenges of rape, sexual harassment and biological conflicts quietly sneaking into the forearm of our society. Samuel Aun Woer strictly mentioned that; those who do not have a wife should sublimate their sexual energies with outdoor sports or long walks.
- THE BECOMING – THE PROCESSEvery dream is a form that comes into reality. For nothing becomes real without having been in the form. It is the form that gives the demo picture of how the reality will be. And for this form to turn into something tangible, it goes through a process and that is what explores the thought of becoming.
- PUT YOUR CAMERA BEHINDThere is absolutely nothing nice about video coverage in matters of charity. Nothing is appealing about it and it is because our reality differs and unnecessarily do we think that these practices could be the best approach, we succeed in ameliorating the weight and significance of giving.
- THERE IS A ROOM IN MY INNAmong every other provision, you should make, let there be a room in your inn. The room in the inn signifies your heart and your body and it is demanded of you that you have to keep it afresh always in order to accommodate many others who are searching a room to lay their heads, because it is in there, that soul of humanity resides.
- THE SMELLS OF THE THORNY ROSEThe thorns in the rose make it become so precious for touch and because every marriage is not just a bed of sweet things only iced with fun and entertainment, the realisation of the thorns should be true to guide every intending man and woman who wish to embrace such a sacred union to see first that they will be faced with challenges.
