Nnanna Agomoh
The article below refers.
When the Children of God, the non-fanatical Christians and Muslims of Nigeria, call on the Federal Government to distance the affairs of State from Christianity and Islam, they are well aware that the leaders of the country, from Federal through the States to the Local governments are the god-sons of the Pope in Vatican Rome, the Archbishop of Canterbury in London, and the Islamic Sheik (or whatever) in Arabia.
The Children of God are well aware that religious adherents, who at the same time double as political-sons of the owners of Christianity and Islam, will be too cowardly to act against the financial interests of their
religious-cum-political god-fathers. The C of G appreciate that this religious attachment of Nigerian leaders is a constraint and apparently accounts for Nigeria's perpetual indebtedness to the World Bank and the Arab banks to please world Christian and Islamic leaders and, in turn, provide Nigerian leaders a cover for stashing their personal wealth abroad at the expense of starving Nigerian natives.
This last mentioned interest looks like the carrot these foreign religious owners dangle before Nigerian political leaders to keep them tied to foreign interests.
Be that as it may, the Children of God hold the Nigerian Senate responsible for not distancing Christianity and Islam from rubbing off bad culture on the Nigerian polity as evidenced by religious rioting, kidnapping, armed robbery and official corruption at all levels of government departments down to the mortuary unit.
With a population of 150 million, 89% of whom are reported to be Christians and Muslims, Nigeria is rated as a failed state!
This means that the culture of Nigerian Christianity and Islam, is antiquated and they can never inculcate the qualities of nationalism and patriotism that the nation needs to join the comity of civilized nations.
This poverty of philosophy in the two religions accounts for non-development, even poor performance in world sports, including soccer, boxing, high jump in which Nigeria excelled when we had remnants of practitioners of Nigeria's theo-centric culture.
For Nigeria, therefore, to join the comity of civilized nations, Islam and Christianity should be de-gazetted as official religions and Nigeria declared a secular State by a legislative act.
Christianity and Islam are trading institutions and stand indicted for their mutual hate, parochialism and bigotry. A legislative act is desirable to stop them from meddling and interfering with the business of government at all levels and rubbing off their culture of hate, etc on the polity. Nigerians worship God, not religion.
The nation must regain her Soul from colonial bondage.
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