Our colonizers built institutions & created classism using Christianity. Education, and business became inaccessible if you were not converted; our ancestors were manipulated, coerced and violently forced into abandoning their beliefs. Any ethnic group that held on was then demonized. Ewes are still feared for practicing Afa/Vodun; so even after, colonized minds fear their own spiritual identities. Learn your history.
Many of you who love Trump so much to the point of worshipping him are no different from the Nigerians who voted for Buhari twice. You guys have a lot in common. You adore a so-called "strong man" whose political selling point is outrageous claims, and sounding tough.
Every religion has the same core pattern:
1. A human says they received special access to truth.
2. The truth is conveniently aligned with the culture, politics, and anxieties of the time.
3. The story spreads through social power: family, community, shame, fear, schools, law.
4. Competing stories are labelled “false” by… the people selling their story.
Revelation claims all look the same from the outside: uncheckable experience + institutional enforcement.
If a god wants me to believe, it can manage something better than ancient hearsay, translation arguments, and “trust me bro, it’s sacred.”
In your twenties, you will fall in love with a Jehovah’s Witness who will try to convince you to convert so you both can get married. It is very important that you RUN and never look back.
Being a self aware person doesn't mean i view myself as a good person. i think a lot of people get that confused. it literally means that i am vigilant of both my light and dark side. i have also made peace with my flaws even though i'm always working through them.