Omni💫

BE-ing💫

NUANCED💫

FUNDAMENTALIST RIZZLAMIST💫

I AM THAT I AM💫

SPREADING RHETORIC💫

PET PEEVE A BADLY MADE RHETORIC💫
Ideology flattens complexity💫

[Omni💫 @Oreva_Ira]

My favorite playlist right now.
https://t.co/urHHaEzURG

[Blackhole @Tcastolo_]

Why is her virginity more of a topic than the rape she faced ?

[Omni💫 @Oreva_Ira]

@IRLbrudda You hate religious women.

[Omni💫 @Oreva_Ira]

@OkparaAboh Move like water.

[Omni💫 @Oreva_Ira]

One of the few times the phrase "when in rome..." is valid.

[The law📖🤚🏿 @_spicychoco_]

the ability to adjust your vocabulary based on who you're speaking to is a valuable life skill that many people lack.

[Ty @TysStuff]

No. People is correct unless you’re one of the many misogynists who think women aren’t people.

[Yẹmí—Ìdàmú Ànọ́bí. @KR3Wmatic]

Leaving religion is a lot harder than it looks. It takes courage to walk away from a religion you were born and raised in.

Here are some of the reasons I have found that keep people firmly within their religion.

• Sense of Community

Religion, along with the communities and activities it provides, makes people feel like they are part of something bigger than themselves. Acceptance by a group of peers is important in helping to develop and maintain a person’s sense of self-esteem.

• Fear

People often experience genuine fear when they begin deconstructing their religious beliefs and worldview. They may ask themselves questions such as, “What if I’m wrong? What if my doubts and questions lead me somewhere frightening?”

• Social Cost

Leaving a religion often comes with an enormous social cost. It may mean losing friendships that took years to build. Family members who remain believers may disown those who leave and refuse to have anything to do with them afterward.

In more extreme cases, those who abandon their religion, or choose to follow a different one, may be shunned or even subjected to physical violence because of their decision.

• Investment

Many believers feel they have invested too many years, too much time, energy, money, and too many relationships into their religion to walk away from it.

People often make decisions based on the amount of emotional investment they have accumulated. The greater the investment, whether real or perceived, the harder it becomes to leave.

• Belief System

It is extremely difficult for most people to question, and ultimately abandon, beliefs in authorities such as the Bible, the Torah, or the Quran, especially when these texts are regarded as sacred or divinely inspired.

This also includes theological systems, beliefs about Heaven and Hell, salvation, and humanity’s eternal destiny.

Evangelical Christianity, for example, has historically tied correct beliefs to one’s salvation, making the perceived stakes incredibly high.

• Identity

Religion often influences nearly every aspect of a believer’s life. As a result, religious beliefs and practices become deeply woven into a person’s identity and worldview.

Alongside the many challenges of leaving religion, many people find it equally daunting to walk away from everything they have known and begin the difficult process of building a completely new identity.

• Attachment

Sometimes the beliefs themselves become more important than the religion, or even the deity, they are meant to support.

Defending those beliefs can lead to fundamentalism or fanaticism, which often motivates people to justify or commit acts of violence in the name of their religion.

• Loss of Social Joy

Many people find genuine enjoyment in attending churches, mosques, synagogues, and other religious gatherings. These communities provide friendships, social support, and a sense of belonging that often increases life satisfaction.

Losing those relationships can become another significant obstacle to leaving religion.

• Perceived Decrease in Anxiety

Belief in a personal God or higher power, one who helps people through life’s difficulties and offers forgiveness when they make mistakes, provides many believers with comfort.

Religions also promise certainty about one’s eternal destiny, and that sense of certainty can reduce anxiety for many followers.

• Ego

Admitting that we may have been wrong, or misled into following a religion and investing years of our lives in it, is incredibly difficult.

Combined with deep emotional attachment to religious beliefs, many people continue defending their religion despite privately harboring serious doubts.

They may experience significant cognitive dissonance, yet the possibility that their religion contains major or irreconcilable flaws can feel like too great an existential threat to confront.

Conclusion

Leaving religion is extraordinarily difficult, for all the reasons listed above. Each of these points could be explored in much greater depth, and many more could be added.

Many of us who were raised within fundamentalist religions endured significant trauma, including spiritual, emotional, and sexual abuse, all in the name of religion. Not only did we suffer then, we now have to live with the lasting effects of those experiences on our own lives and on the lives of others.

For those of us who did walk away, the journey has been difficult and continues to carry social, emotional, and financial costs. Even so, many of us believe the price was worth paying.

The opportunity to rebuild our identity, think freely, and live without the constraints we once accepted is, for many of us, worth far more than the cost of leaving religion behind.

[pappi ♛, your designer @TheOnlyPappi]

When is he getting the haircut? 👀🤔

[icon👸🏾💕 @funmitheicon]

Mumu core.
Olodo uprising.✅

[Liggy @OhHeyPoet]

Condom sex just makes me wanna say "nvm.. lets try again when we trust eachother more i guess" lol

[Omotoyosi A.A Ijaya JOURNALIST @omotoyosiwrites]

Whether she was a virgin or not nothing concern me with that.

Nobody should be raped irrespective of whether they are virgin or not.

Her dignity should never be violated irrespective of her virginity status.

[Omni💫 @Oreva_Ira]

Round cut.

[Nathan || Outfluencer🥶 @TheNathanWay]

Which hairstyle is more GOATed?

[Yay Toon Day @yay_tunes]

My parents . 35 years and counting

[Omni💫 @Oreva_Ira]

And I will play along.

[Omotolaox @Omotolaox]

She will text you after some time to see if you are still stupid😂

[Sir Dickson @Wizarab10]

Announcing that:

You like money
You're materialistic
Nobody should approach you if they don't have money

These are not evidence that you like money. It is evidence you're badly behaved. You just have audacity to air it out without shame. Who doesn't like money?

[Omni💫 @Oreva_Ira]

@dwalkinggoddess This algo change is nice. At least I can see more from your side of Twitter.

[Omni💫 @Oreva_Ira]

@gr0uchy_ Come again??

[Mareeya @Mareeyah_]

If you want to rewarded for being a good girl, you were never a good girl. Go and be a bad girl make we hear word.

[LILSON @Lilson_1]

Normalize leaving her alone so she can go back to the type of guys she can afford.

[Oouuuu Lala @misi_theog]

Omo having spec is a boxed concept

[ire @ireaura]

i actually really love being nigerian 😭
i just hate nigeria