Rational Humanist Organization.

Nigerian irreligious community that promotes humanist values of empathy, inclusivity and respect for science. Join our network ⤵️

[Rational Humanist Organization. @RHumanistOrg]

We welcome you to become a part of us!

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[Rebekah Jones @GeoRebekah]

Science is the cure for religion.

The fossils on Qomolangma (Everest) are about 450 million years old. They are shallow sea-water shell hashes from before the tectonic plate was lifted.

That photo and discoveries along the mountain include trilabites. They went extinct 252 million years ago (Everest started to form about 60 million years ago).

Earth would need 5.8 billion cubic km of water to flood to the top of Everest. Earth has a TOTAL 1.3 billion cubic km of water.

IF earth had enough water to flood the entire planet all the way to the top of everything (it doesn't), it would take a very long time for those shells to form AND fossilize there, and according to the fairy tales, the flood lasted only a year.

And none of those sea creatures found fossilized would be able to form in such low salinity and high elevation. At 8,900 meters above sea level, the temperature is -46°C/-50°F. Everything would freeze to death.

Additionally....

The flood myth - originally the Epic of Gilgamesh - happened 2500 BCE. It would have wiped out all existing cultures.... including the Greeks, Egyptians, Indus Valley, Mesoamerica, and YET.... we have uninterrupted chrological histories from every one of them.

There are a great many scientific and historical reasons why the flood myth is known to be a farce. But it's the physics of the planet that really destroy the narrative.

#KnowledgeIsPower

[Ranting Atheist 🎙️🇳🇬 @RantingAtheist_]

What is religion, if not cognitive dissonance persevering?

[United Nations @UN]

Globally, women hold just 64% of the legal rights enjoyed by men.

“When we are not equal under the law, we are not equal,” said @antonioguterres on Sunday’s #InternationalWomensDay.

“It is time to make justice a reality for women & girls, everywhere.”

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[OluOnTop🌚 @Olu_Utd14]

Whenever I hear a Christian or any religious person share a testimony about how God came through for them, I often point out something they rarely consider. For every story they share about divine intervention, there are hundreds of similar situations where the same outcome happened to people who do not believe in God at all. The result occurred simply through natural circumstances, probability, or the actions of other people.

If a believer attributes their positive outcome to God, how then do they explain the identical outcomes experienced by non-believers who never prayed or expected divine help? What explains those cases?

This is usually where the conversation becomes quiet, because it raises an uncomfortable question about whether we sometimes interpret ordinary events as miracles simply because we already believe they must be.

Human beings naturally look for meaning and patterns, especially in moments of relief or success. But that tendency can sometimes lead us to credit supernatural causes for events that might just be the result of chance, circumstance, or human effort.

[gst @wearegst]

Chemical hair relaxers are fueling a silent health crisis. Roughly 45% of Nigerian women have been diagnosed with uterine fibroids, often developing them by age 35.

A full decade earlier than women in Western countries.

[Nikolaj🇺🇦🇵🇸 @nikicaga]

Tectonic plates didn't do all that for you to ignore them

[Wale •🦉 @Drwhales_]

There’s a reason why childhood indoctrination is such a big deal in religion. It’s what keeps it alive.

As we grow, common sense kicks in and we can spot inconsistencies, contradictory, myths, straight up lies, politics and all of that.

But that early brainwashing has ready built a psychology that resists reality. So we just stay there anyways.

[Iconuzor @icons_closet]

Nothing has contributed more to the docility, selfishness, and extreme individualism we see in Nigeria today than Nigerian pastors.

For decades many of them have trained people to look inward instead of outward. Everything is about personal breakthrough, personal blessing, personal protection, personal prosperity. Very little is said about civic responsibility, justice, accountability, or standing up for the vulnerable.

A society cannot build a healthy collective culture when its most influential voices constantly preach survival and personal miracles instead of duty to one another.

So people retreat into themselves.
Pray for yourself.
Protect your own.
Secure your own breakthrough.

And slowly the idea of community, sacrifice, and shared responsibility disappears.

If you train millions of people to believe that every problem is spiritual and every solution is personal prayer, you should not be surprised when those same people become passive in the face of real world problems.

[Simon Maechling @simonmaechling]

Science is hard.

You have to prove it, test it, and reproduce the results.

Pseudoscience is easy.

Make it up. Add fear.
Watch it spread.

[moye @waveofthe90s]

there’s something wrong with a culture that sees an exceptionally brilliant secondary school child and thinks of marriage before scholarship

[Back On This App and It’s Still Hell @wickdchiq]

We don't talk enough about how a lot of these anti-LGBTQ governments and policies in Africa are funded by American Evangelicals

[awo dufie föfie 🦋 @awo_dufie]

Historically Senegal's capital, Dakar, was called West Africa's "gay capital" due to its, visible indigenous same-sex culture, particularly among the Wolof people.

Dakar featured an open queer prostitution market during French colonial rule.

[Rational Humanist Organization. @RHumanistOrg]

People that don't believe in Zeus and their faux sense of hyper intelligence🤣

[The Graced Olabisi @OlabisiZoey]

People that don’t believe in God and their faux sense of hyper intelligence🤣

[The Initiative for Equal Rights @TIERsNigeria]

This year's theme is a reminder that stigma and discrimination, especially toward people living with HIV, block access to care and strip people of their rights. When we put people first, we tear down those barriers and make sure everyone gets the respect and support they deserve.

[Rational Humanist Organization. @RHumanistOrg]

@WoodyLightyearx Individuals who would never question their religious leader's blatant lies are encouraging you to question science that you haven't taken time to understand.

[Chisom Ogamba (PhD) @CP_Ogamba]

The paper has been published 🥹https://t.co/JhILdHud7b

[Rational Humanist Organization. @RHumanistOrg]

Christian missionaries were an essential part of colonialism.

[Machi @machioluoma]

The whole world is after African resources, but Africans are only interested in going to heaven.

[Faithless Feminist @funkeadewuyi_]

Especially religious feminists and homosexuals. Better to be irreligious than to be doing mental acrobatics for a religion that's hates your entire existence.

[Rational Humanist Organization. @RHumanistOrg]

The Nigerian pastor who is pushing the propaganda that vaccines are evil is most definitely fully vaccinated.

[The Beat-Oven✨ @The_BeatOven]

Iron lungs don’t even exist anymore because someone created the polio vaccine

How can you say that there are no good vaccines ?