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China's policy towards religious organisations is not a matter of persecution but as a matter of national sovereignty and protection against foreign interference.
In China, churches must adhere to strict Socialist Core Values of the state. This means that God must speak Chinese; it must be a God that approves of socialism and the collective advancement of the people.
Hard work is not a "hustle" for personal gain,it is a sacred social duty to the motherland.
Religion is required to teach kindness toward fellow citizens, regardless of their faith, stripping away the sectarian divisions that imperialists use to "divide and conquer."
The individual must be loyal to the nation above all else. Instead of focusing solely on the narcissism of "personal salvation" or the greed of "individual prosperity," the believer is required to see wealth as a national collective and a resource to be used for the upliftment of the entire society, not the enrichment of a few.
This is in direct contrast to the Nigerian model, where churches are nothing more than neo-colonial projects designed to keep the African mind in a state of perpetual subjection.
These churches project Jesus as a "White European" and the devil as a "Black figure," a psychological assault that forces the believer to worship their oppressor and fear themselves.
These churches weaponize "grace" to convince believers that regardless of how hard you work, your labor is meaningless without the "favor" of a distant, foreign deity.
This effectively creates millions of working class population who would rather pray for miracles instead of organising a rebellion to reclaim their resources and force the state to work for them.
Furthermore, these institutions have turned the spiritual landscape into a fragmented marketplace of artificial division. Every "General Overseer" acts like a corporate CEO, peddling their own "brand" of God as the only one that works.
This effectively creates a state of theological balkanization, so while the masses argue over which church has the "true" interpretation of a foreign book.
This internal rivalry is a gift to the imperialists; it ensures that the people are too busy competing for "heavenly ranking" to form a unified front against material exploitation.
In Africa, these churches teach a predatory, hyper-capitalist worldview where "Prosperity" is a private gift from God rather than a right earned through sovereign development.
The believers are subconsciously programmed to see poverty as a spiritual "curse" rather than the cold, hard reality of state failure and decades of Western-engineered debt, IMF-imposed austerity, and the systematic exploitation of African resources.
@shane_pruitt78 Pretty unloving to deceive others with the unproven concept of an afterlife. It’s unloving to define that afterlife as heaven without proof. It’s unloving to program one’s children for life with this compounding of unproven concepts.
Skip the hogwash. Seek Love directly instead.
A must watch! Apostle Femi Lazarus flipped the script and played d3v1l’s advocate, challenged the audience to prove heaven is real and one bold person stepped forward with an answer that changed the atmosphere instantly.
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Making ‘regular exercise’ a lifestyle from the age of 18 till you die will help you connect more to ‘self’ and your inner spirit than the ‘holy spirit’ ever would.
You don’t need to listen to Femi Lazarus to understand cronyism.
Many of you young Christians are swallowing these poisonous doctrines that glorify nepotism and favoritism, mistaking them for divine wisdom.
Nigerian politicians are unashamedly corrupt; their conduct should never become our moral reference point. In any ideal society, using your position to unjustifiably fix your children or relatives into places of influence is a failure of both ethics and vision.
You cannot claim to desire a fairer nation while promoting narratives that sanctify partiality. It’s hypocrisy, pure and simple, the spiritualization of corruption.
This is why I am wary of Pastors whose congregation accord more reverence and respect that is normal for human beings, because it gets to the head of even the strongest of men and they soon become the law unto themselves and begin to see themselves as some kind of god.
There is a church beside my house, it's a small church of not more than 20 people. At least from their voices I could assume this number.
Since I moved into this estate I have enjoyed every of their services. Their pastor is so vast and very deep in the word. I have made it a