religions

Africans And Foreign Organised Religions

January 22, 2020 8:08 pm

Foreign organised religions from the West and Arab nations which were used to further subjugate and make Africans better slaves to the slave masters in the colonial days, unfortunately, are very much prevalent in the contemporary African society.

The Catholic faith which was the pioneer of Christianity invented “Confession,” purposely for the white priests to know and checkmate the activities of slaves that might be rebellious, and Africans ignorantly thought that they were confessing their sins to a Supreme Being up in the sky that had the power to cleanse them of their so-called sins through the Catholic priests.

Quite …

Truth About ‘Foreign’ Religions

December 5, 2019 11:10 am

Every now and then there is talk about foreign religions. The two religions to which our minds race at the mention of foreign religions are Christianity and the Islamic faith. We read and we hear of years of resistance and wars in different lands and in different communities, in centuries past. The natives everywhere see the advent of the religions as an intrusion into their own ways of life; it was an attempt at supplanting their religions and ways of worship for those of the Whiteman. The people of old not exposed to Western education resisted them. The modern man, …