Religious Apartheid In Nigeria

The real problem of the world is not with politics and politicians; it is with religion and religionists. Straight away, many countries have been destabilized where religion dogmatists wanted to carry out their dastardly intolerance trade of other peoples' beliefs. Religionists plant presidents of countries, control such countries' resources and kill openly and secretly any person or group with a diverse opinion. They use every means and form to nail a contrary belief.

Much as any organized religions in Nigeria would say that it is shameful that people are discussing the aborigine African deities in the 21st Century, is it not worse that many organized religionists in Nigeria have not come to embrace religious tolerance in the touted 21stCentury? Is religious pluralism and the views of individual religions not worth embracing harmoniously toward one and other? We have smoked religion much in this country and have abandoned to learn about the long history of religious pluralism, persecution, and discrimination to enable us embrace each other as one.

How can Nigeria grow without us gathering an understanding into interfaith tolerance. Dialoging and discussing the individual views of the Christians, Muslims, Traditionalists will represent a new Nigeria's archetype of living together in harmony as one. We can never make it as a country without allowing restorative measures, than dogma, into cohesive, relevant, and informative approach. It is disappointing that religion continues to increase in scope and dimension in our country, to the detriment of co-existence, which is supposed to represent a new and exciting glossary in the distribution of human acquaintance.

The challenge of being a religious minority in Nigeria should not imply minority in God. There will never be hope for Nigeria without first addressing this sensitive and creative convincing account of hatred in Nigeria, which religion is playing. The organized religionists forgot that the best way to achieve religious freedom for all citizens is by breathing in open-mindedness with folks of extra faiths.

It is disappointing that Nigeria has become a nation with a history of religious violence, most remarkably between Christians and Muslims; and the two are also fighting for the destruction of the practical Traditional beliefs, with Christianity in the forefront. People cannot continue this way. How long shall the people continue to pummel people's religious freedom? Without religious freedom in Nigeria, how can we be talking about measures of financial freedom, community wellbeing, national liberties, and opinionated rights...?

It is however disappointing that the aborigine beliefs have suffered social restrictions placed on the practice by the Nigerian Constitution. The Nigerian Government is helping these alien religions in Nigeria to be in the business of selecting the religion where God dwells and does not dwell for an individual, because of the selection of religion by the representative laws, policies, and organizational.

This is government's favoritism to religious apartheid where others are sanctioned for the increasing freedom for some at the outflow of freedom for all citizens. Especially, the Traditionalists. They are suffering from theoretical religious persecution in Nigeria in the hands of Christianity and Islam, whereas religious freedom is supposed to be for all. Nigeria as a country with Christian and Muslim backgrounds does not mean that the two religions have the best knowledge of God, even though that they are constitutionally regarded as the 'accepted' religions. But what is their religious freedom record? No one! It is perceptibly a complex matter.

Being selfish with religion breeds religionistic materialists; how does somebody then says that he or she knows God when the person is aiding and abetting religious repression of others that are not against humanity? We must understand the correlations between religions. A healthy country is not known by its religious strength, but by its spiritual strength. The strongest relationship is supposed to be with the Almighty God, not with any theoretical almighty religions.

Nigerians have to embrace freedom of worship. This will bring about stability in the country. Vulnerable state of the country is because of the display of a superior degree of religious intolerance. The disdainful look at other people's beliefs should be sent to the trash can. There is no joy in depriving people the freedom to follow their beliefs. There is unity in differences. And we must accept the fact. It does not really matter whether your neighbour is Muslim, Christian, Jewish or Catholic or an Atheist; what matters is love. We should acknowledge the saying that all religions serve a purpose even if we don't know what that purpose is.