In the context of human life on earth three things are essential to
his endeavor namely: money, sex and power. The trio unmistakably or as a
matter of fact, naturally dominate the interests or results of
everything that people do on earth.
Fortunately, God who created
the world and governs it in His infinite mercy and love for mankind
provides them at will to all people. Religiously, people know that God
laid the precept on how to genuinely derive them through the Holy Books
as Bible and Koran without engaging in all manners of evil acts such as
lying, stealing, kidnapping, cheating, defrauding, raping and killing of
their fellow human beings etc.
All readers and advocates of Bible
and Koran know about this: that God with all powers to meet the needs
of those that trust in Him is against lying, stealing, kidnapping,
cheating, defrauding, raping, and killing for the purpose of going after
money, sex and power. In the context of the New Testament version of
the Bible, those who engage in the listed manners of evil are subject of
condemnation into the hell fire.
Using the Holy Books as guide post here, God mandates people to get
something doing to be able to make money and sustain their lives. God
also mandates people to get married and have sex to reproduce and in the
same vein enthrones people as leaders or shepherds to take care of
others as congregation, community or nation. Naturally it is
expected that the listed manners of evil acts cannot be part of the
people in a place like Nigeria where people are massively readers and
advocates of Bible and Koran.
It baffles one that upon all the Churches
and Mosques in all nooks and crannies of the cities and villages across
Nigeria the acts of ungodliness are on the increase by day. The
rate of greed, lying, stealing, corruption, raping and indiscriminate
sex including homosexual and killings are alarming. Bible and Koran
critics or religious critics so to say are questioning the reality of
the content and context of the Books while looking at what is happening
in Nigeria upon all the Churches and Mosques that exist.
A Medical
Doctor and critic of Christians and Moslems who didn’t want his name
printed observed, “it is either that the content and context of the so
called Bible and Koran are not real or that those who are reading and
preaching them don’t have the true knowledge and understanding of what
they are all about”.
A
renowned journalist Steve Nwosu in an article published in Daily Sun
Newspaper argued that Nigerians particularly the political class are
agents of darkness who are neither Christians nor Moslems in the real
sense. Nwosu wrote by observation that their interests are money and
power and they patronize things like Okija shrines in pursuit even
though they claim to be either Christians or Moslems.
Take the
activities of politicians toward the forthcoming general elections in
the country as a case study. Politicians in their movements, characters,
behaviors, statements, utterances and overall attitude toward the
elections demonstrate no evidence of Godliness as either Christians or
Moslems who read Bible and Koran respectively. The rate of
desperation to remain in power by those already there and those who want
to lay hands on power show no signs that these politicians actually
know God.
The level of greed among them are terribly dangerous. There is
no sign of contentment among them. If not, why should some people go
for third term, fourth term or even fifth term in office in a developing
country like Nigeria?. There are people who have consistently
held elective positions since the return of democracy in the country in
1999 and yet they have come out to run for another in 2015. Is such
positions your birthright?
Why for goodness sake should somebody who
consecutively served in Federal House of Reps for good eight years,
served as governor of a state for another good eight years set his eyes
on the senate? It is pure greed and unacceptable in a growing country.
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