Many have asked me about Religion and I rarely speak about this subject. To sum up my view I was at a meeting once and for more than two hours I listened to grown men arguing viciously about Moses and as I grew weary as the argument would never know no-end, I spoke up and said well unless one of us was actually there we can never know, so rather than argue its better at times to agree to disagree and have our own view but bear in mind another’s view.
For me I know God but I have little time for religions that allow crimes against humanity, I do believe after studying history that Christianity itself came from Africa the cradle of creation, but again having said that mankind has manipulated the messages of God to suit their own religion and have used it to commit crimes against humanity and in doing so against our creator/God. When Biafran leader Nnamdi Kanu spoke on religious subjects I don’t believe he was/is attacking your personal belief rather he is breaking down the mental slavery held against his people, the children born within the cradle of creation.
I personally think that all forms of hatred, murder, racism, anger, is not spiritually healthy and I certainly wouldn't follow anyone with murder as their doctrine, we as individuals have the right to speak for ourselves and that each of us as individuals should respect each others right to do so also, regardless of whether we agree or disagree, we can not know another’s experiences, emotion and feeling, and we may not always see the greater scheme of things as they see it or the role the creator has given them in this life.
For reflection:
In a myth told by the Igbo of Biafra, men once decided to send a messenger to ask Chukwu, the supreme God, if the dead could be permitted to come back to life. For their messenger, they chose a dog. But the dog delayed, and a toad, which had been eavesdropping, reached Chukwu first. Wanting to punish man, the toad reversed the request, and told Chukwu that after death men did not want to return to the world. God said that he would do as they wished, and when the dog arrived with the true message he refused to change his mind. Thus, men may be born again, but only in a different form.
This myth exists in hundreds of versions throughout Africa. Novelists Chinua Achebe in his essays, sometimes wrote, the messenger is a chameleon, a lizard, or another animal; sometimes the message is altered accidentally rather than maliciously. But the structure remains the same: men ask for immortality and the God is willing to grant it, but something goes wrong and the gift is lost forever. “It is as though the ancestors who made language and knew from what bestiality its use rescued them are saying to us: Beware of interfering with its purpose!” Achebe writes. “For when language is seriously interfered with, when it is disjoined from truth . . . horrors can descend again on mankind.”
The myth holds another lesson as well—There is danger in relying on someone else to speak for you: you can trust that your message will be communicated accurately only if you speak with your own voice.
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