GOD, DOGMA, SPIRITUALISM, FANATICISM, AND THE POLITICS OF SATANIC FOUNDATION.

Mysticism and Spiritism is not strange in our clime, both are deep-rooted concepts in our religious cosmology as Africans and Yoruba, therefore it would not raised any eyebrows if an African or Yoruba person is described as being intrinsically religious.

                           "Religion is the opium of the people"- Karl Marx

It is imperative to note here that the religiousness I am refering to is not neccessarily the western conception of religion as in judeo-christianity, rather my reference is the traditional African or Yoruba religion.

I want to emphasis here that our concept of God predate the establishment of judeo-christianity in Africa, therefore the missionaries came and found a fertile ground for proselytizing.

It is difficult to understand the nature of God because it is a controversial concept in philosophy, if we say that comprehension of the ontology of God is incomprehensible, then the nature of God is totally unknown, that raises a fundamental question: why do we say we belief in God when there is an epistemological problem?

In traditional judeo-Christian belief a minimal conception of God is a prerequisite. God is an eternally existent spiritual being who created the world, and so many other things in the universe, coupled with the notion of trinity. God is an eternally existent being that exists spatiotemporal. God is the creator of the universe; and is all-powerful, all-knowing, and all-loving etc.

The Bible is the sole authority for this kind of  teaching wherein it is said that there are many spirits in heaven. Angels serve as messengers from God to the human race, delivering instructions and divining the future. They also carry forth God's instructions on Earth.

 Let us say: Enough to conceptualization of God and go direct to the subject of this article which is the satanic foundation of Nigeria as espoused by FFK in his recent ourburst in the newspapers.

 ''It also explains why Shaw gave us the name Nigeria – a name which has questionable roots. Anyone that doubts this should consider the literal translation of Nigeria into Latin: it means “the area of darkness” and there is a deep spiritual and mystical reason why she gave us that name''. - FFK

No person with the right frame of mind would present a jundiced and distorted view like this intrepretation given by FFK, anyone can go online and research the meaning or literal translation of Nigeria in Latin, he/she would be surprised that  Niger = Black and AREA =AREA or REGIO put the two words together you will get NIGERAREA=NIGERIA.

My question to FFK: Is being black satanic? Is darkness intrinsically satanic? what is in a name?

The river that our great country is named after, has been flowing, trasversing so many countries before Lugard and shaw came to our fatherland, depending on which side of the river you are domicile there are different names given to the river by the natives, the yoruba name is (ODO OYA).

The earlier recorded use of the word Niger to describe the river was from Leo Africanus in his DELLA DESCRITTIONE published in 1550, therefore the word Niger was not a creation of Shaw neither the word Area is her creation. There are more informations available online on this aspect of the discourse, I wouldnt want to go into details here.

“It comes with a lot of baggage because not much good can come out of an area of darkness.”-FFK.

I wonder what the baggage is, but by his rationalism I would assume that he is talking about the state of underdevelopment we found ourselves as a nation. Going by the logic of FFK, obviously one would be tempted to ask him this important question, that is given the negative influence of Shaw nomenclature on our nation psyche. The recent development on the political architecture with the election of his boss GOODLUCK should have been an amazing grace, with the power of light. Since christianity is the religion of his boss the power inherent in that monotheism should have saved us from the darkness of LUGARD and SHAW into light and development, WHAT IS IN A NAME I ASKED.


“It is generally agreed though not commonly admitted that both Lugard and Flora Shaw were Luciferians who practised the black arts and all manner of satanic rituals''.- FFK 

                            FREEMASONRY OR OGBONI IS NOT EVIL

Good to know that they are Luciferians and Freemasons and note that they have right to free association and religious freedom, what is the nexus here I wonder, after 55years of independence in a country predominated by christian revivalist evangelist, prayer warriors, Sheiks and Imams of kaledoscopic idiosyncracies, we are still bugged down in poverty, underdevelopment, impoverishment of LUGARD AND SHAW darkness a la FFK. HELLO MR FFK WAKE UP AND SMELL THE KOFFIE, WE NEED TO TAKE RESPONSIBILITY FOR OUR FAILINGS.

       
TAKING RESPONSIBILITY FOR OUR LIVES:

The Yoruba cosmology comprises the traditional religion, spiritual concepts and practices, it is based on a beliefs that every individual has destiny, fate, and the expectation of transformation into a transcedantal realm with the attainment of spirit status with Olodumare.
Furthermore, our actions and thinking processes in this terrestial realm impact, interact with all other living things, including the Earth itself.

In the Yoruba belief system, Olodumare is all powerful and supreme, and is hermaphrodite in ontology, since no gender can be given, in other to have a vivid view of the concept of Olodumare in Yoruba culture and traditional religion, it is imperative to list the names given to describe the supreme being as follow:
Olodumare, Olorun, Eledaa,... this is not an exhaustive list. There are those with anthropomorphic conception of the nature of God within the Yoruba cosmological world view "ORISHA", divinity and diety  or Evil ( AYE, AJE, ESHU, OSHO,... ) are common feature within the Yoruba belief system.   

Take a surgical look around Nigeria or any neighborhood you will find dream merchants all over the place selling their wares of prosperity and deliverance to gullible Nigeriana who perceived Evil, Esu, Aye, Osho, etc in every spheres of their lives. Prosperity evangelist and deliverance prophets have captured a niche in the market for themselves and they are soaring like a vulture in the sky waiting for the smoke to dissipate in other to devour the "kadaver of their followers alive".

No person is denying that Evil, Aye, Aje, Eshu, Osho, are established concepts in our cosmology, but the question is whether they can elucidate, or find justification for all the vicissitudes of our lives, within the criteria of empirical verification.

The above mentioned phenomenon is spiraling out of control creating dogma drunkard and wiping out the point d'honneur or self esteem of our people, we need to note here that: Man made religion and religion does not make Man. It is in our quest to find meaning and substance to our life that we seek authority in the realm of the supernatural or supreme being and in the process some of us have become a victim tending toward fanaticism.

We do not want to take responsibility for our actions or inactions anymore we live everything to God thereby loosing our problem solving skills and ability, moreover the merchants of prosperity and deliverance are working overnight with their army or prayer warriors convincing us that they have all the answers to life vicissitude and all our problems are caused by either Esu, Aje, Osho, Aye, etc therefore we must seek solution in supreme being God.

Testimony..., Not my portion..., Anointing..., are their buzzwords. The question I often ruminate about is, whose portion is it then?
This mentality of ESU MASE MI OMO ELOMI NI KI OSE. Must STOP forthwith.

A paradigm of pyramidal scam wherein deceit is now an art form is gaining ground in most religion temple, a negative culture in the new age of judeo-christian evangelistic religious revivalism, religion is illusion and the moment we take religion out of Man, Man will become free.

PLEASE LET US TAKE RELIGION OUT OF GOVERNANCE, NIGERIA IS NOT BUILT ON SATANIC FOUNDATION.


OTUNBA ADE ILEMOBADE is a philosopher
Twitter: @pearl2prince