Hello everyone.I don't know if you feel what i feel cos i am really getting sick and tired of the paranoia thats been spreading through churches.Its breeding suspicion,hate and hopelessness. Can this be the hope that Jesus died to give to a hopeless world.I doubt it.

I have relatives who used to love each other but now hate each other cos somebody told them that the source of their problems was a close relative.Mothers who slaved to bring up their kids no longer have the support of their children cos some inexperienced pastor told the children that their mother was out to get them.Can you imagine that! In Eket , some parents are throwing their children out into the streets on the suspicious that they might be witches and wizards.And guess who inspired that act- some fake pastor.And there are many fakes making the real preachers look bad.A man once told a story of how witches killed his 90 year old father.Nobody seems to die of natural causes anymore.

I am from Akwa Ibom state and this sort doctrine thrives so well in my state.A lot of folks over there just love to visit the modern day shrines called "prayer house".

I don't deny the existence of witches and wizards, but i just dont see how talking about their power can help me overcome them .I'd rather talk about and educate myself on the Power of Jesus, the One who saves from all evil.

I found that this is ,for the most part, is a very convenient way of shifting blame for most Christians.Why take responsibility for your poor choices when you can blame it on witches and wizards( and be excused of blame).

I don't how this cancer began but it is ruining homes,breaking up marriages, pushing blood pressures to the max, robbing people of their peace and faith in God.

As for me i'd rather believe in "the God of secondary school children".If you think back to your secondary school days when you and your peers were full of mischief, you'll realise that God spends extra time on secondary school kids.Back then we ate poisonous cassava,peed on juju pots, trespassed a juju man's farm and nothing happened us.I choose to trust that kind of God that saves from the kind of evil that you're ignorant about.

While I feel that Christianity lends itself to such superstitions, I also think that it is a problem preceding christianity and is actually endemic to african societies. If it weren't christianity then they would use traditional religion to condemn each other.

Check this out:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZVVbGEOoCM