pro2010: In Pastor Adeboye's voice* "Baba God says there is somebody that will be overtaken by his anger after reading this...."

The RCCG is the fastest growing merchandise in Nigeria. Besides potential conflict zones, the RCCG merchandize is just about everywhere in Nigeria including the bedroom of the oga in Aso Rock. This is to show that "Dia ris God oo". The God of Daddy Adeboye is really a "Baba God". A Baba of private jets, bank CEO clients on EFCC lists, oil magnets patronage, polithiefcians and most especially the man in Aso Rock.

Pastor AdeboyePastor Adeboye Pastor Adeboye is one "pulpitarian" that seduces my grin. Adeboye has proven that once you tell a story that begins, ends and centres around "Baba God", it can be believed by Nigerian Christians no matter how senseless and untrue it is. The RCCG Christian clan in Nigeria is one Christian sect that can believe any story with the tag of "Baba (God)."

What is more marvelous than the fact that adults in the 21st century can believe a story that a man travelled from Benin to Lagos on an empty fuel tank? None of them saw it but someone claimed that some sky-Baba told him to travel that far without looking at his fuel gauge. Boom! Everyone believes.

Pastor Adeboye has reached the level where he can tell adults that he went for jogging in heaven before coming to mount the pulpit and the religious folks will believe. I am jealous. What can I smoke to reach the level where I can tell people stories and they'll believe it to be true whether or not it is a lie?

But I do not understand why Baba God has not told Daddy Adeboye to do a crusade in the North in places like Jigawa, Yobe, Bauchi, Borno? Haba! Borno? That is too harsh now! Even Baba does not have such imaginations to send our Daddy to Maiduguri. Baba God (*in Adeboye's voice*) is not interested in winning Boko Haram souls; he'll rather concentrate in repeating same old message to people who have already heard it in Lagos and the South. Baba does not need the souls of terrorists and almajaris, so he'll rather concern himself in giving his servant private jets, schools, offerings, tithes, etc. They are more important than the souls of Almajiris and Boko Haramists.

Isn't it awesome that Baba could make a car drive without fuel from Benin to Lagos (which nobody saw except Baba's servant), but cannot use that same power to arrest Boko Haramists? Is it that somebody's Baba cannot do that or somebody has refused to harken to that voice of Baba or perhaps somebody is afraid to come in contact with any incident that will send him to his Baba God? Hmmm, somebody is afraid to go and meet Baba. Well, it's non of my business before his social bodyguards will "kee" me.

RCCG members are to Nigeria what Ebola is to Liberia; they are an epidemic. One thing about them; they do not fail to announce their presence. Their stickers always do the talking. "Redeem family" on their door posts, on the car, in the office and if it were possible to tattoo it on their forehead, they'll do just that. Even the ones that are flying with their legs will tattoo it on their briefcases with faith that one day they'll paste it on their cars.

These folks can believe anything. A typical Redeem member can believe that he can enter Dubai and automatically and then Baba will give him the ability to speak Arabic instantaneously so that a big firm will pay him in millions of dollars to translate Arabic to English for them overnight. It's not their fault. When you believe that someone drove from Benin to Lagos on an empty fuel tank without seeing it, then you can believe anything.

The RCCG church service; well, I'll give them a C. Unlike that of Christ Embassy which full of unending drama scenes, the RCCG service can put you to snoring.

A mathematician will always be a mathematician, even in the way he talks. Is it just me that notices that Adeboye speaks like he is trying to solve arithmetic without a calculator? It is good packaging though. For it is easier to seduce people on the pulpit when you appear and sound humble. Talking that way will never anger you to slap a poor woman for saying she is "a witch for Christ". At least he is not temperamental like his Ota counterpart. Another good thing about talking that way is that it makes it so easy to go unnoticed that you are a lazy praying man.

Adeboye simply calls-out prayer topics and suffers the poor congregation to pray lengthy and chew their hearts out and after that he ends it with a short line "my Baba says it is done" and they shout Amen! After all, they won't call it laziness; it is an excuse for faith. If it was me that was praying that way they'll say I do not have a spiritual life, since there is no Daddy or Papa attached to my name; I am jealous. On the other hand, why would you have to extend your prayers when you already have private jets and a Commander-in-Client? What do you want to pray for? Leave the prayer for the poor men to tear apart.

I want to make an appeal that the dear Daddy should refrain from praying and prophesying about national issues. The first time I heard him speak about national issue was when President Jonathan wanted to contest in 2011. He said Baba God will send good leaders to Nigeria and we ended up with President Goodluck Jonathan. If president GEJ is what Baba intended to send to us, all I can say is "Baba, you can do better than this."

Few months before the subsidy removal he prayed that Baba will work on the country. Before we knew it, the President removed subsidy.

Again, he prayed and cursed Boko Haram, few weeks later Boko Haram attacked Yobe schools and now Baba's curse on Boko Haram has led to thr Chibok tragedy and many more. When news broke that American soldeirs will be joining the Chibok pursuit, he said that Baba will cause the girls to be released soon. Baba must have a special kind of soon.

Whether or not Adeboye's Baba functions, nobody asks questions because nobody questions Baba's spokesman. I don't know whether Adeboye is Baba or Baba is Adeboye. Because if Baba cannot be questioned and Adeboye too cannot be questioned, it means Baba and Adeboye are the same. Well, let me keep quiet "Babatards" will nail me for talking about Baba. Babacracy, you too sweet!

Imoh "Son of David" is a Nigerian Atheist, author, publisher and business man and he writes from South Africa. Follow him on Twitter @ImohDavid.

Tundeiab:
People don't have to share the same believe or ethics as you.

Apatheist:
Coming from a Christian.
The irony....

aysometin: I am not an atheist but I have to agree with you.
We need to start taking stock and checking which of these numerous prayers are being answered.
Nigeria is the most religious country in the world yet one of the worst places to live in.
Can we continue to do the same thing we have done for years with no results?
How can we change the mindset of the average Nigerian? because all these falsehood being propagated is the reason why we don't use our brains to think out solutions to our numerous problems.
I am just tired jare.

Tundeiab: It's better you remain mute if you really don't understand the rules guiding christiandom.

People don't have to share the same believe or ethics as you. Thank you!

musKeeto:
The older generation are a lost cause. There might hope for the kids, if they're lucky to dodge Helen Ukpabio's meetings..

Martian:

Nigeria, the rest of Africa and any country with a black majority are forever lost. It pains me to say this, but it seems there is this need in most black people to reject the earth in favor of one otherworldly fantasy or the other. In nigeria, you have half of the population who believe that a jew will come "rapture" them to some utopia and the other half are busy doing "a$$ up, face down" towards the east because they think the creator of the freaking universe had some special relationship with the Arabs. Meanwhile, the rest of the developed world continues to discover, create, innovate and grow.
Ebola afflicts Africans but the cure has to come from either U.S or Europe. The smart scientists in Africa that could work towards the eradication of malaria and ebola don't live in a conducive environment that promotes and encourages knowledge. Instead, corruption and religion march hand in hand to keep them in darkness. Praise Jesus, Insha allah!!!!
The populace that should yearn for something more are too busy praying to and propitiating one abursd notion of god or the other.

The older folks are definitely lost, the current generation are wallowing in the same ignorance and I'm damn sure they are passing their myopia and imbecilic beliefs to the kids. A microcosm of the average Nigerian/ Black mind can be seen here on nairaland. Pervasive ignorance and self righteous myopia galore. There's a thread on the front page of this site about scientists finding a body of water within the earth. True to their ignorant form, most of the commenters are writing asinine stuff and trying to relate the discovery to their jewish fairy tale. None of them wonder how come the west continues to thrive while Africa and the black diaspora continues to wait for Utopia.
These people are supposed to be the relatively smart ones, with access to the internet and knowledge, but they sound like transplants from the middle ages.

If average nigerians were introdduced to the ideas of Joseph Smith and Adam Smith. It wouldn't be surprising if Joseph smith's ideas prevailed 90% of the time.

Things will remain the same and most black people will be forever regressive until a substantial amount of us realize that the earth is all that there is. There is no heaven, no hell, no gods, no spirits, no ghosts. You have one life to live and make the most out of, and if you can't create your own heaven on earth, you are just a waste of space.
Jesus is not coming to save your black asses, allah is nothing but the ignorance of some arabs and the local gods are just as useless as the foreign ones.

The key to "heaven" is a thriving economy that lifts up most of the people. A society where laws and property are respected is what heaven is.
Heaven is reliable utilities, good roads and infrastructure, great institutions and smart people that realize that heaven is the progressive society that they create themselves.........................................................................here on earth.

Martian: These people are supposed to be the relatively smart ones, with access to the internet and knowledge, but they sound like transplants from the middle ages.

Yooguyz: @pro2010, are you a member of Redeem?

Yooguyz: @pro2010, are you a member of Redeem?

nora544: I know this since a long time because when you start to look what Adeboye told his people it is not always tru, also the story how he start the church with no money that is not tru because he get a full working church from the pastor who had the church before.

He know very well that when it works the business that he could build his own empire and call it christianity but it is not.

pro2010:

I am a Christian.

Dux01: just two words HOLY GHOST

Martian:

Nigeria, the rest of Africa and any country with a black majority are forever lost. It pains me to say this, but it seems there is this need in most black people to reject the earth in favor of one otherworldly fantasy or the other. In nigeria, you have half of the population who believe that a jew will come "rapture" them to some utopia and the other half are busy doing "a$$ up, face down" towards the east because they think the creator of the freaking universe had some special relationship with the Arabs. Meanwhile, the rest of the developed world continues to discover, create, innovate and grow.
Ebola afflicts Africans but the cure has to come from either U.S or Europe. The smart scientists in Africa that could work towards the eradication of malaria and ebola don't live in a conducive environment that promotes and encourages knowledge. Instead, corruption and religion march hand in hand to keep them in darkness. Praise Jesus, Insha allah!!!!
The populace that should yearn for something more are too busy praying to and propitiating one abursd notion of god or the other.

The older folks are definitely lost, the current generation are wallowing in the same ignorance and I'm damn sure they are passing their myopia and imbecilic beliefs to the kids. A microcosm of the average Nigerian/ Black mind can be seen here on nairaland. Pervasive ignorance and self righteous myopia galore. There's a thread on the front page of this site about scientists finding a body of water within the earth. True to their ignorant form, most of the commenters are writing asinine stuff and trying to relate the discovery to their jewish fairy tale. None of them wonder how come the west continues to thrive while Africa and the black diaspora continues to wait for Utopia.
These people are supposed to be the relatively smart ones, with access to the internet and knowledge, but they sound like transplants from the middle ages.

If average nigerians were introdduced to the ideas of Joseph Smith and Adam Smith. It wouldn't be surprising if Joseph smith's ideas prevailed 90% of the time.

Things will remain the same and most black people will be forever regressive until a substantial amount of us realize that the earth is all that there is. There is no heaven, no hell, no gods, no spirits, no ghosts. You have one life to live and make the most out of, and if you can't create your own heaven on earth, you are just a waste of space.
Jesus is not coming to save your black asses, allah is nothing but the ignorance of some arabs and the local gods are just as useless as the foreign ones.

The key to "heaven" is a thriving economy that lifts up most of the people. A society where laws and property are respected is what heaven is.
Heaven is reliable utilities, good roads and infrastructure, great institutions and smart people that realize that heaven is the progressive society that they create themselves.........................................................................here on earth.

Yooguyz:

I don't think so, a christian won't be infuriated if the gospel is spreading its tentacles across the country.you are not/never a member of that ministry, you don't understand why they do what they do. So your criticism is based on ignorance.

GSKing: Very interesting stuff


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musKeeto: Loving this Imoh guy.