People forget we’ve actually lived an era when religion stood unchallenged; when it was the divine answer to everything.
Those days brought the inquisition, the crusade and children were killed for being witches.
Heresy was a treasonable offence, with many having been killed for this.
If humanity continued in that direction, we would have become the dinosaurs of the history book we wouldn’t have been here to write.
Religion on its own would not have progressed; we forced it, we punched it and we challenged its antics—why kill a man for not believing that the sun actually revolve around the earth?
Religion was down wrong on almost all the questions; it taught that diseases were caused by gods and the earth was flat, only about 6000 years old when it is over 13 billion years old.
Our civilization has progressed because we were challenged; black people have rights today because we challenged slavery.
And remember, the bible was the tool used to enslave; it actually endorsed slavery and even today, it permits it.
My call is, no matter what special relationship you believe you have with a celestial father, make sure you challenge the things that have been built around the loose concept of faith.
I have always known religion to be inherently insane but the level Africans take this insanity to is heart-breaking.
I always summarize by disdain for religion as this; “Religion is violent, irrational, makes absurd claims which it hates to be challenged, allied to racism, tribalism, bigotry, glorifies ignorance and invests heavily in the oppression of women and continues to terrorise children—and I am sure I have not mentioned its hostility to free inquiry.”
We all have different rights today which we pride ourselves with not because religion made these things possible, it’s because people with secular minds challenged the sovereignty of religion and brought us these rights
Religion may serve you a purpose, but humanity comes first. And to preserve humanity, human values such as equal rights for all must be championed, even if religion forbids it.
The black man has equal rights not because of religion, women are being elevated and granted equal rights not because of religion—but because humanism has made these a priority.
You may claim to derive esteem benefits from religion; but remember that, being human comes first!
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