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CHRIS-VINCENT Writes: Why I Decided to Return to Religion | I Am Officially Religious

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Chris-Vincent Agyapong Febiri
Chris-Vincent Agyapong Febiri

It’s difficult to stay African and non-religious —you would be considered as immoral, as lost or sometimes as the real source of all the hovering ‘witchery and misfortunes.
For many Africans, religion is the fountainhead of morality and as such, without a belief in a God, there’s no way a person could be moral, faithful, kind or have some of the excellent virtues which have been successfully demonstrated by some of the well known theists and atheists.
Occasionally, family members and friends would be upset that I am not religious: sort of worried about my direction—forgetting that, I do not really recognised their sense of religious direction as worthy of anything.
The pressure and stress have been mounting and therefore a few months ago, I started looking for a religious group worthy of my membership.
It has been many hours of keen research; I have read piles of articles and scriptures on Buddhism, Islam, Christianity, Taoism, Hinduism, ‘Rastafarianism’, Scientology, Traditional African religion and several of the over 4,200 religions of the world.
Yeah, you read it right—there are about 4,200 religions in the world and each considers itself as the true one religion, which made it unimaginable difficult to settle for one since I did not want to be misled by Trojans.
Today, I am glad to announce and tell all those my non-religious status offended that, I am back to religion—just that, I do not belong to any of the popular religions of the world.

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