FEATURE ARTICLE
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Monday, October 7, 2024 |
[email protected] Arizona, USA |
An apology without change is just manipulation." - Unknown. r. Sunday Iwalaiye's consistency and intellectual exposition on the issue of tithing in Nigeria are very welcoming and instructive. For more than two decades, Dr. Iwalaiye has been the champion of educating Nigeria's correctable and noncorrectable configured religious characters. The minds of some Nigerians are wired; rewired the already wired minds, all kinds of deceit can be situated in them.
The passion and fervor for discussing tithing and giving are embarrassing and remarkable. What has become of the souls of sinners yearning for salvation? In the past, the focus was on winning souls and eternal life, but now, it is more of a challenge to be a Christian in Nigeria. Everything that has a beginning also has an end. May 'mugus' continue to be 'mugus' to bless their General Overseers. Who cares? What is humility in deceiving gullible, poor, or unsuspecting people who trust Baba's religious leadership? What of the billions of naira he has made off these religious zealots? Dr. Sunday Iwalaiye's recent brilliant analysis and exposition on the controversial tithes in Nigeria is worthy of listening. Is Nigeria the only country in the world that has Christians and Muslims? As a Muslim who is not a fixated individual on religion, I love the simple and lucid way Dr. Sunday Iwalaiye explains tithes - this easy money-making business of tithes in Nigeria. In his recent clear exposé, Dr. Iwalaiye shows how Nigeria is a unique country in terms of hypocrisy, ignorance, hero-worshipping, and idiosyncratic life. Surprisingly, how the citizens of Nigeria in Nigeria are still standing in this period of economic strangulation is beyond economic explanation. The pertinent question: do we ask for our needless suffering? Yes! We did. How did we get here? The answer can be found in the folktale of Àrígiségi (weave-insects). Nigeria is a nation that suffers in the midst of natural endowments and aplenty. Thanks, but no thanks to the strangulation regimes of Babangida, Abacha, Obasanjo, Jonathan, Buhari, and Tinubu for squeezing laziness out of the non-correctable disfigurement of characters in the ecosystem of blissful ignorance in Nigeria. While religious and political leaders send their children to foreign universities, the local universities that their religious and political leaders establish in Nigeria are beyond the reach of ordinary tithers and poor followers. Sadly, Nigerian intellectuals strongly enable and encourage the travesty of intellectual development in Nigeria. The deployment of fake, pretense, and hypocrisy to rationalize stupidity every time it occurs in our religious and political ecosystems is a bane of our unsolvable basic welfare problems. How do you educate an educated illiterate who possesses high degrees of education and is still subservient to scammers and uneducated religious leaders who are in the business of money-making ventures? Nigerian religious leaders and political leaders are twin humans of mind manipulation. The two twin evils are clogs in the progress and self-development of Nigerians and Nigeria. With frustration, it is always difficult for rational minds to explain the embarrassing situation in Nigeria to a typical learned world. Though the world has its own embarrassing situation, the collective economic prosperity of the developed world benefits all its citizens. How the religious folks in Nigeria hero-worship and rationalize evils, deceit, and manipulation by spiritual leaders is heartbreaking. The question that begs for answers is: how do solo people like Dr. Sunday Iwalaiye and Dr. Abel Damina reconstruct the already constructed and concreted minds that are fixated on their leaders' manipulation, whims, and caprice? Consequently, weep not for the humans who are innately given brains to discern truth from falsehood. Mark it, religious and political leaders will soon be receiving the Òkò À?ètánì (devil stones) for engaging in the art of spiritual manipulation. Rather than focus on religious fallacies, Nigerians must begin to reorder their mores and cultural endowments. Until Nigerians lay more emphasis on humanity and social reconstruction to meet their basic needs, people like Dr. Sunday Iwalaiye, Dr. Abel Damina and this writer must not weep for the gullibility of Nigerians and African people.
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