The Religious Misconception of Minds of Africans

When I was growing up I was somewhat very assertive and explorative with resistance to oppressors, especially of adults, so I was tagged as a stubborn child. Despite I used to attend school somehow and used to hear the gospel being preached, even selected as a participant in a children's Bible recitation program on some Sundays during adult church services. 

The chorus of stubbornness surrounding my life became as thunderous as a roaring sea to the extent that one of my uncles called me and requested that I recite the Lord's prayer whenever I went to bed but that could not become the antidote that I needed as a child to stop their "supposed stubbornness". 

 My nature is to question everything that is being said, irrespective of the sources it is coming from. These traits have helped me in the future to escape numerous peer pressures and even adult pressure that may not have positive effects on my life. 

Far from this, is the component of God-personality in human existence being taught in our schools, the approach has introduced dominant views of Christianity against others' believing systems or culture, which may be because of the colonial distortion of our society, so the schools see this concept as the most favoured over our traditional reference to God as the closet form of practising atheist despite our polytheist views of the divine embodiment. 

So anyone advocating for our traditional system as an ideal way to correct our corrupt society that has been flooded by the practising of Christianity or Islamic religion. Even, the most acclaimed preachers claim our traditional practices are not the word of God but solely rely on the Bible as the word of God. Ignorantly, they quote the Old Testament to justify their New Testament as both have intrinsic value of the word of God, which some Solomon married many women with concubines but our traditional reference to such topic is anti-word of God. 

So what is their definition of the word of God? Does their word of God fall from the sky without human interference unlike our African traditional views of God, which involve humans and other substances as media to connect with our ancestors whom we do not see as well as the God we claim. 

Another stage in my life was during Senior High School level, where I became self-conscious through the incidence I had during my visit to my sister and aunty on one of my vacations. Despite, those days I used to attend church services, I was taken to one elderly man who I did not see anything fetish around him but he just gave them leaves that should be given to me, which I placed under my bed and slept on. 

That was the total turning point of my life til today, my mental potency has been nourished and getting insights into deeper things and enhanced my innate traits to be more assertive and questioning of everything that seems not obvious to me. 

The controversy surrounding other religions has its issues to deal with because the reports given by some do not have scientific merits to applause in our present, it has just become the effects of indoctrination but still, people hold on to it for the sake of their livelihood trends on their lives. 

There is no culture without a divinity component in its fabrics of existence and influence, God exists in everything we do but our understanding of what God means to each of us determines how we approach our issues and the visible presence in our societies.

 Let us revere our traditions and cultures and reassess them, to address those that are not encouraging positive progress toward the complete sanity of our society.