Why Do People Move From One Church To Another?
I still do not get it, and believe me, it takes more than rationality to fathom and answer to the "why" in the dilemma. When up about the question, sometimes I simply submit to let go, but my curiosity is ever constant on the subject matter. In all, I see the reasons below as substantive and likely to be the case:
1. Either religion is a scam or simply a social vice.
2. God is not really what people take him/it to be.
3. Man is insatiable. This fact cannot be contested.
4. The human mind is gullible and easily influenced by external factors.
5. Christianity is for confused people. Islam is slightly better (would discuss that in subsequent discourse). Tradiitonal African religion is more expressive and addressing of the peculiar problems of the black race.
6. Theoretically, the idea of salvation makes no sense. That, perhaps is among the reasons people even bother to go to church. Salvation is the sell-out factor, and the sedative that lures people to Church in the first place. Call it fear or facade. The whole story of Christ and other iconic characters in the Bible are fictional, unverifiable and less imperative. It is no less than the history of a people that was passed on from one generation to another via oral folklore, telling of myths and legends. Christ may not have even been. Isaiah and other 'great' prophets recorded in the scriptures are no different from the Oduduwa myth of the Yoruba people. No sane(rational being) person should take such stories seriously.
7. Society is adjudicative and forlorn. The collective goal of human pursuit has long been replaced with the pursuit and desire towards spiritualism, deism and justifications to believe in a fuse, an object of the mind, which most people term as 'God'. God, perhaps may have existed in time past. Tto me, he was the first of the human kind. The first human to live. The first human to experience living in the universe, and first human to die and know death. There is a first time for all things in the universe. God may have been misplaced in the course of history as Adam, the first man in Christian mythology.
8. Religion, and mostly Christianity is addictive. It is likened to an opium by the German thinker, Karl Marx. I agree with him.
9. Worship is vane and destructive. The art of worship presupposes total submission, dedicatedness and willful acceptance of defeat on the part of the one worshiping, and in favour of that, which is worshiped. In this case, that which is worshiped is less human and undeserving of the attentions he/it gets. Man ought to be the object/subject of attraction, but by his will, has submitted his right to the object of his mind. I call that, vain edification. Worship, like factual conjectures of love, care and affection makes one weak. It confines the thinking faculty and reduces it to a state of mechanism and zombiesm.
10. Christianity is a bane. Look through the history of mankind; struggles and collections and you will get my point here. Religion is man made and its time has trolled through human life and conditioned thinking in a crude way, drawing man's intellectual pursuits back to yester-years.
Science rules! Technology is the future! Religion belongs to the past!
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