Sunday, 10 March 2013

Man, Religion and his Identity


    
I can’t imagine on my facebook IP address the very day I posted my view on religion ‘Am fortunate to be a Christian’.
The traffic isn’t necessary from those that click on my facebook page but as a result of my friend’s link on which this post appear on. Subsequently some rang my phone and some confronted me with words of mouth saying am not proud of my conviction, some said am canal minded and other attribute it to lack of faith.
From observation I ponder and wonder and still reminiscing on my taught if my father can be convinced/confused to denounce his identity as a Yoruba to become an Igbo or the Hausa man! Or can I and my elder ones be talked/brainwash as well?
Here I come to realize that one’s religion seems his identity and some a time as culture to those who share common faith. What amaze me most is how do you convince an Imam Son/Daughter that the religion they’re practicing isn’t perfect and that the Quran is not meant for them. Viz; an Archbishops Son/Daughter that the religion they practice is less effective and that the Bible is not good for them.
It will only take a radical taught to bring about this change, we’re all locked into  our religious belief because we were born into it and while we grow up in same premises regardless of it status and nature we still see the beauty in them. To stop this religion bigotry, sentiments, radicalism, fanaticism and extremism we need to have our religion civilized, as civilization got our tradition and culture arrested. While we still uphold the fundamental purpose for our faith.
I think the literary definition of civilization is getting along with people from different cultural background, tradition, ethnicity, color and religious belief as it was in Mesopotamia some thousand years back and still ongoing in the world today at large.