Crazy thoughts of a Philosopher 21st May 2018
Have you actually thought about religion critically.......
In Africa where i come from you look at the different people masquerading as prophets bishops and men of the cloths whatever they prefer to call themselves and their antics and you are left to wonder, what exactly is this Christianity, what exactly does this religion madness truly entail.
i took a course in my undergraduate at Egerton called philosophy and the lecturer made us aware that the essence of philosophy is to empower the individual to be a critical thinker that can question anything and everything that is happening around them so as to come out with the most logical explanation to an outcome.
The Bri'ish and the Germans and Italians came to African with religion, and as they purported to preach christianity they stole our lands, our minerals and colonised us, but have you ever asked yourself prior to the white come coming to the dark continent the land of the nyamwezi, the shona, the pokomo the ashanti and alll the sub tribes of the different regions of africa, what were these savage men worshipping, does it mean that The God of the Bri'ish and the white man never knew that the blacks of Africa existed. Clearly, something is amiss somewhere, hadn't the white man come amidst us and blessed us with religion does it mean all of Africa was destined to die in eternal fire and anguish ???????/
Back to philosophy, we were asked to read a writing by one St. Thomas of Aquinas who is one of the accomplished catholic scholars both in theology and philosophy , titled, reasons why God exists and Reasons why God doesn't exist, in his book he goes on to critic and lay bear Christianity and the beliefs of the existence of God, in the negated version also he goes ahead to elaborate the reasons why he believes God exists and why you should hold true to the faith and the beliefs of the church. One thing i got from this reading was that man is a creature who likes to make everything have a reason for being the way it is, he seeks to have everything have a rational explanation so as to quench his thirst of want and need. Why on earth then would we base our lives on religion based on the account of 66 books written by some 60 or so people who we believe were inspired by God and The Holy Spirit to convince us that he does exist and that he is all powerful. if you read William Shakespeare's King Leah you will learn that it was believed that King Leah was Gods chosen hand on earth and just a mere touch from the king was enough to heal subjects from any ailments they suffer, i don't know if this is true or its just literature from the great writer Shakespeare but these things have had me thinking a lot these past two weeks.
Now back to my country, that is where you have cons masquerading as men of the cloth, people who will convince a multitude of people to consume Dettol antiseptic on the notion that it will drive away evil spirits, men and women of God who will hire people to give false testimonies to the congregation just to hoodwink the other vulnerable to join the church and give him money in the name of blessings and tithe. its only in Kenya and Nigeria where a man of the cloth prays for believers by touching their private parts in the guise that this will give them blessings, one called Pr Kanyari, you can google him, was caught by the media and recorded performing fake miracles, just using basic knowledge of chemistry to hoodwink people, but still you find that he has followers in his church, people who despite the revelation bestowed upon them decide to be blind deliberately and still believe that this is a Man of God. I don't think that the God who the white man brought and who has conditioned us to believe is the most superior and loving God calls such kind of ministers his own, but who am i, all i can do is watch and blog about it here.
in conclusion, i will leave you with a little wisdom from St. Thomas Aquinas, he who is a great Catholic scholar and philosopher of his time with his words. there are so many words that can prove that God does not exist and an equal measure of reasons why Christians and religions believe he exists, all these things boil down to believes, . what you believe informs your choice. Choose ye whether it will be God or Not. but think about it like this, assuming you don't believe and then it happens that He exists, and you get condemned to everlasting fire, that wouldn't be good would it. on the other hand, if you believe him and on that judgement day of his coming you get to go to heaven with him, that would be a good thing, right. so in all instances, all you have is gain gain gain
As i hear the library bell asking me to go out since its about closing time i remind you of great African oral literature and dirges of Hare and Lion or of proverbs of Elephants and men competing in medieval Africa, they were meant to shape the society behaviour and the society morals and to sway them towards what was perceived as good moral behaviour.
as you go, think critically as it strengthens your beliefs. Thu Tinda......................
In Africa where i come from you look at the different people masquerading as prophets bishops and men of the cloths whatever they prefer to call themselves and their antics and you are left to wonder, what exactly is this Christianity, what exactly does this religion madness truly entail.
i took a course in my undergraduate at Egerton called philosophy and the lecturer made us aware that the essence of philosophy is to empower the individual to be a critical thinker that can question anything and everything that is happening around them so as to come out with the most logical explanation to an outcome.
The Bri'ish and the Germans and Italians came to African with religion, and as they purported to preach christianity they stole our lands, our minerals and colonised us, but have you ever asked yourself prior to the white come coming to the dark continent the land of the nyamwezi, the shona, the pokomo the ashanti and alll the sub tribes of the different regions of africa, what were these savage men worshipping, does it mean that The God of the Bri'ish and the white man never knew that the blacks of Africa existed. Clearly, something is amiss somewhere, hadn't the white man come amidst us and blessed us with religion does it mean all of Africa was destined to die in eternal fire and anguish ???????/
Back to philosophy, we were asked to read a writing by one St. Thomas of Aquinas who is one of the accomplished catholic scholars both in theology and philosophy , titled, reasons why God exists and Reasons why God doesn't exist, in his book he goes on to critic and lay bear Christianity and the beliefs of the existence of God, in the negated version also he goes ahead to elaborate the reasons why he believes God exists and why you should hold true to the faith and the beliefs of the church. One thing i got from this reading was that man is a creature who likes to make everything have a reason for being the way it is, he seeks to have everything have a rational explanation so as to quench his thirst of want and need. Why on earth then would we base our lives on religion based on the account of 66 books written by some 60 or so people who we believe were inspired by God and The Holy Spirit to convince us that he does exist and that he is all powerful. if you read William Shakespeare's King Leah you will learn that it was believed that King Leah was Gods chosen hand on earth and just a mere touch from the king was enough to heal subjects from any ailments they suffer, i don't know if this is true or its just literature from the great writer Shakespeare but these things have had me thinking a lot these past two weeks.
Now back to my country, that is where you have cons masquerading as men of the cloth, people who will convince a multitude of people to consume Dettol antiseptic on the notion that it will drive away evil spirits, men and women of God who will hire people to give false testimonies to the congregation just to hoodwink the other vulnerable to join the church and give him money in the name of blessings and tithe. its only in Kenya and Nigeria where a man of the cloth prays for believers by touching their private parts in the guise that this will give them blessings, one called Pr Kanyari, you can google him, was caught by the media and recorded performing fake miracles, just using basic knowledge of chemistry to hoodwink people, but still you find that he has followers in his church, people who despite the revelation bestowed upon them decide to be blind deliberately and still believe that this is a Man of God. I don't think that the God who the white man brought and who has conditioned us to believe is the most superior and loving God calls such kind of ministers his own, but who am i, all i can do is watch and blog about it here.
in conclusion, i will leave you with a little wisdom from St. Thomas Aquinas, he who is a great Catholic scholar and philosopher of his time with his words. there are so many words that can prove that God does not exist and an equal measure of reasons why Christians and religions believe he exists, all these things boil down to believes, . what you believe informs your choice. Choose ye whether it will be God or Not. but think about it like this, assuming you don't believe and then it happens that He exists, and you get condemned to everlasting fire, that wouldn't be good would it. on the other hand, if you believe him and on that judgement day of his coming you get to go to heaven with him, that would be a good thing, right. so in all instances, all you have is gain gain gain
As i hear the library bell asking me to go out since its about closing time i remind you of great African oral literature and dirges of Hare and Lion or of proverbs of Elephants and men competing in medieval Africa, they were meant to shape the society behaviour and the society morals and to sway them towards what was perceived as good moral behaviour.
as you go, think critically as it strengthens your beliefs. Thu Tinda......................
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