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The Power of the Social Obligation: The Reason why Christians are so Unchristian-Like | Yet Remain Christians

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I have been thinking a lot recently about why religion continues to hold such a big relevance to us as Africans. Aside our constant need to be told what to do by total strangers who say they have a closer connection to some God none of us has seen before, I have realised also the power of the social contract, which keeps most of us in line.

Social contract is a term I remember vaguely from school, a loose term encompassing the implicit agreement between a government and a people, you pay your taxes and we look after you, or something to that effect.

This is the same principle on which religion has spread throughout our society, and why it would be eons before we as a people, whether Ghanaians or Africans, move away from that mentality.

After buying into the social contract of religion, it becomes difficult, virtually impossible, to get out of it. After all, oftentimes we have no choice in the matter, most of us are raised that way and by the time you know better that is the only way of life you know.

So we become immersed in the lie, even when we realise it’s a lie there is no way out; because of another little thing I call the social obligation.

The social obligation refers to the need to conform, to fit in so as not to be an outcast from the society you have to live in. It’s why people get worried when they haven’t gotten married by a certain age, or have gotten married but don’t have kids after a certain period, and, I’m sure you get my drift by now.

I have realised the social obligation is what keeps most of us in line when it comes to religion, even more than the need to feel someone else is in charge of our fate.

Because so many people are living a lie that I do not see how they can wake up every Sunday morning and go to church. Because it’s difficult to fathom how you get some ideas beat into you all the time, live in stark contrast to those ideas, and yet still claim to hold true to those ideas.

It is a stark contradiction that makes me conclude most people keep persevering with religion because of the social obligation. I realised at a time that I always sounded like a phoney when praying, because I had done some very un-Christ like things just a short while before that, so I stopped altogether.

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Actress-Juliet Ibrahim Talks to BBC Africa About Her Private & Public Life | Says She Wants People to Concentrate on Her Public Life & Not Private

Juliet Ibrahim
Juliet Ibrahim

Ghanaian actress-Juliet Ibrahim was recently on BBC, specifically Focus on Africa as the programme looked at the private and public lives of African celebrities.

Speaking to BBC from USA where she is currently working, Juliet Ibrahim stated that she would prefer if people concentrate on her public life—leaving behind her private life. She asked African media to concentrate on more important issues instead of who she is dating and the celebrity gossip.

Interestingly, Juliet Ibrahim seems to be getting better with her interviews and her presentation this time is worth listening to…

M.anifest and Patoranking were also on the show.

Listen below….

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VIDEO: T. B Joshua Says A Hovering Helicopter (Some Kind of UFO) Caused His Building to Collapse-Sort Of…

T.B.-Joshua
T.B Joshua

Surely, you will have people who will believe this and may go all out to defend what Prophet T.B Joshua seems to be suggesting as having caused his storey building to collapse on Friday, contrary to popular speculation that the building was overloaded….

After the collapse of the building, the popular man of God met some journalists in Nigeria—and before proceeding to do his damage control, he talked about how journalists have been slamming his Ministries. Definitely, sensible journalists will expose you if you go talking about something like UFO having collapsed your own building.

In the video below, T.B Joshua is heard saying, his preaching last week Sunday sort of talks about the collapse of the building—and the message was to prepare people to deal with such a disaster. This is pure nonsense and insensitive to those who lost loved ones. If you had any clue of this disaster, you should have prevented it or at least warn those who were in the building.

T.B Joshua continued to explain what must have caused the building to collapse, pinning it down on some unidentified helicopter that came hovering the building. This sounds like a perfect UFO visit—the only difference is; the many places people say they’ve seen UFOs do not collapse and the building must have had its own weakness, that is if the UFO visit is even true. What a BS…

From what we hear, when T.B Joshua met the journalists, he asked them to turn off their recording devices—the reason why you see the camera not capturing him after the first few minutes. The camera was placed on the table but the journalists failed to turn it off, so to capture his voice.

 Watch the video below…

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Celebrity Instagram & Twit Pics of the Week: Jackie Appiah, Eazzy, Nadia Buari, Becca, Efya, John Dumelo, Menaye Donkor & Others

Eazzy
Eazzy

Eazzy has been rocking a new short hair and even though we do not REALLY like it—she says, she is feeling it. For us out here, the long hair style sits well with Eazzy and because we’ve known her more with that, we seem to like her that way.

Becca and Efya have been putting their figures on blast, except that one has something more enticing to show us and the other needs to work that body out if she wants to go into a bodycon.

Check below for photos from Yvonne Okoro, Nikki Samonas, Joselyn Dumas, Jackie Appiah and others…

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T.B. Joshua’s God Can Only inform Him About Cases That Don’t Concern Him, But Refuses to Prompt Him About the Ones Beneath His Own Nose

T.B Joshua
T.B Joshua

I see it as mere absurdity when lot of people, especially Africans (since they are the ones I talk to often), fear to objectively debate about issues regarding religion. Almost all the people I come into contact with subjectively deal with religious issues, expecting you to understand what they are driving at, when they themselves don’t know jack about the issues.

There are many things I’ve been taught since infancy that I’ve accepted as true. However, I now see the need to be asking a lot of deep questions regarding those same stuffs to ascertain the mature truth.

One of such teachings is that concerning prophecies. Ever since I was born, I have heard uncountable prophecies from people who refer to themselves as ‘Men of God’. As to which god they belong, I do not know because there are several stones and woods in this universe that can be referred to as gods.

Aside armed robbery, one fastest way to make some cool cash is to establish a church, memorize some unnecessary and unintelligible words called tongues, and finally predict people’s future; you will marvel at the rate at which your cash will flow—all tax free.

If prophecy is all about predicting something and getting in right, then I guess Kwaku Bonsam and his associates can all be called prophets. Maybe they aren’t called prophets, simply because they do not use the Bible.

One self-acclaimed Nigerian prophet who has risen to fame and has a huge following is Temitope Balogun Joshua (T.B. Joshua), head pastor of the Synagogue Church of All Nations (SCOAN). For some years now, he has been bothering our ears with prophecies he claims come from God.

Before this world will come to an end, according to the Bible (Matthew 24:14), “the gospel of the kingdom will be preached in the whole world as a testimony to all nations.” However, I won’t be surprised if T.B. Joshua’s Bible read: “And all the prophecies about people will be revealed in the whole world as a deception to all nations, then the end will come”.

Shockingly, it looks like the god of T.B. Joshua (revealer of prophecies), is concerned with meddling in issues of people living far away rather than paying attention to people who matter the most to his prophet.

Few days ago, it was reported that a worship center/building in Nigeria belonging to T.B Joshua had collapsed, with many feared dead. According to reports, the building also serves as a guesthouse for foreign members of the self-styled and attention seeking prophet.

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‘Money’ Mayweather Cruises Past Marcos Maidana with Unanimous Points Decision + Monica Monica Performs US National Anthem at the FIGHT

‘Money’ Mayweather and Marcos Maidana
‘Money’ Mayweather and Marcos Maidana

The undefeated Floyd ‘Money’ Mayweather extended his record to 47-0 (26 Kos) with a comfortable unanimous points victory over Argentine Marcos Maidana at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas.

Mayweather won on the cards of all three judges, who scored the bout 115-112, 116-111, and 116-111.

It was a much more comprehensive victory this time around from Mayweather, who earlier this year won a controversial split point decision over the Argentine in a match many thought he should have lost.

Mayweather responded to the critics in style, comfortably seeing off Maidana this time with little trouble, even finding the time to dance around the ring the last couple of rounds as he had built up an insurmountable lead by then.

Mayweather began as he always does, dancing out of his opponents shots and hitting sharp ripostes whenever he caught them off guard.

Unlike in the first fight, where he struggled to cope with Maidana’s intensity, it worked better this time. Mayweather comfortably won six of the first eight rounds, before he started complaining of Maidana’s antics.

After the first fight in May, Floyd complained about Maidana being a dirty fighter, and he felt he had further cause to complain during this fight. In the eighth round, he went up to the referee shouting that Maidana bit him, and the Argentine was later ducked a point for tripping Mayweather in the 10th round.

But Floyd hung on to grab the win, saying he felt he had boxed better in the first fight.

“I felt sharper in the first fight, my rhythm was off. I got hit with some shots tonight I shouldn’t have got hit with, but that comes with the sport”

Maidana for his part, like back in May felt he had won the fight. But he would find less people agreeing with him this time around, because Floyd gave out a master class in boxing, as he has done so often in his career.

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