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Why Do Folks Assume The Church Is Where Only Good Things Happen?
Growing up in a household where Christianity was the fundamental requirement for embodying an existence that guaranteed “a happy ending,” there was the acute awareness of the fantastical elements of a lifestyle that contained the appropriate imagery that supported a celebrated fallacy.
The best method of coercion has to be heavy reliance on fear-mongering. It can’t be the dutiful coaxing of restless spirits towards the avenue of enlightenment, that breeds the goodness that comes from goodness.
The inherent tendencies towards violence that dwells in the human fold, almost always relies on the tropes of pain and suffering as extremes, when it comes to disciplining the renegades, who are simply acting out the symptoms of being fallible.
Christianity wasn’t given the prime opportunity to woo me into submission because the horror movies that depicted the frightening consequences that emerge when you dare to question humanity under the supervision of an invisible being, who prefers to remain silent while humans mishandle communications — pretty much destroyed the love affair even before it began.
Once the early nineties emerged, the era of crusades began to saturate the booming market of evangelism in Nigeria, as those possessing sharp business acumen began to…
