Hmmmm your opinion please: The next Einstein and the expressway
> churches
The next Einstein and the expressway churches By > Damola Awoyokun ALBERT Einstein's eminent successor,
> Stephen Hawking on May 11 began a journey to South Africa
> on an initiative to find African Einsteins through an
> Institute For Mathematical Sciences based in South Africa.
> Said Hawking: 'The world of science needs Africa's
> brilliant talents, and I look forward to meeting young
> Einsteins from Africa in the near future.' Case 1: In
> South Africa between the N1 expressway linking
> Johannesburg, the commercial capital with Pretoria, the
> political centre is the Silicon Valley of the telecom and
> computer giants. South Africa is home to African
> headquarters of many of these world corporations. Between
> Lagos the commercial capital and Ibadan, what do we have?
> The fastest growing blue-chip corporations in Nigeria: the
> expressway churches. Case 2: A 24-year-old graduate with
> second-class upper was diagnosed with breast cancer. She
> informed her mother who then told her church prophet.
> Prayers, fasting, vigils, alms giving, mountain pilgrimages
> were immediately ordered. Her daughter was never allowed to
> go back to University College Hospital (UCH) for
> chemotherapy that was sufficient since the cancer was still
> very young. The man of God strongly objected since it meant
> the mum was doubting the power of the Almighty. It was when
> the girl's breasts turned into a rotten pair of
> plantains that she was returned to hospital and, died.
> While her body was still warm in the grave, the man of God
> visited the bereaved family, prayed for them and said
> 'the death was God's will, if not it won't have
> happened.' If I were God, I would spit on that prayer
> and damn him for murder. Case 3: Mid-nineties, in Obafemi
> Awolowo University (OAU), Ife, the number of weekly
> religious meetings leapt from 19 to 120. Every evening, to
> get a free class where you could quietly study was tough.
> When you got one, be assured that preachers would soon
> barge in to dismiss studying as irrelevant, it is eternal
> life that counts, that the world would soon end as there is
> now abundant fresh evidence; or: that there is a big man of
> God from Lagos in the sports stadium working miracles,
> casting out spirits of cultism, poverty, indecent dressing
> or curing AIDS; or that failure in exam is a spiritual
> attack from home which needs spiritual defence, you must
> not miss your blessing time at the sports centre. It was
> not surprising when last year in that same university some
> students that were supposed to be writing their exams were
> found in the forest awaiting Rapture. The problem of the
> expressway churches in every nook and cranny of the country
> is not essentially in their mushrooming, it is in the way
> they barge into our minds and corrode the roots of our
> thinking with what they preach. They start with fear. And
> fear like HIV is very polite and diplomatic, its
> effectiveness is in being unassuming, going on easy till it
> shatters your immune system and leaves you gullible to all
> sorts of senseless teachings and practices. 'Come and
> thank God for your life, many slept yesterday, but
> couldn't wake up today, that you woke up is not your
> doing but, or: ' I know one man who did not pay his
> tithe for only one month his son became ill, he sold land
> and properties to pay hospital bills, his son still
> died.' Or 'repent now, tomorrow may be too
> late.' Without enacting fear and promoting its
> negativity as a normal state of mind - fear of eternity, of
> hunger, of curses, of tomorrow, fear of enemies, real or
> imagined, fear of God- no religion would prosper. Fear is
> after all, the masterpiece of the evil one. In the North, a
> shepherd boy with a small stick (saanda) can order around
> thousands of cows with big-horns on their heads like PhDs.
> In the expressway churches, anybody with a pocket-size
> Gideon bible in the hand can tell tens of thousand of
> 'educated' people that 2+2 = 13 has been revealed
> as the truth, they will jump up and shout Ameeen and begin
> to dance around! That is the depth to which we have sunk.
> Reason and scientific thinking are no longer a matter of
> fact. Instead of the unrestricted and diligent exercise of
> the intellect to problems, we are told solution is in
> praying for divine intervention, we are told we are in end
> times and so earthquakes, cyclones, AIDS are fated. We can
> do nothing. Weirdly, Christianity no longer calls itself a
> religion, it is a way of life. So every time on any day you
> turn on your TV or radio, in the buses, in the offices,
> markets, on the Internet, a preacher is there retailing
> some messages or emails of mental bacteria. Little wonder
> there is an outbreak of mediocrity all over the country. In
> serious countries, they are building heavens and making
> lives better for their citizens, in Nigeria we are bringing
> about hell so as to justify why we have to go to heaven. Ask
> kids what they want to be in the future; many are now
> answering 'pastors.' Why? 'To do miracles and
> save lives.' Not the technological miracle of space
> technology or medical saving of lives. It is a la the
> expressway jamborees. One pastor justified September 11
> saying the World Trade Centre was like the biblical Tower
> of Babel (human attempts to reach God.) God 'had
> to' destroy it. Other stupidity aside, but why are the
> lofty achievements of human thought seen as an affront to
> the supremacy of a most high God? The remarkable solar
> eclipse of two years ago happened at the day and hour it
> was predicted to happen for 4 minutes 45 seconds by
> instruments of science and technology. For over 2000 years
> now, Jesus had failed to come as constantly predicted by
> the Bible and men of God, yet a lot of quality time,
> energies and resources are devoted uselessly to this
> otherwise eclipse of reason. Meanwhile the next solar
> eclipse's date, hour and minute has been predicted 25
> years in advance. It will happen. So which should merit our
> trust, thinking or faith? Young African minds eager to be
> the next Einstein or Hawking must start by rejecting their
> being made sheep that the religions constantly find
> fulfillment in doing. Sheep is one of the most stupid
> animals in existence. Have you seen how they cross busy
> roads? Young minds should aspire to be goats. A goat
> believes in itself. It is smart. It does not take no for an
> answer that is why it always seems to be constantly
> disobeying. It is never satisfied with the status quo.
> Through the Enlightenment, Europe began to see progress
> when they squashed the prevailing grip of religion over
> their minds. Eric Hobsbawm, a British Jewish historian,
> said Jews began to make startling impacts in all
> disciplines after the 18th century when they unchained
> themselves from the application of Mosaic laws to the very
> last details of their lives. The laws clogged their minds
> and imagination, shutting them off from the world. So their
> startling achievements consist not in beingGod's chosen
> people but in the conscious rejection of that identity.
> Einstein said of his deep religious childhood: 'Through
> the reading of popular scientific books I soon reached the
> conviction that much in the stories of the bible could not
> be true. The consequence was a positively fanatic orgy of
> freethinking coupled with the impression that youth is
> intentionally being deceived by the state through lies; it
> was a crushing impression. Mistrust of every kind of
> authority grew out of that experience, ' What a
> genuine goat. * Awoyokun lives in the United Kingdom
>

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Atheistic secular humanists helped to spread HIV in Africa by administering HIV-infected oral polio vaccine to children.

HIV has ravaged many parts of Africa and has led to lost generations.
What better way to keep Africa in bondage?

imhotep:

Atheistic secular humanists helped to spread HIV in Africa by administering HIV-infected oral polio vaccine to children.

HIV has ravaged many parts of Africa and has led to lost generations.
What better way to keep Africa in bondage?

Can you provide evidence to what you have just asserted?

mazaje:

Can you provide evidence to what you have just asserted?

You can start by reading this about a controversial court case in Libya => http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2004/06/06/INGUQ6VPD91.DTL

Libya, an Islami'c country, living by the precepts of the k'oran, has a very low (if any) number of HIV patients.