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FAST LIVES, QUICK MONEY, LUXURY, AND CRIPPLED SOCIETY

So many auspicious contemporary Churches have spread all over Nigeria. The success of this Churches are always outstanding because many Christians are worldly people who dream of Fast lives, Quick money, and Luxury. But are handicapped by societal conditions from living their dreams. The pastors of this Churches use the greed of people to their advantage and invent a church with an atmosphere that would give them a peek into their fantasy life. The pastor imitate the American way of life, learned to speak English in American accent, wear expensive suits and shoes. Making himself a physical manifestation of the people’s fantasy life. Next he starts up a church building worth more than a hundred million naira and the money coming out from the pocket of the members, the Church gives the congregation the feeling that they are in a five star hotel. Air conditioner supplying the building with cool ventilation, comfortable seats, large plasma television strategically mounted on the walls, pretty girls and tall handsome men are selected to work as ushers.

The Church members are wannabes who are struggling to live up to the standard of the Church, everyone trying to look as flashy as possible but most of them come with the hope of meeting rich people and getting connected. Gospel music is never song in native language because they’d reduce the concept of  Europeanism. Love songs are translated into worship songs by referring to Jesus as the lover.

The central message in the sermon is financial prosperity and progress which can be achieved through Faith in God and the Faith can only be demonstrated by living in denial about the poverty and misery in a person's life, giving generously in offertory, sowing of seed, paying of tithes, making huge donations to the Church and daily participation in religious activities.

I want to let you know that its not the pursuit of holiness that made the Church to have an addictive effect on members but it is its ability to offer an escape from the strict life of the society, the society has a crippled social life so the Church offers men a modest opportunity to meet women and vice versa, an average Nigerian doesn’t have an air conditioner or a plasma television so its also a place where everyone pretends to be rich.

Leaving the Church premises the members feel there're leaving a place of Pleasure, Prosperity and Luxury, mingled with Sanctification. It’s a heavenly feeling that people would appreciate at any cost and so the pastor tasks them severely for the services. But they more finance and time they sacrifice to the Church the better the pastors life, the more they struggle to be like him, the more fanatical the become.

  Within a few years, the Church becomes more rich and more popular than every celebrity in Nigeria, the pastor purchase a private jet and invest in companies inside and outside the country. Several Nigerian would be inspired by the success of this religious men that they think the easiest way to become rich and popular is to start a church. Currently there are more Churches than schools, banks, and market in Nigeria, and the most magnificent buildings in most villages are church buildings, even in communities where children go to school under a tree.

The priests and pastors use the donations to enrich their pockets, drive fancy cars, own private jets and live in luxury while the masses suffer. People are too blinded by Faith that they hardly donate money for community services or in sponsorship of Educational projects and intellectually talented people who can solve  societal problems. 

Religion would do anything to enslave souls,
Say no to Religion!.
Practice Christianity
Live a Christ like life!.

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