Non-Conformist Blasts Religious Bigots
Charly Boy, the original Area Fada, has come hard on people he calls religious mumus.
Charly Boy has no sympathy with religious 'mumu'(junglejournalist.wordpress.com)
The original Area Fada, Charles Oputa or Charly Boy,
as he is popularly called, will not take a rest from blasting people he
term as religious bigots, idiots and those who put their trust in the
pastors instead of in God. In a terminology he calls Mumugiousity,
Charly Boy takes these set of people to the cleaners.
Read the vintage Area Fada here:
Read the vintage Area Fada here:
For starters, don't pick up the dictionary to lookup ‘Mumugiousity’, I coined it myself but you go soon grab wetin I wan yarn.
As
I approach this topic, I want to be careful so readers don't get the
whole essence of this write up, twisted. E no dey hard some people.
Religion is a touchy subject for a lot of people and in my household it
is generally not considered "polite conversation."
For
some, an attack on religion is an attack on their god or gods. I only
wish to put down certain points or aspects of organized religion I’m not
comfortable with, I am not questioning anyone's belief in a personal
god.
In Nigeria,
religion has helped us to remain sane or else we all for don kolo with
the way our environment is stifling us. Religion can give people a sense
of community and make people feel welcomed. But life is never that
simple sha. Kai! Oh lord.
In
Nigeria especially, religion has turned a lot of my people into MUMU's.
Instead of learning to discern truth on their own and formulate their
own mindset, they're told how to think. These are the people engaged in
‘Mumugiousity’.
For
them Religion has turned them into group soul's, sheep, cows and goat
with their Shepherd as their pastors, who have erased their trust in
their own intellect and gradually convinced them to put their trust in
them (pastors) as the only true men of god, convincing them that without
them, they would be lost. Hummmm! They fall for this like very poor
people would fall for a bag of rice. Odikwarisky…
You
have become ‘mumurized’ when you can forgo the little intelligence you
have and on top of all that, you become a hypocrite. Religion is filling
mumu people with fear; it is one of the main reasons why mumu people
are afraid of living.
And
when I say ‘living’ I don’t mean just surviving. To survive is one
thing, even stones do that, but to live is a completely different thing.
To live means to be sensitive, it means to feel, to grow, to discover
your potential and achieve to higher states of being each and every
moment.
These days
nothing happens without it being remote controlled from the village,
someone must have sent it, there are more demons waiting to destroy us,
chineke God are you there?
Once
you are a religious mumu, you will not tolerate religious ideologies
that are different from the one you follow. This is why you can see
religious mumu people fighting non-religious ones.
To
identify with a religious ideology, and call it the only truth and way,
leads to tremendously negative consequences – hatred, tribalism and all
kinds of violence. Just think of how many wars have been carried out
throughout history by some mumu's in the name of God and religion.
Abegi!
To live means
to learn and life is a continuous lesson. When, however, you grow into
‘mumuship’, conditioned to believe what is right and wrong according to
religion, and told that to doubt religion means to go to hell, naturally
you become afraid of seeking true knowledge. You stop searching to find
the truth, to learn, and hence to grow as a human being. You can't
believe how many of us have stopped growing…Millions.
To
blindly follow any ideology without asking questions simply means to
restrict your perception, suppress yourself, and live in hypocrisy — in
other words, to live in suffering and misery.
Many
mumu people choose to follow, even though they suffer from this choice,
simply because religion frees them from personal responsibility. To
live spontaneously one has to take responsibility for oneself, and this
is certainly painful.
Life
is made of choices, and to make the right choice is not always easy. So
‘mumu’ people prefer not to choose for themselves, but to have others
choose for them. They prefer to walk on paths made by others, instead of
creating their own path. But unless we stop having some of these wayo
people telling these mumu people what to do or what not to do, some of
us will never be free. And unless we are free, we will never be happy
and peaceful.
Yes, you
can have a personal relationship with God starting with giving love to
your neighbour, just don't let some masquerades turn you and your life
to ‘Mumugiousity’. Fire burn dem.
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