Economic sabotage by foreign religions on black people and Africa
Religion emerged from a homogenous source as human cosmology expressed belief in the existence of the Omnipotent Being.
When fiscal benefits became noticeable in credence, bountiful branches cropped up to reap massively from such benefits, hence the multiplicity of various religions. Contributions from Africa that plagiarises religions have made those who vended them to us richer, leaving us poor.
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In calculus, the holy books and instruments of worship bought by Africans who from time immemorial were converted to borrowed religions ran into trillions of dollars that could develop Africa better than anywhere else on the globe.
It is, therefore, far-sighted to note that countries that develop their own religions advance better and are richer than those of us who pirate religions because of the pecuniary stress we agonise, as we need to import religious accoutrements from the originators.
Obviously, all countries that go on borrowed religions in the world are poor, deprived and worthless.
The present scenario has shifted to Africans forming their own churches to restrain the money leaving our shores but to benefit few who transmuted themselves into the shoes of the religious colonialists.
Africans have the knack for pasting pictures and reckless religious stickers on their cars, homes, shops and billboards, making the producers of the accoutrements rich while we live in abject poverty, which is profligacy indeed.
All these naïve behaviour have put anxieties on our finances, making us more desolate. If it were necessary, the manufacturers of the products we paste these stickers on would have done so before exporting them to us but to the divergent.
Vipers
Africans spend billions of dollars on pilgrimages abroad, boosting the economies of the countries whose religions we celebrate through tourism. Christmas celebrations in Africa, for instance, make Africa lose over US$10 billion yearly to countries that produce Christmas paraphernalia, yet we complain of poverty and prostrate for alms.
Christmas trees, rosaries, knockouts, flowers, dresses, wines, olive oils and other kits bought by Africans for deifying religion/Christmas are manufactured by the originators and most absurdly by Chinese, Indians and others who do not idiosyncratically celebrate Christmas but milk our fiscal resources, making them richer, cashing on our ingenuousness and leaving us poorer.
This money can be used more profitably in building infrastructure, schools and hospitals that are needed zealously to demote our disparagement. In fact, the churches especially, have turned into gambling houses where money is traded freely without any any fragment contributing to national development.
Dr Martin Luther King called the churches vipers and hypocrites because they drain people’s pockets and do not react to issues relating to oppression and cheating or shudder against the devastation of weapons and wars but machinate them for benefit.
Commercialisation
In Africa, learned professionals who should use their expertise and knowledge to better our economies choose to go into religious evangelism, as it is a perceived quicker pecuniary stance than their specialised fields, thus eroding intellectual professionalism.
Extreme religiosity and spiritualism is incongruent to the concept of science and technology that would have enriched us, which act is deleterious to our evolution.
The exemption of eligious groups’ from taxes and levies do not help in supplementing our Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and consequently serve as economic liability to governments. Borrowed religions have turned a great deal of African factories and beautiful cinema houses where industrialisation and knowledge are garnered for development into gorgeous worship grounds.
This practice has promoted the commercialisation of religions on the continent backed by jumble journalism that stimulate them.
Shortly put, foreign religions have committed enormous economic sabotage against Africans and black people as Christians especially the charismatic ones frown on, deplete and distort our traditional and cultural practices that are sorted internationally for financial recompense.
The most serious loss of revenue in Africa is the wastage of valuable time on worshipping. Time is money, as the adage goes, and, therefore, our GDP definitely dwindles and that generates further poverty as being experienced presently.
African leaders, intuitively, have good intentions for their subjects but erroneous attitudes such as wasting time on mammoth worshipping without work oxidises their good intentions.
Some of these worshipers engage in watch night services, especially on December 31, done in the open mostly at stadia to achieve enormous monetary sequestration, exposing worshippers to health hazards.
Some attend church services until late nights before enjoying their dinner and without allowing digestion go to bed, with resultant effect of contracting dilapidating illnesses. Others organise prayers for followers in the bushes, thus exposing them to dangerous reptiles.
Harmful prayers
The heartfelt belief in prayers has harmful health effect on many worshipers as the appropriate time to seek medical attention are wasted resulting into loss of lives.
Most importantly, the noises that emanate from these churches make them develop deafness and hypertension that lowers their life expectancies.
This unconscious character belittles the fitness of attendants who throng our hospitals for treatment, with some dying in the process, diminishing our workforce and in the process patronising drug manufacturers.
All these unwitting behaviour affect productivity that lowers the per capita income in black Africa, a contributing factor to our wretchedness.
The vigils on December 31, with pulsating watch night prayers and worshipping, never change situations for the better in Africa as we always face austerity measures with hardship, tightening our belts every year and turning our waists ironically into that of an ant only to enrich the few who organise such events.
Alternatively, are we thanking God for eliminating others and keeping us alive, forgetting the we shall die one day to be mocked by the living who will celebrate our demise as we did? Or is it human irrationality? According to Bernard Wyllie, ‘Black people are still our slaves. We can continue to reap profits from them without the effort of physical slavery.
Their ignorance is the primary weapon of containment.’
Again, according to Botha, ‘Blacks are our raw materials.’ Blacks need serious edification to preserve their wealth by domesticating, like the Chinese, to command veneration within the comity on nations.
