Mojisola Mamelon
Sep 1, 2018 · 4 min read

Someone asked me why I stopped posting about religion so agressively,

I told her that I dont know. But deep inside… I do.

I stopped posting so aggressively because I came to see most religious Africans adults for what they really are:

Sociopathic babies in adult bodies.

With or without religion… A lot of us have madness running in our blood.

Not the good kind of madness that makes you strip yourself of clothes and walk bare buttocked in the streets. Naah… not that type.

It is silent, proud, impressive madness that is considered normal. The sort of madness that makes you drive past the scene of an accident without even trying to stop to help. Or better still the sort that makes you stop and whip out your phone and take videos and pictures of the victims in their last moments. This is the same sort of madness that makes you employ a 12 year old house maid and then brand her a witch and home wrecker when your partner molests her and she tells you about it.

This sort of madness is the sort that makes Christians quote the Bible passage:

“Ten thousand will fall on your right and another on your left. You will only see them but it won’t touch you”

To think that the fact that you’re the only survivor in an eighteen passenger vehicle accident is something to brag about! Something to praise God about and to claim Gods eternal love about.

Apparently, the victims who died weren’t good enough. God didn’t love them enough. They deserved to die and you are the only one who was righteous.

But we know the truth about this sort of madness and it’s source. We know it has very little or nothing to do with religions. If it was about the religion, every religion practicing continent would be as horrible as ours.

I have come to the conclusion that Africans are not gullible. We don’t go to church because we believe.

Lol

Hell… A lot of us religious folks still visit witch doctors and stuff, make sacrifices and secretly use concoctions from our traditional herbalists even though we sing the loudest in church on Sunday. Because we don’t actually believe in the white man’s God.

To make matters even worse, lots of your imported religions and denominations have taken on aspects of various traditional African religions.

Examples of the product of this shameless adaptation include Celestial churches with their fetishized candle and water ritual, animal sacrifices and the sorts, Cherubim and Seraphim churches with their near fetish practices… CAC churches with their incantation like prayers and weird water doctrines, even gofamint, MFM etc are not excluded with their serial killer conscienceless doctrine, obsession with village people and witches and near idiotic prayer modes.

We don’t go to these churches because we believe that Jesus will save us from our imaginary enemies and village witches. We go to these churches because we never got to be kids. Real kids.

We don’t trust anyone because our closest relatives who should love and protect us were our abusers.

We got hit for contributing to adult convos, got slapped around for receiving gifts from visitors. Got hit for bedwetting. Got beaten up for playing football with friends. And those are the lucky ones.

The unlucky ones got locked in toilets, starved, beaten, called names, mocked, denied treats.

The even more unlucky ones got raped. Abused. Assaulted.

By family.

Even though we don’t wanna admit It, most of us were ABUSED!

And what was worse, they said it was discipline. They even gave it a fancy name.

HOME TRAINING.

So…

When people come down with severe trust issues and run off to church to pray to some daddy in the sky, believing that some invisible friend is looking out for them, fighting for them, forgiving their crazy asses for all the horrible things they do, loving them unconditionally even when they have been the worst sorts of animals to other humans, and all they gotta do in return is love him back, I see people who are grasping at the last straw of proper parenting that they never had .

My friend and mentor, Segun Akinlolu… also known popularly as Beautiful Nubia said to me in a conversation

“A lot of us never had childhoods.”

That statement struck me hard because I realized that he was right. All we get is a babyhood and adulthood. The space in between goes in a blur. Maybe this is a factor in our sickness, or maybe it is just the reality of being an African In Africa in the 21st century.

Irrespective of what the case might be, I have decided to ignore religion and its many flaws. I have seen religious people who are actually good humans. I have met non religious folks who are just as demonic as trolls. I know that the person that we are are often influenced by the teaching and loving we receive in the first ten years of life, so when I see religious fanatics, what I really see is broken people. Sick people. Schizophrenic people who need to be bound and gagged and locked up somewhere far away from civilization.

    Mojisola Mamelon

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