One of the many problems of
Nigeria and one of the most gruel-some
of all is religion; diversity of religion, religious intolerance to mention
just a few.
Faith is very deep and personal but it is of
no effect if it has no positive impact on our relationships.
Our relationship with God is worship;
we do not see Him but most people believe in God, though confession and
profession differ.
Our duty (relationship) to
humanity is service. We must serve humanity to prove our faith. Anything short
of that is heresy. It self-seeking spiritual indulgence and hocus-pocus
Our duty to our neighbour is love
and to those we share same faith it is fellowship. And in fellowship and love
is sharing of our challenges and resources. All the testimonies that stimulate
greed are not of God but self-seeking and destroy the essence of brotherhood.
Faith is personal conviction but
shared with people of the same believe system or symbol of faith.
Faith without the factor of
service to humanity, fellowship and love between brethren and neighbour
invalidates what we confess and profess about God or the symbol of our faith
The common system that harmonises
everyone of different faith, culture and believe system is a government with a
strong and enforceable constitution.
When your faith runs contrary to
government rules and regulation, be ready to stand for your faith and pay the
price.
A constitution need to be fair to all without prejudice and our faith is the should be the empathy eye of the law when the weak, minor etc. that are not fairly treated.
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