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Why I Prefer Orisa Worship To Christianity, Islam — Wole Soyinka (24227 Views)

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chatinent: 6:51pm On Oct 10, 2024
A good distraction to avoid talking about Tinubu.
femi4: 6:51pm On Oct 10, 2024
vanbonattel:
Wole is right on this one, have you ever seen natives worshipping Amadioha, Kamanu or Ozuzu before. They really rend their hearts and enjoy the worship of their ancestors.
So we don't have fake ones

Those ones using people to do rituals are from where
MaxInDHouse(m): 6:52pm On Oct 10, 2024
MaxInDHouse:
That is the man's PERSONAL opinion, he is not speaking for everybody nah! smiley
AareGaa: 6:52pm On Oct 10, 2024
ottersberger:
This compound ijiot need to shut up and talk about what is bedeviling the Nigerian man and woman today. Of what good is any of the religions to someone who is hungry?. The man or woman who cannot put food on their dining tables.

Tell us how you are complicit in the pain Nigerians are experiencing today. Gbajue!.

Wole Soyinka has been fighting for the masses since independence. He even fought for the inhabitants of the cursed Biafra.

Tell your father to continue from where Soyinka stopped..
Is your father not man enough?
.

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Kemetian: 6:52pm On Oct 10, 2024
Ironfaceman:


Don't be fooled by traditional jargon. Incase you don't know the native doctor that serves orissa by day is the same person that perpetrate human ritual sacrifice by night.
I will prefer a fake pastor to a dirty diabolic satanic priest.

Your are an animal. And a pea brain.

Armed robbers, kidnappers, and treasury looters regularly visit pastors daily for blessings regarding their nefarious activities.

The pastors themselves are often child sexual abs and greedy criminals who loot the tithes they are paid by gullible idiots like you, to live billionaire lifestyles and buy private jets, while their congregations can barely afford to eat.

Disgusting, satanic, greedy people claiming to be holy.

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LordIsaac(m): 6:53pm On Oct 10, 2024
When he should be getting ready to meet the Lord. I pray he meets Jesus!

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Nnamdipapa(m): 6:55pm On Oct 10, 2024
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Your JW belief is your personal opinions as well and you are not speaking for everyone.
SIRTee15: 7:03pm On Oct 10, 2024
Kemetian:


Your are an animal. And a pea brain.

Armed robbers, kidnappers, and treasury looters regularly visit pastors daily for blessings regarding their nefarious activities.

The pastors themselves are often child sexual abs and greedy criminals who loot the tithes they are paid by gullible idiots like you, to live billionaire lifestyles and buy private jets, while their congregations can barely afford to eat.

Disgusting, satanic, greedy people claiming to be holy.

Guy he's right and U know it.
A fake pastor leading a gullible sheep is far better than an evil traditional worshippers who use humans for ritual.
If U are happy to embrace traditional religion go for it. But just know there's more darkness and diabolism to it than U can imagine. It's not black and white.

At least Christianity is clear. It's common sense to know pastors who follow the bible and those who follow their desire.

I'm a Christian yet I've argued against tithe as mandatory for salvation on this forum for years as far back as 2012. It's now Nigerian Christians are beginning to wake up including Pastors to the reality of tithe.

Christianity is the truth. U can either embrace it or leave it.
Unlike traditional religion where truth is obscured and relative.

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reality1010: 7:05pm On Oct 10, 2024
God1000:


https://www.vanguardngr.com/2024/10/why-i-prefer-orisa-worship-to-christianity-islam-wole-soyinka/amp/
For sure, we know you long ago to be an AThiest.
I pity those who have allowed their kids around you..
ottersberger(m): 7:05pm On Oct 10, 2024
AareGaa:


Woke Soyinka has been fighting for the masses since independence. He even fought for the inhabitants of the cursed Biafra.

Tell your father to continue from where Soyinka stopped..
Is your father not man enough?
.

Thunder fire you and the deadbeat, coward and useless slowpoke you call your father
Ready2speak: 7:06pm On Oct 10, 2024
And what was Oduduwa worshiping when he sent his son to (Ile Ibinu) to conquer the place and take as many captives as possible and eventually end up creating the worst slave market known to man?
Was it Christianity or Islam?
Maybe it is the spirituality that led him to start "The Seadogs" confraternity popularly called Pirates.

Dude should shut it up.

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Damseldammie(f): 7:08pm On Oct 10, 2024
Kaybaba5:
Everyone is entitled to his or her opinion


Oro yen ni yen 👍
reality1010: 7:08pm On Oct 10, 2024
SIRTee15:


Guy he's right and U know it.
A fake pastor leading a gullible sheep is far better than an evil traditional worshippers who use humans for ritual.
If U are happy to embrace traditional religion go for it. But just know there's more darkness and diabolism to it than U can imagine. It's not black and white.

At least Christianity is clear. It's common sense to know pastors who follow the bible and those who follow their desire.

I'm a Christian yet I've argued against tithe as mandatory for salvation on this forum for years as far back as 2012. It's now Nigerian Christians are beginning to wake up including Pastors to the reality of tithe.

But wait oo! Who did bewitch you people into believing that payment of tithe will take you to heaven?
Tithe is obligatory but it does not take you to heaven just like alms giving cannot take you to heaven. The only thing that can take you to heaven is true and genuine repentance and believing in Jesus Christ, confess your sins and follow Him.
Christianity is the truth. U can either embrace it or leave it.
Unlike traditional religion where truth is obscured and relative.
discusant: 7:14pm On Oct 10, 2024
AareGaa:


Jagaban is the Conqueror of Obi and his illiterate blodas

Jagaban gave you and his followers the most conquering phenomenon - hunger, immobility and trekking in the 21st century.

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olyrayy(m): 7:15pm On Oct 10, 2024
Kemetian:


Brainwashed he-goat.

People who are observing IFA and traditional religion in Nigeria and across Africa are not engaging in human sacrifice.

It’s you CHRISTIANS AND MUSLIMS who have slaughtered BILLIONS OF PEOPLE on this Earth throughout your history, often on the basis of LIES AND EXAGGERATIONS about traditional spirituality, in order to justify your BLOODLUST.

Lol. And the skull miners and ritualists of today, where do they go to carry out their rituals? Is it not the same Ifa priests?

Demon worshippers!

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Konquest: 7:17pm On Oct 10, 2024
God1000:

Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka says he prefers traditional Orisa worshipping to Christianity and Islam because it fascinated him more.

Soyinka said this in an interview with CNN’s Larry Madowo, where he further explained that the depth of faith in Islam and Christianity doesn’t match that of Orisa worshipping for him.

According to him, Orisa worshipping eschews violence and is more creative.

“I was fortunate to be born in two worlds – the Christian world and traditional Orisa worshippers.

“My grandfather, until he – poor man – also got converted, was an Orisa person and a chief, and his (grandfather’s) side (of Orisa) fascinated me a lot more.

“For me, it (Orisa worshipping) was more artistic, creative, and also more mysterious. I don’t find much of the mysterious in Christianity and even less in Islam. And that is for a simple reason that I didn’t grow up in a Muslim environment.

“Orisa is open, and very ecumenical and that is why these foreign religions were able to penetrate it and even distort the truth. Because of the generosity of this spirit (Orisa), it is not violent. It is one of those African religions which eschew violence.

“I don’t believe in the Islamic or Christian God and, for the adherents of these religions, if that makes me an atheist, so I say, I am an atheist.

“I insisted that all human beings have a certain spiritual core in their being. I believe myself to be a more spirit-sensitive person,” Wole Soyinka said.
https://www.vanguardngr.com/2024/10/why-i-prefer-orisa-worship-to-christianity-islam-wole-soyinka/amp/
I laugh as the ignorant responses of some uninformed posters on this thread who are casting aspersions on other indigenous faiths.

The ENTIRE foundations of the religions that make up "Christianity" from the (Constantine induced Roman Catholic religion to the Protestant or Pentecostal movement which are offshoots from the Catholic religion) itself are based of off the astrotheological worship of the Sun God (Sol). Astrotheology has to do with the worship of the sun or moon based on the zodiac signs. The Sun was venerated from the ancient civilizations for centuries because it was seen as a giver of life in form of light, and plant growth, etc, and Christianity is a STRONG evidence that the pagan worship of the sun has succeeded right into the 21st century with massive evidence of this sun worship in the bible from the halo (sun disc or solar rays) round the head of Iezeus or Iesus (or Jesus) (who is a personification or allegory of the SUN in the bible, just like the images of other Sun Gods such as Mithra, Horus, Dionesus, Zeus). The worship every Sunday by Christians which is a day historically devoted to the worship of the sun for centuries now, the Easter ceremonies, December 25th Christmas celebration which is equivalent to the rise from the dead of the sun during winter solstice on December 25th, the symbol 12 which represents the zodiac signs and the 12 disciples are an allegory of the 12 zodiac signs, the positions of the ancient churches facing the rising sun and much more.

The original Greek translation of the manuscripts has "SUN God" written in them NOT SON of God, yet while the translators were trying to translate the Greek manuscripts into English just within the last 500 years ago, these translators irresponsibly changed "SUN God" into "SON of God." Fortunately, these FACTS are well known and are in the public domain for over 100 years now and we'll documented by great scholars like Acharya S. in form of videos and books.



SUNS of GOD With Acharya S

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=492XSTpJxm8?si=k_cImn8a1hezop0z

'Suns of God: Krishna, Buddha and Christ Unveiled' (DVD excerpt)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5szXf09uNs?si=_KRctuPQFzPcOd76


Jesus and The Sun God (Zeitgeist excerpt)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bmjQ1566ql0?si=PWn6TWiNWFa70BUg
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KnownUnknown: 7:22pm On Oct 10, 2024
Kemetian:


What cult is bigger and more monstrous than Christianity and Islam?

Judaism might not be larger but it’s their big brother in monstrosity.
membranus: 7:25pm On Oct 10, 2024
Padipadi:

Why did you use capital letter to begin the word muslim as indicated in ya post that's boldened?
You're are janjaweèd thinking ya blv supercedes others own. Receive one nuke as dinner!

One nuke as a dinner, isn't that too large an order?
etrouble: 7:28pm On Oct 10, 2024
Afonja44:
What do you expect from a cultist?

Tell us about your own biological father
etrouble: 7:29pm On Oct 10, 2024
tobenuel:
I wonder if this was the question CNN really asked you abi you just carry dey talk. well, over here we don't care.

when are you going to assess Tinubu's government? there is no time again o, hurry up

Your biological father too is in Nigeria, tell him to do his own assessment. Only a mentally challenged human will expect a 90 years old man to start fighting for him
Bonapart(m): 7:30pm On Oct 10, 2024
BoldBrainz:
Christians will gather in this thread and abuse the shit out of him for not prioritising their rubbish religion😊.

Very intolerant set of minions!
of course it is only Christians you can speak against. You can't speak against the children of the bond woman because you still like your rotten head on your miserable shoulder. Hediot

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3310adeb: 7:34pm On Oct 10, 2024
Omoawoke:
Wole Soyinka is a free soul

It takes the depth of all stupidity and idiocy for a black African man to worship the same useless foreign gods that were used to enslave them.

It is 1000times better to worship your ancestors than worshiping the ancestors of others

Jesus, Jehovah and his useless book called Bible was all about the Jews, did they mention your tribe in the Bible? Did you hear any of your villlage name in the Bible ? Are you a descendant of Noah, Abraham and the other useless Bible characters?

Same goes for Islam, you will be bearing Abdullahi, Mohammed , Ibrahim and abandon your own cultural name. ? Are you an Arab?
Worst of all these Arabs hate you and yet you love them because your brain is dead.
You want to pray to your God, you have to learn Arabic to speak to your god?
It is better to practice Ifa than any of these sick abrahmic religion. At least Ifa speaks your language, and represents you better than speaking in tongues (madness) and reciting useles Arabic. Yet na una wicked , na una selfish and evil . Na una do ritual and na una corrupt




Sharp
tishbite42: 7:38pm On Oct 10, 2024
Sleekfingers:



Was Jonathan not a failure like Buhari? If Jonathan had done the necessary, who would have voted for Buhari?
Jonathan is one the most dumbest president I have ever seen.....
How about T-Pain
Sleekfingers: 7:40pm On Oct 10, 2024
tishbite42:

How about T-Pain


I will access him , after his first tenure.
abbasajao(m): 7:41pm On Oct 10, 2024
Sooner or later you will meet with your lord and give of all this.
tishbite42: 7:42pm On Oct 10, 2024
Sleekfingers:



I will access him , after his first tenure.
Hypocrite
Sleekfingers: 7:48pm On Oct 10, 2024
tishbite42:

Hypocrite


Thank you.

Tinubu just spent a year plus . What magic do you want him to do ? You expect him to clean up all the mess Obj , Jonathan and Buhari created in less than 2 years ?
IbnB: 7:56pm On Oct 10, 2024
More rubbish talk from the same Soyinka who in his memoir claimed that Babalawos are fraudsters...
Lionnation: 7:58pm On Oct 10, 2024
Orisa/olisa is an Igbo name for the greatest of all Gods who lives in heaven, someone onse said yorubas are defendants of igbos it's beginning to get clearer,
Squirrel1(m): 7:59pm On Oct 10, 2024
God1000:
We all have different choices, I personally judge people by their character, not because you are christian, Muslim or traditionalist
this is the way....
Squirrel1(m): 8:02pm On Oct 10, 2024
Lovelife433:
Reality will soon Don on dis occultic man. There is no other way than JESUS, u must call that saving name of JESUS Either here on earth or in hell.
him say e no go do .. na by force? Hian!
MiddleDimension: 8:06pm On Oct 10, 2024
CodeTemplarr:
Vague praise to confuse more people into embracing village mindset.

Wole Soyinka is village mindset? 😂😂😂😂😂😂

Please give me his kind of 'village' mindset😂😂😂😂😂


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCK6D1IHxiA&pp=ygUhd29sZSBzb3lpbmthIHJlY2VpdmVkIG5vYmVsIHByaXpl

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