Below is an article written by one and only 'Charle Boy', enjoy it.
For starters,
don't pick up the dictionary to lookup ‘Mumugiousity’, I coined it myself but
you go soon grab weytin 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 donkolowith 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 intoMUMU'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 mumupeople with fear; it is one of the main
reasons why mumupeople 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 mumupeople fighting nonreligious 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 thesewayopeople telling these mumupeople 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.'
Source:
Linda Ikeji’s blog
