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    By Dipo Tepede, 3 years and 10 months ago

    The Blame Game!

    Average time to read2:58 minutes aprox.

    Every time I see comments made by my fellow Christian brethren, I can’t but cringe at the blame game that is prominent in these comments. The comments always reveal helplessness by the same people who are expected to be a watchdog on this earth. When I posted “Your take ‫THIS DAY MUSIC FESTIVAL”, my dear readers immediately assumed I totally agree with the write-up of my dear friend, Bolaji Osinuga, but I don’t. I am actually not very happy with the comment; I am actually awed by it. Write-ups like this have kept me thinking all night on how we (the Christians) are re-incarnating the drama that took place in the Garden of Eden.More...

    I keep on saying the only reason why there is darkness is because there is no light. Darkness is simply defined as the absence of light. How can we be passing the responsibilities of beaming the light to others who are by themselves lost? We give so much power to people who are expected to be holding our skirt, begging for the way of salvation. This is the story of Adam and Eve; Adam said “God, it is the woman that you gave me that lured me into eating the apple”. The Christians say “It is Beyonce, Madonna, Snoop Doggy Dog that are using lewdness, profanity and sex  to sell their music that is the major responsibility for the decadence in morality”. No matter how much we try to justify perversity of these artists, we are only making them a model to be reckoned with.

    I personally appreciate these artists a lot because they are good at their game; they know how to connect to their customers big time and they are rewarded by their customers wallet for a job well done. There is nothing as profound as someone discovering one’s talent and exchanging one’s talent for a greater value; there is nothing as profound as that. The value of this person may be in question but the ability to generate traffic and make a profit from this traffic is regarded as greatness. No wonder the same Christian that critic these artists know the names, the dance style, and the video of these artists. Is this not worth taking a heavy reflection on?

     

    Then some Christians bring flimsy arguments like sex sells; perversity sells; and I start wondering what they are talking about. Titanic has the highest Box Office sale world wide, the Bible is the best selling book of all time, and Passion of the Christ sold far more than Basic Instinct. These are indications that following the same principle of “connecting with your customer”, you will make great sale. It is not a matter of the content of your art but the principle of connecting to your customer. Beyonce connects to the emotional level of people with her song and dance steps; Nicole Simons connects to the spiritual level of people but due to heavy promotions, Beyonce is more popular thus makes more money. This simply means Christians need to up their game; they need to get more platforms of reaching out like Cable, Stage Promotions, Radios, Televisions, etc.

     

    I strongly believe it is better for Christians to learn how to appropriate the immense powers they have within them than to blame others for the misfortunes they face. The artists we critique today could be the proponent our dear gospel if only someone would up his game. We saw the same talented Paul who persecuted the Christian becomes the chief Proponent of the Christians. We have seen the Samaritan proclaimed to be better than the priest and a fellow Jew by Jesus because of his altruistic act. We have seen Jesus baffle at the faith of a Roman Centurion over his own people. We should learn to appreciate their talents and pray for a change in their value system.

     

    Then the role model argument comes in, and I get pissed off when Christians call Bill Gates. Bill Gates proclaimed live that he is not sure if he believes in God. Is that the role model, we want? Is it because he followed the principle of sowing and reaping, and achieved enormous wealth that we regard him as a role model then there is no difference between Beyonce and Bill Gates; both maximize their talents to get to where they are but Beyonce still proclaims her love for God and to me will change with time………

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    32 comments

    Gravatar #32. J
    3 years and 9 months ago

    Angela im on your side concerning luminus, please are you in alliance with me so that we can address him!

    luminus im on yourside concerning Angelas «any govt in power/anywhere belle face» tendencies, please lets address her!

    m2m

    Gravatar #31. J
    3 years and 9 months ago

    please for all of you that dont know Gen. Aguiyi-Ironsi was not a nigerian but the son of an american freed serria leon slave (he claimed his mother side and his real name was john thomas) His mission was to keep nigeria a slave country to the western world (america and england) the northerners knew it and promptly eliminated him witin 6 months of rule

    please see this link for more info
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnson_Aguiyi-Ironsi

    We have had alot of such infiltration from liberia and serria leon into nigeria since slaves were freed. among them the Ben Bruce family, Patrick Dele Cole etc these people are american slaves who are being used by the CIA to keep us under slavery by fighting for so called «democracy» this was why when Rev Jesse Jackson landed nigeria Abacha told him he was considered an enemy of the state and had 24 hrs to leave nigeria or be arrested and arraigned as a spy and dealt with!

    m2m

    Gravatar #30. J
    3 years and 9 months ago

    thank u luminus for giving us an «ordered» paragraph system!
    as you will notice the english language is that of order there are
    paragraphs and a title at helm of affairs ie topic thsi slso applied to the so called free press there is an ordered two column system

    m2m

    Gravatar #29. J
    3 years and 9 months ago

    thank u luminus for giving us an «ordered» paragraph system!

    m2m

    Gravatar #28. J
    3 years and 9 months ago

    Exactly what kind of leadership r u talking about Angela? because there is only one kind of national leadership ie leadership by force and that is a kind of leadership that is not mentioned in any political science text book but appears to be the dominant kind!

    vis a vis NO JUDICIARY is allowed to issue any arrest/search WARRANT. the only person legally WHO CAN issue and effect any arrest is a military non-commissioned officer who has attained the rank of WARRANT OFFICER. This entitlement to arrest by these officers is by virtue of their over 20-30 years of distinguished and meritorious national military service.

    So by police searching people at a check point it is illegal because they have no warrant!

    similarly at the SENATE the MASTER AT ARMS «ORDERS» the senate to rise and to sit and MAINTAINS «ORDER» even the senators take their turns (order) to argue their case.

    Also that is quite interesting is that the rank insignia of a Major General and above has the seal of the federation which is at the senate this seal is the symbol of law while the sword is the order. And so only a general can be a senator and can make any law he likes and effect the order by using the warrant officer! QED

    please also note that even a PHD has to «DEFEND» their THESIS

    Infact even moses was a camp commander and had a vision but once again OBJ DOES NOT and so seems to be taking NIGERIA through an UNENDING WILDERNESS!

    God is a God of dictation/order and change. Because he not only gavee us the ten commandments (as dipo highlighted in the opening blog) but he also changed from the old testament system to the new testament system. This change was not welcomed by the suducees and pharicees or the roman leadership at the time because it might have been seen to be a rallying point for the isrealites opposition to the roman occupation at the time!

    m2m

    Gravatar #27. J
    3 years and 9 months ago

    Majority of the Youruba had a mixed system of family heads (baale's)/democratic and Obas (kings)/dictatorships , but with the Hausa Fulani invasion even Old Ife was pushed down to its current georgraphical location and the heads of the Yoruba Nation (Ooni of Ife, Alaafin of oyo) were forced to accept islam during these wars. since then the Caliphate used them to polularize the Oba system the the Baale system reduced. This is why there are more Muslim Obas than Christian ones because the obas are more or less Emirs. This is also the case with Igbo. They originally have no kingship/monarchy system but with wars with Idoma, Igala, Tiv, Jukun (taraba/admawa) etc they were forced to adopt Eze system ie they had imposed leaders. The eze would be imposed and take dictation from the leaders of those areas after being defeated.

    m2m

    Gravatar #26. J
    3 years and 9 months ago

    Similarly, it is the political elite that started corruption, they were the ones who started buying houses in london/all over the and around the world and sending their children to schools abroad with the likes of prince charles (such as ojukwu)

    The Hausa-Fulani already had artillery/gunpower before the coming of the british due to their contact with arab traders and they were the last and hardest to conquer, infact the Germans and french had unsucessfully tried. The british learned from the mistakes of both of them and improved up on thier techniques.

    The british decided to use them (hausa) in the new police/military because they were the hardest to conquer. After independence they decided to reclaim what was their birth right and what their fathers had served loyally for. since they were told that they were in the lower cadre (non commissioned) and the british imposed igbo majority as commissioned (higher cadre) after independence.

    This would also mean that they could easily use this military to continue to fight a war against the other tribes before they were interrupted by the british.the Youruba empire was close to the lower niger river area near kainji, old oyo was where illorin is today and was pushed down due to this Hausa invasion.

    similarly the british had failed to conquer south africa and the germans learned form their mistakes. In fact according to the accounts of the british soldiers at the time of the south africa they said » we noticed that the Zulu had specialised groups with calvalry (horse), spears, bow and arrow in seperate groups» this the british did not have at the time and this is what today we call divisions, brigades, companies etc The british system at the time was that of barbarian i.e multitude of everybody rushing to fight at one time with no seperate units.

    m2m

    Gravatar #25. Angela
    3 years and 9 months ago

    LOL @ Jane

    I enjoyed reading your comment.

    Nice one.

    m2m

    Gravatar #24. J
    3 years and 9 months ago

    Angela you are right, good leadership if what the country needs if its to continue. The nigerian leadeship trend has always followed a set path ie Christain -Muslim ticket/ leadership. It is impossible to have a leadership in nigerian that will be sustaining if it does not comprise the military elite as well as the political elite. However the military is the political elite, because politics is war (infact war college is all diplomacy and politics)!
    but the political elite is not the military elite!

    the fight against obj and abacha is/was an age old fight between these 2 elites. Abacha, Gowon etc are the children of old soldiers who were part of the west african frontier force/Glovers hausas.
    They feel that is is thier birth right to control the military of the country because thier fathers served loyally. The political elite tried to infiltrate their children/people into the military because there was a series of coups threatening africa at the time this would lead to politicians like Fani Kayode Snr putting people like Obj in the Army and Ojukwus father putting him in the army. In essence the politicians did not want to mind their own side of the house because they were scared of being overthrown. This is why Ojukwu was dismissed from the army by Gowon and Obj was locked up by Abacha!

    At that time there was no descendant of a glover hausa in involved in politics.

    m2m

    Gravatar #23. Luminus
    3 years and 9 months ago

    @floetry: I don't think Dipo is denying the fact that sex sells, but he's putting forward the argument that you can sell without sex and or debauchery.

    The key is connecting with your audience. Know what the people want and let them have it full on. Bill Gates' religious affiliations are none of my business, what's important is for me to reflect Christ. That one person isn't is not excuse for me not to.

    @J: I'm really sorry, I couldn't read the bulk of your comments, I don't have the attention span or the time to devote to that, I guess if you summarise a bit more, you'll get taken seriously, no offense intended.

    @Angela: I'm feeling you 100%. Your life is what you make of it and whining and crying never fixed anything. We need to get up, dust ourselves off physically and mentally and forge ahead.

    @Dipo: Babaaa. I'm feeling you joo. You've got this on lock-down. Valid points all the way. Unlike Jane who thinks you should stay off topics like this, I think you should keep it up, for one, Controversy sells, and it's part of connecting with your readers. 'Cos if we weren't feeling this ish, this comment wouldn't be number 23.

    m2m

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