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You may wish to hate Islam, but Muslims’ strict interpretation of a blasphemy teaches us how not to mess up with any person who is dear to someone. In a movie and entertainment industry, many religious beliefs and figures especially biblical characters are caricatured, but I bet you, no one can ever dare to satirise Koran nor Mohammed. What is Read more
Roland Bartetzko, a veteran soldier with a self-acclaimed power of interpreting fearful faces, is emphatic that preachers do not believe what they preach, not even the Pope in Rome. Bartetzko said that it became clear to him in March 2005 when then head of the Catholic Church, Pope John Paul II, made his last public appearance. Bartetzko fought in two Read more
In our time, two movements are sweeping simultaneously across the globe, one is a glowing agnosticism and her twin sister atheism and the other is scrupulosity and its attendant religious indocility. Both extremes are dangerous, but we will be taking up religious gullibility today. Scrupulosity is a form of obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) involving religious or moral obsessions. Scrupulous individuals Read more
If burying the dead is a corporeal work of mercy, why is scrutiny needed before a Catholic funeral? To answer this, a little clarification would be necessary between a burial and a funeral. Burial, otherwise known as interment, is the ritual or ceremonial act of laying the remains of the dead in the grave. Funeral refers to ceremony or service Read more
Ongoing is a call out on the Catholic Church in Nigeria to look at the manner her priests are allegedly using burial masses to demand money, settle petty scores and air their insecurities. Fr. Camillus Ejike Mbaka recently revealed that the number of Catholics is dropping and attributed the dwindling statistics to growing grievances against church’s handling of burial and Read more
Back to my favourite illustration. Once upon a time, a neighbouring village enacted a law against killings of pets which at the time had become rampant. The new law provided that if any animal is killed, all villagers would be led to an oath taking rite before a village shrine. A week later, a pussycat was killed and dropped on Read more
