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We lost our morality, lost our family values. Our religious leaders have failed us in every way. They preach while they who should be role models act in contrary. Our churches are PLCs making more money comparable to the NNPC. The Overseers have made it a family business. Followers are taught not to ask questions, they are to follow blindly or remain gullible. The Muslims are not left out; some of their leaders tread this line of business.

It should be easy to differentiate between wrong and right but a whole lot of us are lazy and won’t use our brain. We can’t read the Holy Books to help direct our path. We prefer our so called religious leaders to read and ‘misinterpret’ the meaning to us. We also prefer a congregation that says the Holy Books allows bum shorts and nudity in places of worship. I thought we are to adjust our lifestyle to suit the religion. Rather we are adjusting religion to suit our lifestyle. We claim to be righteous yet we act in an opposite direction.

We can’t look unto our political leaders for development and neither can we look to our religious leaders for guidance to salvation. We have been brain washed to the extent that we demarcate religion from politics. How could both which have so much impact on our life be separated? Shouldn’t the people go against a tyrant and wicked leader? We prefer to let them carry on with the misappropriation and embezzlement.

Woe unto whoever said religion is the opium of the people. By the time we go back to true religion, we’ll realize we don’t deserve the kind of leaders we have. We will realize God wants the best for us. Until then, we continue to complain and wail.

If we can ask a Goodluck Jonathan questions, why can’t we ask our religious leaders? And if we can’t ask them, it’s time we start reading to understand the holy books and using it as our guide.