It has become an agreed fact that the only other business bigger than
running a church in Nigeria is politics. No thanks to the intoxicating
effects religion has on Nigerians which have gone a long way to prove
that Karl Marx was not mistaken when he defined religion as “the sigh of
the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world and the soul of
the soulless conditions. It is the opium of the masses.”
Unfortunately for the country, despite the increase in the number of
religious centres, there has been a directly proportional increase in
the rate of crimes and vices being perpetrated in the country; religious
centres inclusive.
In some parts of Nigeria, five minutes walk from anywhere will lead one to a church. Investigations have
however shown that not all the churches are genuine; some are no more
than business centres and money-making ventures. To many Nigerians now,
the surest ways of making big money lie in politics and religion.
Gone are the days when churches signposts had just a cross, the name of
the church and the time and order of services. Signposts of churches
have assumed more colourful dimensions and the trend nowadays is for the
signpost to bear conspicuous pictures of the pastor in charge of the
church and sometimes that of his wife beside him.
Street Journal has found out that most of the fake Pastors have become dime-gods to ....
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