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The proliferation of salvation churches better known as pentecostal churches are certainly a trend today.A study was carried sometime last year if my memory serves me well that Africans are more religious than other people of other continents and I want to agree.Yesterday the church that I visited was packed, the singing was marvelous and how i enjoy song, I have always loved song and dance and oh my, the choir was sensational.It would appear though not certainly though that Africans seem to have more problems than other nations, these manifestations of problems vary, some are beyond belief, beyond imagination.A film could be made out of the stories that are revealed there and its scary.It is until you observe the whole congregation and establish the many normal people that you know that reason begin to ascend.Other than that you may classify the congregation gone insane.
The illustration above depicts an African Religious church, African charismatic church, Self proclaimed.Either you are in or you count yourself a witch, wizard.
2 comments:
it may not come as a surprise that africa and africans are religiuos we think back to radical writers such as karl Marx who argued that religion was the opium of the poor, in these circumstances one needs to hold on to this faith to keep a sense of pespective that is one will reach haven upon death and all will be well blur blur blur... however the westerners who have as it were conquered the univerves and human condition and are able to some extent control and understand their habitat are not ruled by such supernatural beleif systems; rational thinking and science in such societies takes precedence.
Thanks for the comment Anonymous, Im not disputing that poverty in Africa may make and cause people go to churches but lately its intellectuals, brainy academics who throng there in particular Pentecostal churches and so the Karl Max theory needs to be revisited through thorough research.Supposedly, these people should be using rational thinking and science and somehow they find these are not adequate
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