Don’t Be Deceived, Prayers Don’t Bring Dev’t, Good Governance

Most of the life changing inventions and discoveries that have propelled mankind to civilization were products of hardworking people who spent less time in the church or mosque.

In fact, they prayed less and worked more. At that time these life changing inventors were dubbed irreligious and evil. They were cursed and hated too.

Do you know that Europe started seeing massive development when they embraced industrialization and thought less of rapture? Today, they work more and pray less. In fact, they pray through work as Opus Dei would say.

Do a simple check, take a sample and study the most religious sects in the country (be it Christian or Islamic) that keep their members more in a worship ground than in labs or business places and see the level of poverty amongst their members.

In their indolence, they wish to enjoy what hard work brings.

Rome, Canterbury, Israel and UAE have struck a balance and have developed in leaps and bounds. Nigeria can do it too if we work much harder than we pray.

The Saudi’s style of praying while USA and their allies harvest their oil, pay them for the oil and control their knowledge of oil technology breeds indolent and religiously fanatical people. Nigeria as at now, think oil, drink oil and eat oil. Take oil out, we are finished.

While Nigerian Christian leaders are investing more in educating their members, their Muslim counterparts especially those in the North don’t see the urgency but would devise ways to collect the large chunk of revenues from irreligious activities.

Worldly development is achieved by leading a people into measurable productivity not by keeping them busy praying. The leader must be educated to understand complex issues.

Prayer guarantees you heaven not civilization or development of your country. Long hours of focused hard work, education and pragmatism do.

The inventors of Internet, Airplanes, Printing press and even Microphones used in worship centres were not prayer warriors.

Boko Haram, ISIS or Lords Resistance Army in Uganda have not invented any weapon even as they claim that they are fighting for God.

The Saudi’s style of praying while USA and their allies harvest their oil, pay them for the oil and control their knowledge of oil technology breeds indolent and religiously fanatical people.

Nigeria as at now, think oil, drink oil and eat oil. Take oil out, we are finished.

Many of us know this but live in denial or refrain from saying it out loud for fear of being deemed irreligious.

A long journey awaits us!