Africans Should Drop The Evil Gospel Of “Vanity Upon Vanity” – It’s Dangerous To Growth 
Often times you would hear people say: “Why chase after the things of the world? For all things are vanity – all things are worthless.” Our places of worship have become the major places of the false gospel “Vanity upon vanity, all is vanity.”
Each time I hear this, I burst out in laughter.
In Africa, we have been forced to believe that abandoning the luxuries of life will guaranty us heaven. We have been made to believe that aspiring to too much success is wrong.
In Africa, we have been forced to believe that abandoning the luxuries of life will guaranty us heaven. We have been made to believe that aspiring to too much success is wrong.
We have been made to see wealthy people as sinners who would lose their souls. We have been made to see financial and social success as things only gotten by greedy people.
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But I choose to state and believe otherwise. For if life was vanity, then why were we giving this life in the first place? To suffer and die? No, I don’t think so. Forget that story of Adam’s punishment. In case you didn’t know, we Africans lived before Adam.
If life was not to be decorated with the beauty nature provides then what is the point of living it at all?
With the belief that life is vanity, a great number of people have left the world a less prosperous place than they met it.
With the belief that life is vanity, a great number of people have left the world a less prosperous place than they met it.
These are people who would have strived hard to make mother earth more beautiful.
The saying that “Life is vanity” was not a part of the ancient principles of the people of Africa. It is known that our ancestors made a conscious effort to be prosperous in all their endeavors. That was why every form of science was developed and nurtured first in ancient Africa
For if life was vanity then the ancient Egyptians and Ethiopians would not have built civilizations which still marvel the world today.
They made conscious effort to bring light to the world, and as such their descendants saw a reason to work harder and do more to preserve the beauty handed down to them.
Saying life is vanity, in the context which we have often heard it, is indirectly saying to the African mind: “Please don’t work so hard, don’t put in so much mental energy trying to discover new ways to make life better.
For after you must have achieved great things,it would not guarantee you a place in heaven;so why try.”
It says to the ordinary man:“Do not aspire to be greater and richer than you were born,just soak yourself in prayer and make yourself as poor as possible and then you would be Godly.”
Vanity is not bad. It is no sin. It is beautiful. Wealth and affluence should be chased.
I say this firmly, so that Africans may know that a decorated life will never be a waste; that the pursuit of the good things of life will drive us to a better Africa.
I say this firmly, so that Africans may know that a decorated life will never be a waste; that the pursuit of the good things of life will drive us to a better Africa.
Remember that the Colonial master who Brainwashed you to believe that everything is Vanity, they themselves are busy Collecting all the so Called Vanities on African Soil back to their Lands, building their economies. Africa Awake
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