Thread by @DaRozvi

The greatest weapon used to colonize Africa was never the Maxim gun, but religion.We have people who go buy a working factory, convert it into a church and start praying for jobs. Religion pacified people and even made some of us lazy, always waiting for someone else to save us

There is a reason why 95% of the world's poorest countries are the most religious. Religion is a tool made for controlling people. They will drill it into you that ,"blessed are the poor" , or "the rich young ruler struggled in hell and the poor Lazarus was partying in heaven"

For me, this creates a situation whereby people are content with being poor, they don't wanna even change their status quo and they are much worried about the "world to come" instead of the world they live NOW. Very few religious people want to be rich because being rich has

been made synonymous with going to hell when you die. So people embrace poverty with two hands. People get comfortable being poor and poverty is even glorified to the extend that those who were born in rich families are attacked and called names simply because they can't relate

Even young men are told to look for a woman who "knows struggle" when choosing a life partner. Those with marriage qualities are vetted against how much poverty they can absorb. Imagine what could happen if we glorified wealth like how poverty is glorified in African societies?

As Africans it pains me that most people have already conceded that Africans can't do anything without the aid of the former colonizers which is entirely false. Our ancestors built massive kingdoms and permanent structures which is a clear testimony that we can surely do

anything on our own and it will work. The pyramids of Egypt, the monuments of Great Zimbabwe etc are massive projects that show that our ancestors were good project managers, architects, engineers, organizers etc on their own. But with religion when you are told daily that

you have to do absolutely nothing and just "wait on the Lord and he will renew your strength" it creates lazy people if translated with direct interpretation. The problem is, a lot of preachers we have now do not even take time to explain these things and many gullible

congregants take the scriptures at face value and plunge into a retrograde. Many religious people also do not want to participate in political issues saying ,"leaders are installed by the Lord, even bad ones like Pharaoh and Nebucchadnezzar were installed by the Lord. They say

us as humans are just doing what was pre-planned already therefore we can't change anything, so they do not even #RegisterToVoteZW. But if things are going bad after they don't vote, they start crying and sending "thoughts and prayers" yet they are the ones who were supposed to

alter the narrative. This is why useless sayings and slogans, hallucinations and tricks gain traction in Africa. It is simply because we have so many lazy people who always expect miracles to happen instead of them getting up and working. People expect to be given money from a

stranger, they expect to get some concoction that will just turn them into millionaires in one night, they will pray 4 days a week at the "krawa" whilst the other nations are working in labs and doing research. When their prayers and empty words yield nothing, they start

begging for money to go buy solutions which have been researched, developed and packaged by those who ,"don't know God, whose sights are set on the luxuries of this world" whilst our own African people are focused on preparing for the "next life to come".

Africa as a continent has made more efforts for the next kingdom that they will stay in the afterlife than to work on the present. As such, we have nothing to offer and we always recommend "prayer" even for situations which need actual action on the ground. If someone is injured

they do not need prayer, they need an ambulance for them to go to a hospital and get painkillers and wound management from Healthcare professionals. If a building collapses, people don't need prayer, they need an evacuation system to help them. Yes prayer works however making it

the absolute answer to everything which even needs practical solutions is what is causing our people to suffer from unnecessary problems which could have been avoided if we told each other the truth.