One of the turning points in my "romance" with Christianity has to be when I took interest in mythology. Realizing that Yahweh aka Jehovah wasn't always the "Almighty God" - and that he was in fact one of the minor gods of the Canaanites... ...(a group the Israelites actually originated from) had a crushing effect on everything I thought I knew as a Christian.

To think that this "God" I worshipped as the "Supreme Being" who I was taught has no beginning - was one of the sons of an older Canaanite God, El.

Cross dressing has ALWAYS been a part of African culture. In Burkina Faso, cross dressers weren't just a part of the community but an integral part of it. In fact, among the Dagara tribe, crossdressers were seen as intermediaries between this world and the other.

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https://twitter.com/jvck_destro/status/1522320384653156352

The Omasenge was an order of intercessors in the Ambo tribe of Angola who not only dressed as women but did what was considered as "women’s work". They were also referred to as "homosexual healers".  

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The human body is not perfect by any stretch of the imagination. The appendix is infection-prone, leading to inflammation & potentially fatal appendicitis. Your testes form inside the abdomen,then drop through the abdominal wall into the scrotum...

https://twitter.com/wemustenditnow/status/1505499031056924676

...leaving two weak areas that often herniate, requiring surgery to relieve pain. Your collapsible urethra passes though the prostate gland that enlarges in later life and impedes urine flow.

Lol. Laughed real hard to this 😂

https://twitter.com/johnysky22/status/1503655403787370499

Reminds me of this exchange i had with a bus preacher after the lockdown due to (COVID 19) in Lagos was relaxed.

Was in a bus heading to Lawanson, Surulere. This preacher sitting just beside me screamed: "Corona Virus is the sign of the end of the world!".

First from the Qur'an

Quran (4:11) - (Inheritance) "The male shall have the equal of the portion of two females" (see also verse 4:176). In Islam, sexism is mathematically established.

Quran (2:228) - "and the men are a degree above them [women]"

https://twitter.com/seerhaw/status/1465321480649068548

Quran (5:6) - "And if ye are unclean, purify yourselves. And if ye are sick or on a journey, or one of you cometh from the closet, or ye have had contact with women, and ye find not water, then go to clean, high ground and rub your faces and your hands with some of it" Men are...

Israelites writing the OT books and altering old stories during their captivity in Babylon:

"Our god is better than other gods. Let's write a creation story that says he just woke everything into existence. The Enuma Elish is nice. Let's make use of its language."

1) "The story of the flood in the Epic of Gilgamesh is quite interesting. Let's make our own version of it but we'll change a couple of things. For instance, in place of Gilgamesh, we'll use Noah."

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Ibibio/Efik/Anaang mythology doesn't recognize the christian 'God' (yahweh/jehovah). It recognizes Abassi as the Chief Creator God (just like other cultures recognize their own Gods as Chief Creators in their local mythologies). Following the arrival of Christian missionaries...

https://twitter.com/DeleFarotimi/status/1435557095768838146

...in Nigeria, "Abassi" was syncretized with the Christian concept of God. Thus Christians began ascribing the name "Abassi" to the christian 'God' (Yahweh/Jehovah). The same nonsense was done to other cultures as christianity thrived.

The Bible refers to Jesus as the Lamb of God which was "...slain from the foundation of the world".

This means that before 'God' supposedly created Adam & Eve, he had already made provision for Jesus to die for their sin. This sounds exciting but if you really look at it, it... ...fucks up the idea of freewill & God's Omniscience. If 'God' (being Omniscient) had predestined jesus to die for Adam's sin before Adam even existed, then there's a huge problem. Adam & Eve didn't have freewill. As such, they couldn't have chosen not to eat that forbidden fruit

First from the Qur'an

Quran (4:11) - (Inheritance) "The male shall have the equal of the portion of two females" (see also verse 4:176). In Islam, sexism is mathematically established.

Quran (2:228) - "and the men are a degree above them [women]"

https://twitter.com/AmokeWrites/status/1427549541490962451

Quran (5:6) - "And if ye are unclean, purify yourselves. And if ye are sick or on a journey, or one of you cometh from the closet, or ye have had contact with women, and ye find not water, then go to clean, high ground and rub your faces and your hands with some of it" Men are...

I won't even address your gist about atheism being a religion. It's such a take that should be ignored. Here's a number of ways which the Bible oppresses women. The Bible repeatedly places women under subjection to men. In fact, within the legal literature of the Bible...

https://twitter.com/obagwu_joel/status/1427212003626692608

... women are not accorded the same status as men. In the 10 commandments, the wife is classified as her husband’s PROPERTY, and listed along with the husband's slaves & work animals.

Morality does NOT come from religion.
Morality does NOT come from Yahweh, Jesus, Allah or any other god-figure.
Morality does NOT come from the Bible, Qur'an or any other religious text.

1) Morality is a philosophy that is refined over time. As humans, we have learnt overtime what works and what doesn’t - to give everyone a fair chance at living. That’s why morality needs room to change and evolve as humans grow and evolve.

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GOD'S MURDERS

I have no doubts that Yahweh aka Jehovah - the local Hebrew deity whom Christians adopted & regard as a loving and merciful God - is the most wicked of all fictional characters of all time. One of his first acts of insanity is the supposed Flood of Noah

1) In that story, Yahweh decides that humans are innately evil and deserve to be killed. He seems to forget that he’s supposedly OMNISCIENT. That means he knew beforehand that humans were destined to become evil.He also knew beforehand that he would destroy his precious creation

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THE EXODUS...A Hilarious Tale

According to the Bible, the Israelites (an estimated 2 million people) began their journey out of Egypt in one night to the 'Promised Land' - along with their flock and herd, with borrowed jewelry and clothes.

1) Where were they were going to? The Sinai Desert. Just in case you didn't know, the Sahara Desert is a garden when compared to the Sinai Desert! There's just no way all the civilized nations of the world could support two million people in the Sinai Desert for forty years.

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“I told my son not to eat from a tree in our yard today. He did anyway. I’ve now kicked him out of my yard for disobeying.

From now on, every child descending from him will be tainted with his same guilt, despite being unborn at the time of his disobedience.

1) This genetic guilt will pass to subsequent generations through unexplainable supernatural means so that no one can question it.

Actually, now that I think about it, I’ll take one of my other children who haven’t disobeyed me, and I’ll murder them...

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"GODS" ARE DYING

Today, monotheistic religions are at the top of the religious "food chain" but ancient societies were majorly polytheistic. In other words , they had myths surrounding several gods and never really focused on one super god. Israel found itself within this... ... polytheistic milieus and much later during, and after its exile in Babylon, began creating its own ideology of the 'One True God'.

Over time, polytheistic cultures have been subject to severe "smearing" by monotheistic religions like Christianity and Islam.

@onayinka_segun "Has anyone provided proof of God's inexistence?"
It's not the responsibility of atheists to provide proof for the non-existence of any god. No one can prove universal/absolute non-existence.  The proof of existence must come from those who make the claims of any god's existence. @onayinka_segun If Segun claims to hear from god, and I ask for proof, it's stupid to ask me to prove that nothing spoke to him. We're dealing with the confusion of probability and possibility.