For starters, don't pick up the dictionary to lookup ‘Mumugiousity’, I coined it myself but you go soon grab weytin I wan yarn.
As I approach this topic I want to be careful so
readers don't get the whole essence of this write up, twisted. E no dey hard some people. Religion is a touchy subject for a lot of people and in my household it is generally not considered "polite conversation."
For some, an attack on religion is
an attack on their god or gods. I only wish to put down certain points or
aspects of organized religion I’m not comfortable with, I am not questioning
anyone's belief in a personal god.
In Nigeria, religion has helped us to remain
sane or else we all for donkolowith
the way our environment is stifling us. Religion can give people a sense of
community and make people feel welcomed.
But life is never that simple sha.
Kai! Oh lord.
In Nigeria especially, religion
has turned a lot of my people into MUMU's.
Instead of learning to discern truth on their own and formulate their
own mindset, they're told how to think. These are the people engaged in ‘Mumugiousity’.
For them Religion has turned them into group soul's, sheep, cows and goat with
their Shepherd as their pastors, who have erased their trust in their own
intellect and gradually convinced them to put their trust in them(pastors) as
the only true men of god, convincing them that without them they would be lost.
Hummmm! They fall for this like very
poor people would fall for a bag of rice. Odikwarisky…
You have become ‘mumurized’ when
you can forgo the little intelligence you have and on top of all that, you
become a hypocrite. Religion is filling mumupeople
with fear; it is one of the main reasons why mumu people are afraid of living. And when I say ‘living’ I don’t
mean just surviving. To survive is one thing, even stones do that, but to live
is a completely different thing. To live means to be sensitive, it means to
feel, to grow, to discover your potential and achieve to higher states of being
each and every moment. These days nothing happens without it being remote
controlled from the village, someone must have sent it, there are more demons
waiting to destroy us, chineke God are you there?
Once you are a religious mumu you will not tolerate religious
ideologies that are different from the one you follow. This is why you can see
religious mumupeople fighting
nonreligious ones.
To identify with a religious
ideology, and call it the only truth and way, leads to tremendously negative
consequences – hatred, tribalism and all kinds of violence. Just think of how
many wars have been carried out throughout history by some mumu's in the name of God and religion.Abegi!
To live means to learn and life
is a continuous lesson. When, however, you grow into ‘mumuship’, conditioned to
believe what is right and wrong according to religion, and told that to doubt
religion means to go to hell, naturally you become afraid of seeking true
knowledge. You stop searching to find the truth, to learn, and hence to grow as
a human being. You can't believe how many of us have stopped growing…Millions.
To blindly follow any ideology
without asking questions simply means to restrict your perception, suppress
yourself, and live in hypocrisy — in other words, to live in suffering and
misery.
Many mumu people choose to follow, even though they suffer from this
choice, simply because religion frees them from personal responsibility. To
live spontaneously one has to take responsibility for oneself, and this is
certainly painful. Life is made of choices, and to make the right choice is not
always easy. So ‘mumu’ people prefer not to choose for themselves, but to have
others choose for them. They prefer to walk on paths made by others, instead of
creating their own path. But unless we stop having some of these wayopeople telling these mumupeople what to do or what not to do,
some of us will never be free. And unless we are free, we will never be happy
and peaceful.
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