DUMBEST POST ON FACEBOOK 2! SIMPLY HYPOCRITICAL!

Sequel to my a previous post titled My Most Ludicrous Posts on Facebook 1, the writer has created this piece to point out religious deceits, and the acts of some social media users that have vowed to wear Christianity a dirty garb.

Verily, I've seen ludicrous post on social media. However, when I find a more thoughtless, parochial, and chauvinistic post, I'd change the rankings, but for now, this remains top on the list of dumb posts.

"Any girl or woman who dresses on trousers is invariably erecting her eternal home in hell". 

The most disheartening fact of this post is that it emanated from a lawyer, trained in one of the finest schools in Nigeria. Well, like the renowned columnist Obi Nwakanma wrote about Femi Fani Kayode,"Take a scallywag to Cambridge, he merely becomes a Cambridge scallywag". So, I'd say,

‘take a moron to University of Nigeria, Nsukka, he merely becomes a UNN moron'

 For someone whose love for stylish women is well known to me, I was numb struck  as I read the post. It is hard to picture what he was thinking when he typed that post on his facebook timeline. For once I thought his facebook account had been hacked and that the post was meant to discredit or portray him in an phallocentric light. When I made friendly attempts to persuade him to remove that post and commented on same, a throng of his fellow sexist hypocrites swarmed at me in attack.

 During law school, this man confessed his strong love for a lady and even plotted steps to get his "dream girl"; one whose dress code was predominantly sexy denim trousers, except when going for lectures and church outings. Thus, I ask, is it that this man liked this lady despite his conviction that she was hell bound owing to her trouser affiliations? Or is that he was yet to read to that point in the bible when he felt so much love for her?

To consider the abject thoughtlessness in that post, we must ask certain questions and strive to provide answers.

Firstly, what happens then to Military and Para-military women, whose job inevitably compels them to wear trousers?

For me the argument as to a lady being clad in a man's outfit or vice versa is firmly strung to societal relativism and cultural orientations. Cultures like the Scotts, Orients and most traditional rulers in Africa take to the use of “skirts” and wrappers as their main regalia. Also, due to its formal and 'always on the move' nature, societies like the US and the entire Western world have evolved to a point where the use of trousers by women is almost inevitable, especially since the Second World War when women were no longer seen as 'wives' and 'mothers' alone. Rather, they were assimilated into the active work force, to work in factories, industries, banks and construction sites. At that point, it became practically impossible to work without the most convenient work gear- trousers and boots. With the spread of trains and coaches, women had little or no choice but to get into sporty trousers to enable them jump alongside the men, and to avoid the likelihood of a Victorian age skirt getting stuck in the rails.

Perhaps, one might also be moved to opine that skirts, wrappers and gowns are feminine outfits, but what about the Pope and priests in the Catholic faiths and religious temples across the world?

The Pope and all other adjunct offices of the papacy go completely clad in cassocks (gown like attires). Would it then be right to chirp that they too are "erecting permanent homes in hell", or are they exempted from the theme of this odious post?

In Muslim societies, turbans or head ties are prominent accessories to men's fashion. Its thus coincides with women's dress code in Southern, West and Eastern Nigeria. With the only difference being size, type of fabric as well as style. That said, one needs no breathalyzer to smell how offensive such a comment is to reasonable people.

Chauvinism is something that should never be campaigned for, displayed or even worse, posted on Social media. It must be left in the solitary confines on the chauvinist's heart because the slightest droplet of it could be frowned at as much as genocides! No doubt, bottling up certain opinions could prove very tasking, but like hygiene, compliance with the law, cooking, exercising, reading, and many other activities of life, we MUST strive to do the needful because the benefit far outweighs the difficulty.

The use of the holy bible to rationalize every form of warped and malnourished ideas must be stopped because besides the misleading effect they have, such ideas and beliefs never stand to the challenge of the simple reasoning. Quoting the bible does not change an unintelligible idea into a smart one. Neither should it be a reason to shut the reasoning faculty like it too is on ASUU strike.

Like my most delectable Ms Vivian Obiejogo  once said, " To whom brain is given, sense is expected".

Nigerians, Christianity and facebook!

It is common today to see posts like "God bless my life this week", "I cover my journey IJN","Lord, give me more anointing today"...and all such Bollocks!

Firstly, I must start by stating that GOD IS NOT ON FACEBOOK or TWITTER! He does not ping or take to social networking like some posts would ordinarily suggest.

You want divine protection, direction, guidance, favour and blessings, and you feel an urge to pray to God for it. You want extra anointing from God, why not take a little time to say a prayer in your heart or kneel in the confines of your room or better still, wait till its Sunday( for some who see church like Uncle Frank Olize’s NTA Newsline show) to say those prayers.

See what The Holy Bible says in Mathew 6:5-6 that “And when you pray, you must not be like the hypocrites. For they love to stand and pray in the synagogues and at the street corners, that they may be seen by others. Truly, I say to you, they have received their reward. But when you pray, go into your room and shut the door and pray to your Father who is in secret. And your Father who sees in secret will reward you.

Why take to facebook and twitter, BBM etc to make a prayer to Almighty ? Could it be that you expect people to know you pray? Or you just want your viewers/friends to endorse your prayers by commenting with a huge "Amen"?I saw a post like this once. I speedily punched "Amen" on my keyboards, and proceeded ask him if he was happy now or wanted anything more!

Common! A prayer, which is akin to asking God for something is a private and sacred exercise which should not be desecrated, joked with or compromised for no reason whatsoever. None at all!

Imagine a situation where your child wants money from you, he goes out with a loud speaker to the balcony of your house or even on facebook to say " Daddy, please I need money for my school fees", in spite of  the fact that you both live in the same house or he simply would have called to ask for it. Any sane parent would rebuke such act. For me, I'd doubt the sanity of such a child. Mind you, this example is even way too insufficient and subtle when compared, because facebook surely covers a wider spectrum of audience.

Such posts are nothing but flamboyant displays of hypocrisy and self deceit.

Permit me to sound judgmental at this point, the fact of my discovery that most people I know on facebook and twitter (for those I know personally) who put up such posts are anything but enviable Christians. They pass for the lip service, 'Lord Lord' kind of Christians whom upon deeper investigation are strapped with all sort of worldliness. They fall short of the kind of Christianity that would make you run  a background  'holiness check' on yourself.

As a near religious skeptic, or better put, one who applies God's given wisdom to religious postulations, I've taken time to come up with a study which reveals  that the bulk of Christian youths whose life REALLY radiate uprightness, fairness, calmness, piety, humility, and so many rare Godly attributes do not labour to convince you of their religiosity, hence they never try to come up with such mundane posts on social media. They sparsely ever howl about or make verbal allusions to their relationship with God, apparently because they understand the sanctimonious and private nature of it. Rather, its commonplace amongst those whose lifestyle gives one cause to doubt his understanding of the bible.

Finally, let's consider this simple poser.

If those guilty of such posts truly believe in the efficacy and genuineness of those super bowl type prayers and that it is really possible to access God via facebook or twitter, why don't they ask God for forgiveness from a grave sin on facebook. Say for instance" please God forgive me for committing adultery today" or "May God forgive me for embezzling public funds, stealing my neighbour's goat, raping, fornicating, lying, cheating" etc.

How about, "God please heal me of this Tuberculosis, HIV/AIDS, or "Please God help me stop these lustful imaginations and addictiveness to pornography" etc?

Nobody ever comes up with such prayer on facebook. Is it that they don't appear in prayers? Certainly not! Instead, they quietly lock their doors and windows, kneel down and make such supplications.

If you could quietly make those demands and requests from your almighty father in private, why then would you decide to come to the market square to ask him for protection if not for hypocrisy?!

Onyeka Ehiwuogwu ZEUS, for ZEUS TELESCOPE;

www.zeustelescope.blogspot.com

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