How Every African Nation Can Become a First World Nation by Adelaja Sunday

Author:Adelaja, Sunday [Adelaja, Sunday]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Golden Truth
Published: 2018-12-30T16:00:00+00:00

The Negative Effect

of Religion

One of the negative effects of religion as it is practiced in the modern day Nigerian Pentecostal church is that religion teaches people that it is wrong to invest time for hard work. The majority of the religious leaders in Nigeria have been able to convince their adherents that hard work and labour is a curse and that nobody should waste their time trying to work hard. The average Nigerian Christian if given the option to choose between using his wealth of time for attending a church meeting or going to engage in some productive labour, would actually choose church meeting over productive labour. They do not know that attending church is a low yielding activity and at such, any time used in church is a spent time. Such time does not have any economic value. That is to say it does not add to our GDP. And that is a very negative effect of religion on our economic growth.

Religion has a negative effect on a nation’s economy because religion encourages people to come to church instead of to go use time for efficient work. Religion causes people to fold their arms and waste their time waiting on miracles or favour from God to have an economically robust nation. Religion takes people from the factories where they should be converting time into products, and takes them to the church and keeps them there just singing and dancing, while they add no value to the nation’s growth. Religion keeps people from going to invest time at the refineries to work productively and encourages them to rather come to church for miracle services.

It is a tragedy when about half of the total population of a country are waiting on God to turn their country into a first world country, without first becoming productive and hardworking people. Not only is this attitude a tragedy but also an act of greed. It is greed to pray and desire what we know we should invest time to work for.

"The difference between greed and ambition is a greedy person desires things he isn't prepared to work for."

Habeeb Akande

It is a tragedy when the church tells their members to detest one of God’s greatest gifts to man-the gift of work. They say that work is meant for only those who are cursed and that the believers should only wait on favour.

It is a tragedy when the most popular cliché’ in the modern day African church is that one day of favour is better than ten years of labour. In other words, they are saying don’t labour even if it is for ten years, one day of favour will come that will give to you more than all that you would have laboured to get for ten years. How untrue and deceptive is this cliché! How damaging is it to our nation’s economy!

Less-religiously active countries know that it is their responsibility to build and develop their own countries using the wealth of time that they freely have and so they work harder than any other country just to become leading nations.

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