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Conversations with my mind (1)... This thing called religion!!!

When the colonizers came... They saw no similarity between the god they preached and the one African supreme being We were lost in sin... lost in darkness... lost in shame So we adopted chains of mental slavery And forgot that we had a god... who was omnipotent... omnipresent.. who was holy and invisible... We built him shrines and offered sacrifices like Abraham did We played him drums and danced praises like David did We prayed to him for miracles and rain, like Jesus did But now those ways are deemed pagan now We cant believe that our forefathers worshiped 'idols' and the irony is you will see Africans now in the front rows of religious wars Sometimes I think that religion is another invention of greed created to cause divide! The funny thing is, it is a taboo to question it or reason with it Other times i think it is a way for the hopeless to find peace For some, their point is to get rich... trust me... the gospel artists know this The preachers teach th