Christianity in Nigeria

[Anonymous]

I find this extremely upsetting, I am sure most people do.

Palm Sunday Attack in Nigeria Leaves at Least 12 Dead

No one has claimed responsibility for the killings in the mostly Christian city of Jos, and the police have yet to arrest the gunmen.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/30/world/africa/palm-sunday-attack-nigeria-dead.html

The people killing Christians in this area also kill Muslims they consider to be moderate, too.

[Anonymous]

This is why people come to the religion forum to bash religion. Extremely upsetting indeed.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is why people come to the religion forum to bash religion. Extremely upsetting indeed.

People come to the religion forum and bash Christians and Christianity.

The men who killed the children were Muslim.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is why people come to the religion forum to bash religion. Extremely upsetting indeed.

People come to the religion forum and bash Christians and Christianity.

The men who killed the children were Muslim.

Don’t worry. People who bash religion are not targeting Christian faith alone. the majority of people who visit this site are at least culturally Christian so the conversation shifts in that direction. They think believers are vulnerable populations susceptible to manipulation. Proof of that susceptibility is, for example, belief in the religious teaching that everyone is born with original sin because a woman ate an apple, necessitating the need for a god in human form to die on a cross to relieve us of all of our sins, as long as we believe in Him.

Tribalism, ethnocentrism, and nationalism can produce similar effects.

Have you heard of the Christian extremist Lord’s resistance army in Uganda? They killed and abducted a couple hundred thousand and displaced millions. No religion has their hands clean. The men who killed the children in your post are Muslim in the same way that members of the LRA are Christian.

[Anonymous]

Don't see much news about the Lord's Resistance Army these days but I guess you have to find something to hang your hat on to say "all groups do it".

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is why people come to the religion forum to bash religion. Extremely upsetting indeed.

People come to the religion forum and bash Christians and Christianity.

The men who killed the children were Muslim.

Don’t worry. People who bash religion are not targeting Christian faith alone. the majority of people who visit this site are at least culturally Christian so the conversation shifts in that direction. They think believers are vulnerable populations susceptible to manipulation. Proof of that susceptibility is, for example, belief in the religious teaching that everyone is born with original sin because a woman ate an apple, necessitating the need for a god in human form to die on a cross to relieve us of all of our sins, as long as we believe in Him.

Tribalism, ethnocentrism, and nationalism can produce similar effects.

Have you heard of the Christian extremist Lord’s resistance army in Uganda? They killed and abducted a couple hundred thousand and displaced millions. No religion has their hands clean. The men who killed the children in your post are Muslim in the same way that members of the LRA are Christian.

What Christian denomination did the LRA belong to?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is why people come to the religion forum to bash religion. Extremely upsetting indeed.

People come to the religion forum and bash Christians and Christianity.

The men who killed the children were Muslim.

Don’t worry. People who bash religion are not targeting Christian faith alone. the majority of people who visit this site are at least culturally Christian so the conversation shifts in that direction. They think believers are vulnerable populations susceptible to manipulation. Proof of that susceptibility is, for example, belief in the religious teaching that everyone is born with original sin because a woman ate an apple, necessitating the need for a god in human form to die on a cross to relieve us of all of our sins, as long as we believe in Him.

Tribalism, ethnocentrism, and nationalism can produce similar effects.

Have you heard of the Christian extremist Lord’s resistance army in Uganda? They killed and abducted a couple hundred thousand and displaced millions. No religion has their hands clean. The men who killed the children in your post are Muslim in the same way that members of the LRA are Christian.

What Christian denomination did the LRA belong to?

Churches in Uganda and mainstream Christian groups worldwide have consistently rejected the leader of the LRA and their violent movement.

[Anonymous]

I don’t think the LRA is Christian either. The group was funded by Sudan to wreak havoc and adherents were manipulated to commit atrocities because of their faith and fear of reprisals. The point stands that religion makes it easy to manipulate people for money, power, and politics, and this is why non-believers have such resentment towards religion. There are examples from every group and ethnicity.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don’t think the LRA is Christian either. The group was funded by Sudan to wreak havoc and adherents were manipulated to commit atrocities because of their faith and fear of reprisals. The point stands that religion makes it easy to manipulate people for money, power, and politics, and this is why non-believers have such resentment towards religion. There are examples from every group and ethnicity.

NP. And there are examples of manipulation and atrocities committed by every atheist group and ethnicity. Your point?

[Anonymous]

What atheist group committed atrocities in the name of atheism?

My point, for the third time, is that religiosity leaves people vulnerable to exploitation.

I wrote above, “Tribalism, ethnocentrism, and nationalism can produce similar effects.”

I wrote it is this vulnerability and exploitation that makes some people resent religion. I don’t know how this is refutable or what you think you’re arguing against.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What atheist group committed atrocities in the name of atheism?

My point, for the third time, is that religiosity leaves people vulnerable to exploitation.

I wrote above, “Tribalism, ethnocentrism, and nationalism can produce similar effects.”

I wrote it is this vulnerability and exploitation that makes some people resent religion. I don’t know how this is refutable or what you think you’re arguing against.

Seriously? Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot, and that's just for starters. Ever heard of them? Each of these targeted the people of faith within their countries.

And that's before we get to your semantics games about how an atheist regime isn't killing people "in the name of atheism" exactly, it's just killing people for something something....

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What atheist group committed atrocities in the name of atheism?

My point, for the third time, is that religiosity leaves people vulnerable to exploitation.

I wrote above, “Tribalism, ethnocentrism, and nationalism can produce similar effects.”

I wrote it is this vulnerability and exploitation that makes some people resent religion. I don’t know how this is refutable or what you think you’re arguing against.

Yes being religious makes people vulnerable. So is being a child, a woman, gay, different skin colors, whatever. That's what makes humanity wonderful. The problem is witj the exploiters.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What atheist group committed atrocities in the name of atheism?

My point, for the third time, is that religiosity leaves people vulnerable to exploitation.

I wrote above, “Tribalism, ethnocentrism, and nationalism can produce similar effects.”

I wrote it is this vulnerability and exploitation that makes some people resent religion. I don’t know how this is refutable or what you think you’re arguing against.

Seriously? Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot, and that's just for starters. Ever heard of them? Each of these targeted the people of faith within their countries.

And that's before we get to your semantics games about how an atheist regime isn't killing people "in the name of atheism" exactly, it's just killing people for something something....

People like to kill other people, for some reason, they will make religious overtones or not, but they will continue killing. Religion is just an excuse. If it weren’t religion, it would be something else. A psychologist I know is right. He says “people are no damn good“

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What atheist group committed atrocities in the name of atheism?

My point, for the third time, is that religiosity leaves people vulnerable to exploitation.

I wrote above, “Tribalism, ethnocentrism, and nationalism can produce similar effects.”

I wrote it is this vulnerability and exploitation that makes some people resent religion. I don’t know how this is refutable or what you think you’re arguing against.

The peasants and workers who bought into Mao's atheist cultural revolution were vulnerable and were certainly the victims of atrocities committed by an atheist state in the name of an atheist ideology. Your semantics around "they might have been atheists but it was 'in the name of communism'" are just weird and make you look argumentative, but also like you don't know your history.

[Anonymous]

Communism is a political ideology that adopted athiesm to destroy existing (religious) power structures in a fight for power. Athiesm wasn’t the driving force. There is no handbook for athiesm spelling out rules for war and conversions. What is weird is that no one is calling out OP for trying to bait people to make islamophobic comments when all major religions are the same in their propensity to be usurped for evil.