With a conceptual understanding and narrative based on the field of comparative religion, Christianity came to be understood as an Abrahamic monotheistic religion, based on the accepted life and teachings of Jesus Christ, as understood and presented in the New Testament.
Theism is the universal belief that there is in existence at least one deity (a god) if not more; a belief from which monotheism branched off as a section that comprised oppressive religious doctrines, such as Christianity.
An objective reader, an analyst or a person of radical skepticism, or religiously leftist orientation, may be perplexed by these societal contradictions, evil claims, self-evident practices and the fear attached to the Christian doctrine in regulating societies, especially in Africa.
Consider a case of a Christian dogmatic claim that God is omnipotent, omnipresent and more oppressing, a “He” god, that was supposed to be a genderless spiritual being and as it is claimed in the Holy Bible, with no plausible evidence, the Christian God is omniscient.
For those that are unfamiliar with the terminologies – the word “omni” is a latin prefix meaning “all” or “every”, so the description as omnipotent of the Christian god, means “unlimited power to do anything”. Omnipresent means “present everywhere” and omniscient describes it (a god) as having the power of knowing everything that there is to know.
What an oppressive and dangerous claim by the Christian teachings. Put into context these preceding claims do not only put the minds of Christianity subscribers at risk of narrow-mindedness, in terms of thinking, but also teaches them that they are confined to a limited thinking capacity, which is then subjected to an omni-being, who or that thinks above all. Nobody or nothing can supersede the thinking of such particular being, for it is described with an “omni” word.
This doctrine creates an unimaginable amount of fear in the mind of a follower of Christianity. The end result is the generation of people who cannot think freely, because their thinking environment is subjected to an omnipotent, omnipresent and omniscient being – the Christian god.
In sharp scrutiny, based on academic and radical skepticism, this writer stood opposed to theism in general and Christian theism in particular. In a democratic society, where freedom of religion, freedom of thought and conscience is guaranteed, there comes a time for every organisation and every individual to submit to the dictates of our conscience.
Inspired by African traditional concepts of morality and culture, this writer chose to stand on the left side of the church and fearlessly question the moral, epistemic and ideological features that constitute Christian theism and its positive role in regulating societies.
Philosophically, there is an epistemic uncertainty in the context of Christian teachings, because there is no empirical evidence of almost all the unstable claims of Christianity. Is Christianity a reality?
A biblical claim of (Genesis 9:13) as commented on by Namibian writer Kanyanga Eberhard in his letter titled “Religion vs free-thinking”, (The Namibian, 2014-03-07) which claims that “the colours of the rainbow are the oath of god for not causing a worldwide flood again” lacks logic, is epistemically questionable and fallacious, because it is self-evident and is subjected to a Christian faith, which is far from truth and reality.
Faith is defined as a strong belief in a god or in the doctrines of religion, based on spiritual conviction rather than proof (Merriam-Webster). This alone indicates the lies of Christianity as related to the truthhood. The fundamental question remains, is Christianity a reality?
Shivute Kaapanda
Eyanda village