Religion and Spirituality is one of the most common topics, but there is lot of confusion between these two topics. To break that spiral, there must be dialogue of frank, mature minds. As if the resources of the nation were not already stretched to breaking point, they must now also be diverted to anticipating the consequences – as in numerous nations around the world – that would predictably follow the cinematic obscenities of a new entrant into the ranks of religious denigrators, who turn out – irony of ironies – to have originated from the African continent. The destination should be a moratorium, but for this to be strong and enduring, it must be voluntary, based on a will to understanding and mental re-orientation, not on menace, self-righteous indictments and destructive emotionalism. Inca religion was one of the main concerns of the Spanish Conquerors since their arrival to the new world, understanding it was vital to successfully convert the population into Catholicism. 4% of the population of Syria.

Simple lay Christianity of revivalist congregations demanded that a missionary denounce all pagan “idolatry.” The spiritual and intellectual argument with non-Christian world religions simply did not exist for this simplified theology, and in this view a real encounter of Christianity with world religions did not, on the whole, occur in the 18th and 19th centuries. These cited clerics and their ilk are descendants of the ancient line of iconoclasts of Islamic, Christian and other religious moulds who have destroyed the antecedent spirituality and divine emblems of the African peoples over centuries. We have learned to ignore, and walk away from them. The spiral of reprisals now appears to have been launched, what with the recent news that a French editor has also entered the lists with a fresh album of offensive cartoons. In modern popular culture, the pentagram often appears in horror movies and literature, symbolizing the occult and supernatural forces, a shift from its earlier associations with protection and balance. The Force Protection Buffalo has a 30-foot arm mounted on it.

Let us recall that it is not anti-Islamists who have lately desecrated and destroyed – and with such fiendish self-righteousness – the tombs of Moslem saints in Timbuktu, most notoriously the mausoleum of the Imam Moussa al-Khadin, declared a world heritage site under the protection of UNESCO and accorded pride of place in African patrimony. So let that moving feast of regional dialogues – which was inaugurated by former President Khatami of Iran in these very chambers – be reinforced, emboldened, and even-handed. The other side responds with real blood and gore, also clotting up the path to rational discourse. With the remorseless march of technology, we shall all be caught in a spiral of reprisals, tailored to wound, to draw virtual blood. How then can anyone presume that there shall be no violations of the ideal state of religious tolerance to which we all aspire, or demand that the world stand still, cover its head in sackcloth and ashes, grovel in self-abasement or else prepare itself for earthly pestilence for failure to anticipate the occasional penetration of their self-ascribed carapace of inviolability? Now that the largest black habitation on the globe has joined the club of religious terror under the portentous name Boko Haram – which means ‘The Book is Taboo’ – we can morally demand help from others, but we only find them drowning in the rhetoric and rites of anger and/or contrition.

Lets go in depth and find out religion vs spirituality and faith vs belief. The good news about making public policy in alliance with faith is that it can provoke a certain beneficial zeal. The truth, alas, is that the science-fiction archetype of the mad scientist who craves to dominate the world has been replaced by the mad cleric who can only conceive of the world in his own image, proudly flaunting Bond’s 007 credentials – Licence to Kill. Khaleda Zia, politician who served as Prime Minister of Bangladesh. Adherents of those African religions who remain passionately attached to their beliefs all the way across the Atlantic – in Brazil and across other parts of Latin America – have not taken to wreaking vengeance on their presumed violators in far off lands. He had reason to worry that his thoroughly mechanistic explanation might run afoul of Biblical fundamentalists who advocated the traditional doctrine of strict creationism. Our concerns began and were articulated as a concern for others, still at remote distances. These emulators are still at work on the continent, most devastatingly in Somalia, with my own nation Nigeria catching up with mind-boggling rapidity and intensity.