THE ORIGIN OF MORAL DECLINE IN IGBO LAND WAS THE ARRIVAL AND DOMINANCE OF FOREIGN RELIGIONS

THE ORIGIN OF MORAL DECLINE IN IGBO LAND WAS THE ARRIVAL AND DOMINANCE OF FOREIGN RELIGIONS 

The Genesis of Immorality in Biafra Was the Arrival of Foreign Religions and the Subsequent Assimilation of Westernisation

THE REVOLUTIONARY DEPOSITION

IMPORTED RELIGIONS BROUGHT OUR DECLINE IN SOCIAL MORALITY

The desecration of our pre-colonial high moral values started with the arrival of the first white missionaries in West Africa. What the natives called “NSO-ANI” was re-branded FORGIVEABLE SINS and so watered down the sanctity of religious values in Biafra. Its partner, WESTERN EDUCATION neatly completed the ‘coup de grace’ as the foreign concepts and social values of the colonialists destroyed the social ethics of the natives and rendered our pristine mores and norms ineffective. In some communities; “aping the white man’s dress code and mannerisms became fashionable and ignoring the customs and traditions of the community was seen as the criterion of being EDUCATED and MORE CIVILISED than the illiterate folks in the villages!

--DR JIDEOFO KENECHUKWU DANMBAEZUE, @ 30/06/2013 04:14:32 HRS GMT.

DECLINE IN SOCIAL ETHICS IS THE CRUX OF MORAL DEPRAVITY

Double-faced Christians and Muslims now abound everywhere; they worship Satan at night and come to church/mosque on Fridays/Sundays! This lifestyle has eroded the credentials of our forebears! There is now, an urgent need to redeem our children from these nefarious practices! We must revert to the legacies of our renowned grandfathers, improve on it and bequeath the next generation a better religious legacy than we had!

If you are concerned that our children need fresh religious air that suits this global village and that posterity deserves a better lifestyle devoid of wearing masks of deceit, pretences, subterfuges, ‘holier-than-thou’ attitudes, then join us in the sanitation exercise. Your offspring will remain forever grateful that a select group of enlightened ‘Homo sapiens sapientis’ took the bull by the horns to avert the perilous moral decadence that is steadily turning all of us into unabashed hypocrites, unrepentant fanatics and deluded mystics. You are welcome!

Culture is a summation of ethnocentric survival strategies that each sub-unit of humanity had developed over the centuries, institutionalized and passed on to their descendants. The sons and daughters of the Almighty Creator have ignored their ONE CULTURE; which is OBEDIENCE TO ALL THE NATURAL LAWS as ONE WORLD RELIGION. That is what we desperately need today just we use cellular phones and the Internet without killing anyone. Respect for and obedience to all the laws of nature is the key for a peaceful world with beautiful people living, loving and sharing the Creator's benefits as equal heirs to his blissful global world that we now share amicably thanks to scientists who have uncovered his designs for our mutual existence. LET US LIVE IN PEACE! This is the ‘One Global Religion’ that humanity needs now for ‘One Peaceful Global Village! Here I rest my case/pen!

RESUME OF MY DEPOSITION

Just type RENASCENT IGBO RELIGION into Google Search and see the volumes I had written on how, why and wherefore our traditional "NSO ANI" i.e. AVOIDNACE OF DESECRATION OF NATURAL LAWS is the best religion in the whole world, yet we prefer to swim in foreign religions and create an immoral nation wherein demonic politicians and pecuniary religious leaders swindle us and smile to the banks!!

YOU CAN FOOL ALL THE PEOPLE SOME OF THE TIME, AND YOU CAN ALSO FOOL SOME OF THE PEOPLE ALL THE TIME, BUT YOU CAN NEVER FOOL ALL THE PEOPLE ALL THE TIME, TALK LESS OF ATTEMPTING TO FOOL GOD AT ANY TIME.

DELIMITING OUR UNIVERSE OF DISCOURSE

 The demands of Formal Logic dictate that we begin our dissertation from the very beginning of the theories and practices that gave birth to the doctrines and dogmas that various religious demagogues invented and developed over the centuries!

UNIVERSAL DEFINITION OF RELIGION 

Let us start with this unabridged and unedited from Microsoft ® Encarta ® 2009

“Religion is the sacred engagement with that which is believed to be a spiritual reality. Religion is a worldwide phenomenon that has played a part in all human culture and so is a much broader, more complex category than the set of beliefs or practices found in any single religious tradition. An adequate understanding of religion must take into account its distinctive qualities and patterns as a form of human experience, as well as the similarities and differences in religions across human cultures. In all cultures, human beings make a practice of interacting with what are taken to be spiritual powers. These powers may be in the form of gods, spirits, ancestors, or any kind of sacred reality with which humans believe themselves to be connected. Sometimes a spiritual power is understood broadly as an all-embracing reality (see Pantheism), and sometimes it is approached through its manifestation in special symbols. It may be regarded as external to the self, internal, or both. People interact with such a presence in a sacred manner—that is, with reverence and care. Religion is the term most commonly used to designate this complex and diverse realm of human experience.”

“The word religion is derived from the Latin noun religio, which denotes both earnest observance of ritual obligations and an inward spirit of reverence. In modern usage, religion covers a wide spectrum of meanings that reflect the enormous variety of ways the term can be interpreted. At one extreme, many committed believers recognize only their own tradition as a religion, understanding expressions such as worship and prayer to refer exclusively to the practices of their tradition. Although many believers stop short of claiming an exclusive status for their tradition, they may nevertheless use vague or idealizing terms in defining religion—for example, “true love of God,” or “the path of enlightenment.” At the other extreme, religion may be equated with ignorance, fanaticism, or wishful thinking.”

“By defining religion as a sacred engagement with what is taken to be a spiritual reality, it is possible to consider the importance of religion in human life without making claims about what it really is or ought to be. Religion is not an object with a single, fixed meaning, or even a zone with clear boundaries. It is an aspect of human experience that may intersect, incorporate, or transcend other aspects of life and society. Such a definition avoids the drawbacks of limiting the investigation of religion to Western or biblical categories such as monotheism (belief in one god only) or to church structure, which are not universal. For example, in tribal societies, religion—unlike the Christian church—usually is not a separate institution but pervades the whole of public and private life. In Buddhism, gods are not as central as the idea of a Buddha (fully enlightened human being). In many traditional cultures the idea of a sacred cosmic order is the most prominent religious belief. Because of this variety, some scholars prefer to use a general term such as the sacred to designate the common foundation of religious life.”

“Religion in this understanding includes a complex of activities that cannot be reduced to any single aspect of human experience. It is a part of individual life but also of group dynamics. Religion includes patterns of behavior but also patterns of language and thought. It is sometimes a highly organized institution that sets itself apart from a culture, and it is sometimes an integral part of a culture. Religious experience may be expressed in visual symbols, dance and performance, elaborate philosophical systems, legendary and imaginative stories, formal ceremonies, meditative techniques, and detailed rules of ethical conduct and law. Each of these elements assumes innumerable cultural forms. In some ways there are as many forms of religious expression as there are human cultural environments.”

Microsoft ® Encarta ® 2009. © 1993-2008 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

KENEZIAN DEFINITION OF RELIGION

“Religion was/is a superstitious search by humanity for its origin, existence, meaning and relevance before the scientific era. The search was led by acclaimed sages among the elders of a community who defined its theories and practices. It is later ratified and recommended for legislation and implementation by state apparatus by convincing stratagem or coercion by politico-religious leaders. Thereafter, it is fine tuned and administered by ordained priests and priestesses who hand it down along ancestral lineages from one generation of lukewarm adherents, fanatics and mystics to another. Gradually, strong personalities emerge claiming divine appointment and so pull strong followers who idolise them as role models with supernatural powers. This obsession confirms them as beacons of adulation and finally leads to full scale idolatry.

Religion, which is superstition sanctioned by the state, is actually an addiction to man-made doctrines and dogmas invented, patented and copyrighted by a few demagogues.

• It enslaves the mind more than psychoactive drugs,
• Benumbs human creativity and resourcefulness thereby
• Restricting the development of the human potential and capital.

It is the main cause of poverty of the mind and underdevelopment of third world countries as its side-effects are indolence, redundancy, laziness and dependence of finished products and services. In the final analysis, it is the predisposing factor to lack of initiative, debilitating ignorance, fetish belief-systems, abject poverty and perennial ill-health. Perhaps its only advantage is that it makes the polity docile and amenable to the whims and caprices of their oppressive leaders. Often, it hoodwinks its adherents into believing that ‘The God’ or ‘the gods’ they worship speak to them through the voices of their egocentric clerics who therefore can conveniently exploit them to satisfy their demonic desires of sensual pleasure and inordinate ambitions of amassing wealth. Their wanton indulgence in gluttony, wine and women is seen in every action and definitely this is the foolproof evidence of their demonic genealogy.” ( Dr Kenez 1991)

From the Animator’s Introduction to Integrational Spiritan Movement I S M Manifesto

To rescue humanity from the demonic stranglehold of idolatry that now predominates worldwide, you are invited to reason along with us and see that we provide an everlasting cure for sensual lust for food, wine, sex, wealth and power that are the trademarks of a society heading for damnation! Are you going to sit on the fence and wait for another failed experiment in Messiahship that was riddled with myopic and ethnocentric bias? Who knows the Creator well enough to declare that he has ‘a chosen people’? Where is the evidence that Moses actually led the so-called people out of any oppressive regime? The history books and modern encyclopaedia did not record the enslavement of the Jewish race except as ‘they were believed as revealed truths’. Then Moses, who was brought up in an Egyptian royal court went on to introduce the first and most heinous dichotomy in racism; JEWS and GENTILES! The negative impact of that first categorisation of humanity gave birth to all the nepotic, apartheid and racist policies in the entire world.

There is a plethora of ancient and modern major world religions. In each, there are factions, sects and denominations. It is syncretism galore! The name of the game is “join our own, ours is the one prospering for now!” It is a religious market. It is a mad world. Many nationals all over the globe are smarting under the colonial yoke of Roman Catholicism or Islamism. The intriguing aspect of this brand of neo-colonialism is that it brews dogmas and doctrines that propel fanatical members to kill or be killed in the name of ‘God’. Religious fanaticism or mysticism is a religio-psychiatric personality disorder that has never been classified by any DSM and so has never been diagnosed and managed as other psychopathological conditions that present in health services all over the world!

If you care to join us in a sanitation exercise that will guarantee a better future for your children, then come and witness the development of religion from time immemorial to evaluate its subjugation to man-made doctrines, dogmas and modes of worship that are irreligious. Thereafter, we can seek for solutions as proposed by the computer-age integrational fellowship; INTEGRATIONAL SPIRITAN MOVEMENT, abbreviated thus: I S M. This medical scientist, pragmatic researcher and existential therapist, is proposing that we scrutinise all the religious and ethnocentric prejudices that had enslaved many children right from birth, who were born into their parents religio-cultural practices and were never given the freedom to search for objective methods of relating to their maker and other humans. Can you join us to make this feasible? 

  

FUNDAMENTALS OF IGBO RELIGION

 A Preliminary Introduction to RENASCENT IGBO RELIGION

Internet abbreviation; wwwrenigborel or wwwrenascentigborel

• This is the symbol of Renascent Igbo Religion, RIR.
• The highest number in numerology worldwide is nine and
• The highest fine levied for crimes and offered to the Ultimate Spirit for absolution
• In ritual worship Igbo land is nine kola nuts and nine alligator pepper and
• The same number applies to presents given in obeisance to the highest titled men.

The Igbo has no name for the Ultimate Giver of Life! All we have are appellations that describe the superlative traits of this Consummate Spirit that created, creates and will still continue to create and sustain all the beings, visible and invisible, for ages in the future;

1. Chi-na-eke: the ultimate spirit that creates
2. Chi-ukwu:   the greatest spirit
3. Obasi bi n-elu: the omnipotent that lives on high
4. Ama-di-oha: the supreme husband of all
5. Ogara-nya ngada-nga: the wealthiest of the rich
6. Ugwu ana-ari-atu egwu: the highest mountain that is climbed with trepidation
7. Ogbajiri igwe kpoo ya nku: He that breaks steel and calls it dry wood
8. Utu na agba igwe: bacteria that eats up iron, i.e. potent ant that tears iron to shreds
9. Ogbu onye mbosi ndu n’ato ya oto: he that snuffs life off the arrogant

In our culture, one can only give names to what one owns, has authority over and can dispose of at will! It is not right to give any name to the creator; we describe what he is and does; “Chi-na-eke”, meaning; “the divine spirit that creates” or “Chi-Ukwu”; the Ultimate Spirit!  Therefore, I conclude this prelude thus: May Our Chineke prosper the work of your hands and provide divine guidance and protection for your spouses and children. I share in this last prayer and hope that all is well for those who love Chukwu, the Lord that gives us love and children may always be diligent in obeying His marriage laws! Amen!

Whereas other nations and cultures built places of worship for their religions, the Igbo know that the sky is the dome of the Creator and his illuminating lights are the sun, moon and stars. They grooves or open squares well planned and decorated are our places of worship come rain come shine! Most devotional rituals are done in moonlighting periods as it is cool and lasts the whole night. Above are edifices other major world religions built. For the Igbo, no human engineered structure is good enough to be the abode of the supreme spirit that owns the sky, the land and the sea. He is worshipped in the open!

PANTHEON IN RENASIGBOREL NEEDS MODERNISATION

The most widely worshiped deity of the Igbo was clearly the Earth goddess, ALA or ANI due to linguistic nuances. Next in rank to the Father Chineke, she is the Mother that manages the physical beings on earth for the benefit of her children. She provides fertility and the food that sustains all living things. She blesses farm work with bountiful harvest. The beautiful landscapes are the result of her proper feminine grooming!  The ponds, lakes streams and all other sources of drinking water come under her care. The dead are buried in her bosom!

Thus she became the deity that must be placated first for protection before one is clean enough to approach Chineke or else face the wrath of Amadioha, the god of thunder and lightning, the disciplinarian. She is represented by a nursing mother in sculptures and painting. Today, RIR uses this tripartite symbol of a family to depict her;

It is impossible to enumerate all the lesser deities our forebears had, many of whom are now mere names to us. Among them were the spirits of many mountains, rivers, springs, respected ancestors, and reputable warriors, past kings and queens who had “become gods” at death. Demons also existed in pre-colonial era as malevolent spirits under the command of Amadioha, the disciplinarian. Sickness and misfortune were ascribed either to these demons, to sorcery or to divine retribution.

Gods and men

The gods were imagined to have their own lives, though also needing the service of their worshippers, who in turn were dependent on the gods for their well-being. They lived in their temples, where they had to be fed, clothed, washed, and entertained. Part of their time, however, might be spent in heaven or in roaming the sea or the mountains. They might withdraw in anger and so cause life on Earth to wither and cease. One of the most characteristic rituals of the Hittites was the invocation by which a god who had absented himself was induced to return and attend to his duties by a combination of prayer and magic.

The relation between man and god resembled that between servant and master. “If a servant has committed an offence and confesses his guilt before his master, his master may do with him whatever he pleases; but because he has confessed his guilt . . . his master's spirit is appeased and he will not call that servant to account.” Confession and expiation form the main theme of the extant royal prayers.

DR KENEZ SUMMATION OF FAITH FROM PREVIOUS RELIGIONS THAT CAN ENTHRONE REAL PEACE FOR CITIZENS OF THE GLOBAL VILLAGE

There is one supreme eternal reality; the truth; imminent in all things; creator of all things; immanent in creation. Without fear and without hatred; not subject to time; beyond birth and death; self-revealing. This Eternal Reality is known only by the Divine Revelations from His Grace.

Faith is ultimately the acceptance of the divine authority of the Omnipotent and Omniscient Almighty Creator of the universe we share with all the other beings he has made; micro/macrocosms, living and non-living beings that regularly obey the natural and eternal laws he embedded in his creations for our mutual benefits.

----Rev. Prof. J. J. Kenez (1999)

By faith is meant, first, conscious knowledge, and second, the practice of good deeds. "Know, therefore, that only the LORD your Creator is the Ultimate Reality, the Absolute Truth. Only he is the steadfast Godhead who keeps His gracious covenant to the all who believe and trust in his everlasting love and fatherly care for beings, seen and unseen to the tens, hundreds and thousandth generations of those who love Him and keep His commandments." Hence, recognizing and affirming that this One Almighty Creator of the entire Universe is our Father/Mother and therefore, only to this Creator is total worship due. Our corporate willingness, commitment and submission to this One Creator that exists guarantees all that are alive sustenance, and to His prescriptions for living in accordance with his ordained eternal and natural laws is surely the only assurance of living a good life assured to anyone who (1) believes in Him, and (2) believes in the Last Day, and (3) leads a righteous life, will receive their recompense from the Lord. They have nothing to fear, nor will they grieve."        ---- ISM Integrational Faith (2013)

Faith in Buddhism centres on the understanding that the Buddha is an Awakened being, on his superior role as teacher, in the truth of his Dharma (spiritual teachings), and in his Sangha (community of spiritually developed followers).

In the teachings, saddhā is often described as:

·                    a conviction that something is

·                    a determination to accomplish one's goals

·                    a sense of joy deriving from the other two spiritual teachings and in community of spiritually developed followers.

As a counter to any form of "blind faith", the Buddha's teachings included those included in the Kalama Sutra, exhorting his disciples to investigate any teaching and to live by what is learnt and accepted, rather than believing in something simply because it is taught.

Meher Baba described three types of faith, emphasizing the importance of faith in a spiritual master:

"One of the most important qualifications for the aspirant is faith. There are three kinds of faith: (i) faith in oneself, (ii) faith in the Master and (iii) faith in life. Faith is so indispensable to life that unless it is present in some degree, life itself would be impossible. It is because of faith that cooperative and social life becomes possible. It is faith in each other that facilitates a free give and take of love, a free sharing of work and its results. When life is burdened with unjustified fear of one another it becomes cramped and restricted....Faith in the Master becomes all-important because it nourishes and sustains faith in oneself and faith in life in the very teeth of set-backs and failures, handicaps and difficulties, limitations and failings. Life, as man knows it in himself, or in most of his fellow-men, may be narrow, twisted and perverse, but life as he sees it in the Master is unlimited, pure and untainted. In the Master, man sees his own ideal realised; the Master is what his own deeper self would rather be. He sees in the Master the reflection of the best in himself which is yet to be, but which he will surely one day attain. Faith in the Master therefore becomes the chief motive-power for realising the divinity which is latent in man."

THE BAROMETRE OF MORAL DECADENCE

In summary, one can measure the moral ethics, moral health and social ethics of any civilised or uncivilised society or semi-urban, urban or rural community by the pre-eminent value they inculcate in their younger generation of marriage and family life and the mores and norms they place on sexual relationships.

Before the arrival of foreign religions in Biafra, ONE COULD NOT IMAGINE DREAM NOR HEAR OF ABORTION, INFANTICIDE OR DIVORCE. Today it is no news as the presumed religious leaders are the one in the forefront of the desecration of family values. May be an excerptfrom my book entitled GRADUATES OF SATAN’S UNIVERSITY will bring home to you the extent of damage already done on NSO ANI and MORAL PROBITY in Igbo Land;

The Association for the Abrogation of Celibacy in the Catholic Church is the answer to all the immoral acts that irreverent priest and nuns have unleashed on our erstwhile holy and sacrosanct rural and urban communities in Igbo Land.! Their Animator International states that; “Celibacy is a legislation that can be abrogated anytime.” It is a convenience that can be dispensed with as soon as it is grossly abused and becomes counterproductive. That is what it is for now! Therefore, it must be abrogated or, in the least optionalised!

“If clerical celibacy has out-lived its usefulness, what is the need of clinging tenaciously to it? This is an absurdity on the part of the Roman Catholic Church hierarchy”. In medical language, it is giving a wrong diagnosis while a sick patient is in a comatose state! Alternatively, shall we take it that the Church Fathers support the numerous sex scandals rocking the boat? Or, has it become so insensitive to the evidence of cases of paedophilia in USA, of lesbian and homosexual relationships reported in the mass media and so many incidences of promiscuity in other parts of the globe and that warrants our “separated brethren” laughing us to scorn? Why has the Pope and the Cardinals turned their eyes the other way? Are they neck deep in these scandals themselves? Probably it is a case of those living in glass houses not throwing stones at each other? They are blind pastors leading the faithful!

Our Lord and Master, Jesus Christ, had prophesied about them when he compared them to the religious leaders of his time. He reiterated that they were hypocrites that devoured the homes of widows. He labelled them, “white sepulchres, which on the outside looked clean but were rotten and decaying on the inside.” Anyone who deceptively takes a vow of celibacy, deliberately violates it regularly without any pricks of the conscience is a definitely a disciple of Satan. That is why we refer to them as ‘Postgraduates of Satan’s University.’ They are candidates for hellfire and they will lead as many of us as they can to the same place. They are only working for their master, Lucifer! Listen to what Jesus Christ said about such hypocrites who take false vows in New Testament account of Matthew’s Gospel, Chapter 23, vv. 25 - 28:

 “How terrible for you, teachers of the Law and Pharisees! You hypocrites! You clean the outside of your cup and plate, while the inside is full of what you have obtained by violence and selfishness.  Blind Pharisee! Clean what is inside the cup first, and then the outside will be clean too!: “How terrible for you, teachers of the Law and Pharisees! You hypocrites! You are like whitewashed tombs, which look fine on the outside but are full of bones and decaying corpses on the inside. In the same way, on the outside you appear good to everybody, but on the inside, you are full of hypocrisy and sins.”

Does anyone need an interpretation for those simple statements of facts? What does a tomb covered with tiles look like theses days? White! Suppose you dig up the contents after three months, what will you find inside? Dry bones, nails, hairs, the teeth, the skull and may be some decaying flesh!

Today, that is what the Nigerian clergy is! Our Protestant married priests are now preferred! Many of these erring brothers and sisters of our Catholic community come to my clinic. Nevertheless, that does not solve the matter! They go to physicians and gynaecologists who are not Catholics; and probably in mufti, and still accomplish their infanticide mission. My colleagues laugh at me! Our teaching hospitals and private clinics are inundated with so many cases that I blush whenever I meet with some of the irreverent ‘Rev. Fathers and Sisters!’ I may be forced to document some of these aberrations if nothing tangible is done by the local ordinaries of these erring sons and daughters of ours! This is definitely “abomination standing in a holy place”!

During the civil war, I handled more than five hundred cases, mostly out of paternal concern and humanitarian principles. I pitied the refugee girls and women who were the commonest preys of these amorous parish priests that used stockfish, egg-yolk and milk, donated by CARITAS as their baits! Often, I had to turn them back. The story has not changed much! Only their baits have changed and their methodologies have greatly been improved on. Their new treacheries and cover-ups have undergone metamorphosis, but they can never outwit old hands in our profession!

My colleagues, still in active service, report that the upsurge is astronomical. The most current evidence to buttress the incidence and frequency of these scandalous practices by our ‘celibate children’ is that five hundred cases of HIV/AIDS involving Rev. Fathers and Sisters have been recorded at all the teaching hospitals nation-wide. The story is the same in other sister African countries; Ghana, Ivory Coast, Gambia, Kenya, Malawi, Angola and South Africa! The papacy must exempt Africans from the foolery of pretences at a celibate culture! It is ‘Un-African’, to say the least. Moreover, the scandalous lessons this clerical subterfuge passes on to our youth, most especially the young girls and women who are the victims of these amorous relationships does more harm to their spiritual development than whatever ablutions they get at their weekly confessions. It is a blatant mockery of the sacrament of reconciliation!

By God’s grace, I am an octogenarian. It is equally ‘Un-African’ for an elder to see evil, sit complacently and not warn the youth about its impending and disastrous consequences. I have done my duty! If nothing is done, and fast too, we shall be left with no option than to assert that celibacy is a canonical camouflage designed to shelter all those who are incapable of living the monogamous lifestyle demanded by the sacrament of Holy Matrimony! It shall then be obvious that it is an institutionalised welcome haven for those having sociopathological inadequacies! For now, that is what it represents among the Igbos of Biafra in West Africa, who love children and cherish family life dearly!

P R E F A C E

THE RAISON D’ÊTRE

Current sex scandals in Catholic dioceses all over the world and in many parishes of the African Church have necessitated the timely formation of an association of deeply concerned parents, with the sole objective of sanitising the congregation of what is regarded today as the greatest demonic attack on decency, purity, holiness and social ethics! Many postgraduates of Satan’s universities have invaded our churches. We urgently need to checkmate them!

IT IS SEX SCANDALS GALORE AS AT NOW!

It is hoped that this association, as a child of necessity, will save us the recurrent shame, stigmatisation and embarrassment serious minded members of the clergy and our faithful laity suffer at the hands of our separated brethren. They are fully aware of the deceit going on. Now they deride us on the false claims we make on celibacy and so laugh us to scorn! We have no excuses for the flagrant violations of the vows of chastity and virginity by our sons and daughters!

The words of Apostle Peter, in 2^nd Peter 2: 17-22, Good News Bible edition (GNB) is prophetic and says it all!

v.17: These men are like dried-up springs, like clouds blown along by a storm; God has reserved a place for them in the deepest darkness.

v.18: They make proud and stupid statements, and use immoral bodily lusts to trap those who are just beginning to escape from among people who live in error.

v.19:  They promise them freedom while they themselves are slaves of destructive habits—for a person is a slave of anything that has conquered him.

v.20:  If people have escaped from the corrupting forces of the world through their knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, and then are again caught and conquered by them, such people are in a worse state at the end than they were at the beginning.

v.21:  It would have been much better for them never to have known the way of righteousness than to know it and then turn away from the sacred command that was given them.

v.22:  What happened to them shows that the proverbs are true:

“A dog goes back to what it has vomited” and “A pig that has been washed goes back to roll in the mud.”

What else can be more appropriate in describing our erring religious hypocrites than the last two verses? One takes a vow of chastity or that of virginity after fifteen years of training at the seminary or a minimum of seven years after a postulancy at a convent respectively. Thereafter,  such candidates flaunt the vow and unrepentantly indulge in promiscuous sexual exploits shortly after a mission-sponsored tutelage and the diocesan ceremonies of ordinations or solemn professions usually well orchestrated and extensively financed by the laity! This cancerous sore deserves a surgical excision!

Is this not a variant of the abominations of desolation standing in holy places?

Has Satan taken over our seminaries and convents or are the spiritual directors and formators to be held responsible for this turn of events? Subterfuge, deceit and pretence must have been so eulogised, practised and indulged in at some of the religious training grounds, otherwise how can anyone explain how these wolves in sheep’s clothing survived the rigorous classical conditioning and role-modelling of their formators for so long. The sorrows of parents of these wayward candidates are better imagined than experienced!

The situation has so got out of hand that the warnings of Jesus Christ himself now apply to our clergy. The whole of chapter twenty-three of the gospel according to Matthew is an apt description of the depravity of most of our present day priests! Currently, about fifty-five cases of reported HIV/AIDS patients in our teaching hospitals are those of our young men and women in religious cassocks, gowns and veils of all descriptions. However only one appellation truly fits them all, and that is- HYPOCRITES! 

THE STATUS QUO OF CLERICAL CELIBACY TODAY

“CELIBACY, is the state of being unmarried, with abstinence from sexual activity. Considered a form of asceticism (q.v.), it has been practiced in many religious traditions: in ancient Judaism, by the Essenes; and in Buddhism, Jainism and Hinduism, by the members of monastic groups.

In Christianity, monks and nuns in both the Western and Eastern churches have practiced celibacy. In the Eastern Church, parish clergy are permitted to marry before ordination, but bishops are selected from among the unmarried clergy. In the Roman Catholic Church, celibacy is required of all clergy in the Latin Rite. The church holds that this practice is sanctioned, although not required, by the New Testament, basing this claim upon what it avers to have been the constant tradition of the church and upon several biblical texts (notably, 1 Cor. 7:6-7, 25; Matt. 19:12). The principles upon which the law of celibacy is founded are (1) that the clergy may serve God with more freedom and with undivided heart; and (2) that, being called to serve Jesus Christ; they may embrace the holier life of self-restraint. This statement does not imply, it is said, that matrimony is not a holy state but simply that celibacy is a state of greater perfection.

Having no doctrinal bearing in the Roman Catholic Church, celibacy is regarded as a purely disciplinary law. A dispensation from the obligation of celibacy has occasionally been granted to ecclesiastics under exceptional circumstances, for instance, to provide an heir for a noble family in danger of extinction.

The Protestant reformers rejected the celibacy of the clergy, Martin Luther setting the example to his followers by marrying a former nun. Both the marriage of ministers and the abolition of monastic vows became common features of those bodies that withdrew their allegiance from the Roman Catholic Church. According to the articles of religion of the Church of England, "bishops, priests, and deacons are not commanded by God's law, either to vow the estate of single life, or to abstain from marriage; therefore it is lawful for them, as for all other Christian men, to marry at their own discretion, as they shall judge the same to serve better to godliness."

The history of priestly celibacy has been a stormy one since it became law for the clergy of the Latin Rite in the 6th century. Although Pope Paul VI, in his encyclical of June 24, 1967, reaffirmed the traditional position, the requirement of priestly celibacy remains a much-disputed ecclesiastical question.”

Excerpts from INFOPEDIA, the ultimate in information & historical data, USA, 2000

THE SCENARIO IN NIGERIA

·        At UNTH some years back, a convent girl was used at the medical students’ practical session to demonstrate the early signs of pregnancy in a virgin. The naïve postulant was made to stand in front of students of her age and narrate what happens to her early in the morning. ‘Of course her descriptions are nothing peculiar’, the mischievous Consultant explained to the class, ‘Congrats my dear, you are a very good sample of a healthy mother-to-be, you are pregnant!” he thundered.

You can only conceptualise the loud ovation or the sarcastic uproar that greeted the Consultant’s verdict! Then imagine the scorn and shame the Catholic medical students had to bear because of a parish priest’s secret love affair with the adolescent girl who honestly desired the vocation and seriously hoped to become an exemplary Reverend Sister! 

·        At a wedding in my hometown back in 1992, a handsome light complexioned Rev. Fr. travelled all the way from Umuahia to officiate at St Martin’s Parish, Odoata-Ihiala. The grandmother of the bridegroom was at hand to witness the ceremony despite her aging frame and figure! She insisted on being present at her first grandson’s wedding feast, but for a different reason altogether as the events of the wedding celebration unfolded. At the end of the cutting of the wedding cake, she requested to speak. Sitting in front of the audience with the microphone secure in her trembling hands, she feebly implored the visiting Rev. Fr. not to forget to take along with him the beautiful daughter the bride bore for him prior to being engaged to her grandson. “We have taken care of her for you for three years now!” she concluded. You can imagine the livid consternation her confession caused in the reception hall!

This is only the tip of the iceberg, as many such violations of the vow of celibacy and worse stories from the convents litter all our parishes. One cannot recount even ninety percent of them were such a one to narrate for ten hours the sex scandals perpetrated under the unnatural guise of a celibate life that no African is qualified for, let alone programmed to keep! We have been deceiving ourselves all these years. Before the civil war, this author could vouch for 33% of the Rev. Gentlemen who took their sacred vows seriously. Now, he cannot even swear an affidavit for as little as 0.05%.

The current vocation explosion is thanks to this nonchalant attitude to the vows of obedience, poverty and chastity. Most of the candidates for the religious life nowadays, are frustrated applicants who now see easy life and sensual pleasure as the exclusive preserve of clandestine Rev. Frs. and impious Rev. Srs. They are the only ones permitted by the Church to dissect the sexual enjoyment in Holy Matrimony from the difficult roles and duties of parenthood as demanded by the Canon Laws of the Holy Roman Catholic Church. They enjoy sex without the corresponding responsibility of pregnancy, gestation period, labour pains, delivery and child rearing involved in it. Let those who want to marry come out and do so honourably! It is time to put an end to pretence and public deceit!

The seven or more items listed on the title page will be treated on separate well research volumes. For now, only the first has been examined. The treatise is neither comprehensive nor exhaustive! Every concerned parent or Christian is invited to make his or her inputs on any of the listed aberrations in the theory and practice of Christianity today and mail it to the headquarters of the INTEGRATIONAL SPIRITAN MOVEMENT, a fellowship for all natural scientists for immediate publication.

Feel free to communicate with us by dialling 042-550344 or 0804-2719800, e-mail saintkenez@yahoo.co.uk.

Many seminarians and postulants are virgins at their ordinations and first professions! They are sincere on the vows they take. However, their seniors who are already morally depraved and demonised seduce them into joining the cohort of fraudsters in cassocks and veils!

Many young Reverend Sisters equally, report that they were initiated into illicit sex exploits by their parish priests or those they trusted. Platonic love affairs became translated into concubinage within the first three years of their profession. Some, rather than withdrawing and getting married legally, are then convinced that everyone was indulging in it, so why should they leave?

That there is an option to this deceitful aberration is all that the association for the abrogation of celibacy in the Catholic Church is saying. This clandestine misapplication of what Paul said in his letter to the Corinthian Church is the genesis of the mass deception! It did not make celibacy either obligatory or mandatory, but optional. So, who invented this compulsory application?

1 Corinthians 7:1-9

7:1 Now for the matters you wrote about: It is good for a man not to marry.

2 But since there is so much immorality, each man should have his own wife, and each woman her own husband.

3 The husband should fulfil his marital duty to his wife, and likewise the wife to her husband.

4 The wife's body does not belong to her alone but also to her husband. In the same way, the husband's body does not belong to him alone but also to his wife.

5 Do not deprive each other except by mutual consent and for a time, so that you may devote yourselves to prayer. Then come together again so that Satan will not tempt you because of your lack of self-control.

6 I say this as a concession, not as a command.

7 I wish that all men were as I am. But each man has his own gift from God; one has this gift, another has that.

8 Now to the unmarried and the widows I say: It is good for them to stay unmarried, as I am.

9 But if they cannot control themselves, they should marry, for it is better to marry than to burn with passion.

It is this wrong misapplication of what the apostle recommended that is the crux of the matter. Our association is only asking that we sanitise the priesthood and stop the mass deception. It is evident to members of the mass servers and altar girls that both Rev. Frs. & Rev. Srs. Do not keep the vow. Here is our position:

1.       Celibacy must be made optional, with priests allowed to renew their choice every three years for the first ten years of their ordination. They should be as free as Reverend Sisters to marry if they have fallen in love with someone they feel can assist them live a happily married life and an exemplary Christian life!

2.       Only those who are resolute in their virginity can then aspire to becoming full-time Parish Priests, with the prospect of becoming Papal Chamberlains

       at the fifteenth year of their ordination! They have the option of voluntarily

       undergoing vasectomy to confirm their perpetual loyalty to the Church!

3.       A broad-based Diocesan Commission of both the laity and the clergy can interview and appoint some of the married priests as reliable vicars in their home parishes. However, they will find their own accommodation and cater for their families as they will be paid salaries and sick-call allowances!

      

Both the few honest celibates and the uncountable dishonest ‘celibates’ know that this is the truth of the matter. Therefore, the African Synod of Bishops should take the option Pope John Paul II gave them. In African culture, elders do not tell lies nor propagate falsehood or false lifestyles. That is the essence of the Ozo-titles that are conferred on trust-worthy citizens, whose tongues are washed and minds rid of subterfuge during the rituals of purification in the long drawn out ceremonies. Most of these clerics want the abolition of the obnoxious dogma but are cautious lest any one says that he or she has been indulging in its violation. That is the origin of all the ‘hide-me-& I-hide-you’ scenario we are being treated to! Let the honest ones come out boldly and condemn the unnatural law of celibacy. They will gain greater respect!

We are equal partners in this business of sanitising all Christian Churches! We cannot shy away from our responsibilities to chart a new course and so sanitise our Catholic Church! Get as many people as possible to fill out the registration forms at the back of the book. Enlist only dedicated and devout practitioners of the Christian Faith to join us. God be with you as the Holy Spirit guides you. For “Surely, His Goodness and Mercy shall follow us all the days of our lives and we shall dwell in the house of the Almighty God, for ever and ever”.

In support of my recommendations, now read 1^st Maccabees 1, 2 & 3.

I might as well insert verbatim my earlier dedication page to that diatribe here:

DEDICATION

To the million souls that were deliberately aborted and have been sent to limbo due to the promiscuous lifestyles of our erring brothers and sisters!

To all the underage that have been abused sexually by the homosexual and lesbian graduates of Satan’s university adorning cassocks or veils of varying colours!

To the memory of naïve girls who were deceived, seduced, impregnated and forced to have D&C, from which they did not survive!

To the repentant celibates who want to renounce the inhuman vow and wed canonically with the appropriate dispensations!

Finally, TO THE FEW HONEST AND DEDICATED SERVANTS OF THE LORD WHO HAVE KEPT THEIR VOWS VERY RELIGIOUSLY!

May the Blood of Jesus Christ, Plead For All of You, Amen!

This is a very good birthday gift for seminarians and convent girls. Please give out copies of this memorable book as souvenirs to your loved sons and daughters at their ordinations and final professions!

CONCLUDING REMARKS BY TWO MORAL AGENTS:

Bertrand Russell noted,

"Where there is evidence, no one speaks of 'faith'. We do not speak of faith that two and two are four or that the earth is round. We only speak of faith when we wish to substitute emotion for evidence."

Kenez Danmbaezue observes; 

“ The only truthful thing anyone can say about the Almighty and Benevolent Creator known in many cultures and languages by a variety of names is; AN INTELLIGENT SUPERNATURAL BEING EXISTS WHO CREATED ALL WE CAN EVER SEE, THINK AND FEEL! Any other statement we make about this Ultimate Reality, Absolute Truth that is omnipotent, omniscient and omnipresent being is mere guesswork that only feeds doctrine and dogmas!

 

THE LOGO OF I.S.M. FELLOWSHIP OF TRUE CHILDREN OF THE CREATOR

A GLOBAL ETHICS FOR GENUINE CITIZENS OF OUR GLOBAL VILLAGE

For a proper understanding of how temptations overpower the human person, you must appreciate the natural laws that you compromise with whenever you fail the examinations of the evil one. It costs you only the will power to say NO! Do not abdicate the driver’s seat in the vehicle God has given you. 

TAKE OVER CONTROL! The devil is the evil tendencies in you; becoming a slave to your five bodily senses and obeying them rather than the spiritual senses by obeying your conscience directed by the holy spirit of God residing in you! Conquer the infantile cravings in your lifestyle by subduing natural responses to the demands of your five senses and so become an adult in social ethics practised today by members of ISM!

 A KENEZIAN PALLIATIVE FOR WORLD PEACE

Make time for the Almighty Creator God in your short span of life.

It is as simple as A B C when we come to him like innocent babies,

Who always obey all His natural laws all through their infant years 

By surviving simply on His fresh oxygen, breast milk and full sleep;

Dr Jude Jideofo Kenez argues that is possible since there is only:

• One created universe, of which we all share its amenities,

• One earth, on which we all stand, walk about, plant on, harvest from,

. Bury our dead, build our physical structures, and depend on for our food,

• One atmospheric air that all living things breathe from to live,

• One rainfall that provides the water for all plants and animals, 

• One sun and a moon that illuminate the world day and night,

• One anatomy and physiology that ensures our survival or death,

• He is responsible for all we can think, say, hear, feel and see! 

. He deserves our eternal gratitude, obedience and loyalty as heirs. 

. A discovery of all the natural and eternal laws in creation and full obedience to all of them is the lifestyle that guides the true sons and daughters of the Almighty Creator of the universe who we now designate as genuine crusaders for global spiritual reorientation for a lasting world peace for our global village!

VISIT:   

https://sites.google.com/site/sanitationforglobalpeace/ten-foundation-verses-of-the-animator-international

Just type RENASCENT IGBO RELIGION into Google Search and see the volumes I had written on how, why and wherefore our traditional "NSO ANI" i.e. AVOIDNACE OF DESECRATION OF NATURAL LAWS is the best religion in the whole world. yet we prefer to swim in foreign religions and create an immoral nation wherein demonic politicians and pecuniary religious leaders swindle us and smile to the banks!! 

You can fool all the people some of the time, and you can also fool some of the people all the time, BUT YOU CAN NEVER FOOL ALL THE PEOPLE ALL THE TIME, TALK LESS OF ATTEMPTING TO FOOL GOD AT ANY TIME.

All you have read above summarise all that this revolutionary professor of modern ethics is recommending for enthroning A LASTING GLOBAL PEACE FOR THE TRUE CHILDREN OF THE ALMIGHTY CREATOR IN OUR DIGITALISED GLOBAL VILLAGE.

+ Dr. Jideofo Kenechukwu Danmbaezue

a.k.a. Rev. Prof. J. J. Kenez, D.Sc.
Email: agunabu1948@gmail.com


VISIT THIS WEB ADDRESS FOR MORE:

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I AM NEITHER A HERETIC NOR A BLASPHEMER.

I AM NEITHER A HERETIC NOR A BLASPHEMER. THOUGH FOR THE FANATICAL, SIMPLE-MINDED AND COMPLETELY INDOCTRINATED CHRISTIAN I MAY BE TAGGED AN APOSTATE. NO PROBLEM, I CAN EASILY HANDLE THAT, FOR THAT IS WHAT MY LIFE HAS BEEN FOR MORE THAN HALF A CENTURY NOW! YOU SHALL KNOW THE TRUTH AND THE TRUTH WILL SET YOU FREE, THE MASTER SAID WHILE DISCUSSING WITH THE SAMARITAN WOMAN IN CHAPTER JOHN 4; VERSES 1 - 41 .