Kumuyi: No one can impose any religion on Nigeria
…says recession is path to greatness
The General Overseer of Deeper Christian Life Ministry, Pastor W.F. Kumuyi, has said that it would be absolutely difficult for anyone to impose any religion on the country.
The Minister of the gospel spoke in Calabar, Cross River State, where he went for a crusade and stressed that no one can Islamise or Christianise Nigeria because imposing one religion on a country as heterogeneous as Nigeria will take a long process.
According to him, “It is not easy for a person to impose his will on the rest of the country because to do so will take a process which cannot easily be achieved in a country with divergent religious practices like Nigeria.
“I think it depends on the will of the people. You cannot impose a religion on a country without the will of the people. Worshiping God is a personal thing.
“If I choose my way, so will it be. If a country is said to be going through a process, if the people are asleep and they do not have any conviction, then it becomes easy for another person to impose what he feels he has on you. But the will of the people will not be easily overruled.
“When we say alleged killing, we will need to investigate well. Neither of the two dominant religions in Nigeria – Christianity and Islam – advocate the killing of neighbours. The love of our neighbour is key here and the Islamic religion came in through Abraham.
“So, basically, we are having the same great grand-grandparents. So, we should rethink and understand that it will be good to allow the people to live together in peace and allow them to have their free will to choose how to worship,” he said.
On the current economic recession, Kumuyi said: “We are passing through a stage though this is one of the worst recession in the country and we cannot put the blame on one thing or person as the cause because different things contributed at different times to the situation.
“But there are things we still do in spite of the economy. Money is just a servant to man and it is not supposed to be the master. There are things we keep doing even when money is not there. I believe that we will come out of this recession.”
He believed that the current recession is just a stage in the country’s path to greatness, that Nigeria will overcome it and be better.
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