digitek1 wrote:mv_ufanisi wrote:Religion is basically superstition. It's more reflective of "an ignorance is bliss attitude". That's why overly religious/superstitious institutions are not progressive. You have to rely on the atheists and the people bringing up uncomfortable questions for society to progress. Those people are thinking out of the box. The rest are with the pope when he says that the "world is flat" why? because God made it so. Right there brain goes to sleep.
And I have to say one of the reasons Africa is so behind the rest of the world is over religiousness and superstition. We need more thinkers than believers.
@Mv how about Jews- very religious yet very rich
People in Kenya overly glamorize the Jews. You should go there in Israel as a black (wo)man and see how they treat you like sh*t. You can check out on youtube how black people are treated in Israel.
Also if Jews are as amazing as a lot of Kenyans are led to believe by their pastors every Sunday, why isn't their country the best country in the world?
Jewish culture is similar to Indian culture in Kenya, they form a cartel and then it's hard for other people not using the same tactics to compete with them. That's why the Germans were pissed off with them. (Ofcourse that part never comes up in the Holocaust discussions which I think is self defeating because people are more horrified than educated and they don't think through things - cc Rwanda)
The problem with religion is that it leads people to shut down their brains. So it's hard for anything meaningful to come out. Why do you think so many Kenyans go to church or mosque like sheep yet only 200 years ago we were all following our own religions?
Most Kenyans cram the bible or koran like a scientific document but then alas they are none the wiser apart from being able to quote versus and get overly emotional about a white guy from Israel or Arabia.
That's why the black man has nothing much to show in the way of coming up with new ideas and technology. African culture is too focused on getting everyone to think and look the same.