1. The only true religion is love for all beings. – Michael Eneyo.
2. Religion doesn’t necessarily make somebody a good person. It only makes you to be committed to what you believe in. What makes you a good person is being a good moral agent. Being a good moral being is more honorable than being a religious . – Michael Eneyo.
3 If you kill or fight a fellow human being because he is not of your religion, then religion has become the reason for division instead of unity. The aim of religion is to unite and not to divide. – Michael Eneyo.
4. If religion should make you hate your fellow human being, then staying without a religion will be a true religion. – Michael Eneyo.
5. If all religion worshippers are sincere and also respect the tenet of religion, they will adopt only one doctrine; the doctrine of love for all. Then a Muslim will freely worship in a Christian church and a Christian in the Hindu temple in their own unique way without conflict, since they are practicing the same doctrine of love. – Michael Eneyo.
6. Wearing of suit or jacket is not a criterion to becoming a true pastor or a born again. Even Jesus Christ didn’t abandon his native way of dressing. Our traditional wears are good enough for preaching. It’s high time we stop acting the western script of dressing in the name of religion. Be a true African even on pulpit. – Michael Eneyo.
7. When you go for offering in the church, you search for the lowest denomination of money as offering to the Lord, but when you pray for money from God, you ask him to surprise you with millions in dollar. Let your conscience be a judge between you and God. – Michael Eneyo.
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Michael Eneyo is working very hard, now another book on the way, doing a Ph.D. on fearology--which, I'd love him to share more with us on the FM ning about; and then "The Court of Conscience" is a great topic too. I just found this quote from Sam Gillian (2005) relevant to Eneyo's work perhaps:
"This very purpose is what developing a moral sense or conscience in children is all about. This very purpose is how any society attempts to protect itself from the negative consequences or dark side of human behavior. Where this purpose goes clearly wrong or where any society gets broken, unfortunately, is in its rejection of the primary value of fear. Historically, we have rejected fear as the most important factor in our lives. Therefore, we are generally unable to develop a proper moral sense in ourselves or healthy consciences in our children." (p. 257)
Gillian, S. G. (2005). Terrified by education: Teaching children to fear learning. Bronx, NY: Phemore Press.
Good to see Eneyo applying his philosophy of fear to religion. Upon scanning the quotes, I am caught by the statement: "What makes you a good person is being a good moral agent" (in 2.) --who could disagree? The tricky part is the development of the moral agent (agency)...that's the dirty details of this proposition. It seems that the "Let your conscience" (in 7.) would be a good course to tweeze out carefully. Eneyo defaults to his Christian theology re: conscience. I find the moral philosophy of Samuel Gillian quite intricate, as a fearism philosopher, on the development and non-development of "conscience" in his potent chapter 7 in his 2005 book, "Morality and Conscience: Taught Fear" (worth checking out). Reference: Gillian, S. N. (2005). Terrified by Education: Teaching Children to Fear Learning (Phemore Press). Gillian is very Christian-friendly in his moral philosophy of fear (and pedagogy of fear)--so, that makes a good combination with Eneyo's work, I would think--in this query towards what makes a "true religion" that is actually really helpful to humankind and our world.
Thanks Dr. Fisher,
My position on the concept of conscience would be made known in my up coming book; "The Court of Conscience."