| | "What led you to become a humanist?"
"Like all Nigerians, I was born into the family religion - Christianity - the Catholic faith to be precise. At the age of twelve, l was sent to a Catholic seminary where I spent another twelve years of my life as a student, teacher and in training as a priest. It was in the course of my philosophical studies that I saw the 'light'. When l started questioning and inquiring deeply and critically into the claims of my family religion, and religions in general, I discovered, to my great shock and surprise, that religions thrive on lack of evidence, on supposition, superstition, lies, myths and transcendental illusion ..." |
