One God, One Love

Good morning, class, and welcome back from the Thanksgiving holiday. How did it go?

Went well, sir.

Good. Nice to hear that. Anything of particular interest that you may want to share with the other members of the class?

Yes, sir!

Okay, go ahead.

Thank you, sir. When I heard there is a place in America where people can worship God  through any intermediary like Sango, Oya, Obatala and Ogun Lakaaye I decided to go to town to follow the devotees of Orunmila to their “church” to worship and thank Olodumare for His protection for us in this school and in our respective homes.

Where is this your Ifa church?

It is in Ibadan Mesiogo, sir, “nile Oluyole, nibiti olosa ti njare olohun”.

What garbage is that? What did I ask you and what are you telling me? What kind of ELONKOKO is that? What concerns me with Ibadan Mesiogo or wharrrever their cognomen is. Where did you attend an Ifa Church, the exact place and the name of the church? Period!

Sorry, sir, I didn’t know that’s what you meant.  Yes, I attended the IFA MOSQUE CATHEDRAL  in Ojaaba, to be specific, in the heartland of Ibadan  Mesiogo, near the famous Mapo Hill.

Now you are talking! What did you learn from that experience?

Very handsome, sir…

The Ifa Priest or you mean to say AWESOME?

Thank you, sir, that’s it. The name is enough, Ifa Mosque Cathedral.  Though it is largely a gathering of Ifa worshippers, it allows and encourages both “awon Musulumi Ododo and orthodox Christians to partake in the day’s events. They even do Saturday School also like our Sunday School.

Gbabrake small. You said they invite orthodox Christians to join them on Saturdays for religious discussions, how about the unorthodox, the PENTICOSTAL and the  “the awon aje and awon wizards” to come and worship God with them since it is the same God we are all worshipping and who is omnipresent, omnipotent omniscient and “omni gbogbo e”(omni everything).

Sir, that will be asking for too much, putting chickens and kolokolo (fox) together in a cage as exclusive congregants. That na “rererun loju paali” (wholesale confusion)! ,, And as for the Pentecostal in particular, that will be asking for the impossible.

Why do you say that?

Those people, I dare say,  are too irrational and fetish about their unbridled, negative fixation on the African traditional religion. Inviting them to participate will be akin to a declaration of war on anything African. They can make a true son of of the soil look stupid, inferior and devilish for not seeing religion through their narrow prism of RELIGION.

Good you are conscious of this, and this is what we try to impart to you in Sunday School, that  we are all worshipping the same God and need not abuse, insult, maim or kill one another because of our different ways of worshipping HIM through whatever intermediary we fancy. Perhaps they should always remember that we all came from the same  ELEDA (creator) and shall return to Him for Judgement.

One God, One Love.

Got it! Happy Sunday to you all.

C-O-U-R-T-!!