MUGABE:EDITOR’S COMMENTS ON CONTROVERSY OVER THE “USAGE OF CRYSTAL BALL” IN REPORTAGE..

MUGABE:EDITOR’S COMMENTS ON CONTROVERSY OVER THE “USAGE OF CRYSTAL BALL” IN REPORTAGE..

BY ABDULMUMINI ADEKU.

The usage of the words in English language has always being a problem between scholars and religious theologians  and so we are not so surprised about this uproar even as we think it is not necessary.

Prophet Ben Luther-Moibi ,comes to us at The Editorial and Policy Board of the E.N.M.Paedia Express Multimedia Group of Lagos,Nigeria with the highest level of regards due to his sterling contributions to the field of theology, printing technology and humanity in general.

We referred to the statement crystal ball ,we were trying to relate it to the synonym:realm-of- the- spirit ,it does not however mean that the highly respected and gifted Christian clergy was an occult .

When words like idolatry are used for descriptions ,Muslims ,Christians and Jews will reject it very strongly and lay claims to the fact that it was only those that do graven images that were idolaters and in this case adherents of African traditional religions  .

However to the best of my knowledge ,anything that you place a high premium on to the extent that you cannot do without has become your idol and so to this extent we make bold to say that we are all idolaters one way or the other.

When a word like shrine is used ,again Muslims ,Christians and Jews and others alike kick against it and say only the African traditionalists worship in the shrines.

However if you doubt that our place of worship could be tagged as a shrine then go and pickup a dictionary and look it up ,will you.

The fact is we all have being to a shrine before at one time or the other irrespective of our faith, with all due respect I plead with people to learn to read so that they can help to broaden their horizons or world view.

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