Why Do You Worship Your Pastors? Alex Barbir blasts RCCG’s Enoch Adeboye. Why do we defend religious leaders while our people d!e in Nigeria? The full gist.
There is a unspoken law in Nigeria, especially among the highly religious: “Touch not my anointed.” You can abuse the President from morning till night. You can curse out local government chairmen. But the moment you open your mouth to question a big man of God, your own brothers and sisters will carry spiritual cutlasses and come for your head.
This is the exact wall that social commentator Alex Barbir ran into this week.
“The whole drama really kicked off when Barbie went on camera and decided to drag Pastor Adeboye. You don’t just come for the G.O. of Redeemed like that without people noticing, and that video was the spark that started the fire.” Barbir was highly critical of how the prominent cleric seemed to defend President Bola Tinubu’s handling of the country’s worsening insecurity.
Why Do You Worship Your Pastors
But instead of Nigerians focusing on the message, they focused on the messenger. Thousands of loyal church members immediately flooded his page, attacking him for daring to criticize their “Papa.” Why Do You Worship Your Pastors
This backlash forced Barbir to ask a very heavy, uncomfortable question: why has the worship of pastors in Nigeria become more important than the actual survival of the people?
Barbir didn’t hold back his mouth. He looked at the camera and asked why Nigerian Christians have elevated human beings to the status of demi-gods. Why Do You Worship Your Pastors
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“Why are people kneeling before pastors, especially when innocent Christians have continued to suffer and die?” he questioned.
Many of the victims are members of these exact churches. Yet, when these big, influential pastors—who have the ears of the presidents and governors—remain silent or make excuses for government failures, the congregation still defends them with their full chest.
This intense worship of pastors in Nigeria has created a class of leaders who are completely unaccountable to the public. In a sane society, when a leader has massive influence over millions of lives, their words and actions must be scrutinized. But in Nigeria, we have turned our religious leaders into citizens who are completely above the law and above criticism.
“Religion and Nigeria na 5 and 6. Even Pew Research don confirm am say more than 90% of us carry our faith for head every single day. E fine to be spiritual, but let’s be honest: some people don turn our fear of God to weapon. Dem dey use am settle scores and shut down anybody wey talk. Why Do You Worship Your Pastors
When a pastor tells you to pray and fast while the government is looting your future, and you agree without questioning, that is no longer faith—that is control. If you cannot ask your spiritual father why he is dining with the same politicians who are making your life miserable, then your faith has become a prison. Why Do You Worship Your Pastors
“The noise over Barbie’s video just proves say we don’t like truth again. We’re quick to quote Bible to defend pastors, but we forget say even in the Bible, God’s people corrected their leaders when they went wrong. We dey suffer, people dey die, families dey pay millions for ransom—but na the person wey dey ask for accountability we wan lynch. It doesn’t make sense. Why Do You Worship Your Pastors
We can’t keep living like this and still be protecting the people wey suppose dey speak up for us.” Our pastors are not God. They are men. And when they use their platforms to massage the egos of failing politicians, they must be called out.
The worship of pastors in Nigeria needs to stop if we ever want to see real change. The church should be a shield for the weak, not a PR firm for Aso Rock. Why Do You Worship Your Pastors
“Make we talk truth you think Barbie cross line or na we just dey fear to ask our pastors questions? Talk your mind for the comment section. I wan see wetin everybody dey think about this matter.” If you think this conversation is important, share this article with your church groups and friends. Let us talk!
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