On my way to work this morning, I branched one mama-put joint along Sokponba Road and ordered a meal, after waiting for like 5 minutes, hence I meant some customers waiting. From nowhere comes this mentally-deranged young lady begging for food. Her ugly sight was the least expected in an eatery environment and before I knew it, customers started screaming on top of their voices that the owner of the Mama Put Restaurant should send her packing. I just sat there watching what will happen next. The next thing I heard was,..go go go leave here carry your witch go that side and all sort of barbaric, inhumane and unprintable words rent the air. Ironically, the mentally-deranged lady didnt even raise an eyelid. She was just standing there with her eyes totally fixated towards the position of the food. Honestly speaking, I was boiling inside of me, I had experienced a similar situation, what the food vendor did was timely, wise, human, godly and moral in all ramifications; she quickly gave her food in a nylon and asked the lunatic to leave immediately and the lunatic did as directed smiling and thankful. I was expecting this food vendor or any of her customers to do the same thing, but no way. I looked around and noticed we were about 20 customers eating at that time, and none could do the needful, so I asked the mama-put to give the mentally-deranged young lady food worth a 100naira, paid for the food and hurriedly left with tears pouring out from my eyes. I was definitely not crying because the young lady was mentally deranged; No No No.........I was not crying because the woman refused to give her food.....No No No.......I was not crying because they used unprintable words on her.................................... ......................................... ----------------------------------- ------------------------------------ I was crying because, I was probably the only atheist-that is presumed to rot and burn in hellfire eating at that very time and those that wear the garment of Christianity, islamism, righteousness, holiness, holier-than-thou, and those promised to inherit heaven couldnt even be a neighbour. Why are we like this? Why are we more interested in heaven that we havent seen than helping a dying neighbour? Why are we comfortable carrying bible/Koran, but very uncomfortable being a neighbour? Why are we in the habit of condemning those who do not reason in accordance with the bible/Koran but are keepers and helpers of there neighbours? When will our religious friends and family starts acting truly to the rules and admonition of the bible/Koran? It is such a pity that us-atheists who will not inherit heaven are profusely working to make the world better and safer while all religious people do is to remind us of how fierce and burning hellfire is.
Posted on: Wed, 14 May 2014 09:54:48 +0000