Famous Nigerian Nobel Laureate, Prof . Wole Soyinka, has stated that he does not believe in the God of either Christianity or Islam, describing himself instead as an atheist with strong spiritual awareness.
He made the remark during an interview with Larry Madowo on CNN, where he spoke about his personal beliefs and religious background.
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I wrote the following in response:
You are not an atheist if you believe in Orisa like Ogun and Sango or any spiritual core.
Except you are confused.
Atheists do not believe in God. Atheism is defined by a lack of belief in any gods or deities, or the rejection of the assertion that they exist. It is not a belief system, religion, or a shared set of doctrines, but rather a lack of belief.
The so called atheists in Africa are fake atheists like the first black Nobel Laureate of Literature, Prof. Wole Soyinka who says he does not believe in God, but believes in the Yoruba Orisa gods and goddesses.
Like saying you don't believe in the existence of God, but you believe in the existence of demons and spirits.
Africans reject atheism, because it is a a contradiction of African belief in the existence of the origin of humans on earth.
Not believing that God exists does not mean He does not exist.
It only means you are ignorant of His existence within the scope of your knowledge.
I believe in the Almighty God, because to doubt the existence of God is to doubt your existence.
If God does not exist, then we cannot exist.
We are the evidence of the existence of God.
My belief in God is based on personal conviction from logical analysis of both traditional Yoruba beliefs in IFA from my father who was both a Babalawo and Ogun priest and a certificated metaphysician.
He wrote his IFA Divination on notebooks like mathematics.
Believe it or not, he had powers and spoke in the strange tongue of marine spirits and my mother testified of seeing a mermaid once.
My elder sister confirmed the existence.
A female friend confirmed their existence.
IFA Divination is more than 2,500 years old before the birth of JESUS Christ.
And IFA did not deny the existence of God and JESUS Christ.
The mathematics of Ifá is a sophisticated, ancient West African system of combinatorics and binary logic used in divination to navigate probability and decision-making. It consists of 256 fundamental patterns (Odu) generated through 4-bit binary variation—a 16x16 system of single or double marks that pre-dates European binary logic. This system forms a closed, exact logical universe mapping 16 major Odu and 240 derivative Odu.
Like computer algorithms, Ifá uses data encoding and retrieval, showing parallels to the computer science concept of 4-bit and 8-bit systems.
Obi Abata (Cola acuminata) is a four-lobed kola nut native to West Africa, crucial to Yoruba culture, tradition, and Ifá spirituality. It is used in prayers, offerings to Orisha/Ancestors, and divination, generally symbolizing hospitality, friendship, and the balance of masculine and feminine energies.
The number 4 is significant in both geometry and symmetry of mathematics in art and science and religion.
In physics, In physics, the number 4 is foundational, appearing prominently as the four fundamental forces (gravity, electromagnetism, strong nuclear, weak nuclear), the four dimensions of spacetime (
space +time), and the four quantum numbers used to fully define an electron's state in an atom.
Coming to Christian religion.
How can anyone explain how Prophet Isaiah who was a real historical person, widely believed by scholars to be a prophet who lived and ministered in Jerusalem during the 8th century BCE (approximately 742 BCE) accurately prophesied the birth, place of birth and death of JESUS Christ over 400 years before JESUS was born?" And the family tree of JESUS Christ is a historical fact.
