"COME BACK HOME AND JOIN ORUNMILA CRUSADE"

Religion has been recognized all river over the world as a powerful force controlling all activities of man. If you succeed in giving a man a religion he whole- heartedly accepts and embraces, you will influence every minutes minute of his life. His employer,  parents, relatives, wife and friends will influence  him to a much lesser degree than his religion.

It is not surprising therefore to observe that foreigners who in many African communities succeeded in subduing the original religious faith of African and had it replaced with allien faith have continued to control such communities. The control was direct through the various colonial governments and had  persisted by remote but thoroughly  effective tactics now regarded by many as Neo- colonialism  in independent African nations. In fact there has been no phenomenon in human endeavor which has subdued the originality, self respect and self reliance of the black man as much as the various religions  (foreign)  brought to him by people whom he cannot by any measure identify himself culturally.  As if there is something magical or hypnotic overpowering the black man, he has for at least two centuries watched helplessly as his culture and heritage are battered,  blackmailed and put in the cooler.

In some places like India and China similar battering was only in  part  while it was almost in places like Nigeria and other parts of black  Africa.  It is therefore not surprising that we had it almost impossible to take any bold step in the wake of civilisation  and social advancement without the control of our religious/ Colonial rulers. Till this day, our destiny appears to be tied shamelessly to the aprons of these colonial administrators.

Have they ever told their victims the whole truth about these foreign Religion? Of course not! Now please read at least part of the hidden truth:

There is no religion that is totally and or entirely good or faultless. In fact most religions were thoroughly had and almost unthinkable in their modes of operation at their origin.
These religions have over the ages undergone a lot of metamorphosis and adoptions through the manipulations of the practitioners. Christianity and Islam had already undergone series of positive development before they were introduced to African. This means that most of the unacceptable practices in the ad religions had been eraced or modified to make them acceptable.

Another truth is that blackman ought to have known before now without being told that his religion is much older and richer than those he borrowed from foreigners. One can hardly blame the white man for not telling him the fact. The white man could hardly imagine the degree of success he scored in spreading his religions amongst black race. He often wondered why it did not occur to the black man to develop indigenous and much richer faiths in Africa. He jubilated but sometimes marvelled at the ease with which the African followed the white man's mission.

The African should know that he had only postponed his responsibilities towards his culture and destiny but has not destroyed it. This is why he deceived himself into being ordained as the high or highest priest of this and that foreign native priests to acquire necessary confidence and power needed to perform satisfactorily in his borrowed robes. There are living testimonies  of this blatant hypocrisy and self deceit.

When  to his amazement the white man sees better knowledge potentially stored in IFÁ for the benefit of mankind he deceitfully tells you it is the power of the devil. At the same time in  many universities in Europe and America,  he is exploring this untapped store of knowledge in IFÁ  that embraces the entire universe through various black programmes.  Our high Ifá priests and babalawos are invited often with passage and accommodation plus other allowances paid to lecture the whites in Asia, Europe, America etc. Here at home we condemn what rightly belongs to us and would be our guarded heritage.

It is high time that black man saved his religion, destiny and salvation. He should realise that he cannot communicate with Olodumare through a culture and religion that is not his. He cannot afford  to go about in borrowed inferior robes while the riches of his own destiny are wasting away. If his ancestors' religion is not good enough it is his responsibility to develop it to an acceptable standard. Christianity and Islam had been developed before they became attractive and borrowable.

Give your own religion positive development through the teaching of IFÁ as presented by Olodumare through his beloved servant ORUNMILA.

In these times of trouble, poverty and want,  let us communicate with Olodumare through the oldest religious phenomenon "IFÁ" given to man through ORUNMILA.

COME BACK AND SEE THE TRUE WONDERS OF GOD revealed through IFÁ, THE PERFECT TRUTH FROM OLODUMARE.

By: DR. K. Komolafe.
Culled from: ORUNMILA magazine; issue N0 3 ( 1987 edition)