SYNOPSIS
The popular belief that religion is the cause of the world’s bloodiest conflicts is central to our modern conviction that faith and politics should never merge. As we observe the Islamic states rampaging through the Middle East and West Africa, tearing apart the modern nation’s states established by Western colonists, it may be problematic and challenging for the world to comprehend the causes of wars and their impacts.
Today, everyone knows that religion has a dangerous tendency to promote violence and wars. The abandoning of spirituality has given religious organisations room to practice their beliefs that dismantle the social fabrics of the world. It is somewhat trite, but nonetheless sadly true, to say that more wars have been waged, more people are killed, fraudsters and con-artists enjoy the religious bazaar, and religious perpetrators go away with violence committed, and these days more evil is perpetrated in the name of religion than any other institutional force in human history.
“Religious Bait: The world under siege,is a collection of thoughts that explores the impact of religion on the world, particularly providing evidence from the religious conflicts and tensions that took place after the arrival of the European nations, along with missionaries and dogmas that did not resonate with African spirituality. It sheds light on how organisational and religious violence, wars, and racism has affected the vulnerable and defenceless black communities, in the entire world.”
“The book contends that an urgent spiritual awakening through African indigenous knowledge systems, Sankofa and Ubuntu need to be internalised, by re-writing history and practising Africans ancestral ways such as Kemetic spirituality. The book assert that it is significant for the African diaspora to comprehend how the man-made religions have affected the spirituality and caused social and mental damage to the diasporas,” says Maja. (Bongekile Khumalo/ Mapumalanga News/ November 14, 2022)
About the Author: Short Biography
Motsedi Mojalefa Maja is a social activist, humanist, feminist, philanthropist and a freethinker. A graduate of Vaal University of Technology, who holds degrees in Logistics and Business Administration. Mojalefa is a Bantu unwaged conceptualist and successful author. His book Face Off was published in South Africa and has reached other corners of Africa, such as Gabon and Zimbabwe, where he has a readership.