Don't be too sure your logic is objective. God created man in his imaage and after his likeness. This means that since God is a creator, man is also a creator. If man being a creator decided to go against God in handling the Earth, a home which God developed for him, don't you think he will destroy the Earth and himself with his God given ability?
Why do you go through a driving test before you get drivers license???
Or diverse rigorous training and test before you get any certification or endorsement??? It's simple! It's simple. Man knows you can destroy others and yourself with those things. So the Earth is man's training ground friends and those who were able to pass the tests gets liscesed to go to heaven. Those who were not submissive to the training process wouldn't make it. It's that simple friends.
Imagine when your institution sends you to your faculty and you refuse to take lectures in your discipline, and rather go to a friend's cos you think the vice Chancellor should come and clerify some issues to you personally. No matter how excellent you argument may be you are never going to score any point in exams.
Imagine when you buy a Ford car and you are using volks wagen parts for it's maintenance you are surely headed for an auto crash or because their are different car designs you decided not to use any car cos of reasons best known to you, who looses?

There is God friends and he is democratic in nature. Was there democracy and advocacy for respect of people and their territories anywhere in the world before the emergence of America? And yet America is the only nation of the world founded by Christians, that is why they are projecting the image of God, liberalism. God is a liberal God, that is why he has allowed all the confusion that characterised his existence. But surely a day will come when he will put an end to it. Be careful friends so that on that day you wouldn't just realized how ignorant you have been of your maker. Don't even try to feel guilty or remorseful that day cos it's only logical that nothing emerges from nowhere.

Would a Mercedes car being used on raods with holes in underdeveloped Africa blame it's maker for it's ordeal? When you have an open mind, looking around you, you will see pointers to God's existence.

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The only proof is when you visit and see them probably make rain in a place where meteorological report has forecasted there will be no rain. Or withhold rain for days in the middle of rainy season. Road Construction Companies hire them for the job. It might sound rocket science to you but it is very simple only that they wouldn't reveal the secrete to anyone outside their circles. I guess you would be shocked to see it happen but that's not all they can do.

Don't get so excited about weather forecast 10 days ahead cos in my local traditional religion, those guys can't just only forecast weather, they can as well control it. On a rainy day, they can stop the rain. In the midst of rainy season, the can withhold rain for days up to a week and beyond. That's what I'm talking about. Paradventure our central government was committed to scientific developments, they would have sent guys to go check how those people are producing such results and see if they could refine it scientifically. Now, if they had done so and published it on journals you would celebrate the end product relegating the source to junk. And like I said, this is one of their numerous abilities.
However, scientific forecast is limited. There are areas of life you can't predict the future on but religion is doing marvellously well. I guess you know "Nostrademus!". He is a global figure. You may check out his predictions or forecast then you will understand what I am talking about. Note that he is just one man. There are several men like him. It's just that his work gained global prominence. These conflict in ideas has been hampering our harnessing our potential because one group will think they are better than the other. They will want to strive for suproirity rather than seek partnership.
Let's see these two regions of ontology as different means to one end. Let us not discard religion on one or few premise like most people do.

Science is the physical explanation of our natural world while religion is a supernatural revelation of our natural world.
This I believe will be difficult for the atheist to believe because he does not believe in the existence of God and might also be difficult for those who are opposed to christianity to believe. But as a Christian scientist, I believe and can proof reasonably that both are different means to one end.

From the creation account, after God created man, being just, he didn't leave him ignorant of his natural world and how to interact with it. However, when man disobeyed God, theologians believe he, God, destroyed the garden of Eden, but I rather think that is a figurative speech. "What is so special about this garden that man will miss?" I will always ask. I think what the scriptures meant by destroying the garden must be "the destruction or withdrawal of the knowledge of how man can interact with his immediate environment. And when he said that he will toil and till the ground before he can eat, I believe he, God, meant man will suffer before he will regain mastery of the Earth. And don't just start blaming God and seeing him as wicked because every system that wants to maitain balance must have checks and consequences for going against the rules. Bitcointalk forum has, your country has, mine has too. Check the crime rate in countries that have decided to relax theirs and compare it with those of the countries that have decided to enforce theirs religiously, may be you will understand why God did what he did. That was the premise on which religion and science were born. HOW?
Remember science is defined as a body of knowledge or a systematic enquiry into nature. When Man's knowledge was withdrawn, he started doing things by trial and error. Things that worked were celebrated. The process leading to such result was preserved and handed over to the next generation. Gradually, man's knowledge of the principles guiding his environment grew to what we know today as science. BUT WHAT HAS THAT GOT TO DO WITH religion?
Remember man's mastery of his natural environment was a very slow one. There are archeological proofs of ancient communities that once existed but somehow went into extinction for reasons no one can clearly asertain till date but with high belief that most cases were due to adverse conditions. That means man must have gone through monstrous ordeals to come this far. However, God in his infinite mercies could not sit and watch his creation suffer. But he could not reverse his judgement because he is just so he had to release information about how to survive through some difficult situations to some persons who will share the idea with his community. When this idea works the community in appreciation will set up a system of appreciating the source of such revelational knowledge and that was how religious worship emanated. So the people will continue with the practice for their survival until someone could explain it physically then when it's physical explanation has been gotten people will start working on it to see how they could apply the process to other situations. Therefore, through religion, man knew that some heights were scalable. And by explaining revelational knowledge later on using physical parameters gotten through observation, he knew he could solve more problems by studying events that happen around him. Thus, religion inspired scientific advancement.
Now, because man has seen so much development via scientific advancement, he then thinks religion is bluff. There are several things happening in our present day, that men predicted accurately several years back without scientific aid. Today, meteorologist forecast weather conditions and the world is celebrating. In my traditional religion, there are so many feats these men achieve at a lower cost than using scientific methods. Examples include finding missing items, controlling weather condition etc.
I am not relegating any of the above mentioned issues to the background but I am only saying that while both are means to same end, religion inspired scientific advancements. And religion is still ahead of science in helping man understand and subdue his challenges. Don't get it twisted because of bigots that have made a mess of religion.

I have seen how issues on SPAM has been handled by community members. However, most people, especially newbies do not fully understand the concept of spam and spamming, as a result, so many have fallen victims of banned account. Since this platform is all about promoting the adoption of Bitcoin and indeed other cryptocurrencies let us clearly define this issue that has left a good number of folks with an ugly experience.
Contributions on this topic will help reduce discouragement among newbies as well as reduce pressure on the moderators and in the long run help in achieving the aim of this forum.
I implore anyone who has valid information that will help educate community members not to ignore this request.

Having come into this platform of people who seemingly believe that this forum was created generally to support the growth and adoption of cryptocurrency I wish to ask this question that has been bugging my mind knowing fully well that comprehensive explanation of this issue will help newbies like me and largely because I saw some comment stating that this is the major concern of this forum at the moment.

This is a tremendous step towards achieving a creative and resourceful community kudos to the moderators. Regarding fears of abuse by community members, I have this to say; No system is without flaws. There may be lapses on the new rules but that doesn't mean we should discard it altogether.
We have to start somewhere. This is a progressive community and has always been. This was definitely not where and how we started but somehow we have evolved to this stage. Let's give this idea a trial. I believe moderators would be on the lookout for lapses and would readily create a means to check them.
My opinion though.

The best advice I could give any genuine new user to this forum would be to forget about signature campaigns and bounties, just be part of the community.  Once you understand how the culture is here and you have been able to figure out how to get some merit legitimately then I think it would be appropriate to test the waters on some of the additional benefits the forum has to offer.
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Thanks for your reassuring words. I would like to know the additional benefits that exists for participants on bitcointalk forum and if you can, also highlight a few cultures of the community. Thanks

Well, its just that I'm yet to see a discussion such a this I'm having with you now where people are willing to give answers to questions. What I usually sees are comments telling the person that such question has been answered before and that he should go search it up. But, thanks anyway you've made a new impression on me.

All the same, I will like to keep in touch or follow you if there is anything like that on bitcointalk forum. You are my mentor

Thanks so much for your warm reply, I was afraid you guys would be hostile to me for being poky. I understand the situation now. I really don"t like making troubles;  I don't know how to say this, but this forum is so unfamiliar to me and with the ordeal of people who have fallen victim I'm most times afraid of participating freely here for fear of being misunderstood and consequently being crucified, I just need some older person I could ask a few questions at some point when I'm confused. Could you please be the one? Searching for rules guiding a move takes so much time and are often futile, you can help me get along quickly.

You guys sound really so angry and cold towards this guy in a way that really gets me so confused. What is the forum all about? What constitutes an offence here? what is a spam in the actual sense and what constitutes a spam on bitcointalk forum? And the guy seems to be so sorry about the situation and none seems to appreciate his stance. This is not the first place I am witnessing this. In every forum where someone has complained about a banned account, everyone, especially the senior members get really mad at him and treats him as the devil himself, why is it so?

I am a newbie, without any computer knowledge but my friends who know some other potentials of mine thought that I will do well here. But this issue of banned account and the hatred it attracts gives me a lot of concerns. Please can someone kindly explain the reason for such reaction towards an individual with a banned account?

The story of the Nigerian youth is a very pathetic one which youths from other countries of the world may never believe but I will try to tell it in a way that those youths from countries where their government makes plans to provide for them will appreciate.

The story of Nigeria is one which a patriotic citizen would find difficult to tell publicly but I will give it a shot peradventure help could come for the Nigerian youth. We were born into a Nigeria ravaged by ethnicity and religious conflict. No matter how long our government will want to cover it, the truth is that decisions in Nigerian government are taken along religious and ethnic lines. There is lack of mutual trust across ethnic and religious communities in Nigeria and rather than seeing someone from a different group as compatriot, they see each other as rivals. Unfortunately, this attitude managed to creep into the governance of Nigeria making the presidency shy of carrying out project that will put the other party at a supposed advantage over his group. Therefore, nearly since the independence of Nigeria there has not been any real national plan, budget, project or cohesion. All the world has been seeing is a make believe. It is only a Nigerian youth that can tell the true story.

Consequent upon these, there are no real plans for educating the Nigerian child. The schools are intentionally abandoned to ensure the southerners do not gain intellectual advantage over the north. The southerners are mostly Christians and are therefore open to western education while the northerners are Muslims and are therefore averse to western education. The power sector has been kept nonfunctional to inhibit industrialization because the southerners are mostly industrialists while northerners are predominantly farmers, nomads to be precise. The list goes on and on. Our roads are bad due to sectionalism. They have failed to develop our railway system due to similar reasons. Various sectors of the economy have collapsed because incapable hands were hired to pilot their affairs in order to satisfy sectional interests. The president who accused Nigerian youths of being lazy is the worst culprit among all Nigerian leaders. You can spare some time to look up Nigerian's reactions to his appointments on net. What will I say about government policies, they drafted with malicious undertone to under develop a certain group.

Among the youths of the world, Nigerian youths are most disadvantaged. There are few real scholarships available for a Nigerian youth to leverage on in order to gain education and skills. Most of the scholarships have been hijacked. No grants nor loans for those who want to fund their business ideas. When one manages to set up a business the government will not mae any effort to protect. In fact if you are not of the race favored by the leadership at the time, the leaders would use government parastatals to frustrate the business and lots more yet the Nigerian youth is is still up and doing looing for a little space to build on. He is yet hopeful. No suicide reports. if you really want to know if Nigerian youths are lazy checkout the records of those that have left the shores of Nigeria to places devoid of victimization.

No one may believe our story but we will not give up. We surely believe that a messiah will come who will save the Nigerian youth from the mediocrity of our fathers.

i'm not an atheist but I have seriously considered being one. I was born into a christian family. In Nigeria, we have conservative Christians and liberalism. The conservatives had more strict christian practices than the liberals. We got converted from Catholicism to conservative Christianity. Mum became an enthusiast and was forcing everyone to adhere to the teachings in church but to my utter amazement she was not capable of keeping all the laws. to worsen it all I was sent to a missionary school owned by a conservative church where we were bullied into adhering to those teachings while our instructors will failed before our eyes to keep the same principles they had punished us for. I felt Christianity was a joke and wanted to try Islam. I was just waiting for an opportunity to leave home to where I can join Islam without the knowledge of my family members.

Finally, the opportunity came. I got admission to study in the university. I proposed that on getting to the university, I will join the Muslim community instead of Christians. However, on getting to the university I saw something that marveled me, Christians both conservatives and liberals worshiping God for a different reason. Prior to this time we have worshiped God for fear of going to hell but here are people worshiping God for their love for him and they were more consistent in keeping the commands of God and they didn't criticize nor mock those who were inconsistent, they rather encouraged them to keep up in order to repay God for his kindness and love to humanity. Moreso, I saw the power of God practically displayed in their midst as were told in the bible and in our churches back home. I was moved to reconsider my thoughts. I joined them and I started seeing transformations in my life and today I am a conservative Christian believer.

So in my thoughts I will say atheist were not opportuned to see the other side of things that is why they are filled with prejudice for religion. They let the weakness they saw in people inform the basis for their conclusion. Had I not had a second may be I would have been an atheist with so much indignation for Christianity or every religion.

Please I have been looing for your website. Can you please share your official website so I can register?